Karen's Sweet Konfections: Christmas..WARNING(LOTS of pictures)

So this is how we started the day on Christmas Eve- I had waited around till the last second for a store in town to get one of the main gifts that I needed. The reason I was having to do this is because I had completely missed the sale on Nov. 8 for this particular gift and had been hoping for another sale of this magnitude. It never happened...I digress. At any rate I had to end up ordering it from Best Buy, paying an extra shipping fee etc. We were planning to leave here on the 23rd to do our annual Christmas with the inlaws. I get a call on the morning of the 23rd stating that my package would arrive sometime between 8am and 7pm on the 24th!!! And we must be here to sign for it. So began round number 1 of falling to pieces. No big deal you say to miss my family Christmas? It would have been the first in 28 years. After agonizing over what to do, who could we ask to sit and wait(no one) My gracious, kind, selfless son inlaw volunteered to sit and wait. And sit he did. If I'm not mistaken the package arrived at 3pm. At any rate we have a few things in this house that are broken and in need of repair. Like several folks have gotten locked in our toilet and had to call on their cells to be let out....lol. The doorbell is no exception. So this is the sign I left on the door so the UPS would knock and alert Milo who in turn would alert Sean. Sean said I needed not worry. Milo barked at EVERY passing car....hahaha. No naps for Sean

So we are off to our celebration in a little bitty town called Turkey Creek(great place to celebrate Thanksgiving) between Alexandria and Ville Platte. It storms on is the entire trip. But I am determined we are gonna make it and its gonna be good. And so here are the results....lol.

This is my man and the babies. He looks happy huh? He tells me "I have a headache Karen" I know when he says Karen instead of baby things aren't good. Being a headache sufferer myself I can be sympathetic.

Here I am with Abby and Rece who kinda has the same look as his PiPi

Here are all the new babies, Jaxon born in May, Rece born in July and Maddie born in Aug.

My sister inaw Donna who is a 4 time cancer survivor, Me, Danica, my nieces, Donna's daughters, Heather and Holly. Holly is Jaxon's mom. Do I have you confused?

This is GREAT Grandma Yvonne with her GREAT grandbabies

Abby 3, Maddie 4 mos tomorrow, Jaxon 7 mos, Rece 5 mos and Zachary 5

So it was a hot Christmas and the air at the Russell compound was not working and with 25 people in this place it made or a sorta uncomfortable visit and some cross words were spoken. This is not uncommon at our gatherings....lol. We generally have some sort of falling out at all of them. Hey we aren't perfect, but we love each other!

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And so we head on back home, all the while dreaming of a hot Christmas. Our annual Christmas routine is that we have pancakes for breakfast in the hopes that it will hold us over till dinner. But first the gifts:

This is Rachel opening her laptop (this is the UPS gift)

Kandace opening her IPOD touch. The child hinted for months and I kept telling her it was too much money

My hunny opening his coaches shirt. His big gift was a big fat Cabello's gift card

Me with my digital picture frame...I'm in love because I love my pictures so much. I also got some Apograthy jars and the the most awesome Keurig coffee pot....love my coffee too!

Milo with his bobo

The cats went nuts over their catnip toys. Have you ever looked up what catnip is? You'll get a good laugh Its just what we though it was after watching the cats in action...lol

Christmas night....what I cherish the most. This is why I had 4 kids....so my house would be full. To us adults the food was most important....however the kids would disagree.

Me and Ms Madelyn

Pawpaw got him another gift card to Cabello's....YES

Several years ago the hooligans broke one like this that I had and they've finally replaced it. Let's see how long this one last with the new breed coming on.