BELATED CHRISTMAS 2009 or I BELIEVE!!!

What happens when you  take

this:

Add this:

and top it off with this?

you get a sobbing mess of a

bumma, who realizes she is incredibly

blessed to have

the most GENEROUS, THOUGHTFUL, LOVING

kids in the world!

Raise YOUR hand if

 you got a

NEW COMPUTER

for Christmas!

Yup,that would be me.....

Now before we go on, I must inform all 3 of my readers that

all of the following BELIEVE's in this post are all for the benefit of Ron,

who LOVES, LOVES, LOVES, that word! Everybody now... BELIEVE!!!!

And BELIEVE me, I do BELIEVE

My kids are truly the unBELIEVEibly BEST!!!

BELIEVE it!!

So, although though this post is pretty late for

Christmas 2009.... I'm way ahead for next year.

And these are a few of the pictures

at Grandma Great's house this year:

Grandma Great made EVERY

grandchild, and Great-grandchild

a new blanket......

31 or so in all.

She's incredible and works so hard it's almost

unBELIEVEable

and we

LOVE her.

Jameson... he's not so sure he

loves any of this. (BELIEVE it or not!)

(ooohh...look, I BELIEVE that is grandma-GREAT by the lamp)

Cali and Gracie also

LOVED their new tea sets, and had to have a

tea party immediately.

(with chocolate milk for the tea and real sugar in the sugar bowl)

Yes it was messy,

but worth it...

look at that face!

Mason, my sister's oldest and very handsome son- 

Mckell, the ONLY girl in a house with 3 brothers...

loves sports....

of course.

My sister Jamie, her hubby Mark and their 1st beautiful

grandchild.

McKadee Rose

Don't you just LOVE those sweet cheeks!

The ones on the baby......gheesh!

as for getting pictures of the rest of my sisters, my brother and

their kids.....

once again the photographer BELIEVED that there would be plenty of time to take more pictures,

and so she waited too long, and before she could say "I BELIEVE"

the day was gone, and so was the rest of her family.

Bumma with Brecken, who said:

"Oooh, look dad! This is the bideo dat was on youse bed"

Santa best be more careful about hiding the presents

BEFORE Christmas.

A few of the 31 grand-and great-grand kids

Grandma Great had tried to make each blanket the grandchild's favorite animal, fantasy character or sport,

and we will never forget Gracie's comment when she opened hers.

With the complete honesty of a 4 year old she stated:

"Well, just so you know, this ISN'T my favorite animal."

"Do you like Dora?" Grandma Great asked Cali?

"No, said Cali".....I like princesses"

They really loved their blankets. Each one had a label which read:

"handcrafted for "________" by Grandma Great.

( I unfortunately didn't get a picture of that)

Briqelle loved the dogs on her blanket, which as you can see

Bumma was able to photograph perfectly.

  For me to remember to take pictures of important details is... unBELIEVEably

 hopeless!

What says Merry Christmas to all

better than a kid in a hamper.

I know, I know
most BELIEVEably

ANYTHING else.

I thought it was a cute picture and

couldn't figure any other way to incorporate it in to this

either very belated 2009 Christmas,

 or a terribly early 2010 Christmas post.

You decide.