Hamilton Happenings......: Decandent December!

Frozen photos! The trolls!

The entire cast of Frozen!

The townspeople!

Kyrie was picked for 3 solos in the Fixer Upper scene!

A little late but school pictures! Kyrie 3rd grade, Mia 6th grade!!

Sister selfies and snuggles!

I just love this selfie Mia took!

Cousin/Auntie Christmas tea!

Nay loved the soup!!

Loved our time together even though I ate all the food!:)

On his way to Connecticut!

Kyrie went with the GFU team to Connecticut to play games and hang out in New York! Papa even went, too!

Love they get this time together!

GFU played Jim Calhoun's(hall of fame D1 coach for U Conn) team, St. Josephs of Connecticut! What a special moment!

Hanging out with the GFU player, JD's, little brother!

Empire State building

Reporter Kyrie(video)

Tour of Madison Square Garden!

On their way to the Statue of Liberty!

Statue of Liberty(video)

Jamal has been Maco's assistant coach for 11 years!

9-11 memorial

9-11 Memorial(video)

On top of Rockefeller Plaza

View from up top!(video)

Time Square!

Time Square!(video)

Helping address the Christmas cards!

Annual Ugly Sweater Dorothy Fox 3rd grade moms' cookie exchange!

Fun night!

I was so impressed Nay stood in line at story time to share her dinosaur!

Sharing time at story time!

We did the lazy way of putting up lights this year!!

St Nick Day! The kids put out their boots and got their annual Christmas pjs!

Coloring her advent calendar ornament!

Our annual angel tree wrapping party at church!

Even Nay helped!

Dance class fun on our Friday morning downtown Camas Mommy/daughter date!

Cedar Street Bagel shop! She is eating the butter with a spoon!

Annual Camas tree lighting!

Such cute McCulloughs!

Paige & Nay!

Nay and I were the only Hamiltons at the tree lighting this year! The boys were on their trip, and Mia didn't make it down in time! The rain held off just long enough for the tree to be lit!

Tree lighting--no clue why its sideways!(video)

Mia & Chloe met us at Journey church for hot chocolate and crafts!

Craft time!

Our favorite Christmas tree with my girls!

BFF's

Running in the rain while we were listening to friends sing!

This girl loves the rain!(video)

Drenched!!

Sister movie time while the boys are gone!

Girl time and ice cream sundaes!

Annual Christmas boats on the Columbia River at the hotel with the McCulloughs and friends!

The kids started an advent tradition last year of taping up change on the vending machines to pay for people's treats!

Since it was raining this year we watched the boats from the hotel room!

We ran into the Kaady cousins at the hotel pool! So fun!

Pool time!(video)

All the kiddos!

Hot tub fun!

We adopted a family this year, a single mom with 4 kids, instead of exchanging gifts between the adult kids and our parents. We had a lot of fun taking the kids shopping for the kids in the family! We can't wait to do it again next year!

Mia, Kinley, Naomi stockings randomly at the Target concession stand!

Another advent activity- putting away carts!

Naptime at IKEA!

Putting together his Frozen gingerbread house from his secret pal in the musical!

New Christmas ornaments!

Kyrie singing Christmas carols at the local retirement home!

Singing at the retirement home!(video)

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Downtown Camas date with Paige and Jenn while Mommy subs!

Our little Santa!

Journey friends watching It's a Wonderful Life!

The kids that sold more than 20 tickets were invited to the Director's event! They rented out the theater and got to watch Frozen 2 together!

Marching band!(video)

Our 2019 Santa picture! Let's just say Nay is not a fan of Santa!

Hot chocolate!

We had fun decorating cookies at a Christmas event put on by a local church!

Frost, lick, frost, lick...repeat!

Hmmm....can you tell who decorated which cookie??:)

Making cards!

Relaxing during story time with Mrs. Claus!

Nay loves the advent calendar goodies!(video)

Hockey fun!(video)

Our little cheerleader cheering at Kyrie's first tournament game! Playing at our old high school!

Cheerleader!(video)

The fans! Papa & Yaya got to watch a game!

Love watching Maco coach Kyrie and the boys!

Go, Camas!

Our photographer, Mia, got some great shots of Kyrie!

Cheerleader(video)

One on one with big bro!

Helping Sittee decorate for Christmas!

Helped Sittee wrap presents, too!

GFU vs. Concordia! I love that the boys link arms like this during the timeouts!

Go, Bruins!

Story time-we do gymnastics, rather than listen to the story!:)

Sharing time!(video)

Our annual GFU Christmas party! We have our own little Chipotle going on!

Nerf wars with the team!

Reading the hilarious team poems the boys write about each other!

These boys love their dessert!

GFU team 2019-2020!!

Princesses!!

Hanging with Papa & Yaya while Mommy subs!

This girl will read in the craziest places!

The kids got my favorite cookies in the advent calendar! Mia bought her own "ugly" sweater for her school spirit days!

Chocolate!

The kids love to wrap presents for me!!

Papa & Yaya had the grandkids over to make cookies and paint ornaments!

They had a fun time!

These kids love when they get Starbucks not chocolates!

Making sugar cookies!

Cousin photos

Kisses for cousin!

This one cracks me up!

