Happy Birthday & Merry Christmas From Maryland

Merry Christmas from Maryland! Today we

celebrated Christmas with the Kovlak side

of the family. We also celebrated Dan's birthday!

Granny & Pops gave Joshua a big Elmo doll...he loves it!!!

Kara modeling her Dora PJ'sJoshua in his new Dino PJ's
Joshua thought his new Elmo hat was pretty cool!
A kiss for Elmo
Joshua and Auntie Britt

Auntie Britt is so much fun!
Wee!Joshua giving Granny a Thank You hug!
The Christmas mess! Kara loves her new bear. She can actually color on it!
Kara and Auntie Kellis

Joshua loves his Auntie Kellis
Joshua and his new Giraffe Gigi

December 30 TH

Happy Birthday Dan!

A family pic

Dan & Karen
Dan and I went to Bugaboo Creek Steak House for his birthday dinner

The moose were everywhere!

Dan had a delicious chicken meal

I went right for the steak!
Kara made Daddy her own birthday card. She was so excited to be able to write on Daddy's card all by herself! Inside the card there were pics of her and Daddy and all the fun things they do together. Under each pic Kara listed reasons why she loves her Daddy. We did this last year as well and hope to keep it up every birthday to come! Joshua also made Daddy a card with Mommy's help!

The Birthday Cake!

Every year I buy Dan a Carvel

Birthday Cake...Yummy!!!

A White Christmas!

We knew when we went to Buffalo for Christmas it would be a white one...and it was! Joshua, Cassidy, Kara & Rylan ready to go out and play in the snow! (yes, Joshua and Rylan's pants are purple...they do have older sisters...LOL) Here are the kiddos waiting patiently to go out to play in the snow!
Joshua & Kara love riding on the sled!
Rylan & Cassie too!
Dan, Karen & the kiddos
Dan's brother Chris and his wife Julie & their kiddos

Sledding down a hill!

Joshua & Rylan on the sled

Rylan & Joshua wipe out. I love Joshua's face in this pic!

Christmas Eve / Day

We spent Christmas this year in Buffalo. Here are some pics of Christmas eve and Christmas day.Great Grandpa Locker...Gramps
Joshua loved giving Gramps kisses!
For Christmas the Locker kids got Dad & Mom a family pic! They both loved it...are those tears I see???
Kara left Santa and the Reindeer a little Christmas treat!

Kara Christmas morning with her presents from Santa!

Kara with her new American doll Nikki and with her Bitty Baby's new swimming outfit

Kara has been wanting a dress up wedding gown and Santa brought her one!

Every year Uncle John & Aunt Liz send a Christmas package. The guys got a bottle of Krud Kutter...inside family joke.

The girls got Christmas ornaments and Italian biscuits...Yummy!

The kids loved their gifts from Uncle John & Aunt Liz! Larry, Kara, Katelyn, Rylan, Cassidy, Kallee & Joshua

Gingerbread House

When we were in Buffalo for Christmas we decided to make a Gingerbread House (thanks Granny). This was a first for Kara, Grandma Locker & me! It was a lot of fun! Thanks to Danielle's "heads up" on making sure we read the directions everything went together smoothly!
Notice the "K "
on the chimney for Kara!

Grandma, Kara, Karen & our Gingerbread House!

A Visit With Santa

We went to Chocolate World today to visit Santa

Mason, Abbey, Kara, Joshua & Evan with the elves

On the Chocolate World ride I love Mason & Joshua's faces while on the ride