We made it through Christmas....now we begin a New Year

I hope all of you had a wonderful Christmas and enjoyed your family and the food!!! I hope the New Year holds great things for you all.

We started out this Christmas season with a trip to the Parade of Lights in downtown Ft. Worth and Brooklyn had a blast. All she kept saying was, "Mommy look at the towers!!!" She was amazed at the tall buildings in downtown. I had a feeling that I might have been sheltering her from the outside world from her sheer amazement at the "towers." But when you live out in the country and it takes an hour just to get somewhere, you tend to just stay home.

Does this look like a face of happiness or what?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Now let's skip ahead a couple of weeks.....Christmas Eve!!! What an anxious night Christmas Eve is for everyone!!! I don't know if the anxiety for the parents is worst or the kids. I remember starring out the window seeing a red flashing light being told that it was Rudolph (of course what our parents and aunts were showing us was a radio tower...who knew). We would gather together as a family at my mimi and papa's house and have dinner and we kids would just dance around the adult table waiting on them to quit talking and let us open up our presents that had been staring at us the whole night. It was torture!!!! But now that I am a mom with a toddler, I couldn't wait for her to wake up and run into the living room and see what Santa had brought her. We were so proud of what we had gotten her and hoped that she would like it. It is such a fun filled night for both parents and kids.

We did our usual family Christmas with my grandmother at my aunts house. Through the years, our family has multiplied by the dozens and my grandmother's house just doesn't hold all of us. So off to my Aunt Becca's house we went.

Because our families have gotten so big in the last years, we have turned the tradition of present giving into were we all just get my grandmother something. Well, Brooklyn couldn't stand that Mimi was the only one getting to open presents, so she insisted on helping her.

Just a couple of pictures of the family........

These are some of the great grandchildren. We are missing Trip, Cannon, and the newest addition to the family, Trot!!!

We are all so grown up now!!!!! This would be all the cousins, minus Matt and Shannon and Justin. Don't we look like a fun group?!?!?!

And now for the fun pictures....Brooklyn on Christmas opening presents. She was so sweet and cute. Every present she grabbed, she would ask if she could open it. EVERY SINGLE ONE of them!!!!! It was cute.

Enjoy!!!!

Seeing them for the first time, wondering which one she will open first.



Doesn't she look so sweet?

Her with all of her presents........

I hope everyone got what they wanted and I wish you all the best in the new year!!!!!

Her Royal Highness Queen Brooklyn!!!!!

This year for Halloween Brooklyn was so into the princesses that she had to be one. So we talked with some family and found out that my cousin had the perfect costume for her. Princess Jasmine!!! She had so much fun playing the roll.

As every Halloween with our family, we start off the night with pictures of all the great grandchildren. We let them see each other's costumes and of course the mom's and the grandmother's love to come and drool over our cute little babies and us mom's make them stand their and take 1000 pictures knowing they are ready to go get the candy. But we are about memories!!!!!

The 3 Princesses!!!! Princess Jasmine, Snow White, and Sleeping Beauty (L to R)

We tried to get a good group picture with everyone looking but if you look in the background, the small little skunk is running of, Brooklyn has just noticed that Tripp (the skeleton) had a scary mask on before we made them take pictures so she is a little stressed out being around him, Chloe is so over taking pictures, and Hannah is trying to figure out what is going on behind her. But we got them all together and enjoyed the memories of our kids being together.

As the holidays are approaghing, I would like to send out a Happy Holidays to everyone. I hope you enjoy this time with you families and make many many memories. Fill those bellies with good food and take lots of naps in between football games.

Stay tuned, there will be many many more post to come.