Merry Christmas!!!

We hope that everyone enjoyed a wonderful holiday, I know we did. Wow what a couple of days! The holidays are tiring, but its that really good kind of tired. Unfortunately Brian got sick the day before Christmas Eve so by the time the big day hit he was totally wiped out! He was a trooper and it didn't stop him from enjoying all of the excitement with Everett. The festivities started when we got together with Brian's grandma for lunch on Christmas Eve. Its always so nice to see her and she loves her two boys so much! Then later that evening it was on to my aunt and uncle's house for the Bruner family Christmas.

Everett with Auntie/Fairy Godmother Em

Em got Everett a singing Elmo! He loves him.

Everett also loves him some Hannah or OG as we refer to her in our house!

Everett opening his gift from Sara for the gift exchange!

Just a snippet of what is the chaos of Bruner family Christmas!

Chasing the remote control car around the garage with the big boys, DeShawn and Andrew.

Back at home after all the excitement of Christmas Eve.
Someone was wound up, can you tell??

Posing with Mommy by the tree

The three of us!

Posing in his Christmas jammies before bedtime Christmas Eve.

Santa was very generous this year! Everett got a ton of goodies! Lots of Little People play sets and clothes, tadoodles, and of course, musical gifts including a little piano, xylophone and from Santa, a MP3 Baby Boombox! This way he can dance whenever, wherever to all his favorite songs. :-) Growing up my family would always do Santa presents and then our grandparents would come over for breakfast and do their gifts with us so this year we passed the tradition down a generation! My parents and brother headed over to our house Christmas morning for breakfast and presents. Its kind of funny, considering its the same house passed down a generation too!

Christmas Morning! He headed straight for his table and chairs and sit n' spin!



The boys had a ton of stuff to open, spoiled! Not to mention that Daddy's big gift, a rolling tool chest, went straight to the garage!

Snacktime!!

Everett and Daddy at my parents house for our third Christmas!

Posing in front of my parents' tree.

Charlotte tried her best to get a good one with Ev.

He loves the xylophone from Mamaw and Papaw.

Aunt Suzie got Ev these nesting blocks. He and Charlotte loved playing with them!

What a crew! The little man was not so thrilled about leaving his toys for a group photo!

And lastly, before bed on Christmas Day we opened up Everett's Alvin and the Chipmunks DVD to watch. Let me explain. The child loves Alvin. Maybe its the voices or the songs or the dancing. But he will run in from the other room when the Alvin Squeakquel trailor comes on and god forbid its the one with the 'all the single ladies' song on it, he'll be dancing all over the place. So anyway, we got him the first one, we threw it in and this is what we got:

Dancing along with Alvin!!
And yes, Brian and I have agreed the Nickolaus family with be seeing 'the Squeakquel' in theaters. Too funny!

Happy New Year everyone! Have a safe and happy holiday. Stay tuned for my best of '09 post!!
Love to all, Stephanie, Brian and most importantly, Everett