Looking Forward to 2010

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

Tiger Who????

Here are a few short videos of our family golf outing this morning. Watch out Phil and Tiger, here comes Taylor CW!

Sugar Cookies for Santa

The stockings are all hung by the fire,

the Christmas tree and the front yard is all decorated,

the Christmas cards have all been sent out,

the presents are all wrapped (I think...?),

all the Santa books have been read,

we've listened to lots of holiday music,

we've attempted to watch Rudolph and Frosty (still to young to fully appreciate),

"Chip" our Elf on the Shelf has made his yearly appearance,

and finally cookies for Santa have been made with lots of love in anticipation that

SANTA WILL BE HERE SOON!

Vote for Brown Eyes!!!!

Our super talented photographer, Brandy Lewis, that shot our family photos this summer is having a contest on her blog! She has posted her favorite photos from the year and is asking her readers to vote on their favorite one. The owner of the winning photo will be awarded an 8x10 canvas of the print! Taylor's picture above is in the contest and I would love to have your help. Head over to Brandy's blog and leave a comment voting for Taylor's picture titled 'Brown Eyes'. You have until Friday at midnight to vote! Thanks!!

"G" is for Gingerbread...

Houses

Cookies

and Reading Gingerbread Baby!

Would you like some? What little bakers they were this week! I think Taylor would have been content on licking the icing all day... that's all he wanted to talk about! Thanks Heather for another fun holiday week:)

It's the most wonderful time of the year...

Ever since the day after Thanksgiving Taylor has known something different was in the air. First it was the house down the street with their colored twinkly lights, reindeer, and Christmas trees. Then it was the cold weather and all the Christmas books mommy kept bringing home. Next it was getting the Christmas decorations down from our attic. The excitement of running around the house and finding somewhere to put a decoration was priceless. Or was it the sound he makes when we turn the indoor and outdoor Christmas lights on... ohhhhhhhh, pursed lips and all! Finally, the understanding that we are giving presents away and that it's a "secret until they open it". They're little sponges and they remember everything you say!

So when Friday came and the chance of snow flurries was in the forecast, we couldn't have been more excited. This would be the first time that Taylor has ever seen snow! With the golf course closed for a "snow day", Andrew was home with Taylor, armed with a camera (his new Blackberry cell phone, which was not what mommy was thinking), waiting patiently for snow to fall. When you don't ever get snow it's like waiting for water to boil... it just can't happen fast enough! Gosh, how great is it to be a kid and run around in the cold, cold weather while pure white snowflakes hit you in the face! The hard freeze was just as much fun the morning after.

Waiting 30 minutes at the Thanksgiving table for dinner to start!

The snow finally started falling during first grade recess! If you weren't there, you probably wouldn't believe that it truely did snow. Only lasted an hour and then the sun came out... only in TEXAS folks!