Christmas

For Christmas Eve Kaity and Andy came over with the kiddos along with the Abbott family. We ate pork tamales, chimichangas, beans and rice, and chips with homemade salsas. It was all homemade (except for the chips) and all DELICIOSO! As a family we have only spent the last few years at home for Christmas, and so we don't yet have any of our own holiday traditions. I decided that I loved this dinner so much that this is the beginning of a new tradition....as long as I am hosting Christmas at my house.
The children also opened new p.j.s, used our nativity hand puppets to act out the nativity, sang christmas carols by candle light, decorated cookies for Santa, and of course tracked him online all night long. We also had a random snowstorm on Christmas Eve which resulted in a white Christmas for us the next morning. It was so much fun! Growing up in Arizona (and even living in Texas now) I never would have thought I would ever have a white Christmas.
Also, somehow Aubree didn't make it into any of our pictures. She turned 3 months old on Christmas day and got a whopping 1 present under the tree as well!watching our new video ipods, laying in our new sleeping bags, inside Maci's new tent. Doesn't get much better.Our white Christmas. Not the best picture, but oh well. Our house looks so bare in front!

Birthday Boy

Bryce turned 3 years old and had his very first friends birthday party. We went all out.....okay, not really, but it still turned out great. If you know Bryce he is just like every other 3 year old boy and is obsessed with the movie Cars. So, of course that was the theme for his party. We went "tractor tipping", threw bean bags through a tire, played playdoh, and just played with toy cars. It was every little boys dream and Bryce couldn't have been happier!