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

Family Christmas #3

We spent Christmas eve with Nick's side of the family. The kids always have such a blast with their cousins Jake and Jordan. There is always lot of good food and lots of laughs!

Family Christmas #2

We celebrated our second family Christmas with Nick's parents the night before Christmas Eve.

Grandma and Grandad with the grandkids

Maddie so excited about a purse filled with accessories :)

Wyatt and his knight in shining armor kit

Cutie patootie just took it ALL in!

Maddie and Grandma with Maddie's new doll