Christmas Eve 2010

Traditon #1 - Opening gifts from Aunt Patty and Uncle Dana (notice our mix matched PJ's)

Our new Christmas PJ's!

Thanks Aunt Patty and Uncle Dana

Dressed up for candle-light service at Fellowship Bible Church

Traditon #2 - Pickle Hunt

Nate was the winner this year!

Reward $5.00

And we also got to pick 1 stocking gift to open. Kayla got to pick 2 since she didn't win the pickle hunt.

Christmas Pizza

A Vella family Christmas tradition is making pizza from scratch. We are improving every year. This year we had Courtney with us to help.

Yummy!!

Santa

First Snow in WV

The school called "It's Snowing...Come pick up your kids"

Driving up to our house

Ginger the "SNOW DOG"

Just alittle excited!!!!

Already on his board!

Tubing with Family

After we finished sking...Charity, Steve and Courtney met us to go tubing!

We picked the perfect time to come. No lines...no wait. It was like we were the only ones there. We had tons of fun!

Great way to end the night!

Whitetail

Nate and Kayla's first time to ski/snowboard

Nate really didn't enjoy Snowboarding...next time he's going to try ski's.

Our Christmas Tree 2010

This was our first time cutting down our own tree.

Chopping it down with Dad

When we got it home we realized our tree wouldn't fit in the house. It looked much smaller in the large field of trees. After chopping off a few feet we finally got it in the house. It was sorta big and ugly...so off to decorating...

After trimming, decorating, and lots of hard work...it turned out to be beautiful!

Black Friday Special

The pet store was running a half off special on Bearded Dragons on Black Friday!

Meet our new pets: Spike, Midnight and Smoothie the Beta Fish

Fall Fun 2010

We came to this park to collect all different types of colored leaves to mail to our Florida friends and family!

Sleepover

I really don't know why I am posting this except that in years to come I think you will look back and appreciate the sweet memory of when Courtney would sleepover and all 3 of you crammed into 1 room! Just to be together!

Kayla on bed
Courtney on trundle
Nate on floor (what a gentleman)

Halloween 2010

This was an exciting year for us, we finally lived in a neighborhood that was fun to do a "traditional style" trick or treating!

I think Kayla was a much prettier witch without the wig on:

Halloween Breakfast 2010

We got "BOO"ed 2010

It was the night before Halloween, kids were settled in bed, house was quiet and calm...When all of a sudden...The doorbell rang! Scared me to death! Startled the kids! Daddy opened the door to make sure it was safe and guess what he found...A Halloween Surprise. A bucket full of goodies with a cute poem! We will never forget the night we were "Boo"ed