Time to frost and decorate!

Masterpieces!

For the 25th anniversary of my mom's death, my dad wanted to go to the grave with his three daughters. Dad got some nice flowers with the colors from their wedding. It was the first time we all have gone together since the burial. It was really nice!

Shine Through Me!

I hope we can make this an annual thing!

Sister pedicures! It's been a long time since we have done this!

Yaya & Mia date-#24 at Burgerville like their birthdays!

Movie and popcorn!

The human sticker book!

Another advent calendar activity-gingerbread houses! Mia started, but didn't ever finish!!:)

Christmas Eve candlelight service!

Gold sparkly high tops with a Christmas dress is normal right!

Snow at the end of the service during "Go Tell it on the Mountain!" So fun!

Christmas Eve 2019!

So excited for Christmas Eve at Uncle Dan & Aunt Julie's!

I'm stylin' in my gold shoes!!

Merry Christmas Eve from the Hamiltons!

Auntie and Cousin!

Singing Christmas carols!

Christmas carols!(video)

Lovely Eaton women, Aunt JoAnn, Marlana, and Auntie Katie!

Nay loved singing Christmas carols!(video)

Miles is such a good hugger!

Kid gift exchange!

Auntie Katie forgot Kyrie's gift, so she sent him a picture!:)

Uncle JoZef & Miles!

Kisses for Daddy!

Family Partridge in a Pear Tree!(video)

My handsome hubby!

Sisters!

Nay helping roll the dice for the gift exchange!

Putting out the reindeer food!

Feeding the reindeer!(video)

Cookies, carrots, and milk are out for Santa and the reindeer!

Never fails.....Christmas Eve wrapping for Daddy!

Santa was here!!

New daybed/trundle for Mia!

XBOX One for Kyrie! His first gaming system!

Nay gets an Elsa doll from Santa!

Christmas morning! Waiting on the stairs to come down and see the gifts from Santa!

Our annual sitting on the stairs Christmas morning( video #1)

Christmas morning( video #2)

Christmas morning (video #3)

Kyrie was a little excited about the xbox from Santa!

Thank you, Santa!

Reading Santa's note!

Daddy's annual Steph Curry calendar!

Nay got Kyrie Newsies!

Nay opening her "Duck" game shirt!(video)

Frozen pillow from Mia!

Maco being funny!(video)

Thank you Santa for my Elsa doll!

Yay! her very own washable markers! Woohoo!

Mia was so excited to get a roller suitcase from Great Grandma Cusack!

Gaming chair from Mommy & Daddy to go with the xbox!

Nay and Mia had fun with the new window markers!

Matching cousins! Christmas morning with the Cusacks!

Um can we say twins???? Their faces are identical!

Uncles and Yaya!

Cousins!

Santa Auntie!

Cousin gift exchange! Thank you, Miles!!

The older cousins that will sit and smile for the camera!

The best cousin pic we could get of all 5!

ornament from Yaya & Papa

Olaf!(video)

Nay loved her Olaf from Yaya & Papa!

Playing one of Mia's new games, Heist!

Uncle time!

These pictures of Mia with Miles are some of my most favorite photos of the day!

Well you all know how I'm all about tradition....I completely spaced and forgot to take our huge stocking photo with all the kids, spouses, and grandkids!! Darn! So Mia was a stand in for everyone with all the stockings!!!

A collage Mia made of Christmas morning!

Christmas afternoon/evening with Sittee! She was determined to make us our traditional Christmas brunch, even though she couldn't get around! Impressive & delicious!

It was nice having Aunt Alice for Christmas, too!

I think this girl is going to be an entertainer like her brother!(video)

Shopping with Yaya!

Christmas with the Kaady's on the 26th!

Loved having all the cousins here to celebrate!!

Craziness of the kid gift exchange!

All the second cousins together!! And only a couple crying!! Woohoo!

Cousins!

More cousins!

And even more cousins!:)

So many cousins!

Mia made hot chocolate for everyone!

Cheers!

Park playdate with Miles & Kinley!

Bagels with Yaya!

Nay loves sweeping with her new cleaning set!

Loved our family time at Auntie's reading and watching old family videos of Grandma Kathy!

Mommy-daughter shopping spree date to spend her Christmas $!

It wouldn't be a date without Menchis! Mia earned a free ice cream for reading this summer!

Putting together Mia's bed was a big adventure! Took me about 9 hours, but it was well worth it!!

Couldn't get it finished all in one day, so she had to sleep like this the first night!

Oooops….. bolted myself in!:)

Mia's first ever brand new bed!!:) Daybed with drawers that pull out to make a king size bed! Comforter from Sittee!

First night in the new bed! She loves it!!

Sleepover with her BFF, and first person to sleep in the new bed with Mia!

Remembering our firstborn, Josiah Anthony! He would have been on December 15th! He holds a special place in my heart!

Kisses for Big Bro!

Rollerblading girls!!

New Year's Eve fun with the Kaady's at Aunt Jane's!

Game time!

This pic cracks me up on so many levels!

Coloring with Gracie!

Their masterpiece!

We lasted until about 930 at Aunt Jane's and spent the rest of the night at home watching the New Year's eve shows on TV! Kyrie made it until 11:53pm!!