~ Overalls & Tractors ~

We had a great weekend spending time at my parent's place. It was nice to get out of the city as always! J helped Dad cut down some limbs and clean up on the property (B also helped!)

The girls and Dad got dressed in their overalls and it was picture time!

~ Snow...Snow...Snow ~

My kids have seen more snow than I have seen in my lifetime!

1 day of being iced in is OK, 2 days is OK, 3 days my nerves are being tried, 4 days I have cabin fever!!

This is our street the morning after the big snow day! It was amazing. I made Snow Ice Cream! I am the only one that devoured it! B won't try it, J thinks it is too sweet, and Miss L would have probably eaten it until she made herself sick! We played in the snow until our hands were red!

~ Tea Party ~

This is how the girls throw a tea party!! 

...And later on it was high heels time for Miss L!

~ Tiny Dancers ~

~ Christmas 2010 ~

Christmas Eve, B put out her reindeer food that also had sparkles in it so that the reindeer could find our house easier! Part of our Christmas morning tradition is that the girls are not allowed to leave their room and go into the living room without us to see what Santa brought them. This is because I have to set up the video camera and follow them to catch their reaction! This is something that my parents did every year and so I continue it with my children! Our "elf on a shelf" who is named Brewster hung around to share Christmas day with us. I know he was supposed to head back to the North pole Christmas Eve but he became such a part of the family over the weeks leading to Christmas that we just had to ask him to join us on Christmas Day! :)

The only thing I wanted for the girls from my parents this year was a table and chairs, BUT not just ANY table and chairs. It is the set that my mom got for Christmas when she was a little girl, then her and my dad recovered it and gave it to me for Christmas when I was a girl, so this year my dad recovered it and they gave it to the girls for Christmas!! I was so excited!!!

We also bought the books from Hallmark for each girl and mom and dad recorded their voices on it, so now any time they want to hear E-maw and Papaw read to them they can open the books!

We got the Kinect for Christmas! The last 2 pictures are B, Joe, and sis playing games. I have to admit that I enjoy it as well. B does really good playing it so I don't mind her learning and playing games on it!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We had our annual Christmas Eve gathering and it was fun as always. It is so great to watch all the kids open their gifts and run around with each other! In the second picture they are, in their words, "organizing the presents before we open them"!

 

 

~ Holiday Cards ~

WOW, it was SO hard to get a picture for our holiday cards this year! B actually did awesome, but L was not having it. It was like a 3 ring circus trying to get her to cooperate. It was so bad that I decided not to do cards, but at the last minute and some major cropping I was able to put something together!!!

 

 

~ Visiting Santa ~

This year was another family Santa picture! I so can't wait til the year that I don't have to be in the picture because we all know I don't care for having my picture taken!!! The girls did really good but were very scared of Santa, but had a blast playing the winter wonderland!!

~ PaPaw's Birthday ~

We celebrated Papaw's birthday by spending the weekend at their house! The girls made his birthday cake and we all had a blast. Miss B did awesome and was VERY into it. Miss L on the other hand...well I will let the pictures speak for themselves!
B was SO proud of her cake and it tasted great too. After the birthday celebration, we drove out to East Texas to look at Christmas Lights! It was cousin M's birthday too! It was so nice to celebrate both their birthdays and enjoy Christmas Lights together! Thanks for the hot chocolate, cousin M!