Christmas morning 2007

AJ definitely got into the gifts this year. I think next year he'll be more excited about Christmas, but he enjoyed the year nevertheless. Of course, I had to by him some little Christmas pjs (much to his daddy's dismay). It was such a fun morning with just the three of us and AJ opening gifts before the rest of the family got there. A special time I will never forget. The most important question - what did Santa bring? Well, AJ is the proud owner of a wooden train set (among lots of other toys) which he has been playing with since.

Christmas 2007

I can't believe Christmas is already over. Family activities for us include going to my grandmothers on Christmas eve for dinner, then having a Christmas eve service at church, then the family comes to our house for brunch on Christmas day. This was the first year for us to do all that with a two year old and let me just say - whewww.

The Gambills at Mammy's Christmas 07.






















Cousins Hillary and Keith. Hillary is the oldest great grandchild and Keith is the youngest grandchild. They will both be graduating from high school in may. We have a photo of them sitting together (maybe in the same chair) when they were babies.















These two were born a few weeks apart. AJ is a little bully and kept pulling him close not wanting him to get out of the chair.

Gingerbread House 2007

The week before Christmas we decorated our annual gingerbread house. Of course it was just the kit but we do buy extra candy to make it extra special. This was AJ's first gingerbread house, but I don't really think he cared about anything but eating the candy. We got a few gumdrops on the house, but we are sure that AJ ate most of them. Just as we were finishing the house, the electricity went out, so we spent some very special family time together to candlelight and I photographed the finished house the next morning.

Birthday

Keith's 18th birthday was on the 20th. So the family came over for cake an pizza. Its got to be hard having a birthday so close to Christmas. A.J. had to open all the gifts for Keith. It was too cute.

The Crucible

I had the opportunity to create the poster's again this year for my brother's play which was this weekend. Friday night, I was able to go and take some pictures during the play. Keith played John Proctor in The Crucible. Very dramatic play. And everyone did a great job. Take a look at the slideshow.

Happy 2nd Birthday AJ!

Today is AJ's birthday so I wanted to share a few pics from the day.

AJ wanted to get into that cake all morning.






















He was much better at opening gifts this year than last year. But, of course, as soon as he opened one gift, he just wanted to play with it and not open the others.















AJ, how old are you today? And he responded with holding up one finger on each hand and then clapping about it. (too cute!) Also, wearing the new shirt his Uncle Ben gave him for his birthday - Trey loves it too!






















Hanging out with Aunt "Je" Nina.















He got a tickle me elmo, but wasn't too sure of it in the beginning. When Elmo would roll over, AJ would climb into my lap. He did decide that he was ok after a while though.






















Happy birthday to the most wonderful little boy a mom and dad could ever have. We love you AJ!!

wedding

Ok, so I've been extremely bad in blogging this summer with family activities. I will have to catch that up soon. In the meantime, I have to put a few recent pics of AJ. He was in a wedding a couple of weeks ago and did so well.

My little man...






















AJ is definitely a ladies man. The little girl in the wedding with him hugged him first, but then he kept wanting to hug her. Check out the look on his face.















AJ and Daddy...















AJ and the bride, Lindsey. Lindsey cuts his hair.






















AJ with Chad and Anndrea. Chad is Lindsey's brother and I photographed their wedding last January. Fortunately, they live close and we drop AJ off on occasion for them to babysit. I think Chad had better look out. From the looks of this picture, AJ has his eye on Anndrea!















The bride and groom with all the little ones.















The plan was for AJ and Anna to ride in the wagon together, but when it was time to go down the aisle, Anna just wouldn't do it. So AJ had to go it alone. But he seemed not to mind too much. He just sat back and looked around.