Christmas 2009

Merry Christmas everyone! We hope you had a very special Christmas with family and friends. Ours was wonderful!

We went to Rockwall to visit Gia and Bapa and our Walker cousins. It was such a special time for Audrey. She even got to spend 2 nights with her cousins. She had a ball playing with them, visiting the animals on the ranch, and being loved on by her Aunt "Savah" and "Donkle Leddie."

Boy did Audrey get some fun presents this year.

Gia and Bapa gave her a Dora "bodycle."

and some fun legos

And let's not forget that this was Alaina's first Christmas. She did sleep through most of it, but she sure was a precious Christmas present for all of us.

Gia made baby Alaina her very own stocking for Christmas this year and Alaina loved getting her stocking stuffers.

Audrey got a microphone in her stocking and what a perfect gift for our little singer. She is constantly asking us to sing "O Holy Night" (which is actually Silent Night) and "Noel Noel" (imagine her singing that with a wonderfully strong Texas accent.)

Audrey sure does love her cousin Caroline.

What pals.

Santa brought Audrey the Wonder Pets fly boat! Wow!

Her favorite Wonder Pet, Ming Ming.

Alaina looked on as Audrey played with her toys.

Santa also brought her food for the oven set that Daddy made for her.

So excited about her toys!

We like to take a picture every year of what Santa leaves under the tree so the girls can remember it just as they saw it.

Wonder Pets, toy food, and some ABC games

Just before Christmas we visited Granny Hilda. It was so good to see her.

And then we ended our Christmas in Bay City with the Douglas family.

What a Christmas the girls had here. Alaina met more of her family and Audrey played like crazy. The family gave them some great gifts that will be such fun.

Audrey loved playing with her Papa this year. And it was fun to see her and her cousin Cylus playing together. We look forward to many years of them playing together along with Eli and Alaina.

She also went around the house constantly calling her cousing Cameron. She was still calling for him when we got home.

Aunt sister meeting Alaina. Our kids love Aunt Sister.

Granny West with her 100th grandchild. Well not really 100th, but close. :)
And Aunt Jessica loving on Alaina.

It certainly was a special Christmas for our family as Audrey was a little older and so excited about all things Christmas and really excited about her cousins especially. And we celebrate this year our precious baby Alaina, what a gift for our family.

I'll leave you with one Christmas story that we want to remember.

We took Audrey to a children's Christmas program at a local church on the same day that we visited Santa Claus. Audrey LOVED Santa and could not stop talking about him. She kept asking for him and when we went to the Christmas program we told her we were going to see baby Jesus. So as she was intently watching the program, it got kind of quiet and Audrey calls out "baby Jesus Ho Ho Ho!"

Maybe she is a little confused with the true meaning of Christmas, but we're trying. :)

We'll work on this for next year.

Merry Texas Christmas!

Audrey LOVES all things Christmas!

She could not have been more excited to visit Santa this year. Really, she may not look excited, but she can't stop talking about him.

And she talks about baby Jesus, Rudolph, snow man, and all the Christmas lights constantly. We are reading Christmas books all day and singing carols to go to sleep every night. Her favorite is "Holy Night" (Silent Night.)

What a wonderful Christmas this will be!
(Baby Alaina may sleep through Christmas this year. But she sure will be cute doing it!)

Christmas Cookie Goodness

This weekend our family decided to make some Christmas cookies.

Audrey loves to cook with her Mommy!She stirred
Cut out cookies

Decorated

Baby Alaina watched

And Audrey took a bite every chance she got. At one point she had 3 cookies on her plate with one bite out of each.

I think Daddy officially won the decorating prize.

And Audrey won the cookie eating prize

A bath was definitely in order after we were done

And an exciting bath time in surely was

Then it was snuggle time for our girls.

What a great night for our family.

Christmas Comes for Gia's Birthday

Daddy showed up after work on Friday with a wonderful surprise for all of us , a beautiful Christmas tree! Audrey and Alaina both got new ornaments for the tree this year. They are little girl angels. Alaina's says "God's gift" and Audrey's says "best sister." Audrey LOVED these ornaments.
Audrey helped Daddy so much with the tree while Mommy and Alaina watched.

Audrey discovered the stool for decorating and had so much fun.
"Up, down, up down"

And on Saturday morning, we had pancakes for Gia's birthday!

We loved Audrey's morning hair.

A bath after pancakes of course. But one more look at the tree first!

Gia and her girls...

We love you so much Gia! Happy Birthday!