The plan for the next day was to leave for Granny's house by 8:30. I think we made it out the door by 9:00. Not too bad. The only problem was I woke up with matted, gunky eyes. You see I always get these extremely bright ideas on how we can save money. I decided that since it is winter time I didn't need to take my allergy medicine everyday. So I missed about three days of medicine. This sounds very vain, but I really didn't like having my picture taken all day Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. On a side note, my eyes are almost completely healed. Still not wearing my contacts yet, but maybe in a couple of days.
Back to the story - we get to Granny's and the festivities begin again. We have a quick lunch and it is time to open presents. Luke thoroughly enjoys handing out the gifts again. Did I mention that was also my favorite job as a kid?!? This year we started with the youngest, then went to the oldest, then next youngest, then next oldest. You get the picture. It just so happened that Daniel and I were in the middle. He was the last youngest and I was the last oldest. I don't know that I really like that. Luke got all kinds of great stuff at this celebration, but his favorite was a Thomas the Tank Engine train track from Granny (pictures at the bottom). That night was lots of fun hanging out with cousins and aunts and uncles. Santa always came to Granny and Pa's house for me as a kid and I'm loving it that Santa is able to do the same for Luke. Luke slept with Nana and Papa on Christmas Eve night and wasn't able to go to sleep. I went in and layed down with him for a minute and we heard a noise at the window. He looked up and said, "What's that?" I told him that it was probably Santa and he wouldn't be able to stop until Luke went to sleep. The kid went to sleep very quickly after that because he really wanted that McQueen shake beep beep that he thought Santa had.
Luke woke up ready to see if Santa had came on Christmas morning. Santa even left the McQueen beep beep that Luke asked for. After opening Santa presents we were off to Grandma and James' house for another round of Christmas festivities. We had same great food and fellowship with family and Luke was able to play with more cousins and open more presents. I got the new Point of Grace CD playing dirty Santa. I was pretty pumped about that. Daniel won a tool bag that I am hoping that he will use to finish the backsplash in my kitchen!
Then we were off to Daniel's parents. Luke got a Wal-Mart gift card that he has been using to buy accessories for his Thomas train track.
We hit the after Christmas sales on the 26th and 27th. We also made a stop by the Dillon office on the 27th to visit with Jynger. While we were shopping on the 27th we received a call that Granny, who had been sick since Thanksgiving, was being admitted to the hospital. We went home and packed up and headed to Granny's. Mom was able to spend the nights at the hospital and we were all able to hang out up there during the day. On that Friday night all the cousins but one (Bailey we wished you had been there!) spent the night at Granny's. We had fun. It was me and Jennifer, then two 13 year olds, a 8 year old and a 6 year old - then Luke of course. Granny was able to come home on Sunday and I think that she is feeling much better.
Luke and I also came home on Sunday evening. We had to get ready for the big New Year's party with the teenagers. My house was packed with activity. Most all of the kids stayed all night and didn't sleep. We've all been sleeping pretty much all day around here.
Hope all of you had a great Christmas and Happy New Year. Enjoy all the pics - I had problems just picking a few!
***A funny thing that Luke is doing now - Daniel taught him how to "pretend" get his nose stuck to someone elses nose. Then he will pull apart and say "Ouch" and rub his nose. There is a pic of Luke and Daniel being stuck in the slide show!
On Saturday we had Luke's Christmas pictures taken and saw Santa Claus. Luke asked Santa for a McQueen shake beep beep because his is broke down. (Yes, we had coached him.) Santa told him that he would see what he could do. We were supposed to head home then. It was already freezing at home so I was afraid to head out just the two of us, especially after our trip going there. Hence the part about being stuck at Nana, Papa and Aunt Jen's.
Can you tell that Luke really likes the icing? He was eating it off of Nana's cake and licking it off of his cookie!
Aunt DeAnn brought Luke a bus. He loves buses!!!
Can you tell where he liked to put the ornaments?
He liked this snowman also.
It is my prayer that our son also learns the REASON FOR THE SEASON!!!
Here is a picture of Luke with his friends Kori and Trevor. I got in trouble for not including this picture with the Halloween post - so Kori here it is!!! :)
Luke and Papa hanging out and watching cartoons while we were in Tulsa. (Luke had just woke up.)
Happy Birthday, Aunt Jen!!!
Daddy and Lukas tonight as the OU game was starting. Daniel doesn't look quite as pepped up now. The game isn't over, but.... 
Last but not least, here is a picture of some cute cookies that I made tonight. Our women's group at church is making baskets to take to emergency personnel of the area to thank them for serving us. I had thought that these cookies were really cute. Well, I still think that they are cute, but I have a serious pain in the neck from decorating them. And, I'm not so good decorating with icing. 
Luke loves his new bed. Here is a picture of him sleeping in his bed the first night. 
Luke and his Daddy love making forts on Luke's bunk bed.
We have already made several memories with Luke's new bed. All three of us slept on the bottom bunk one night. A couple of times I have slept on the bottom bunk with Luke and Daniel has slept on the top bunk. Fun times...
A funny thing is that Luke has only gotten out of his bed once in the five or six weeks since he's been sleeping in it. That time was this week. Daniel was putting Luke to bed and I was watching TV in the living room. Daniel was putting Luke to bed because for the past four or five nights I have managed to fall asleep in Luke's room. I was just sitting there watching TV and out walks Luke with this big ol' grin on his face. I was kind of shocked that he was up. I took him back to his room and guess who was asleep in his bed! Pretty funny!
