Drum roll, please ...

What a nice surprise we got yesterday! Christa and J and kids came home from Lincoln in time to join us at Mom and Dad's to celebrate. Unfortunately, poor Lexi had an accident about 20 minutes after she walked in the door, so here she is in her "revised" Christmas outfit ...

My brother Chris (shown here under his sweet wife Amy), as usual seeking to irritate and offend with his gifts, bought Lexi a drum set. Unfortunately for him, they were the hit of the day - provided us with many good laughs throughout the day! Notice Lexi's coordination - amazing! Ha.



Mason gets into the act with these next two - I couldn't choose between them because they're both funny! We labeled him "the quiet drummer" - you'll see why. Watch him straddle the little chair ... as the day goes on he becomes more and more obsessed with that little chair, and figured out how to straddle it for a long while without actually sitting on it ... good thing because inevitably when he tried to sit he was off balance and ended up tipping over! There's a great shot of Alex's back side in one of them too - at least it isn't mine (someone (you know your name) gets a shot of my rear end at almost every holiday ... time to pass the torch).





Lots of chaos and noise in the background ... just the way it should be! :)