Santa Pictures

It's just not Christmas without a picture of someone crying on Santa's knee. Poor Little Joshie! He doesn't get the whole Santa thing quite yet. He did run up at first and check out Santa's bucket to see what treats he had. :o)




Awww, look at that sad, sweet little face!

Breakfast with Santa

The title should actually be "Breakfast with Santa whom we saw for a few minutes from a distance". :o)The breakfast was so much better last year. Santa walked around during breakfast and talked and took pictures. This year he read a book and then we didn't see him again. The kids did enjoy their goodie bags and Chick-Fil-A breakfast. Considering it was basically free, it was a pretty good deal! We went and saw Santa later on that day.


This is the only group picture we could get before Josh got away!









It is amazing how well behaved he looks here! It took a lot of effort to get one picture of him looking at the camera.


This was Josh's highlight of the event. He kept looking around for more trash to throw away. One of the thrills of having a two year old!!!

Christmas Parade

We went downtown Austin to the Chuy's Children Giving to Children Parade. We sat next to the State Capital where the parade started. It was a cold day, well for us anyway. I think it was in the 50's and windy. This was our first time at this parade and I think it might become an annual tradition for us.





The kids want one of these for Christmas!




Josh ran right up to Elmo and gave him a high five! We were surprised because he usually isn't that brave. Everyone around us thought it was the cutest thing.






Here is Dean's favorite. ;o) These dancers stopped in front of us for a long time. The leader cracked us up!




Star Wars! Another one of Dean's favorites, oh and Nathan and Matt also.







Hello Kitty, one of Hailey's favorites.




Josh loved the Coca Cola Bear Balloon.




Nathan loved putting the toys we brought into the truck driving by.




And no Christmas parade is complete without Santa and Elvis!

Sibling Love

Play Date

We had a play date at our house with our Bible Study class. Josh and Hailey were so excited about it! Josh was so funny handing out toys and trying to zip his friend's jacket. Hailey was proud showing off her room. Nathan and Matthew had school and were sad to miss out on all the fun. The kids spent most of the time playing in our playroom. I didn't get any pictures of the babies that came, but they were so cute. The kids also decorated a cookie. I was going to get out a craft, but they were enjoying the playroom so much, we just let them play. You may notice that Josh has started posing for pictures now. After the picture, he runs around and says, "see" and wants to see the picture.

Hailey's 5th Birthday

Princess Hailey is 5! She wanted to get her hair done like last year. I took her to Club Libby Lu and she got the Royal Princess treatment. She got her hair styled, nails painted and some eye shadow and lip gloss put on. Oh, and lots and lots of glitter! She filled a backpack with makeup and jewelry. She chose the wings and wand as her accessory. We had the whole store to ourselves, she was so excited!

We really celebrated Hailey's birthday all weekend. We do this for all of the kids. We went to her favorite restaurants and play places.

Hailey used all of her birthday money to buy a pink Game Boy with a pink Princess Peach case and some "girl" games.




She loves this Pretty Pretty Princess game. The winner of the game is the one with all of the jewelry on. The boys love playing it with her. They don't even mind the clip on earrings. :)


I took her hair down and it was so curly, I had to take a picture. It didn't capture it that well on camera, but I thought these pictures were cute.

Halloween 2008

The Peanut Gang had a great Halloween! Sally was happy that Linus didn't wait around this year for The Great Pumpkin. Charlie Brown didn't get any rocks. Little Snoopy didn't bother his clip on ears after he realized there was candy involved.








Sally wore a "Sweet Baboo for President" button.

Sweet Berry Farm

We went to Sweet Berry Farms with friends from church. The kids picked out their pumpkins. They painted the small ones and carved the big ones at home.







The kids had fun on the hay ride, well maybe not Josh. Instead of riding back on the hay ride, Dean walked to the car to get our lunch. Josh was so worried about his Daddy that he cried and kicked the whole ride. When we stopped, Josh took off towards where we left Dean. Josh calls Dean "Addy" now. He was calling us both Mommy for a long time.

Hailey Style

Hailey styled her own hair. Isn't she lovely!

First Day of School 2008

Nathan is now in third grade and Matthew is in first grade. They really like school. It is always sad to see them go back after spending the summer with them. Hailey has one more year at home before she starts Kindergarten next year.

Nathan picked out his own outfit. He had to have it after he saw it on a mannequin at The Children's Place. :D He likes to dress "cool".






Matthew with his teacher.



Nathan with his teacher.