Season's Greatings!

We saw this at Great American Cookie Co. at our mall. We are going to submit it to CakeWrecks.com!

iLove Valentines

I saw these in Family Fun magazine and thought they were so cute and perfect for the boys to hand out in class! The boys thought these were "cool" and not frilly or girly like a lot of valentines. Plus, they just love iPods!

All you do is cut out construction paper and tape it around a box of conversation hearts. To print the scroll wheel and playlist, search "Rock Candy" on familyfun.com or go directly to the printable scroll wheel and playlist. Cut them out and glue them on the front with a glue stick. The boys then wrote their to's and from's on the back and that was it. You could also tape on "headphones" made out of string and mini peanut butter cups or kisses. So fun and easy!

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.