Christmas Pajamas

Here is everybody (the kids) in their Christmas pajamas.

(Jordan, Calvin, Audrey and Kaylee)

Merry Christmas

Just wanted to wish everybody a Merry Christmas from the UK. We are about 6 hours from it officially being Christmas and will be done opening presents around midnight your times (West Coast).

This year has flown by which I am told happens when you are getting old so I asked Marsha to stop getting old! LOL. I spent half the year in Iraq and am so glad I am not there over the holidays but there are many who are. I heard this song today and found this video on YouTube. I hope you enjoy and Merry Christmas.

My Favorite Christmas Movies

With Christmas just around the corner I thought I would share my favorite Christmas movies of all time. We start out with my #5:
















5. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
















4. The Polar Express (2004)

















3. National Lampoons: Christmas Vacation (1989)

















2. A Christmas Story (1983)
















1. It's A Wonderful Life (1946)

So what are your favorites?

The Culley Christmas Tree

Here is our Christmas tree! Marsha and the kids did a great job decorating the tree. It is bigger then we were planning on buying, it sure didn't look that big when we bought it.

Waiting for the tree to fall.

Jordan, Calvin and Kaylee posing in front of the tree.

The finished tree wth some presents already underneath it.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

We hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. Ours was nice and quiet and we forgot to take pictures!?!? We ate some ham and turkey, I watched some football and Marsha and Audrey sat on the couch watching for a few minutes but I think they got bored.

It's . . . . .

CHRISTMAS!

MERRY CHRISTMAS to everyone and hope you have a great day. We have been busy traveling to Warwick Castle, down past London to see the London Temple and getting ready for today. Pictures are coming soon I promise! Tomorrow we are heading down to London to do the tourist thing and check out some sights.

Decorating For Christmas

We are decorating the blog for Christmas. Check back for new things added throughout the month.

Snowing In Disneyland?

Disneyland is adding snow to the towers of Sleeping Beauty's Castle for the holiday season. I believe this is the first time they have done this and it looks really cool. Too bad we won't see it, hopefully they keep it going until 2010!

I Know, It's Not Even Thanksgving Yet

I am sure the stores and malls have all their decorations up and for sale in the states so I thought I would add some Christmas stuff here. One of my favorite holiday commercials is this one from last year. It is from Coca-Cola and we all know Coca-Cola produces better products then you know who (PEPSI!), right Jim, James and Robert?

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas from England! Jordan woke up at 7:00 AM and I tried to get him to go back to sleep but Marsha stopped me! The kids had fun opening their presents and two or three months worth of work was over before we knew it. Amanda and her family came over for dinner and we played a few games, Marsha's new Disney Trivial Pursuit and Phase 10. Marsha won both games!

Jordan and Calvin waiting for Kaylee.

Jordan and Calvin checking out Calvin's new Geo-Trax.

Kaylee is so excited she can't keep her eyes open.

Jordan and Kaylee checking out his new CD Player and CD's.

Kaylee ripping open a present.

Jordan got some new games.

Kaylee's new dollhouse.

Calvin opening some presents.

Jordan and his new Scrabble.

Kaylee has some cars now to play with the boys.

Kids On Christmas Eve

It is Christmas Eve here in England and the kids are ready for bedtime so Santa can come!


We hope everyone has a good Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. We wish we could be there with everybody but we are thinking about you and we love you all.

NORAD Tracking Santa

NORAD is tracking the arrival of Santa Claus again this year and I found this on their website about the history of it all.

"For more than 50 years, NORAD and its predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) have tracked Santa. The tradition began after a Colorado Springs-based Sears Roebuck & Co. store advertisement for children to call Santa on a special "hotline" included an inadvertently misprinted telephone number. Instead of Santa, the phone number put kids through to the CONAD Commander-in-Chief's operations "hotline." The Director of Operations, Colonel Harry Shoup, received the first "Santa" call on Christmas Eve 1955. Realizing what had happened, Colonel Shoup had his staff check radar data to see if there was any indication of Santa making his way south from the North Pole. Indeed there were signs of Santa and children who called were given an update on Santa's position. Thus, the tradition was born. In 1958, the governments of Canada and the United States created a bi-national air defense command for the North American continent called the North American Air Defense Command, known as NORAD. Canada and the U.S. believed they could better defend North America together as a team instead of separately."

You can track Santa this year at http://www.noradsanta.org.

Holiday Coke Commercial

As far back as I can remember Coke has always put out Holiday commercials and tonight I saw this one for first time and thought it was cool.



Pepsi can't compete with that!!! Sorry James, Jim, Robert I couldn't resist.

Cookie Party Time

COOKIE PARTY!!!!!

Last Saturday night we held our Christmas Cookie Party and invited Amanda and her family over to decorate some cookies. Marsha and I even got to decorate a few, helping out Calvin and Kaylee. Enjoy the pictures.

Oh, Christmas Tree

We picked up our Christmas tree last week. When we were living here last time the Boy Scouts used to sell Christmas trees on the base but we couldn't find them this time so we picked this one up from a guy outside the Base Exchange.

I was impressed with Marsha, she only took about 5 minutes to choose the tree but she didn't have that many to choose from! I think last year or the year before we went to a few differant tree lots before she found one she liked!

Marsha and the kids decorated the tree and did a real good job and look there are already presents under their!

We are also having a cookie party today and invited Amanda's family over. I will post some pictures soon of that.