The Abercrombie Fam: 2007

Finally - Christmas Pictures!

Scroll down if you have about an HOUR to see Christmas with the Abercrombie fam! :)
Lots of posts and pictures!

Today we celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior. It is fun to open presents and have Santa, but I pray that Brigg and I will teach Raylin the true meaning of Christmas!

"The Savior - yes, the Messiah, the Lord - has been born today in Bethlehem, the City of David!" Luke 2:11

Christmas with Brigg's Family

We celebrated Christmas with Brigg's family Christmas afternoon in Seminary. Thanks to Julz and Pops for all of Raylin's gifts and our gifts. We had lunch and then opened presents. Later that night, we watched a beautiful fireworks show put on by Pops and Brigg!

Another new ride - Yeah!!! A care bears four wheeler from G'daddy!!!

Pops with Gabe and Raylin

Julz and Raylin

Here is a collage of the rest of the pictures. Click on it to see pics larger! (That little explanation is for some of my fellow blog stalkers that are not familiar with Picasa :) !!!)

Christmas Morning

"YEAH! Santa Claus came to see me!!!"

NEWEST ADDITION TO OUR FAMILY!!!
Raylin got a dog for Christmas. This is Chopper. She loves him! She looks for him every morning. He will jump on her when she is crawling and it is so cute! As you can see by the pictures, she was a little unsure at first and then she decided he was okay!

I love my new ride - Thanks Santa!!!

Another new ride - Thanks Santa! I can really get around this house now!

What she really wanted for Christmas - PAPER!!!

Raylin putting on some play lipstick that came in her purse from us

Gran and Gramp came Christmas morning to see Raylin.

I love this picture of them - so sweet!

Gramp and Raylin playing with her ball popper. Raylin loves this new toy and I think Gramp did too! :)

Gran and Raylin with Chopper

Christmas Eve Night

Raylin is going for the only ornament that we let her play with. That is her stork from Woman's Hospital where she was born. She knows that is the only one she can pull off the tree. We had to keep her out of the presents though. She loved the bows.

She loves to hang upside down. Please do not call the abuse hotline. This is not some cruel and unusual punishment. She is really having fun!!! :) Brigg just seemed to only get a picture when she had a straight face, but I promise she was smiling and laughing.

Christmas Eve

I told Brigg I wanted to start a tradition of Raylin and I meeting him for lunch on Christmas Eve since he has to work that day. So we met for lunch at El Charro. So we begin our tradition of having Christmas Eve lunch at a Mexican restaurant! Raylin loves Mexican rice and beans. And she loves the sweet tea!!! I couldn't even get her to move the sippy cup for a picture.

Christmas Eve night we rode around to look at Christmas lights. Raylin loved them especially the ones that blinked to the Christmas music on the radio.

If you look closely, you can see some of the Christmas lights out the window along with all of Brigg's hunting camo :)

Christmas Eve Photo Session

While Brigg was working on Christmas Eve (yes, he did work on CHRISTMAS EVE), I decided to have a photo session with Raylin. This is only four of the FIFTY pictures taken during this session. :-)

Christmas with my family

We celebrated Christmas with my family Sunday night. Raylin got a rocking chair from Gran and Gramp and lots of toys and books from her cousins. As you can see in the first picture, she was a little bit more impressed with the wrapping paper this year. She still would not let go of it even after she was sitting in her rocking chair. The second picture is of all the kids decorating birthday cakes for Jesus. Gran baked individual cakes for each grandchild to decorate. Then the kids stuck a candle in them (or many candles) and sang Happy Birthday to Jesus. Raylin will definitely be more interested in decorating her cake next year. She was sound asleep in my arms while everybody else had all the fun! I think the opening presents wore her out! Thank you Gran and Gramp for all that you do for us and our children! Scroll down for more pics.

Here is a collage of the rest of the pictures from Christmas with my family because there are too many to post individually. Just click on it to make it larger so you can actually see them.