Jackson Family: December 2010

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Beersman Family Pictures 2010

Lauren, Marks cousin, is a wonderful photographer. She took advantage of us all being together at Thanksgiving and took family pictures. This is Marks side of the family in case you can't tell. Mark looks a lot like his family!!

The Jackson Family

The Beersman Family

Great-Grandkids with Papa Billy and GG

The original Jacksons

Kansas City Jacksons

Cousin Love!!

The babies: Jaylee and Liddy

Katelyn and Jaylee having fun!!!

Beersman Christmas

Mark and his Grandma... Wanda!!!

Katelyn became a Jenny's girl this trip!! She sure loves her Aunt Jenny!

Smile Jaylee!!

Marks grandma gave everyone quilts this year for Christmas. Mark and I got the history quilt. It was made by her sister, Dorthy, after her first year teaching. On each section of the quilt are names from her very first class. She had some spaces left afterwards so she filled the rest in with her family. It is a very special gift that we will treasure forever!!

Katelyn had a great time playing with her cousin "Baby Jaylee"

Nana helping Kater open her gifts

Katelyn with her baby doll. She has good instincts:)

Chris with his little girl... Liddy!!

Camden and Katelyn were both exhausted by the end of the night!!

The next day we opened presents with Nana and Papa. Katelyn was so cute when she opened up her present from both Jenny and Nana... she yelled, "puter." She got a letter writing leapfrog from Jenny and a laptop computer from Nana. She does love technology!!!

Boxing gloves from Papa!!!

The best gift of all perhaps came from Nana. She gave Camden a whole box of Scientist materials and a book of experiments!! Here is a picture of Nana and Camden doing an experiment together! We are going to have so much fun!!!

Chistmas Day

Camden was really excited on Christmas morning. We had to go in and wake Katelyn up, which is not always a good thing if you know what I mean, but with presents from Santa waiting downstairs, it wasn't as bad as it usually is:)

WOW.. Look at all those gifts from Santa!! Can't wait to read those dinosaur books!!

Katelyn just sat and looked at her presents for a few minutes... then she got really excited when we told her she could open her stocking. She took one or two things out of her stocking and threw it aside b/c she wanted to open her presents.

Can you tell Camden LOVES his dinosaur puzzle??

Once Katelyn saw all the great stuff in Camden's stocking she wanted to go back to hers again:)

Camden is a HUGE Denver Broncos fan:( Makes me really sad, but it is what it is and I did tell him that I will love him no matter what so... I am allowing Santa's gift in my house!! Santa took the time to write Camden a letter telling him it's OK to cheer for the Broncos even though his mom and dad are Chiefs fans. He does look happy with his Tebow jersey!! BLAH!!!!

Here is a picture of Camden opening his presents from Santa. He got his sparing gear for Tae Kwon Do! He immediately had to try it on!! He is so excited!!!

Finished product... Gotta love the cup on the outside of his PJ's... He cracks me up!!!

Katelyn got all kinds of baby doll stuff. Santa even brought her a wardrobe for all her baby doll clothes. From Mommy... she got a scentsy buddy... Ollie the Elephant. She loves it!! I kinda had a feeling she would:)

Camden and Katelyn gave Daddy a new Chiefs watch!! They were so excited to give it to him!

Katelyn with her daddy and her favorite present... Ollie!!!

Every year Katelyn reads books with Great Grandma in the morning after breakfast.

This was about the time my camera ran out of batteries:( I will have to get more pictures from the day from my parents. We had a GREAT holiday together!!

Christmas Eve

Every year we spend Christmas Eve at my parents house. My dad always plans a 4 course meal for the occasion. Over the years, we have had some pretty interesting meals: fish soup, squash soup (blah....) This year was wonderful!! Shrimp Cocktail, Salad, Prime Rib, Potatoes, veggies, and for desert... red Velvet Cheesecake!! We got to spend Christmas Eve with Aunt Nonna and Uncle Ryan. Everything about Christmas Eve was perfect. Then we headed home quick to spread out our reindeer food and set out milk and cookies for Santa!! We did learn something very interesting this year... Macy our dog likes reindeer food too! Every time we would throw a handful, she would run and start to try to eat it. We had to put her in the house fast so the reindeer would have plenty of food to re energize them for the long flight ahead of them :)

Right before bed, we checked the Santa tracker to see where Santa was. He was already in Florida so we needed to go to bed quickly. Then, the news lady gave out the five rules for staying on Santa's nice list. One of the requirements was to make sure you stay in bed. If Santa knows you try to sneak downstairs to see him, you will have to be put on the naughty list.

Well... anyone who knows my son knows that this is a problem!! He then started to panic that he might forget and go downstairs. After 10 minutes of convincing him that he would remember and stay in his bed, he finally calmed down. He made me shut his door that night to make sure he would remember that he needed to stay in his room. He was asleep within 30 minutes.

Hurry Santa!!!!