These days...

This time the term "these days" is loose because I have fallen behind in my iPhone dumps.  So this one is more like these months :)

Lunch date for Mommy's birthday

First colored bath... thanks Santa!

Love a hoodie kid :)

With Mags at the Zoo's Wild Wheels

Showing Lexy our favorite park

Doing his first ever craft at the Zoo

Loving My Gym

Rockin' his football cap... thanks Nana!

Last swim of the year in Aunt Mindy's pool

It's not a good day if your knees don't get dirty!

Found a doll to love at the Children's Museum

Birthday breakfast with Uncle Justin

Merry Christmas!

Christmas morning was just the three of us :)  For some unknown reason Colby decided to get up super early... so we opened presents at like 6:30.  So much fun!

Santa meant to keep it simple but obviously got carried away!

 Around lunch time we had a whole crew over!  Gran, Grandad, Aunt Missy, Lexy, Uncle Roy, Aunt Shirley and Grandmother all came over for lunch and presents.  

This girl loves a stage

Reading his Bible stories with Grandad (not a new book... just his favorite)

We had such a great day full of family and good food.  I love the picture above because it is a perfect one of my favorite thing... a full house!  Blessed.

After that we headed down to the hospital to visit Rick's dad.  A few weeks before Christmas, Thomas had a shoulder surgery.  A few days before Christmas he came down with an infection and had to drive here for emergency surgery.  So he was stuck in the hospital on Christmas!  We met Aunt Mindy, Uncle Jason, Addysen, Shelby and Keny down there to bring some Christmas cheer.  We might have brought too much cheer and needed to leave after a short visit :)  Mindy's family had driven a ways though so we wanted to visit more.  That's when we decided on an impromptu dinner at the hospital McDonald's.

Several days after Christmas we drove to Victoria to have Christmas with Nana.  Somehow when we get them all together there is too much going on to remember to take pictures!

Getting some work done on the way down

Dance party!

You can't see but this is an "after" of my makeover courtesy of Addysen

This is the hat Nana made him for Christmas... he LOVES it!

We also watched the Bears win their bowl game while we were there!!!  Sic 'em!

For several reasons this Christmas was a different one for our family.  But through it we saw even more clearly what a treasure family is. 

Christmas Eve

 We spent Christmas Eve with Gran, Grandad, Aunt Missy and Lexy.  Of course we had so much fun and got way too many presents!!!

Leap Frog readers are fun...

 More fun if you try to eat it :)

 Colby got his very own chair!

 And apparently we need to work on sharing it.

 Showing Grandad his book

 She loves a hat!!

Helping Gran open her presents

 Let's tear this paper up!

 Our tree at home on Christmas Eve

Getting ready for Christmas

Last Christmas we were still in the newborn stage of sleepless nights that ran into days!  So this Christmas we were all looking forward to really celebrating and enjoying the season.  We did lots of fun things to prepare ourselves and enjoy time together.

We started off with a tree lighting at a local shopping center.  First sighting of Santa, lights, fire truck, and carolers.  So fun!

 Our first batch of Christmas treats with my special assistant :)

 Helping Daddy stay safe while decorating!

 A visit with Santa at Bass Pro Shop (clearly he prefers fish and 4 wheelers over Santa)

 Christmas party with Aunt Missy and Lexy at My Gym