Christmas Eve 2009

We spent our Christmas Eve here at home in North Carolina.  It was quiet and nice.  The kids got a few things and ENJOYED each and every one of them. 

Here are a few pictures for you to enjoy.

                    Our own lil Santa...haha.

Also our own lil Mrs. Clause, who passed out the Christmas gifts.

Neat, a puzzle with a picture of the kids on it.

Cool, we can be the Patton Family Band now...haha                                                                                                                                                             

The new luggage will come in handy, since we travel so much.

By the look on his face, tells me that he loves that gift...  :)  That makes me so happy for him.

No, that is not my Christmas gift.  That is Miss. Dixie, one of my parents little Yorkies. 

                   

Renee starting up the band...haha.

Casey is the best singer so far, she got 99%.  Way to go Casey!  Maybe she can support us oneday, when she is a professional singer. 

Why does the boy need any gifts or toys???  He loves the boxes they come in just as much.  :)

When he got out of the box, he thought he would give Band Hero a try.  It is hard, but maybe we can all learn to use it. 

VERY Happy Patton Kids, with their gifts.  Just a few, but that's enough.  They know that is not what CHRISTmas is all about anyways. 

Christmas at school!

Casey's class had a Christmas party and exchanged gifts.  It was nice!  Here are a few pictures from the event. 

Mrs. Doleski's 5th Grade classroom tree,she let the kid decorate it. 

Casey opening a gift from a classmate. 

Mrs. Doleski opening her gifts.  We got her a pack of printer paper, I know she needed it.  The school only provides a little bit, so I gave it out to 9 teachers. 

Nor'Ida

I'm sure most of yall know by now about the bad storm we had last week.  Well, when I was able to get out, I took a few pictures to share.  We didn't get it as bad as a neighbors in Virginia did. 

They called the storm Nor'Ida, since it was an Nor'Easter mixed with (Hurrican)Ida.  I don't care what you call it, it took the kids out of school for 2 days and damage for some folks.

*One of our trash cans had the lid left off and I it was filled almost half-way with water.  I had to lean it off to dump it out.

If you look close, you will see a white thing sticking up out of the water.  Well that a tool box that is on the back of a truck.  Yes, there is a truck under that water.  The man is lucky to believe alive.  After he went off the road (here on Fire Tower), his truck wasn floating down stream and he got out and grab a tree limb, until someone driving by seen him.

This is where the man, went off in to the water.  Usually that water isn't very high at all, but as you can see it is coming out of the river banks. 

This is up a few roads from us.  Oh yes, we are VERY thankful that we didn't get any damage at our place.  The day I took this picture was 2 days after the storm was over and they still couldn't park in their drive way.

This truck sets at the back of the property of the picture above.  Even if the truck was a junk, I am sure they had other stuff back there that was good.

This house sets right beside the one I just showed you above.  I think the pond across from them overflowed a bit and came over the road to their yard.

Look where the leaves line up in that yard, that is where the water line was.  Yes, it flooded this whole road.  It was closed for a few days.  I drove down it just 2 days after the storm and it was still half covered.

This is the same road from above.  They had to put poles with (flags) on the end, so everyone knew where the road was.  That is just too crazy!