Christmas 2010

We had a wonderful Christmas this year and enjoyed having our family all come over. This was the first year that Luke was really excited about Santa and had specific toys he asked for. It was also so fun to see Abby enjoy all of the presents and excitement this year too since she was too little last year to do anything! Here are some pictures of our day -

Seeing what Santa brought - a princess trike for Abby and a construction set for Luke!

Abby loves her new books!

The pirate ship from Nana and PawPaw that Luke wanted!

Wonderful variety of new books from Great Grandma Chipper

Abby feeding her new baby doll

I think Abby enjoyed the birthday cake for Baby Jesus!

A princess definitely needs an appropriate throne :-)

Aunt Malissia, Uncle Matt and Uncle Andy

Christmas Eve

We had a lot of fun on Christmas Eve this year...we started off with our annual Christmas Eve trip to the mall to eat pretzels and watch all the crazy people that have not finished their shopping yet. As you can see, Abby was serious about being included in the pretzel eating this year too!

We spent time in the afternoon making some Christmas crafts and baking a birthday cake for Jesus before heading to church.

After church, we let the kids open one present each and then after decorating the birthday cake and setting out cookies for Santa, the kids went to bed so Santa could come!

Abby was SUPER excited about her Christmas jammies, it is so easy to please a 1 year old :-)

Luke decorated the cake for Baby Jesus - he thought Jesus would like a Toy Story cake, so that is why he picked out the aliens and dinosaurs :-)

December 2010

December has been a blur of Christmas parties, decorating and other fun activities! Here are some pictures of our month.

Sugar Land Town Square Christmas tree lighting

Luke's Christmas party at his preschool

MOPS Christmas party - I don't know who enjoyed the cookie decorating (eating) more - Luke or Abby?

More cookies!

And making more treats with friends!

Going to the zoo with Uncle Andy while he is home from college

Abby's first time in the petting zoo, I think she liked it :-)