Christmas On New Years Day

I never get to celebrate Christmas with my parents and siblings on Christmas because we are such a blended family, but we always get together at some point around the holidays. This year it was on New Years Day. All but one of my brothers was able to make it and we had a wonderful time! Here are just a few of the pictures:

 The piggy banks that Matt and Sera Kate gave to all the kids. Sera Kate painted all their names on them herself. She is so crafty and thoughtful. She's such a great Aunt! My brothers couldn't have picked anyone better to marry.

 My sweet sister Jaimee (who is pregnant with my next niece or nephew!) and my niece Hannah being silly with Alexis and Isabel's tutu's!

 Hannah, my brother Brent and Alexis

 One of the beautiful ornaments on Mom's tree.

 My beautiful Alexis

 Jackson & Hannah

 Isabel wasn't feeling so photogenic, but here she is anyway!

 Tyler, Riley & Sadie

 All 7 of the kids

 Mom & Dad with all their grandchildren! Isabel wasn't so happy about the picture taking process this year.

 My brother Matt with Alexis & Sadie

 Hannah, my sister-in-law Sera Kate and Riley

 Aunt Sera Kate and Uncle Matt with all their nieces and nephews!

 Angel Alexis

 The kids dressed up and did a skit of the Christmas story, it was sooooo adorable. Check out this post and you can see a video of the skit.

 Alexis trying on her new sweater from Grandma Cindy

 My nephew Tyler being a goof ball

 Papa letting Alexis put some shiny, pink lip gloss on him

 Mom with the most talked about gift this year. She is now the State Chairman of the Constitution Party of Missouri, so it's rather ironic that my brother gave her the biography of George W. Bush!

Isabel playing with one of Sadie's new toys!

Christmas Play

I tinkered with the settings on this video some more. If you have trouble viewing it let my know and I'll send you a new link.

More Christmas Fun

After we finished our Christmas morning here at home, we spent the rest of the day at Bill & Carol's. Here are some of the pictures from down there.

 Alexis with her new skirt, tights and vest

 New necklace

 Isabel with her new Cabbage Patch baby

 Isabel in her new rocking chair

 Doctor Alexis is on call!

 Memory Game and isn't that just such a lady like pose?!

 Isabel laying and climbing all over one of their new toys

 Grandma Carol and Isabel

 Carol with her thermal lunch tote

 And Meredith with her's

 Ross with his very well wrapped present!

 Isabel, Aunt Merfy, and Alexis

Isabel walked around the house all day long tooting on this little recorder that had been Ross' when he was a boy!

A Birthday Party

Last weekend we went to Ross' Aunt Mary Ellen's house in Columbia to celebrate her birthday. I thought I'd share a few pictures from that day. The weather was gorgeous and we had a really nice time there!

 "You might be a Redneck if your Chimenea has a stove pipe attached to it!"

 The birthday girl - Aunt Mary Ellen

 Alexis & Aunt Mary Ellen

 Isabel, Aunt Merfy & Alexis

 Ross

 Grandpa & Grandma Lea

 Cake & Candles time!

 Us

 Ross' parents, Bill & Carol, his sister Meredith and Us

 The 6 Lea siblings with Grandma & Grandma. 

From L to R: Bill, Karen, Joe, Grandma, Grandpa, Susan, Mary Ellen and John

Isabel & Uncle Jimmy

On The Road

Hello all. I'm blogging from the road again.

We are on our way from Columbia to St. Louis. Today a bunch of the Lea family went to Columbia to Aunt Mary Ellen's house to celebrate her birthday with her. We had a fantastic time. We had a big fish fry for lunch and had a wonderful time! The girls had a great time playing and providing entertainment!

Now we are heading to Mom & Dad's to spend the night. My brother Brent is in town for his 10 day leave from Teen Challenge. He graduates from their 14 month program on December 23rd, just in time for Christmas.

We are going to church in the morning and then having a big turkey dinner for lunch. We are pretty much calling it Thanksgiving since Brent won't be here then and it's the year that Jaimee and I are with our husband's families. It's going to be a great day!

I've been having a great time taking pictures with my new camera, hopefully I'll have some time to get some posted soon.

I don't have the time to blog like I used to, and I barely have time to read any either. Jaimee, Nel, Ashley, & Chrissy, I check your blogs regularly, just don't always have time to comment. Some of my other favorite bloggers, I don't have a chance to get to, but I really miss not being able to keep up with you. I was hoping that some of you that still check in on my blog would also Facebook friend me and I can keep up with you that way. My Facebook page link is under the Contacts tab.

I'm going to wrap it up for today and spend a few quiet moments with my husband while the girls are napping in the backseat. Those are few and far in between for us these days.

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Elephant Rocks

Back on October 16th, we took a trip to Elephant Rocks State Park. We met our friends Amy and Chris and their daughters Katelyn and Callie over there. Here are some pictures from our day.