Christmas 2010

Christmas in pictures and captions. Our first Christmas in our new home!

All lit up, good work Justin!

Christmas Eve

Beautiful tree, and beautiful ornament...at least to some!

Christmas Eve with Michaela.

Excited for Santa!

Andrea, Alyssa, and me

Santa cookies are ready to go.

Santa came....

The big items from Santa were a play house and a soccer goal!

Up bright and early, and so many people were around to see her expression!

Still sleepy!

Milk made things better!

Finally ready to play!

Doing stunts and cheering for Tech. The uniform didn't fit properly so it's going back to the store.

Grammy got her a basketball goal.

Christmas Day at my Aunt Carol's after the delicious turkey lunch!

Caroline and Alyssa....BFFD- Best Friends for the Day.

Her hair described the energy in the house on Christmas Day perfectly. So much family and so much fun!

Christmas night, opening more gifts from Nana and Papa!

Oh Boy, a tunnel!

The day after Christmas, we did Papa Mike's side of the family Christmas!

Grandma and Caroline.

After that we drove to Frisco for our final Christmas with Grammy's side. I just love her hair in this picture!

Jump, jump!

Macie and Caroline!

Hope you all had a blessed Christmas, we sure did. We are so grateful to have family and friends so near to share this special time of year with! Now we are looking forward to a great 2011!

Merry Christmas

Wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas!

As for us, after a wonderful evening at church and with family, Santa has come, were tucked in tight, and looking forward to the magic of the morning!

Holiday in the Park

Friday night, we went to Holiday in the Park. Caroline was a brave little one, and with minimal hesitation jumped on every ride she could!

The ride, the bus, was a bit scary for me but didn't bother Caroline a bit!

Justin rode this one with her, I can't remember what it was called but it's kind of similar to a Superman, just down sized quite a bit.

The airplanes were a hit with Caroline,

as was this roller coaster which was much faster and jerkier than I anticipated!

Of course we had to do the traditional snow hill!

Later in the evening we ventured into Santa land. It was a bit, ummmmm weird, to say the least. You might want to check it out for yourselves, don't be surprised if you are a bit uneasy as you visit Mrs. Claus.

We had a blast, the crowd wasn't bad, the hot chocolate was tasty, and the cold weather fit the atmosphere. We can't wait to go back, we might go today!

Hooray!

A few quick updates....

Tomorrow is my last teaching day of 2010, time sure flies. I am halfway through my seventh year of teaching. Wow! Each year my mother in law adopts all my students and prepares them a gift with all sorts of goodies. I look forward to surprising them and can't wait to hear the reaction tomorrow!

Caroline is on the brink of being potty trained. While at home, she only wears panties and has had few accidents and will even go to the potty on her own. It is crazy, it's just like it clicked overnight. I have yet to send her to school in panties, I think I might take that leap after Christmas. To all you other mommies out there, when did you feel comfortable taking your newly potty trained child in public without a diaper? I am still a bit afraid of public toilets and the hassle all that might entail.

Lastly, my silly dog Boomer has become quite the nuisance lately. As most of you know he is diabetic and on a very strict diet. As anyone who has been on a diet knows, when you are restricted you crave everything. Well, that must be the case for my big ole' yellow lab because Monday he raided three tins of cookies, each holding over a dozen cookies. My mom and Caroline ran a brief errand and when they returned they discovered the incident. To make matters worse, he had jumped on top of my stove to get the tins which were set at the very back and while doing so managed to ignite two burners. When my mom walked into the house she smelled something burning! Thank God nothing caught fire! We were just left with cookie crumbs, ruined Christmas goodies for friends and neighbors, a broken fruit bowl, and high maintenance Boomer needing to go out every 30 minutes and drinking gallons and gallons of water due to his high blood sugar.

Visit to Santa

I've been a terrible blogger as of late, life seems busier but tons of fun with a two year!

Hope this Holiday season has been Merry for all, it sure has been for us!

My little Santa baby!

Last Friday, which coincidentally happened to be my birthday, Caroline's preschool had a field day to see Santa. Since it was my birthday and the teacher prefers the parents to attend, I took the day off and went with Caroline's school.

From looking at the pictures you can tell how Caroline feels about jolly ole Santa. Although she tells us she likes Santa and always points him out in pictures, I'm afraid he is still a little frightening in person. Maybe next year??
Oh, and Caroline's teacher is a gem, she obviously loves Caroline and we love her too.