Our Christmas Day

After starting off half the day at Dad's house, we drove down to my Mom's house for Christmas day and dinner. My Aunt Kathy and Uncle Randy were there with my cousins Josie and John and John's roommate from college. Everyone had a great time visiting and playing. A lot of time was spent shooting baskets outside and also playing Molly's new game, Rockband for her Wii. Lillian even loved to play the drums for that. We also spent some time with Mamaw and Papaw who were also in for a few days.

Left: Lillian plays Rockband, Right: Opening gifts

Left: The Ho Ho Ho girls, Right: Andrew and Papaw

Left: Aunt Kathy and Andrew, Right: First ride in their new wagon from Katy and Clay

Left: Lillian drives Ron's Gator, Right: Cousin Josie and Andrew

Our Christmas Morning

We celebrated Christmas morning at my Dad's house. We were up early, not just because the kids were up, but Tory and Molly were already scoping out the stockings! Here are some pictures from Christmas morning...as usual, there are none of me since I'm always taking the pictures!

Mole opening up a gift. Clay got a Red Rider gun! Just like the Christmas Story!

Left: Katy and Andrew, Right: Dad and Tory play Wii

Left: Geneva rocking Andrew to sleep, Right: Lillian and Daddy





Andrew looks so pretty with a Christmas bow!

Our Christmas Eve

I just made it back yesterday evening from Alto and have been unpacking and cleaning ever since. Since I'm so behind on my blogging, I'm going to try to do a few pictures each day for the next couple of days to share our Christmas with you.

Christmas Eve:
We hung out with the Pearman clan on Christmas Eve. The kids were passed around and enjoyed seeing everyone. Then we enjoyed a rousing evening of karaoke! I'm sure the neighbors were wondering what in the world was going on. Everyone was slow to start, but once we got going, no one wanted it to end! We sang and danced until late late! Lillian finally crashed on the couch watching and Andrew we put in one of the bedrooms to sleep on a bed. It was great to see everyone and a lot of fun. Even Bob got a few songs in and Dad and Kelly were his back-up dancers!

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Hajek Family Christmas

We drove down to Shiner Sunday morning for the Hajek family Christmas. That is Brandon's mom's side. They rent a hall each year for us all to get together and visit and eat all the goodies. It was really great to see everyone. We got to meet our new little cousin, Zachary. His parents are Brandon's cousin, Brian and his wife Melissa. Zachary is a little over 2 months old and just a little sweetie! Lillian also got to see Santa for the 3rd time this season. She actually got close to him several times and after she got her present from him, she openned it and gave the present back to him! ha ha...I did catch one picture of her with Santa when someone handed her to him...that was a one in a million shot. Andrew enjoyed chewing on his gift and crawling around with it. Here are some pictures from there.

Austin, we have a crawler!

After 10 months and a lot of coaching, Andrew started crawling last night! We were getting ready for church last night and had Andrew on the floor in Lillian's room while we were getting her dressed when he did 3 full paces of crawling to get to a marker on her floor. We cheered and he laughed at us! Then we were in Shiner today for Brandon's mom's side Christmas get together and he crawled all around that floor. So when we got home this evening, I filmed him a little so I would have proof. Here he is! I'm so proud!

Andrew is a crawler

Santa came

Santa knew we would be in Alto during Christmas, so he stopped by early here last night. Lillian and Andrew love their new kitchen!

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Playhouse Disney Live

I anxiously loaded a screaming Lillian into my friend, Irene's van yesterday afternoon. I think she was scared I was leaving her with them since she hasn't ridden in their car before. As some of you know, Brandon and I took Lillian to Playhouse Disney Live last year and it was a disaster. She was just at the wrong age and fussed the whole time. I was a little worried if she was even ready this year.

Well, we got there and she immediately was looking at all the set-ups in the lobby area telling me, "Einsteins, Manny, Mouse!" She was excited. We finally got to our seats and as the lights went out and the girl came out on stage, she just let out an "ohhhhh!" and she didn't take her eyes off the stage. She sat in my lap and would say the names of all the characters to me. It was so sweet! She really enjoyed it. Of course, I got her a souvenior...something she wanted last year, but we just got a tshirt last time. It is a light-up wand and she has been carrying it around all day. I'm glad I went ahead and took her. We didn't bring our camera because last year they searched bags and wouldn't allow them in, but this year, they didn't do that and my friend, Lauren took a picture of us there.

As we left, she was saying by to Mickey and Pooh! It was too cute. She had a great time! Her friend Natalie, that we rode with was in tears because it was over. Oh, to be 2 again! How exciting!