December Fun 2010

We all had a great Christmas! It was nice to stay home and not travel for once! Krystal and her family flew down for the week so Madison and Tristan got to play together. Here's some pics from last month ... Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year!





My new bath-time baby!

Riding my new rocking horse

Mr. Santa

Krystal and Maddy

Mrs. Clause

In our new robes!

Giddy up!

Changing the baby's diaper ... this happens about 99 times / day

About to open my stocking!

Eating cookies we were supposed to leave for santa!

SO good at giving kissed to Daddy!

Cooking!

Trip to the ZOO

Since Krystal was in town with Tristan, we decided to make a trip to the Houston Zoo. It was nice weather ... but I think the kids will be more interested in it next year. The animals were literally all sleeping and doing nothing ... these kids like ACTION, ha! They did enjoy the petting zoo :) Anyway, it was a fun outing.

Christmas with the Penley's

The weekend before Christmas we had C-mas with Chad's side of the family. Is mom, grandma and brother's family came down for the weekend. Once again ... the kids got an insane amount of gifts ... but we all had fun watching them open up all the packages :)




Madison was sharing her baby doll with the "real" baby ...

Gammy and her grandkiddos

My pretty purse from Aunt Brooke

Chad and Bryan opening their gifts

Ready For Christmas!

I can't believe our little munchkin is approaching her 2nd birthday in a couple months ... craziness! Moreover ... I can't believe Christmas is in a week 1/2 .... I am SO not prepared, oh well !!! Here's a few recent pics from this month (some are small since they were transferred from my phone for some reason?) Madison is Miss Little Personality all the sudden! She is trying to talk so hard. So far, she can say "tree, juice, mama, mimi, dada, thank you and please." She definately understands everything though. We are definately trying to "immitate" everything too ... putting her diapers on her babies, rubbing lotion on her hands, cooking in her little kitchen etc... too cute! We are glad we're finally all moved in and settled. Hopefully this Christmas, since we're not traveling, we can just relax and enjoy doing nothing! We hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas!!!


Hmmm... turned into a family pic almost, lovely.

So NOT happy :)

I love my rocking chair!

Shopping!

Silly girl

Yes, we've been attempting to open presents a little early...

Happy girl

Cooking

Feeding baby

Eating bananas at HEB, yum!

Thanksgiving 2010

For Thanksgiving, we spent the week in Victoria. It was kind of a sad holiday this year. Chad's grandfather passed away the Saturday before Thanksgiving from bone cancer. We are all glad he is in a much better place now and in no pain, but he will be missed :( Here's a couple pics from this past week....

Madison practicing being a mommy to her new cousin Micah ... too cute!!!

Finally Moved IN

Seriously ... we're NOT moving again for a LONG time, ha. Talk about way toooo much work. We are happy that everything is pretty much in place and organized ... 3 weeks later ... not too bad. Here's some pics ... of course, Christmas decorations and all :)

Kitchen etc:

Living Room:

Master Bath and Bdrm:

Catwalk:

Study:

Dining Room:

Entrance:

Living Room:

Madison's Room ... maybe she'll stay in it one day .... ha

Upstairs Hallway:

Guest Room:

Gameroom:

Backyard etc: