Monday, January 5, 2009

Holiday Highlights

We had a wonderful Christmas this year. We had so much fun that I have seriously neglected our blog. So in an effort to get as much posted about our fun holiday, I am just going to give little highlights of the fun stuff we were able to do. I have to say this was really the best Christmas ever. We had such a blast just being together as a family. Harly and I were very sad to say goodbye to Jadyn today as she went to school We were not quite ready to get back to reality. Hope everyone else had a wonderful holiday as well.



OK, brief synopsis of the following pics. First, our trip to the Cabin/Ranch with the Collins Family, the girls in their beautiful Christmas dresses and our White Elephant party.



(Did you notice I changed my blog background? I was way proud of myself. However, I cant figure out why the front part of the page did not configure. Help?)



Nick, Jadyn & Harly on the hayride

Daddy and his girls


Jadyn on the horse.

I think the girls have decided they want a horse of their own.


Harly on the horse.

Did I mention the horse's name was Hannah Montana?

The girls were very excited about that.


There were so many horses around that the kids could look at and try to feed leaves to.

(Dont know if leaves are a part of their normal diet, but the kids sure thought so.)





The fort. They were way proud. We weren't sure if it was a pile of dirt or what? Hopefully it was just dirt.



Harly fishing at the pond.




Jadyn and Sydney being naughty and not sleeping.











These were the best smiles I could get out of them.


Not sure what is wrong with Harly. I think Jadyn was not giving her enough room or something. Who knows. It was one of those days.

















Ok, so to explain some of the white elephant pics. Some of us took turns using the different gifts. For example, the Hannah Montana wig and the booby inserts. (I will let you figure out who tried on each. I am not even going to mention anything about the calendar Leslie is holding or our experience with the spiced nuts. hee hee) What can I say, when you get a room full of Collins', you are bound to have a fun and crazy time. It was great!

5 comments:

Leslie said...

I never got that cute picture of you, Tracy, and I in email. SHAME! I'm glad you didn't post pictures of me looking fat. I had fun at your party. It should be tradition!

Also - I think I want a horse of my own too. That was fun. And Sydney had a good time being naughty with Jadyn and Harly. It WAS a good holiday this year!

Leslie said...

P.S. Your blog looks cute! I like the new background. What didn't work? I think it looks fab.

Heather Collins said...

Ok, so I fixed the problem. Apparently, they were not kidding when they said I had to select minima first before applying a new background. I had no idea what that meant, so I just skipped that part. Silly me.

It looks way cute now.

Thanks for the help Leslie. You are the super star of blogging.

Gardner World said...

Why does that picture of me holding my boobs after 12 hrs of work have to be posted?! Love the backround!

Vanessa said...

I'm so jealous of the new look. It's exactly what I would have chosen had I found it.
I'm glad to finally come back to the blogging world.