Christmas 2011!

It's hard to believe Christmas has come and gone. Believe it or not, it was our first Christmas morning in this house. It was really nice to be home but we missed our CA family terribly! Skyping while opening Christmas presents was definitely a first! ;) One goal of mine was to do some baking.  I think my waist-line is regretting it now though! Here are the kids making Santa's cookies :)

Sweet Cali and our tree...

We spent a very lazy Christmas Eve at home, just the 4 of us. We ended up opening one present...a Kinect!!!...and had tons of fun burning off Christmas energy. We had a nice dinner where Katie set a lovely table. The kids' favorite part was the Sparkling Cider in fancy (plastic) wine glasses. :) Then they opened their gifts from Bert, our Elf. Christmas jammies! They put them on and we got in the car with some hot chocolate and drove to see some Christmas lights.





Christmas morning didn't come toooooo early. I remember 5am mornings when I was a kid and am not looking forward to that! The kids seemed to love their goodies! Katie's favorite...her My Twinn doll and her Nintendo DS. Ryan's favorite...probably his toy trumpet. :)


Then it was off to Aunt Stacy and Uncle Mike's house to spend Christmas day with Keith's family! So much fun to see the cousin's play. Brooke is getting so big!




I feel completely blessed. :)

Parties and Lights!

The kids had their holiday parties this past week and we are officially on vacation! I now understand why parents of school age kids look forward to it. No drop off or pick up for 2 weeks!!! Ryan's party was cute. They sang jingle bells, did a craft and Ryan cried for tissues the majority of the time. :) He was VERY grumpy!

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And Katie's party and lack of picture due to the still grumpy 3 year old who was in attendance :S They made cute reindeer ornaments and decorated cookies! Spur of the moment we decided to head up to Santa's Wonderland in College Station. So much fun (except for the 1.5 hour wait..coulda done without that!)! Wish we had a bit more time to spend at the Santa's Town. So cool! The kids really enjoyed it though and that's all that matters!

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I have no idea why some of the video is upside down! I've never had that problem before!

Holiday Show 2011

Katie had her Holiday show for dance this past weekend!  I always look forward to this show!  All the Christmas music and fun dances get you in the Christmas mood!  Katie did AWESOME!  She goes on that stage like it's no big deal always does so good.  So proud!



The videos! She is the second from the left :)

Katie's 6 Year Video :)

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At 6...

At 6 you are beautiful.
At 6 you are starting to read!
At 6 you still haven't lost any teeth.
At 6 you are so stinking stubborn and hard headed.
At 6 you are my angel.
At 6 you love any sort of craft, coloring or painting.
At 6 you are really enjoying Kindergarten.
At 6 you can ride a two wheeler!
At 6 you are missed when you are gone all day at school.
At 6 you still love ballet and now Jazz.
At 6 you have a best friend named Paige.
At 6 you are growing up so fast.

Parties :)

Katie had her Girl Scout party on Wednesday. How cute are they in their little uniforms! On Friday her class had an Ice Cream party....with ice cream they made themselves! It quickly turned to a milkshake though, so straws were in order :)

Holiday Happenings...

A snap of Ryan while watching The Grinch That Stole Christmas :)

Monday my mom's group had their Happy Birthday Jesus party for the kids. I think this was Ryan's first year!

Christmas ornaments make me happy :D Such wonderful memories!
You can't put up a Christmas tree without making Christmas light bokeh....ok, maybe that's just me.

Tis the Season!

For Tree Trimming and Christmas crafts :D

6 and Sick

Poor Katie was sick on her birthday :( I did my best to make it special for her even though she was tired and not feeling well. Doubley dissappointing was the fact we ended up postponing her birthday party, but we are going to party hard when we reschedule!!! Her two birthday wishes....The Claw game and an Easy Bake Oven. Happy Girl. Except after playing with the claw game for 2 minutes it died. She was devastated. Hate cheap toys!!!!