Into Everything

This morning we did school super early since we have errands to run and a lunch date with my parents.  Dallas usually naps from 9:30 - 11:30 (during "school time").  This morning was a bit challening.  Once he ate is poptart he wanted to be down moving around and was quite a distraction.  He finally got quiet and entertained himself with making a mess. 

See what I mean? He is cute even when doing something he isn't supposed to be doing. It is very hard to punish this cute little man.

Captured Moments

I thought I would post a couple videos I took of Dallas. He is growing so much and is just so adorable. Everything he does is cute...even if he isn't supposed to be doing it. When he wakes up from his nap Kristen and Lauren will go in his room and entertain him if I am trying to finish up what I am doing. They can usually really get him going. The first video is one I took when he first got up from his nap one day.

So, I definitely have to write an intro to the next video.  My sister got a fiddle for Christmas.  She learned to play Mary Had a Little Lamb in a day so she could play it for us.  When she started to play we all took out ear plugs and put in our ears.  We put these big headphones on Dallas and it was really quite funny.  Well, we didn't keep them in our ears, but forgot to take the headphones off of Dallas.  So, this video is very short, but Dallas looks super cute in his little headphones....so I just had to post it.  My sister is on her way to a successful fiddle career.

Merry (Belated) Christmas

One of my many New Year resolutions was to do a better job at blogging...and I have already failed. I cannot believe it is 13 days into January and almost 3 weeks after Christmas and I still haven't posted anything about our Christmas. My daily life has been a little crazy these past few weeks and I am hoping to get everyone back on a schedule come Monday.

Christmas for us was celebrated over two weeks. A couple weekends before Christmas we celebrated with Paul's dad and step-mom. The girls were very excited to travel to North Carolina. Surprisingly, presents weren't on the top of their list though. They just couldn't wait to play with all of the toys in the playroom. We had such a great time with a wonderful dinner and it definitely got us all in the Christmas spririt.

Grandaddy with all of his grandkids



This year Christmas brought with it sickness. Dallas was getting over double ear infections (he still has one) and both Paul and I were feeling under the weather. Well, that is an understatement. I felt horrible on Christmas Eve. I had a sore throat, cough, sinus drainage...all the icky stuff that comes with a cold. We didn't get to celebrate with my extended family, but we did go to Paul's mom and step-dad's house. We had another yummy meal and got to open some presents.

Since I was sick and Paul was starting to get sick, we didn't go to my extended family Christmas Eve get together. We ended up having a quiet Christmas Eve at home. It was really nice. The girls got these little stuffed animals from Paul's mom that they were able to stuff and sew themselves. They were so excited to do them, so we came home and got in our pjs and let them put together their stuffed animals.

After the girls stuffed their animals, we ate our Christmas Eve dinner of hamburger helper and then watched the Polar Express (great movie). Before bed we opened the presents under the tree and let the kids play with their toys. Dallas loved Lauren's toys (he has a HUGE crush on Dora) and Lauren loved Dallas' toys.

Who knew a game where Doggie Doos could make a little girls so happy. This is what Kristen really wanted.

Lauren loves her some Dora..and so does Dallas. He wanted to look at her Dora stuff instead of opening his toys.

Dallas had no interest whatsoever in his toys. He just wanted to try to climb on them.


We then had to set out the cookies and key for Santa and the reindeer food and dust for the reindeer.

Then Santa came....

Our last holiday get together was a few days after Christmas. We celebrated with my mom and dad and sister and brother-in-law (plus my cousin and uncle were there too making it extra special). I was actually feeling better...Paul was feeling okay and Lauren was starting to not feel good at all. We were just passing our sickness around at this point. We had another wonderful meal and it was a great Christmas spent in our new home.