henson christmas

the weekend before christmas, we headed for jackson and got all the cousins together to celebrate. considering that there were 7 kids under the age of 4, it went pretty smoothly! and with that many kids, at any given time there were people asleep in every bedroom, the laundry room, pantry, closets, and bathrooms. i'm glad they are pretty adaptable!!

in all the chaos, i only broke out my camera when the little people opened presents, but what did you expect??

waiting on william to open a gift...


wes' turn...


sara beth got a raincoat with matching boots and umbrella, and it was "just what she really needed!!"


sweet reed slept through all the chaos of the opening of presents...


chef leigh showing off her new apron...


william and wes putting on a concert on alexandra's new piano...


wes was in love with new dinosaur. he ran off to the kitchen to hide from everyone and keep it to himself.


uncle zeb gave ariana some lessons on her new guitar...


from the time we got there, william kept telling everyone that he wanted a batman. this was the first time that anyone had heard anything about batman, and of course, there was no batman under my tree!! since G gets up at the crack of dawn (excuse me, several hours before the crack of dawn), he took it upon himself to check out wal-mart, cvs, and target during the wee hours that people are supposed to be sleeping in order to find william a batman! thankfully, target pulled through, and we had a happy william!


this is the only way to get them all to sit still in the same place for any length of time!


but i think next year, we are all going to have to go in and get honey a bigger couch!

and maybe a few more closets for naptime!!