Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!

Now that the year is nearly to a close, I figure we ought to send out our, uh, greetings before next year!!!

 And I think I was going to get on and tell about our Thanksgiving as well...getting a little behind, huh?!?! And we finally took a new family picture in front of our tree, although that will be outdated in about 2-3 months. :-)

(I'll try to make this quick and not too long!!!)

Before and after Thanksgiving, we went down to Florida to see our family. We started our with a quick visit to my sister, Jen and Brad's home in North Georgia with plans to stop by for a longer visit on the way back.

Then headed to central Fl to my dad's house and to see my sister and families. While there, we had a double birthday party, Thanksgiving dinner at my grandma Fleming's home, went to Legoland (a new theme park), and the kids played with all their cousins, Kayden, Joshua, Jeremiah, and Lillie each day.

Kayden and Lillie celebrate
their birthdays together!!!

Even though it took us an hour to park,
and we all had to use the restroom,
we had so much fun, who wouldn't!!!

Andy is taking this picture while I had to run to use the restroom!!! We had quite a group, 14 in all, but with each adult, we had a free child ticket...best way to visit a theme park. ;-)

Lillie, Jason, Sarah, Joshua, Kim Fleming, Dad, 

Jeremiah, Kayden, Nicole,

Noah, Isaiah (Kim Fleming's nephew), Hannah

Hannah and Noah drove their own Lego car and received a license!!!

 Then our trip took us south to Andy's dad's house for an early Christmas. 

Grandpa Frazier and Noah with new bike!!!

Grandma Frazier with the kids and their capes!!

And from there we stayed with his mom (we had just seen the Frazier's over the summer), had Christmas and watched videos of Andy as a boy...and boy do the resemblances stack up between father and son!!! My favorite is Andy jumping like a monkey in front the camera repeatedly during a couple Christmas movies, much like Noah who loves to be silly in front of the camera/video. He (Andy) finally calmed down around the 9th birthday video, so there's hope for Noah!!! ;-) Before we left, we headed over to the beach to satisfy these Florida natives!!!

The water was surprisingly warm, around 70 degrees
with a warm, breezy November day around 80 degrees!!

Andy, Papa Kunkle, Noah,
Gramie and Hannah, and me (Kim)

The kids had so much fun playing in the water, they would wait with backs to the wave, and laugh when the waves would surprise them!!! It's been too long for the little native Floridians and I don't think they remember growing up with the beach in their back yard.

We ended up going straight home because of Hannah not feeling too well, me being extra tired (for some reason!) and not feeling too well and my brother in law having complications from dental surgery.

For Christmas, we stayed close to home and had a wonderful Christmas Eve dinner with my mom/stepdad, aunt/uncle and grandparents as well as Christmas day dinner. Also enjoyed a late night Christmas Eve service at 11pm, though Hannah slept through it all!!!

And for our "family" gift (for the next few years), we bought a 2005 Honda Odyssey!!! It's a very nice, 8 passenger mini-van we have been looking for a long time. We traded in Andy's big blue van and our Explorer, which wouldn't have room for the baby seat and was about to bite the dust!!

We have one final Christmas gift to open, but alas, we must wait:

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas, stays safe for New Year and has a beautiful 2012

Love to all,
The Fraziers
~ Andy, Kim, Hannah, Noah and baby Frazier ~