12.25--McCracken Christmas

Ahh...what a lovely Christmas!! By far, Christmas is my most favorite time o' the year...EASILY!! There's nothing better than snow falling, a cracklin' fire place, family giggling between each other, the delicious food that everyone worked so hard to prepare, and you can't forget all the wonderful presents! Every year Adam and I trade where to go for Thanksgiving and Christmas. This year we spent Thanksgiving in Ohio with the Finnegan Family...and Christmas was spent in Pennsylvania with the McCracken Family (Wow, that felt weird typing McCracken...ahh there it is again! It's been a while since I've typed that one!). Anyway, we got to spend a wonderful time at Uncle Chucky's house Christmas day! Boy, what a great time we had!! We ALWAYS have a good time...check out the pictures below!

Our McCracken Family.
Missing: Doug, Heidi, Caden, Andrew, Kayla.

I requested a silly picture...we are a silly bunch!

Cousin's...Proves the saying--boys are weird.

Sitting around watching football.
(Li'l Willy hanging out with the boys too!)

Chit-Chatting...
(Note the Penn State Christmas tree in the right)

Me and Baby Caitlyn.

Haha...chaos getting ready for pictures...

Great Great Grama Sara and Caitlyn Mae!

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PRESENT TIME!!!

For Christmas presents this year, everyone was to bring a present. The rules were that the present had to be for a boy or a girl. For example a bag o' chocolates (could be for boy or girl). Or if you decided on something for a boy or girl, you had to write on it who it was for...boy/girl. All the presents were placed on the table and counted up...24 o' them! So next I cut up pieces o' paper with the numbers 1-24 written on them. Everyone had to pick out a number out o' the basket...next we called for #1!! #1 got to pick out whatever present he/she wanted. Then #2 was called, they had the option o' picking out a new present (whichever they want) or steal, steal the present from #1. We went all the way to 24! Let me just tell you that everyone was soo scared to "steal", so they just picked out a normal one!! Guess who the first person was who chose to STEAL?!? YUP..ME!! And the second person to steal?? Adam. Actually funny story...Adam stole Dad's present. What was even more funny, it was the present that Adam brought. He really liked the present he got!
Gathered around for the Present Exchange!

The Present table...lots o' good ones there!

Chucky's pick!!
Chucky didn't see that his said GIRL on it...so it was all girl things! That just made us laugh extremely hard. He loved his presents and started talking with a lisp. HILARIOUS!! He got a necklace with matching earrings, he also got a sunflower decoration to be hung on a door or what not.

...he also got an angle with accessories for each season.

Chucky's necklace and matching earrings.

For some reason no-one wanted to steal from him!

Decker's sweet Irish Shirt present!

Me and Sweet Aunt Gert!

Julie and Mama got the SAME present!! (:
Water...Crystal Light...and a chocolate coin...

Me and Great Grama Sara!!
I had to practically beg to get my picture with her. She HATES her picture taken!! Absolutely HATES her picture taken!! So I better frame this one!!

Playing Games...we LOVE games!
We played Banana-Grams and Golf.

Boys still watching TV!

Me and my brothers...we're silly!

...but I still love them!

Absolutely LOVE being silly...

Me showing everyone my new piccolo!

Haha...Jason and Aunt Juli.
These two were like no-other team that you've ever seen in your life. They worked together at both games and were very cut-throat!! They became such great friends! Ah...they should probably frame this picture!

Me and Kate!!
This picture I actual like o' us!

Uncle Jeff and his favorite sister!! (:

Me and Uncle Jeff!! (:

Uncle Chuck & Aunt Tammy...Our HOSTS!

My Baby!!

BUDDY!!! (cousin)

Haha...Uncle Decker!!

Sweet Aunt Patty!

We just had to do a silly picture!

Me and Uncle Tom!

We are so silly!

Missed the memo about smiling?

LOVE this picture o' us!!

Yeah, McCracken's are a li'l different!

THE END!!!

12.25--Our 2nd Christmas!

Can't believe that this is our second Christmas together. Ahh....what a great Christmas--spending it with my honey!!

I know this one is blurry; however, it's cozy.



Christmas Morning!!

Our super awesome stockings? Cool, right?

Us getting ready to unwrap presents.

Can't you tell I an excited!?

Adam had to unwrap every one o' these!

All o' Adam's presents!!

All o' my presents!! (:

I just love Christmas time!! (:

THE END!!!

12.22--Gymnastics Christmas Party

The Christmas Party we had at gymnastics. No, we didn't practice at all, just exchanged presents and had a great time taking pictures. Unfortunately my camera died, so I didn't get many pictures!! BOO!!!

Me and Falyn...she got me soap!

My sweet Sarah!
MMmm...mixers, PB/Choco covered Pretzels.

Everybody exchanging Secret Santa presents.

Rachel's gift...buttload o' make-up!

Kassidy got me sweet stuff too!

I sweet J for Jill.
(Except it doesn't make a J...Thanks for telling me girls!)

All o' the girls and coaches!

Love all my gymnastics girls! Too bad it's such a far drive to see them!

THE END!!!

12.20--Meeting Kayla.

The beginning o' December, we got news that my cousin, Andrew Palmer who lives in Cody Wyoming would be home for a visit. Andrew just recently got engaged and the wedding will be here before we know it in March! So Andrew brought the new gal home to meet THE FAMILY!! We were pretty intimidating all together, asking her interrogating questions...but she did GREAT!! We all loved her. Here are the pictures from the visit:

Andrew talking to my father...
(yes, Andrew is a genuine cowboy!)

Jul Babe, Me, and Kayla (the girl!)



Jul, Chucky, Kayla...we loved her!



Chucky and his sista!! Haha...family!



Some people slept the whole time!



Other's ate my special Jill Brownies!!



Me and Decker...love him!!



Uncle Tom playing with Cody!



Cody wasn't all about the picture...



I watched the Brubaker girls...we painted nails.



Rachel, concentrating on her nail job.



Christmas Tree with snow all around!



They took my camera...here is Santa!



Me and Becca...Haha...so cute!



Gotta have a feet picture, that's for real!!



Me and the girls...having a blast!



Oh how sweet these girls are!!

What a great time with family and it was great meeting Kayla!! I think she'll fit in real good! Can't wait for more family activities!!

THE END!!!

12.7--Splinters

Wow...totally behind in my bloggin', so sorry about that. So here is an evening in the life o' the Finnegan Family. When we aren't spending quality time in the hospital, we are trying to spend time together in are sweet house. As many o' you know we live in a 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom home. It's been wonderful!! Much better than a teeny, tiny apartment! Haha...because we moved in so quickly not all o' the house was finished. There are a few things that weren't quite finished. Anyway, the funny thing was we both got splinters in our feet on the same spot o' the floor, same spot on our foot, and both on the same day! How weird, right? Anyway, mine was just a baby splinter as you can see below. Good thing we have each other. Marriage...so you can dig splinters out o' each others feet!! (:

Here are the pictures:

Adam's nasty 2" splinter...

It hurt him very bady...

He tried pulling it out o' his foot, but no such luck.

It was not a pretty sight!!



We used a scalpel to try to cut it out.



After Adam tried and tried...I finally had to break out my skills to help him out. Working with sharp things is kind o' my specialty!



It worked!! Finally it was out...all 2 inches!!



This was MY splinter...(2 millimeters)



Adam was so great. He used an IV starter.



Didn't feel bad about hurting me.
(Also, see how late it was...)



Finally got my splinter out!!

So that is what an evening is like in the Finnegan household!!

THE END!!!