Christmas with our Families

I had quite the scare today!

Someone {ahem, Noah!} dropped one of my memory

cards in a cup of Dr. Pepper sitting on our computer desk.

Josh told me to put it in some rice, so I ran to the kitchen,

threw open the pantry door and grabbed myself a bag of rice.

My little memory card is currently buried in a cup of rice, so I

am hoping and praying it's not ruined. That would be so sad.

Apparently the rice pulls all the fluid out of the card??

We shall see.

Anyway, I learned my lesson!

I'll never leave my memory card in reach of little hands ever again.

I was worried at first because I thought all of our Christmas pictures

were on that card, but thankfully they were on another one.

After we had our little Christmas, we drove to Oklahoma to

celebrate with my side of the family. We were only there a little

over 24 hours, so it was a very short trip, but the time we spent

together was so wonderful! I loved every minute of it.

Here are some of my favorite pictures of our

time together. You should have seen my parents' living

room. It was covered in wrapping paper! Ha.

I love this picture of my dad. Definitely the parent

my brother gets his funny expressions from.

The cutest twins I know.

Noah opening a present! Let me guess... something Toy Story?

Seriously, you should see our apartment.

Toy Story all over! :)

Noah got the coolest Buzz Light year from Granddad and Mimi.

Buzz says like sixty different phrases, has lasers, pop-up wings,

a moving head... you name it, he does it. All the guys

kept saying, "Why didn't we have cool toys

like that when we were growing up?!"

Noah waiting patiently as Daddy tries to get Buzz out of the box.

Noah showing Megan and Delilah how Buzz works.

My Mom surprised my Dad and got him some cowboy boots.

He was really excited about them.

And my Dad got my Mom a new flat screen T.V. for

her sewing room! