9 months old!

So it's getting a little harder to keep this little guy sitting down for a picture. He was so close to crawling by the 9 month mark. This month he was saying a lot of new words...mod (for maddie), hi (to everyone), and no. He is the sweetest most relaxed baby and loves to talk and smile to everyone. We love this little man so much!

50's Day

Maddie had a 50's day back in January. Nick's mom made her a poodle skirt and she got all dolled up for this special occassion. She had a blast dancing on stage for everyone.

Maddie and her class.

Happy New Year!!!

We had a great New Years Eve at Nick's Aunt Darla's house. the kids loved playing with their cousin, Hunter.

Play Date

So what do you do when it's 75 degrees outside right after Christmas?......you take your new bikes out for a spin and play on a playground of course!

Christmas Morning/Day

First picture of the morning :)

checking out his stuff

still asleep ;)

riding her new bike

emptying the stockings

he likes his big boy bike




***Very Quickly after opening our gifts we loaded the car to drive 4 1/2 hours to Pittsburg, Texas to see my dad's side of the family

Maddie and her cousin Madison

Nana and Doak

Uncle Steve, Papaw and doak

opening some more gifts

Christmas Eve

We have a whole lot of traditions that happen when we get home from our Christmas eve party. Doak was WAY past tired so we sent him to bed while Maddie and Wyatt put on their pj's.

First...we put out the reindeer food

making sure it got ALL over the yard

next we read our "Elf on the Shelf" book one last time

Then we read "The Night Before Christmas"...during which the kids heard Santa's sligh bells and a "HoHoHo"...so the quickly said their prayers and got ready for bed

This picture is out of order....but Toonin wrote the kids a letter and gave them a movie before flying back to the North Pole with Santa

Setting out the Christmas cookies

Maddie's gifts

Wyatt's gifts

Doak's gifts