Christmas 2009 - Part IV

Extended Family Party



We had a great turnout for our extended family party which included the always fun White Elephant gift exchange.

Christmas 2009 - Part III

Christmas with Nana was all about the kids this year. Jason had so much fun with his cousins, Kassidy and Mckinley.


Crafts and Cookies










Leapster





Presents




Karaoke

Christmas 2009 - Part II

After Christmas morning at home, we had to wait a little bit to let the sun melt some of the snow on the roads. Then we headed on over to Mimi and Papaw's house to continue our Christmas festivities with Mimi, Papaw, Aunt Sarah and Uncle Josh. We only hit one patch of ice on our long (6 mile) trek across Keller and we arrived safe and sound.

Our contribution to Christmas dinner was a pork tenderloin and cranberry sauce.



We had a lot of fun opening stockings and presents.



It was also Uncle Josh's birthday, so we made sure to reserve time to celebrate birthday style. Jason is obsessed with helping others open presents and loves cards.



Then we headed outside to play some hoops on Jason's present from Aunt Sarah and Uncle Josh.



And let's not forget playing Wii.

Christmas 2009 - Part I

We made an effort this year to make Christmas really special for Jason. I felt like it was important to do so, since this would be his last solo holiday. We probably went a bit overboard, but I think he really enjoyed all the attention.

Here are some pictures of Jason at his school Christmas program. (Sorry about the quality of some of the pictures, this was before we got our new camera.)

We are not entirely certain what the costume was supposed to be, some sort of elf ears with a Christmas hat, but paired with a lei, since they were singing Mele Kalikimaka. I'm not sure Jason sang a word, but he knew all of the hand movements. This was a vast improvement over last year's performance when he refused to leave his teacher's side and get on the stage.



We made a trip out to the Gaylord Texan for the Ice Show. The theme was the Grinch, so of course Jason loved it, as we love everything Dr. Seuss.



This was an unusually snowy winter for Texas. We were treated to a very snowy Christmas Eve.



We spent Christmas morning at home opening presents and eating monkey bread for breakfast. As you can see, Jason had a lot of fun and really enjoyed his gifts.

Thanksgiving 2009

Unfortunately, this is one of the only pictures I can find from Thanksgiving this past year. There are no other family members present, but Jason does make a cute turkey right? This was from his Thanksgiving Feast at school.



If anyone has pictures from Thanksgiving, I'd love copies!

Now Christmas, on the other hand, we have plenty of pictures. More posts to follow...

We're Back!

So it's been ages since we've posted anything. I guess you could say we've been a bit busy. I'm going to try to have a few posts soon to recap everything we've been up to, but for the time being you will notice that I finally changed the blog name to include our newest addition, Jeffrey!