William was the first one up this morning and he was too excited to let everyone sleep!
Catherine coloring in her new Elmo book.
Sarah is ready for summer with three new swimsuits!
Elizabeth super excited about her new hp netbook.
The girls having a tea party this evening with Great Nana's china they received from Great Papa. They are also wearing Great Nana's hats and jewelry. Her beautiful treasures will be cherished forever!
Sarah was an acolyte for our Christmas Eve service. She was so excited to light the candle and sit up front again. It was a beautiful service with lots of Christmas songs for the kids.
Making Christmas cookies for Santa.
William picked these two gingerbread cookies to give to Santa.
Putting reindeer food out on our back lawn.
Catherine knew something exciting was happening but she is still too young to understand it all.
One of our favorite things to do as a family is drive around and look at Christmas lights. Tonight, we decided to walk around the downtown square area. It is so beautiful but hard to capture it on my camera. The stores had snow machines on the roofs. If you look at the top left corner of the above picture you can see the snow. Nice touch when you live in Texas!
It actually is very cold tonight and the girls did not bring their coats. We bought hot chocolate from the pirate ship above to try and warm them up a bit. I think there is a slight chance for a white Christmas this year!
There was an outside ice skating rink too! We thought we were in New York City! lol. The kids had fun throwing snowballs.
Yesterday was Catherine's 2nd birthday! My dad took this picture of all of us lounging before the party. I cropped out all our stinky feet!
Catherine wanted to open her presents first. She was very excited about her Elmo backback and has been carrying it everywhere!
Here she is in her new cute boots with her bag of lollipops!
The kids helped her blow out the candles on her lollipop cake.
Eating only the frosting and lollipops in her new Elmo pajamas! Happy 2nd Birthday to our baby girl!
We took a little trip North this afternoon to a tree farm and cut down a Christmas tree for the 1st time!
The kids were so excited about picking out their tree and all took turns cutting it down.
The farm was beautiful and the weather was absolutely gorgeous today. Catherine loved the hayride. We also enjoyed hot chocolate and apple cider while we waited for our tree to be wrapped and tied up on our car.
The kids unwrapping our perfect tree!
Our beautiful Christmas Tree 2011.
We have listened to some beautiful Christmas concerts over the past couple of weeks. Above is Elizabeth (center in Santa hat) performing with her school choir.
Sarah (center red sweater) singing in our church Children's Christmas program. She also performed in our church adult Cantata.
Tonight was our last concert. Sarah (2nd row center of picture) performing with her school choir.
Sarah was an Acolyte for the first time this morning. She was a little nervous so we told her everything would be okay as long as she didn't burn down the church. :-) She did great!
Eric and I went to his faculty holiday party while the kids spent the evening at Papa and Nana's house. They made the best Christmas cookies! Even Catherine's finger licked cookies were oh so good!
We spent the afternoon at our church Advent Festival. Catherine did not want anything to do with Santa Claus!
William on the other hand had lots to tell Santa.
Catherine felt better after she won the cake walk!
She also loved helping Sarah decorate the life-size gingerbread house.
The kids enjoyed all the animals at the nativity scene.
Sarah played handbells this morning during our service. She did great and our church was so beautiful for the 1st Sunday in Advent. Listening and singing Christmas hymns definitely gets you into the Christmas spirit!
The kids were so excited this morning to go spend the day at Papa and Nana Green's house and have a "real" Thanksgiving.
Sarah helping Nana in the kitchen making sure the yummy homemade noodles were ready.
Eric, Uncle Andrew and Uncle Dan frying a turkey. Big Dan used to work for Papa Green and this is the 4th Thanksgiving he has spent with us. He is part of the family now and we look forward to seeing him every year!
Catherine holding 4 month old Cooper.
The kids patiently waiting for Elizabeth to break open the turkey pinata!
A&M has midnight yell practice the night before every home football game. We are not sure why but midnight yell had been moved to 8pm! I was very excited about this! Guess that means I'm getting old. 
On the Texas A&M campus.
There are lots of fun activities for kids at "The Zone" outside of Kyle Field. They also had a big screen with the Cowboy game.
The kids got their faces ready for the game.
The awesome Aggie band marching to Kyle Field. We enjoyed sitting by the band at a volleyball game too while we were there. At least A&M won the half time show! Poor Eric is still so upset about the loss. I keep telling him to focus on Christmas...focus on Christmas...
We took a family trip to College Station this week to attend the Texas A&M vs. tu football game. The game did not end in our favor but we had fun making memories. I am so thankful for my beautiful family and the special time we spend together. The above picture is where we enjoyed our Thanksgiving Day feast! Eric wanted to take us somewhere with character and he succeeded!
Elizabeth and Eric ordered beef because they wanted to eat Bevo (the tu mascot)!
Catherine loved all the animals on the wall!
The weather was so nice. We spent one afternoon at Research Park on campus. Eric and I used to go to this park when we were dating.
William wants to play football for A&M someday.
