Boy Scout Christmas Dinner

We have been partying it up this Christmas
holiday... this week we attended the Boy
Scout Christmas dinner.  Aaron was selected
to carry the flag that evening and he did a
great job and took it very seriously.  There
was also a surprise visit from Santa who
delivered derby cars to all the boys to be
used at the derby car race next year. 

Aaron also received 2 awards this night too. 

Avery's Christmas Party

Avery had her Christmas party this
week at her preschool.  We were
treated to lots of songs that the kids
sang, yummy treats, a visit from santa,
and each child opened a gift.  We were
so happy that Gram was able to join us
for the party as well.
 

Time for a trim

Avery recently had a small haircut... this is
the before picture as I forgot to take a picture
after her haircut.  I cut about 4 to 5 inches off...
much to daddy's arguing... but I am sure it will
not take long for it to grow this long again!

A few Avery cell phone pics

PJ Sunday at church

We LOVE our church!  The children's minister
is always thinking of new ways to make things fun
so last Sunday was PJ day for the kids... and the
nursery and sunday school workers wore PJs as
well.  The kids were so excited to wear our matching
snowman jammies!

Christmas Parade 2014

It was a beautiful December morning to watch the
Christmas parade.  We were able to spend time with
family and friends while catching a ton of candy and
of course our favorite... paper towels from the GP float!

We love free paper towels!

Cookie making with JuJu

Christmas House Decorations

Every year when I was little I would beg my dad to put
lights up on our house... granted we lived really far off the
road and no one would have seen them anyway but I was
really bummed that he would never put any up.  Well now
that I have a house of my own and a hubby that is
thankfully more into the lights that me... here is our
beautiful house! I think it turned out great this year! We will
also be catching some after Christmas sales to add more
for next year!

Preschool and Children's Choir

The Preschool and Children's choir performances were
last Sunday night.  Both Avery and Aaron participated
this year and it was Aaron's first year in the big kid choir.

Avery's age sang 3 Christmas tunes and Aaron's group
put on Isiah Jones - Search for the Lost Christmas Treasure.

Aaron played a cactus -- and a HUGE thank you to
Gram for sewing on the pipe cleaners to his costume!

Christmas list time

One day I came home from the store to find about 30 sales papers blowing all across our front lawn... We aren't sure where they came from but I had Aaron run out and collect them! They kids had a blast cutting the pictures of the things they wanted for Christmas and glued them to paper to make their Christmas lists!

Breakfast with this beauty

Decorating for Christmas

Happy 7th Birthday!!

Happy 7th birthday to our big boy! We
love you so much!

Disguise the Turkey

Aaron's class was given a project of
disguising a turkey so that he is not dinner
on thanksgiving.  He chose to disguise
his turkey as a tiger cub scout.  I think he
did a great job!  He said some of this other
friends chose a mermaid, a basketball player,
a dancer, and a deer!

2014 Texas Renaissance Festival

This weekend we took a quick trip to Houston to attend
the Renaissance Festival.  Notice that we reused our
halloween costumes as well.  Andrew and I went to the
festival about 12 years ago so we were excited to go
back and this time take the kids! We all had so much fun
watching the jousting event and the birds of prey show.
There were rides for the kids and lots of shops to look in.

Avery had her hair braided ... mommy really wishes she
could braid her hair!

There was also lots and lots of good food to eat.  One
of our favorite things was the kettle corn!