While in Franklin, we were soooo blessed to have enjoyed about 12-16 inches of snow!!! It was soooo beautiful and we didn't want to leave it, especially Hunter. It will definitely be a Christmas to remember. I am so glad that we can look back and say that it happened on Peyton's First Christmas!!! What a great way to experience Christmas - enjoying what God created for us! We will always remember it! 
When we got back to Seneca, surprisingly we did have about 2-3 inches of snow here as well! It had begun to melt, but Hunter was still at least able to sit on the sled and have us pull him around on it. He was excited to see some snow, even if it wasn't over a foot of it! In fact, it stayed around long enough to enjoy it a few days. Dada even made us some more great snowcream for breakfast one morning!!! What a great 2010 Christmas!!
After we had our doughnuts in Seneca, we packed up and headed to Franklin, NC where we ran into snow beginning to fall! It was like a Christmas Dream coming true!! We made it okay but I am glad we didn't wait to come any later. We first went to Granny Ruby's house where we took some cute cousins pictures which I will post as soon as they are edited. We also had a great lunch there and enjoyed time together with family! We just wish Pop could have been there with us!! At least we got to see him Christmas morning before we left Seneca!After dinner with Granny Ruby and family and a few games of "Minute to Win It!" we headed to the Bowman house. It was a little tricky ride, especially up their road, but we made it safe and sound! We wasted no time getting out and playing in the snow. Hunter was begging to go out and play and I was all for it!
Before the gorgeous snow pictures, I have posted a couple of the boys opening their gifts from Nana, Papaw, Granny Moretz, Britt, Caleb, Josh, and Amanda. They got some great gifts, way too many to name!!! 
This is the sled that Mimi and Pop had bought for Hunter in hopes that it would snow the weekend before when we were in Fort Mill. We had no idea at that time how much snow we would actually be able to use it with on Christmas!!! Even though Peyton did not come out and play and he stayed inside with Nana and Granny, we had to get him out there for a few pictures!! 
It was just so pretty!!
Peyton and Papaw
Hunter and Caleb had fun having a snowball fight!
A cousins picture in front of a beautiful dogwood!
Everyone wanted pictures in front of this tree! Even though we couldn't get Hunter to put the snowball down he was eating to smile! He LOVED eating the snow!!
Even though my hat is falling off, I thought this was really good picture of the three of us relaxing in the snow!
Cute picture from above of Hunter
A great picture of Hunter and Dada in the snow!
Hunter posing for a picture with his new sled. He is ready to go down the hill!!
Although he was NOT a fan of the snow flying up and getting all over his face!
That's when he found out that if he went by himself, the snow would not blow up in his face because he bared weighed enough to go on top of the snow. He loved sledding and did not want to leave the snow to come back to Seneca!
Before heading back to Seneca the day after Christmas, Nana made us some WONDERFUL snow cream!! I had never had any and neither had Hunter. It tasted even better than homemade icecream!
Since we had a long road ahead of us on Christmas Day and the threat of snow, we had to get up about 6:30 to get going on the day. We videoed most of the morning but here are a few pictures as well. Hunter was surprised to see that Santa got him an easel! He wasn't so sure what it was at first but after he found out what it was, he loved it!
Santa brought Hunter several accessories for his easel like chalk, white board markers, magnets, erasers, paint markers, and a huge easel paper pad!
Peyton enjoyed opening his gifts from Santa as well. Here he was opening his new Carseat Toybar. I guess Santa thought it may help him ride in the car better....so far Santa was wrong! 
Hunter got a VERY cute "pack" as he called it with his name on it. Now he can be like Dora and Diego with a backpack!
Peyton liked sitting in his new bathtub duckie! I think he is going to love taking baths in there!
Like Hunter's Clemson 101 book that we bought him at Clemson University, he now has his own Clemson 101 book. We had gone to Clemson a couple of months back and took his picture around campus. Then Dada put the pictures together and made Hunter his own board book with his pictures it in! It is sooooo cute!!
Like I said with the present in Fort Mill, Hunter was a great helper and helped Mama and Dada open their gifts as well! Dada got several t-shirts, grooming supplies, a jeep that runs!, and pajama pants from the boys and Santa. 
Mama got a lot of great gifts! She got a Kirk Cameron autobio, socks, peanut M&Ms, sweater, a Wii Fit, and a copy of my blog from the first year I blogged in 2008! We all had a great Christmas morning!! After opening our gifts, we had our traditional homemade doughnuts! Dada did a great job on them!!! We even got to see Pop and Grandma because Pop decided that he was not going to be able to brave the trip to Franklin the snow since he was supposed to work the next day...poor Pop!
Since we have been married, we have made it a goal with our family to stay home Christmas Eve and Christmas morning. So far it has worked out great and we have really been able to spend some great time together as a family. One Christmas Eve we order pizza, make cookies for Santa, and this year we started a new thing....
