Merry Christmas!

We had a great Christmas here at the Pickett household! Jared was off Friday for Christmas eve and is suppose to be off on Monday but it looks like he is going to have to go in for a few hours. He is off this Friday for the 31st and the following Monday to celebrate the New Year. We were excited to have him off on Christmas Eve because he and Matalie spent alot of time in the kitchen cooking. They made a batch of chocolate chip cookies that we delivered to a couple of neighbors. He also made some fudge but he looks for any excuse to make fudge. He has the fudge making down to a precise art.




Matalie was so excited about Santa this year. He was all she talked about for the past 2 weeks. About 4 days before Christmas she started telling everybody that she wanted Santa to bring her a pillow pet. Lovely how she mentioned this just 4 days before Christmas, right?! Santa left her a little note telling her that he was flying to fast and her pillow pet fell out of his sleigh. He left her some money to buy a pillow pet the next time she goes to the store. Now, everytime we drive down the road, she tells us all to look to see if we can find where the pillow pet fell out at. She was also thrilled that Santa ate the cookies and drank the milk that she left out for him. Maddux could care less about Santa but was thrilled with all the paper. He is ALL boy. We took down all the Christmas deocrations yesterday so I put him upstairs while I vacuumed up the mess. I went upstairs to check on him and I found him happy as a lark playing in the toilet. He is going to give me gray hairs at an early age.




After we opened presents and lounged around the house for a little, we went to Charlee's Nana and PopPop's house for Christmas lunch. The girls had a great time playing together and the adults had a great time visiting. They were definitly the next best thing to being with family. We had a great Christmas and it could have only been better if we could have gotten Matalie to understand it was Jesus's birthday and not God's. Anytime someone would ask who's birthday it was she would sream, "God's!!!!!!" Mabye next year.......