Merry Christmas!

Wow! Can you believe it? It is only a week after Christmas and here you are looking at Christmas pictures! Just for the the record, I win Destiny! The kids got some fun things this year and had so much fun just unwrapping things. Carter asked me later on Christmas day if we could wrap up some of his toys upstairs so he could unwrap them!
Taylor got a new baseball mitt. He plans to play this spring so he really needed a bigger mitt. You should see him hit and as you can see in the picture his throwing form is really looking good. Hopefully now with a new mitt his catching skills will pick up.
Carter got a bat and ball. Our metal bat is just to heavy for him so he is looking forward to being able to play with his brother. Carter also got a rocket ship indoor playhouse, that he loves. If anything is ever missing just look in the rocket.
And here is Carly opening just what she has been telling me she wanted for months-- a pink dress up. As you can see, she is totally thrilled. Christmas for her was pretty much a princess explosion: dress, glass slippers, crown, dress up box, etc. How did I get such a girly girl?
Carly had a great time collapsing on the floor all Christmas day pretending she was Sleeping Beauty!
We all had a great first Christmas here in Texas. It did seem a little bit like we were pretending since there was no snow or cold weather. But we enjoyed spending time as a family and reflecting on our Savior and His birth.

HO HO HO!

A few weeks before Christmas we went to a Toys for Tots breakfast

at Taylor's school. We had lots of yummy breakfast and then sat on Santa's lap.

Carly was not shy at all and marched right up and climbed up on Santa and

asked for dress ups (big surprise!).

Carter had a good time talking to Santa. I think he told him that

he wanted a sword but he was really most excited about the candy cane!

Santa really got a kick out of Taylor's dead serious request for a

snowmobile! He said, "This is Houston! We don't get snow here." Taylor

didn't care. He still seems to think he could drive it around on the grass.

We all had a good morning at the breakfast and I hope we were

successful in teaching our children that it is better to give than to get.

Fun, Fun, Fun

Yes, I realize Christmas is almost here, but not quite! So these are our Halloween pictures. Better late than never right?!
On Halloween Day I went with Taylor and all the first grader's to the Houston Zoo. We had a lot of fun. The kids were all really cute and were so excited to see the animals. This is a picture of Taylor's class and his teacher. I realized after we had left that I didn't take any pictures of Taylor and myself.


This was such a cute little chimp (?) I just had to share. She was
having a lot of fun playing with the pumpkin buckets.

Watch out Darth Vader, here comes Luke Skywalker!

(Thanks for the costume Aunt Laurie)

What princess or damsel in distress could turn down this

handsome knight?!

Here is Cinderella at her finest. What a beautiful princess.
Our 3 had a great time dressing up and trick or treating. We stayed really close to home. WE probably only went to about 30 houses but you should have seen how full their buckets were. I guess that is one more thing that is bigger in Texas--a handful of candy. Maybe they just wanted to get rid of it faster!

Now, I have done my part and shared another tidbit of our lives, which I know you all were dying to hear about. So please be a good blog reader and share your comments:). We really like to hear what you have to say. For those of you for which blogs are new just below this post is something that says "comments", and it probably has a big fat zero by it. Let us know you love us! hee-hee.