2009 << Rewind

Be merry.....

May your days be merry and bright..... here we go!!! We start with our traditional Christmas Eve at Mimi's house. It is a huge family bash. This year it included a jam session in the "Garage Mahal". We ate, we sang, we danced and we opened gifts. Good times!! Taylor loved her Moxy Girl and Leap Frog Tag Learning Books. Reed loved opening the gifts then throwing the wrapping paper at everyone... (it's a tradition) but he really loved the John Deer Tractor that makes noise that he can push around. We had a great time and enjoyed being with the family. Christmas morning we woke up with both babies in our bed. Taylor was so excited!! We quickly got out of bed, placed baby Jesus in the manger and all sang happy birthday (Davidson tradition). Almost all of Santa's gifts were wrapped (Quinn tradition). Taylor got an awesome doll house, it's as tall as she is. Reed got a huge Thomas track. We sure did enjoy watching their sweet little faces as they opened their gifts. The kids played for a while then we ate homemade monkey bread for breakfast (Davidson tradition). Jarrod and I shared our gifts after breakfast. Jarrod's big gift was an ipod. My big gift was a James Avery ring and a picture frame that is also a jewelry box..pretty cool! Christmas day we have lunch with my family. We gathered at the Willey's house again for our Christmas celebration. After lunch we spent two hours opening gifts. Poor Dad, this year it was youngest to oldest...he had to wait a long time. It was so nice taking our time and watching each person open their gifts. This Christmas I tried to savor those sweet expression on each face. I feel I really enjoyed all the traditions and special moments that make the holiday so grand. I hope you and your families enjoyed the magic and special moments of Christmas too.

May your days be merry and bright!
Love to you, The Quinn's

Christmas memories...

I remember in Ms. Merrell's 2nd grade class we put on a play for Christmas. It was "The Night Before Christmas in Texas That Is." I remember practicing in the class room and on the stage. I remember the boy's playing the reindeer had to wear pantyhose. I remember the "jolly" boy in the class getting to dressing-up as Santa. The coolest part ... Mom bought the book and had all the students in class sign it for me. Looking back at those 7 year old's signatures I find Kerri Drenth and Jamie Richards. How sweet and lucky to have my dear friends apart of this memory from Christmas past.

It's a sweet Christmas!

My little chef's enjoyed baking Christmas goodies last night. Reed was quite the little artist with his multi layers of Christmas colors. (ps: red and green make brown ;) Taylor only liked the taste of the red icing so she added sweet textures using sprinkles on all her red cookies. The Quinn Baking Shop also made chocolate cake balls and mint brownies!

A night at the ballet.

Taylor and I were invited to see the Nutcracker with our sweet friends Robyn and Lauren. It was a fantastic night. Taylor must have said I love you mommy 100 times. Bless her little heart...she had no other words to describe how beautiful, awesome and special the night was.I think we will definitely make this a Christmas tradition!! I sure did enjoyed sharing the evening with my sweet sugar plum fairy!

I love school....

My favorite time of the school year is during the holiday's. There are so many fun activities and events for everyone! I got to be Santa's little helper again this year but this time it was two days. I help coordinate the students for Santa pictures. The students just laugh and smile at me all day long. They ask me... "aren't you my art teacher" and I will say "sugar of course I am but I'm also one of Santa's many helpers". ;) They are so funny. This year my principal and assistant principal gave teachers the 12 days of Christmas. It was so fun coming to school to see what they had planned. The many gifts included: 12 days of jean's, coco and cookies, breakfast, nachos, ice cream sundaes, slipper day, bring your Christmas Spirit day and many more. I dressed up as a present for Christmas spirit day. This time my students asked "where are your arms, what's inside of the box and how did you get in there". It was fun and as always...I'm looking forward to next years activities and events!!

All I want for Christmas is....

I have to say our daycare rocks!! The picture people came to take Santa photos. Yes, at the daycare!! Their were no long lines, no crying babies... it was totally stress free!! And the pictures, well they are so sweet. They also invited Santa back last Saturday so we could have breakfast with him. This is a picture from breakfast. You can see the kids LOVE Santa.

Taylor's List: a Barbie, girl Lego and a doll house
Reed's List: a football player, basket ball, a bus and a truck

Celebrated at the Lob...

We meet up with the family Friday, December 4th, at Red Lobster to celebrate Lacy and CJ's 10th Anniversary. They had planned to take the kids this summer. I believe the story goes...Brent saw a Red Lobster commercial and begged CJ to take him so he could eat crab legs. As you can see by Lacy's picture, we had a good time. And Brent well he finaly got those crab legs.

Happy Birthday Gram...

Over the Thanksgiving holiday, my grandmother celebrated her 80th Birthday. We had a small party at her house with family and friends. She was so pretty and had that sweet smile on her face the entire day. We love you Grandmommie!!

Love Birds.

Mom and Dad celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary on November 8th. Mom and Dad met on the bus to school. Mom was 12, Dad was 15. They married in the fall of '69. Mom planned the wedding while dad was away finishing his tour of duty in Vietnam. They are a sweet example of true love!