December 29-31, 2010

New Year's Eve party at the Hodson's home. Games, good food and friends... a fabulous way to bring in a new year!

p.s.  2010... don't let the door hit you on the way out!

12.30.10 - This marks the two year anniversary since I started my picture a day project. Absolutely love this project!!

Picture of completed album will go here.

On to year three!

What do you mean there aren't any more presents to open? And I can't have candy for breakfast? 
Life has to go back to normal????

You guys can't just cut me off like this... I need some warning!

December 24-28, 2010

 Dinner and games with some of our favorite friends!

Taking a spin in our new red wagon... nothing says "little boy" to me like a red wagon and a baseball in his lap.  I think these are some of my favorite pictures ever!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 At the beginning of the Christmas season we bought buddy a little nativity board book... he loves the book... several times a day he asks to read the "baby Jesus" book.  I love reading the Baby Jesus book with him!

Fun gifts, a very excited two years, Christmas lunch with the Moak's, a long nap, talking to family, watching movies... I would call Christmas magical and a complete success!

It was Christmas Eve and the stockings were hung... celebrating one of our favorite days of the year!

Breakfast at Cracker Barrell

Delivering gifts with the missionaries and sharing a Christmas message with a sweet family

Tamales for dinner

Delivering our final 12 days of Christmas gift

Dropping off a Secret Santa gift

Opening our Christmas PJ's

Sprinkling Reindeer Food

Tracking Santa on the Santa radar



Our new advent calendar... I loooooooooove it!!

December 19-23, 2010

A wonderful dinner and christmas Family Home Evening with the Coopers and Bangerters.  We're so blessed to have such a great church family here.

 

Total Lunar Eclipse at 2am.

This is the first Winter Solstice Eclipse in 456 years.  So cool to be able to see it.

Packages to family and friends finally in the mail!  Due to blizzards all over the country my gifts were almost a week late getting here and were delayed getting mailed out.  Wrapping and putting together packages to mail is one of my favorite holiday things to do.

Buddy showing off his cute reindeer craft from nursery... the face is his foot and the antler's his hand.  He loves it!  He has the best nursery leader... we love Sister Jackman!

December 12-18, 2010

"A Texas Christmas" party... complete with Santa, BBQ and good friends!

 
Every morning when he wakes up first thing he does is runs in to the livingroom, puts his little chair in front of the tree and says "Lights!  Mama, lights!

Shopping for the Ward Christmas party... shopping is always way more fun when I'm not in charge of the budget... thank goodness that's Dori's job!

Hours of fun with the little nativity people... one of my favorite Christmas memories this year.

This is how we do it when mama is sick but still has to work... two laptops... one with Caillou playing and the other with expense reports.  Don't be jealous of my glamorous life.  :)

We started Secret Santa for a family tonight... lots of fun sneaking gifts on to their porch and mailbox... one down 11 to go!

A little lesson on the birth of the Savior and then the gifting of the Fisher Price Nativity to Buddy... I love love love this nativity set.

December 6-11, 2010

A trip to "Bethlehem Revisted" complete with camels, Roman Soliders and King Herod (who had a strong Texas accent)!

A fun night with the Jackmans!

A birthday lunch with Tracy... one of my dearest friends. She is good and kind and is one of the strongest women I know. I've learned so much from her and am grateful our paths have crossed in life. I hope we get to be neighbors in heaven!

Thursday 12/9  
Family Night at Chik-fil-A with our playgroup

A late late night of taping and mudding with Joy... trying to get her upstairs ready for family that's coming for Christmas.

Joy is amazing... six kids (and one on the way)... a husband who is a truck driver and is never home. does (big!) home repair projects on her own and is constantly serving and helping others. I'm grateful for her friendship.

Finally setting up the tree... I think this is the latest we've been in years.

Lots of help from little hands... he took ornament hanging very seriously.

I love Christmas with a little one!

Monday 12/6 -

Happy St. Nicholas day!

(pictures of our shoes)

December 1-5, 2010

I always want to remember this moment… little man all bundled up in his jammies and coat with his pink doggie and silky ready to look at Christmas lights…. How he exclaimed “oh, wow!” and “havay! (hooray)” over and over again at all the pretty lights… and I always want to remember how incredibly magical Christmas is with a two year old. 

A weekend of swimming and jumping on beds with our best friends at the Great Wolf Lodge!

We love cakes from Walmart bakery ... Joey manages to buy one every single weekend.  Maybe I should stop sending him to the store on his way home from work?

Matching Real Salt Lake scarves for two cute Joey's

Leave him alone for two minutes and he gets in to all sorts of mischief!

Tonight we got to go to Dallas and have dinner with Uncle Curtis who was in town on business from Utah.  We love when family comes to visit!