Merry Christmas!

12:03 pm CST December 2, 2008
O come all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant. O Come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem. Come and behold Him, born the King of Angels. O come let us adore Him! O come let us adore Him! O come let us adore Him, Christ the Lord!

Jamil finished off the tree with a beautiful star!

Gabriel helped mom hang ornaments on our snowflake tree!

We saw Santa this weekend with Jen at the Ladson Arts and Crafts Fair!

Santa followed us to the base children's Christmas party!

Tired of mom taking my picture! Thanks Grandma Cullum for my pretty-boy outfit!

Laughing with mom & Mrs. Ali!

My adorable announcement photo!

Hold on Frogs...I'm Coming!

My first of many TCU shirts! Thanks Kim!

Dad's back home! We've got to get ready for our Christmas photo-shoot! Sorry, cards will be a little late this year. Thanks to our photographer, Ali!!! Thanks, Grandpa Musa, for my too cute outfit!

Not so easy this year with a dog and baby!

Look at the camera!

Poor Plato is feeling a little left out lately!

Hats? No, not a good idea...

This will have to do... Merry Christmas!

We went to Patriot's Point with Kasey to watch Jamil and Justin fly inthe C-17 flyover. Thanks, Kasey, for these wonderful pictures!

We tried to get into the Christmas Spirit in the 80 degree weather!

There was a formation of 13 planes.

Jamil was plane number 5.

The C-17s fly over the Cooper River Bridge every holiday season. This was taken from the back of one of the planes.

The fog delayed the take off one hour, but it turned out to be a beautiful day!

After they flew over the bridge, they continued to practice their air drop skills!

Another cute one I had to add!

Gabriel met some of my former, sweet students on a visit to see all of our friends at Beech Hill Elementary School.

Assistant Principal, Mr. Baird, took time out to love on Gabriel!

Gabriel was fascinated by fire at his first bonfire! Thank Pinkertons! The fire appears to be directly on his arm, but I promise that it's far in the distance! :)

The boys enjoyed watching the Arsenal/Liverpool soccer game on Sunday. Gabriel is bound to be a great soccer player!

Uncle Matt loves little Gabriel and is trying to convince him to be a Liverpool fan.... against daddy's wishes!

John and Matt even bought Gabriel a Liverpool jersey for Christmas! He likes to eat it now, but he'll be grown and wearing it before we know it! We're now a house divided!

Gabriel got his second set of shots today. This picture was obviously taken before the needle incident! He has no idea what's comin'!

Daddy spent some time with his baby before leaving for the desert.

Don't be sad!

Getcha some of that cheeky-cheek!

We enjoyed Christmas Eve at Old Fort with the Kojaks! We even got to see a house that spent hours setting up their Christmas lights to music!

Jamil, Gabriel and I helped Ali throw a Christmas Party at a local mission. The ladies enjoyed playing caroling games, making reindeer antlers out of pantyhose and balloons, making cookies and decorating ornaments.

We spent Christmas day at the Bakers. Thank you SO much, Blaine and Jen, for sharing your family with us! Jamil is sure that Gabriel will be walking before he comes home, but Gabriel doesn't look too sure about that...

Dad taught Gabriel to hold a rattle (one of his Christmas presents) on Christmas day! He can hold it for several minutes!!!

Christmas Eve with my sweet baby boy

Christmas morning in my big boy PJs! Thanks Bakers!

He doesn't even know about the chaos that is about the occur downstairs!

Surprise! Baby Santa just came down the stairs! Thanks Bebe!

Santa Baby was such a good sport, unlike our little horse on Halloween! ;)

Plato Puppy loves opening packages!

Daddy remembered stocking stuffers this year! Last year I got a banana...that's not a mistake he'll ever make again. ;)

So many gifts! I guess the tree will never look bear with kiddos in the picture now!

Daddy bought Gabriel his first soccer ball! How sweet!

Yummy! I'm sure he'll be up and kicking before we know it!

Catching a rare moment...peacefully sleeping in the car on our way to drop off daddy! Gabriel is not a fan of the car right now. :(

Look at those cheeks!

I sure do love my daddy! I miss you!

Jamil cannot wait to get back and kiss this sweet baby again!

This is our third deployment since we've been in Charleston. We have such wonderful support from dear friends and spouses, but we still cannot wait for Jamil to come home!

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