Christmas all around!!

What a wonderful Christmas weekend!!! We hope everyone had as good of a weekend as we did, full of joy and happy times with your families. We started our weekend out on Friday by having dinner with Josh's parents and then driving all over Lafayette to look at Christmas lights. It was so much fun. The grand finale was when we went to a house where you tune into a radio station and their entire house goes to the beat of the Christmas music. It was impressive to say the least! Very cool and it got us all in the spirit I think! Their neighbor even came out and his dog had twinkling lights around it's neck! We didn't get any pictures of the house, regrettably.

We always spend Christmas Eve with Shell and her family, and this year I decided that I was going to cook! Usually Josh would do the cooking, but he's been working and had to work on Christmas Eve, while I did not, so I decided to try to be a wife and cook. It actually turned out alright!!! I made a ham (and even basted it every 10 minutes!) and really good mashed potatoes that I then baked, and some green beans and corn and rolls. And we had wine and Shell got tipsy before we went to church! Anyway, we had a lovely time. Here are some pics of dinner...

Take a look at that ham! And that cute hubby of mine!

And then the guys cleaned up! Not particularly unusual to see Josh in there, but Danny on the other hand!...Then we headed off to church and it was a pretty good service. Josh actually really enjoyed it and he sang when we lit the candles and sang "Silent Night" at the end. He must've been getting in the Christmas spirit big time to have sung and it was really cute.

Here's a picture of our Christmas tree with the presents under it and our snowman on a sled...it seems that it might be the ONLY snowman we'll be seeing anytime soon....BOO!

We forgot to get a nice family pic in front of the tree.Adorable boys...He's trying to think about crawling!Cheese! Opening the broom vacuum that we got them...just Dan's style!Danny helping me open the bookshelves they got us! We love it!!Kowe in her sassy Santa's Little Helper shirt...Shell and her family (and Kowe)...Kowe unwrapping her presents...

We have tons and tons of pics from Christmas Day! It'll be another day or two before I have them downloaded and sorted through. Another post then!

Merry Christmas!!!

We want to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas!! We're really excited to get to spend some time with family and just relax. Josh has been working really hard and is in need of some good old R&R!! The holiday seemed to come so fast for us, we didn't even send out Christmas cards! But we are so thankful for the friends and family that we have and we want to wish you all the happiest, tastiest, and most fun-filled Christmas ever!! God Bless.

Happy Birthday Parker!

Our nephew Parker turned 1 this week!!! Here are some pictures from his birthday party on Saturday...

YUM Cake!!

Opening Presents

Climbing on the boxes

What little boy doesn't want his own tractor??!

He is the sweetest and cutest little thing. Happy Birthday Parker!!

Holiday Time...

We put up our Christmas tree a while back, but we just this weekend put the ornaments on and decorated the house. Here is one picture of the tree with the newly arranged living room, which we actually really like. We're going to take some more pics and we'll post them later. Notice Kowe in the sweatshirt that she has from last year. It's a size S and she is now a medium, so we were singing the fat dog in a little suit song to her. You can see how utterly enthused she is to be wearing the thing...
And I came upon this when going through some pictures and I had to post it. This is one year ago around Thanksgiving time. She's grown so much!! How adorable is she in her little bitty sweater trying to eat a piece of big dog food. She couldn't even chomp the whole thing!
She needs a brother!!