January is off to a great start!

2011 has begun and it started as crazy as ever for me/us! A NYE wedding, a bunch of albums, and newborn sessions have kept me busy so far this year! I am happy to say that I am caught up for the next couple weeks and I am ridiculously happy about it!!

I am going to do a few catch up posts for the month of January...starting with our trip to Disney! We headed there for the first time as a family from January 5th through 8th and everything went fabulously (except for our delay on the way home - putting us home at 11pm - the latest the kids have ever been up!)....Here are a few recap pictures from our trip!

A favorite part of the trip for Kelsi was meeting the princesses...She was so cute talking to them! 

A favorite ride of mine was the tea-cups with them...There was constant giggling and great pictures!

 Tyler was so excited for the dinosaur trail! Kelsi had just thrown up because of a new medicine but rebounded quickly with a snack!

 Tyler's new pet dinosaur souvenier...He has been named Rexy and is fed daily by him!

 Our one sit down night was in Italy in Epcot...delicious!

Our night wrapped up with the fireworks...

 Tyler's first liscense!

 Souvenier shopping was a favorite part of the trip...more for Tyler than even for Kelsi! She brought home all stuffed animals...Tyler mixed it up!

 Tyler's favorite ride was Thunder Mountain...He rode it at least 5 times!

 Kelsi and I waited almost 45 minutes to meet Tiana...She kept mentioning her so we had to do it on the final day!

 Our trip was wrapped up with a parade that we stumbled upon!

Christmas Afternoon at Grammy and Pop's House...

Our Christmas afternoon is spent with Douglas's family....I love that we have a big family to spend it with! When I was a kid, I always wanted cousins, and now Tyler and Kelsi have them! Tyler is in LOVE with Madison. This has been going on for two years now!! He literally gazes at her, but he isn't the only one! Kaitlyn sat on Madison's lap for the majority of the time we were there and Jorja was pulling Madison everywhere! She loves her too!

My only picture of my two together in their outfits!

I love these next few pictures...they show off the fabulous chaos of Christmas with the cousins!

The aftermath of opening...

An attempt at a picture of all the cousins...Jorja wanted no part of it though!

Madison was telling princess stories to the girls and they all LOVED it!

As I said, Tyler can't get enough of Madison either...He sat and listened to stories too!

The Chick Boys....

Christmas Dinner...

On Christmas Day, we had dinner (at lunchtime) with my parents and Aunt Joan. We opened Noni and Nono's presents, did a little playing and took some family pictures before heading to Grammy and Pop's house for the afternoon!

Christmas morning...

Christmas morning was very exciting for both Tyler and Kelsi! When they first came down, they just stared at the Santa piles of presents and didn't open anything! They held the grinches that Santa brought and Tyler said, "I am going to write Santa a letter to thank him for all of the gifts that he brought us.", but it took us telling them to start opening their presents before they even touched them! Tyler was extremely careful opening everything and trully investigating it, while Kelsi went a little faster but was SO animated!! She made every "excited" face in the book.

Kelsi still loves getting a baby the most! When she opened the baby from us, she was excited.....then....

she hugged the box!

Kelsi loved her computer from Noni and Nono...

Tyler got a lot of dinosaur and How to Train Your Dragon goodies! He loved looking at all his new dinosaur books!

The microphone became one of Kelsi's favorite gifts! She just loved to hear herself singing and humming into it! Tyler and Kelsi like to hold it a little too close to their mouth, so it sounds a bit muffled, but it still sounds so cute!!