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!