Grandma Hogan's Christmas Village

My Grandma Hogan collected the Dicken's Village Christmas Village for as long as I can remember. I am guessing she had well over 100 pieces so it was a very expensive collection. She took so much pride in her village! Towards the end of her years she began to leave the village up all year long because it was becoming too much work to take it down and put it back up. When she passed away we split her village between all of the grandchildren. One of my fondest memories of this village growing up was that Gram had several crystal animals that were about an inch tall. They were Sevorski crystal and very fragile and pretty. Gram would hide these crystal animals throughout her village and then us grand kids would try to find them. This was difficult because the were nearly invisible against the fake white snow. My dad gave Greydon a Savorski crystal bear on his first Christmas, so I thought it would be fit to display it in my pieces of Gram's collection.

Gram's Dickens Village had street lights, pebble sidewalks and everything you can imaging to make it magnificent. I don't have all of those things or the patients, but you can see my part of her collection below.

Chrsitmas Day

Christmas this year was so much fun with Greydon. He had a blast opening all of his presents and got spoiled rotten. Grandma and Grandpa Woodman came over first thing in the morning to see what Santa brought and open presents before they headed to Arizona

 Greydon and Mommy in our Christmas Jammies

 A new Barn

 Greydon trying to fit inside of the barn.

 Santa brought our family this big package that Greydon used as a slide.

 He played with his new barn animals on the box.

 Inside of the box was a window for the Polaris

 He got a voice recorded book from Grandma and Grandpa Woodman

 A Woody doll from Santa

 A football

 After our house we went to Grandma Scott's house for Breakfast.

 Playing the Piano with his cousins

 Ring around the Rosy

 After Grandma Scott's we went to Papa Marlowe's house to see him and Uncle Jaret. Unfortunately Darin forgot our camera and all of the pictures are on my Dad's camera. As soon as he sends them to me I will add them. Darin and Greydon got nice LL Bean bags with their initials for traveling. Greydon got a dump truck that you ride from Uncle Jaret and I got a nice new watch, a sweater and a beautiful handmade picture frame that my dad made himself. Like I said, pictures are soon to come.

After Papa Marlowe's we went to my Aunt Tunies were Greydon played on this fun stuffed horse.

We stayed home all day on Sunday and played with our new Toys.  I love the below picture of Grey and Woody.



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My little Helper

Lately Grey wants to help me do everything, especially pull laundry out of the dryer and tell me who each sock belongs to...Daddy, Baby or Mommy.

I guess I should be thankful because one day he won't want to help Mom with out an allowance. It is amazing how he grows every day.

King Family Christmas Party

The King family Christmas Party was on Sunday December 12th. It was a lot of fun! There were so many little kids and we got a surprise visit from Santa. Greydon did good sitting on his lap and Santa gave him a toy boat.

Christmas Village

Me, Darin, Greydon, my Mom, James and Jaret went to Christmas Village on Dec. 9th to look at the lights. It was a lot of fun. Here are some pictures.

Greydon Loved this cookie!

Hogan Family Christmas Party

The Hogan family Christmas Party was on Darins B-Day (December 5th). I thought Darin might be a little bummed out, but he was excited to celebrate his birthday with my family. My mom made him a giant birthday cake and everyone sang to him.  To my surprise Greydon did not scream when he sat on Santa's lap. In fact he just wanted to lay on the floor and tickle Santa's toes.

 Eating his first candy cane

 I love my boys!

The Christmas Tree

Greydon is having a lot of fun this year playing with the balls and other ornaments on the tree. I made sure to put all plastic decorations on the bottom two feet. I am actually looking forward to Christmas this year, It will be a lot of fun with Greydon.

 Reaching for a "ball"

 So proud and happy to show me what he has done

 Playing with another item he pulled off the tree. The fireman hat is a normal part of his daily wardrobe these days.