Mimi gave Hunter and Peyton some reindeer food! Her class at school had made it and she saved a couple of bags for them. Hunter took the reindeer food out of the baggie and sprinkled it in the yard for the reindeer. It had some food and glitter. The glitter was to help Rudolph find the glitter in the dark! 
Once pajamas were on and we were ready for bed, we made cookies and milk for Santa. This year Hunter was convinced that Santa needed chocolate milk, just like he loves. He even had to sample it to make sure Santa would like it! Sorry Santa for any germs you got! :)
Pizza eaten, reindeer food sprinkled on the ground, cookies made, chocolate milk made, pjs on, time for bed so Santa can come!
This year Hunter definitely understood a lot more about what we do at Christmas....at least the opening presents part, even if it wasn't his gifts he was opening! Mimi and Pop and Aunt Amy got them some very cute things this year for Christmas. He got some very cute clothes (all of which got thrown aside by H this year!). Clothes was not what he was looking for! Some of his other gifts were, he got a Diego Wii game that he loves to play (and so does Pop!), he got a Clemson drawstring bag with his name on it, and then below you will see that he got a game called Zippity. It is a cute interactive game that he plays on the TV with several of his favorite Disney show characters. Hunter definitely lucked out this year! He must have been a very good boy!
It sure didn't take him long to jump right on the Zippity and figure it out!
Peyton got a lot of great things too...diapers, wipes, cute outfits, a rolling toy, chime toy, an octopus that plays music, money, but most of all he got this cute little Babies First Christmas ornament that obviously was his favorite! or at least the box sure tasted good!!
When we got back to Seneca, surprisingly we did have about 2-3 inches of snow here as well! It had begun to melt, but Hunter was still at least able to sit on the sled and have us pull him around on it. He was excited to see some snow, even if it wasn't over a foot of it! In fact, it stayed around long enough to enjoy it a few days. Dada even made us some more great snowcream for breakfast one morning!!! What a great 2010 Christmas!!
Before the gorgeous snow pictures, I have posted a couple of the boys opening their gifts from Nana, Papaw, Granny Moretz, Britt, Caleb, Josh, and Amanda. They got some great gifts, way too many to name!!! 
This is the sled that Mimi and Pop had bought for Hunter in hopes that it would snow the weekend before when we were in Fort Mill. We had no idea at that time how much snow we would actually be able to use it with on Christmas!!! Even though Peyton did not come out and play and he stayed inside with Nana and Granny, we had to get him out there for a few pictures!! 
It was just so pretty!!
Peyton and Papaw
Hunter and Caleb had fun having a snowball fight!
A cousins picture in front of a beautiful dogwood!
Everyone wanted pictures in front of this tree! Even though we couldn't get Hunter to put the snowball down he was eating to smile! He LOVED eating the snow!!
Even though my hat is falling off, I thought this was really good picture of the three of us relaxing in the snow!
Cute picture from above of Hunter
A great picture of Hunter and Dada in the snow!
Hunter posing for a picture with his new sled. He is ready to go down the hill!!
Although he was NOT a fan of the snow flying up and getting all over his face!
That's when he found out that if he went by himself, the snow would not blow up in his face because he bared weighed enough to go on top of the snow. He loved sledding and did not want to leave the snow to come back to Seneca!
Before heading back to Seneca the day after Christmas, Nana made us some WONDERFUL snow cream!! I had never had any and neither had Hunter. It tasted even better than homemade icecream!
Since we had a long road ahead of us on Christmas Day and the threat of snow, we had to get up about 6:30 to get going on the day. We videoed most of the morning but here are a few pictures as well. Hunter was surprised to see that Santa got him an easel! He wasn't so sure what it was at first but after he found out what it was, he loved it!
Santa brought Hunter several accessories for his easel like chalk, white board markers, magnets, erasers, paint markers, and a huge easel paper pad!
Peyton enjoyed opening his gifts from Santa as well. Here he was opening his new Carseat Toybar. I guess Santa thought it may help him ride in the car better....so far Santa was wrong! 
Hunter got a VERY cute "pack" as he called it with his name on it. Now he can be like Dora and Diego with a backpack!
Peyton liked sitting in his new bathtub duckie! I think he is going to love taking baths in there!
Like Hunter's Clemson 101 book that we bought him at Clemson University, he now has his own Clemson 101 book. We had gone to Clemson a couple of months back and took his picture around campus. Then Dada put the pictures together and made Hunter his own board book with his pictures it in! It is sooooo cute!!
Like I said with the present in Fort Mill, Hunter was a great helper and helped Mama and Dada open their gifts as well! Dada got several t-shirts, grooming supplies, a jeep that runs!, and pajama pants from the boys and Santa. 
