Christmas Eve 2012. Well as everyone knows by now I did not deploy to Afghanistan and had the opportunity to spend the Holidays with my family. As an added bonus we were able to head down to San Antonio for Christmas Eve with some of the extended family. Out of my parents 9 children we only had 3 of us that were able to visit Mamie & Pop. This year we did have a lot of Legacy members of the family show up, and on to the pictures....
Gunny (Great Grandpa Reppond) got into the Christmas spirit...it only lasted for a moment...
The annual "sleigh ride" This was Patton's first ride! Wayne has actual silver bells that his Grandpa used to us every Christmas with his horse and sleigh in Iowa.
This was not one of our greatest ideas. Haley was very willing to sacrifice me to save herself! Oh well, what can you do.
Our 2nd not so great idea...Joe and I thought, "lets see how fast we can go and take a curve without falling!" Bennett would not be left out...(no 3yr old was harmed in the making of this blog!)
Mamie asked Pop, "if he wanted to go for a ride"...its funny because the mower is bigger than she is.
(Watch the little boy in the red Santa Claus hat standing quietly next to the mower)
(Notice the little boy running next to the mower)
What this reminded us of was a dog race where the rabbit goes out in front of the dogs and the dogs chase after them!...Bennett is the dog. He literally kept going around and around chasing the mower...he has lots of energy.
The traditional bow shooting competition. We spent a lot of time looking for arrows that didn't quite make there target.
Patton just hanging out with Mamie's snowmen.
We never got Jess's traditional picture of him falling asleep on the couch.
Mamie really thought she was scaring Pop...he looks "really" scared!!
Since my brother-in-law, Nathan was not there I tried to fill his spot at the horse shoe pit. I had this nasty habit of getting ringer after ringer! Probably the best horse shoe game of my life
Pop's, "I just threw really bad" look.
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Haley likes taking action shots!
If y'all remember from Thanksgiving here is our little nephew that broke his leg. He got a awesome Christmas style cast.
Bennett just being Bennett!
It was kind of neat to have all the "male" grandchildren together. This was an absolute boys Christmas Eve. Kind of neat.
We ate way to much food...we always do.
We had to recruit some of the Aunt's for the Christmas story...we were a little light on the girls this year.
Patton was our first live baby Jesus. Not sure the pacifier was authentic??!!
What a cute Sheppard....we did have to take the cane away from him...he said his "Mom" taught him that the Sheppard's use the hook end to pull the sheep to them...so guess who kept trying to pull all his cousins towards him??? Yeah the stick didn't last long.
Aunt Rach loves them baby boys. She is always trying to steal them
This is right before we destroyed the living room with wrapping paper.
The boys with all their new hats on.
What a cute little boy!
Bennett got his first Lincoln Logs set from Mamie and Pop. It took them months to find a real wooden set. Apparently plastic is all the rage...not cool. He really likes them!
Some of our Legacy members, from left Jess's Grandma, (Bema), Gunny, (G Grandpa Reppond), Pops mom, (G Grandma Reppond)
Patton man got his first pair of hunting boots!
Gunny doesn't like wearing collared shirts, especially at church. Figured this would solve that problem :-)
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