Family for Christmas

Here's quite a lot of our Christmas pictures. Nana and Papa stayed with us this holiday and Aunt Barb and Uncle Jack joined us for a ll the festivities.
Nana and Jackson making cookies for Santa Hugs for Papa

Sitting by the fire with Nana and Papa on Christmas Eve

Anna in her special dress Nana made

Christmas Eve dinner

SANTA CAME!!!!

"is this really a My Little Pony"???

Santa came and he brought Fred!! (from CARS)

Opening stockings

Anna dancing with Uncle Jack

Mama throwing snowballs at Jackson

Jackson was always prepared in case it should rain/snow inside the house

Saying Good-Bye to Christmas fun

A little playing after everyone left

or wrestling....whatever you want to call it!

White Christmas

We had our first white Christmas ever in Texas!!! So exciting to get about 2 inches of snow on Christmas Eve!!

Jackson was thrilled with the snow and Anna loved that her first Christmas was a white one

Even the dogs loved the snow (Bear and cousin Oliver)

This year we are celebrating Christmas with Papa, Nana, Uncle Jack and Aunt Barb. All Christmas pictures coming soon!

We are READY!

We've decorated the tree We've hung our stockings with care

We've decorated the dining room (for Christmas dinner)

We've had lots of visits from Oreo, our Elf

We've enjoyed the decorations

We've gone to Northpark to see the trains

We've had another encounter with Santa And Jackson was happy (not Anna----in case you were wondering)

We've decorated our first Gingerbread House with BFF Tate

And made cookies for Santa with Nana....

and Papa

Isn't Santa lucky???

And now we can sing Jingle Bells too. So bring on Christmas!! We are ready!!!

Anna is 10 months today!!

It's so hard to believe Anna is 10 months today. She is such an absolute joy in our lives. Here's a little bit about Anna these days:

She's just starting to eat some finger foods (here she is with a cracker) Her latest trick is climbing the stairs.....and she's really good at it. She can climb all the way to the top of our back stairs

Luckily the front stairs are still a bit slippery for her

So what is Anna's favorite toy? Well...she loves Jackson's tools

Jackson's firetrucks

Jackson's cars

Does she like other things? Well---here is her reaction to a doll stroller....

Her absolute favorite toy?? JACKSON!!! Here they are in the playroom together for some quality fun

And there is no fun like chasing your brother through a tunnel over and over and over and over again

We love this picture. It totally sums up our two kids and their wonderful relationship!

Santa Babies

We took the kids to see Santa last weekend at Bass Pro. They have the most incredible set up by the way! Anna did pretty well surprisingly and Jackson was thrilled to tell Santa what he wants for Christmas (a guitar and Fred (from the CARS movie) Here's one of Jackson 2 years ago---not as happy!

And Mrs. Claus happy as can be!

Jackson's old "my first Christmas" hat he wore at 3 months fits Anna perfectly (at basically 10 mo)

We're getting ready for Christmas around here!!