Random Christmas Pictures

The kiddos had a ton of cute Christmas clothes that they wore all throughout the month of December! I tried to snap pictures in every outfit, but I'm sure I missed one or two... 

Love this one!!

Running around with tinsel
while I decorated the tree

Mad that D wouldn't
sit still :)

Merry Christmas!

Wishing you all the joy and happiness that celebrating Jesus' birth brings!

Christmas... Part 2

Gammie and Pops took the kiddos shopping for presents for Mommy and Daddy while they were watching the kids for us! They had a blast shopping and wrapping. :)

We came home from Abilene early on the 22nd, and  while the kiddos were napping, Alan and I set out the presents and put their stockings together. The presents were hidden in our room because every time we left something under the tree, either David or Elizabeth tried to unwrap it. 

David was more interested in the paper than anything, but Elizabeth loved opening everything up! She got an Ergo for her doll because she kept trying to use my Ergo to put things in. She wanted to put it on right away! Of course I didn't get any family pictures... I didn't do too good with that this year, but I love the ones we snapped anyways!

Elizabeth, her Ergo, and doll

Christmas... Part 1

The weekend before Christmas we headed to Abilene to celebrate with Alan's parents, Granny (as Elizabeth has started calling Grammie) and PawPaw. We had a blast visiting and eating with them! We were only down for the weekend, so we made sure we lived it up!

Saturday morning we opened Christmas presents. Granny and PawPaw couldn't really wrap Alan's gift, so they had him put a beanie over his head to attempt to block him from seeing - too bad he could see straight through it! :)

David loved playing with all of the boxes! He'd just lift everything up and move them from place to place. Such a sweet little man!

snowmen ornaments the kids made for
Grammie and PawPaw

The kids and our bounty! They had a blast and have already been asking about when we get to go back!

Chickfila

We had a book exchange with some friends last week at Chick-fil-a. I let David play in the play place for the first time, and he LOVED it!!! Elizabeth took a while to warm up to sliding when she was little, so I expected the same would be true of David... Not so much! He climbed up and then slid down on his belly. When he got to where he wouldn't slide, he just wiggled the rest of the way down. Super cute!!

David's One Year Pictures

I promise I'll get back to blogging regularly soon (or at least I hope I will), but it's been so crazy in our house between getting ready for the preschool program, making sure I had all of their Christmas stuff done, and doing ALL the Christmas shopping/wrapping in our family. I'm down to 4 presents left to wrap, and I'm planning on doing 2 of them tonight (the other two will arrive on Friday... I hope).

So we headed back to College Station the Saturday after Thanksgiving to take pictures with one of our favorite photographers, Natalie Blazei. We are so fortunate that she has family that lives near us and can use time when she is visiting to take our pictures! And of course she did a fabulous job!!

All of the pictures are my favorite, so it'll be picture overload, but I can't just pick one or two!