Mama got a lot of great gifts! She got a Kirk Cameron autobio, socks, peanut M&Ms, sweater, a Wii Fit, and a copy of my blog from the first year I blogged in 2008! We all had a great Christmas morning!! After opening our gifts, we had our traditional homemade doughnuts! Dada did a great job on them!!! We even got to see Pop and Grandma because Pop decided that he was not going to be able to brave the trip to Franklin the snow since he was supposed to work the next day...poor Pop!
Mimi gave Hunter and Peyton some reindeer food! Her class at school had made it and she saved a couple of bags for them. Hunter took the reindeer food out of the baggie and sprinkled it in the yard for the reindeer. It had some food and glitter. The glitter was to help Rudolph find the glitter in the dark! 
Once pajamas were on and we were ready for bed, we made cookies and milk for Santa. This year Hunter was convinced that Santa needed chocolate milk, just like he loves. He even had to sample it to make sure Santa would like it! Sorry Santa for any germs you got! :)
Pizza eaten, reindeer food sprinkled on the ground, cookies made, chocolate milk made, pjs on, time for bed so Santa can come!
This year Hunter definitely understood a lot more about what we do at Christmas....at least the opening presents part, even if it wasn't his gifts he was opening! Mimi and Pop and Aunt Amy got them some very cute things this year for Christmas. He got some very cute clothes (all of which got thrown aside by H this year!). Clothes was not what he was looking for! Some of his other gifts were, he got a Diego Wii game that he loves to play (and so does Pop!), he got a Clemson drawstring bag with his name on it, and then below you will see that he got a game called Zippity. It is a cute interactive game that he plays on the TV with several of his favorite Disney show characters. Hunter definitely lucked out this year! He must have been a very good boy!
It sure didn't take him long to jump right on the Zippity and figure it out!
Peyton got a lot of great things too...diapers, wipes, cute outfits, a rolling toy, chime toy, an octopus that plays music, money, but most of all he got this cute little Babies First Christmas ornament that obviously was his favorite! or at least the box sure tasted good!!
Before opening presents we were able to get a few cute family pictures and read the story of Christmas together. I really like these two of my boys! 
I'm not so sure Peyton is as excited about this as Hunter was!
Mimi and Pop with their grandsons! 
An attempt but both boys seem to be over the pictures! haha
I really like this picture of the whole clan! As with our family picture in front of Amy's tree last year, we have a new little one not wanting to watch the blinking timer light go off! Oh well there's always hope for next year that we can get everyone looking in the 20 that we take! :)
This was our third annual sugar cookie making and decorating at Mimi and Pop's house. We always try to celebrate Christmas in Fort Mill the weekend before Christmas. It's great because it gets everyone in the Christmas spirit and we get started with baking and eating so many Christmas goodies! In the picture above, Hunter needed to test the cookie mix to make sure it was tasting correctly! Our little cookie tester!
He did so good this year participating! He did everything from making and mixing the dough, to cutting out the cookies, to....
decorating them!
Getting a pic with our little baker!
This is just one of the three huge trays that we did. We won't be having our own show on Food Network I'm afraid but it sure is fun though!
Like last year, we tried to get a few pictures in Franklin of our family and the cousins for Christmas cards and gifts. I never knew how hard it would be to get a 2 year old and a 4 month baby to smile at the camera or just to look at the camera!
These are a couple of the cousins pictures that we took. Nana had gotten them all matching shirts to have the pictures taken in. 
While at the Dairy Barn in Fort Mill, we found someone special....SANTA CLAUSE!!! We were wondering how it would go with Hunter but I think someone helped him out this year...Peyton! As soon as we sat Peyton in Santa's lap, it was as if Hunter knew he had to be the big brother and be okay with Santa. I was so proud...no tears this year! Hunter asked Santa for "some presents." Santa said he could definitely find some of those for him this year as long as he was a good boy!
Each of them got their own turn on Santa's lap and we even got a smile from Hunter!
Just like we did with Hunter, we took a few pictures of Peyton in Hunter's old baby Santa outfit. It was a little too big but still made for some very cute pictures!
Although we seem to pick not so great weather days to get a tree, it is always a fun adventure to the top of the mountain each year. This year we knew we wanted a little bigger tree. When standing on the side of a mountain it sure looks a lot smaller than when you get it in your living room though! It was gorgeous though and well worth the rainy trip up the mountain to search for it!
At the beginning of December, we had a wedding in Franklin, the same day in which Franklin has its annual Winter Wonderland. Michael and I stopped by on our way back to the Bowman residence on the night of Dec. 3rd and had our picture with the Grinch and Frosty. Hunter really likes to look at this picture a lot!
Our attempt at getting a picture in front of the tree after it was decorated. I can't seem to find a picture of the whole tree decorated but I will look for it and post it later. I know I took one!
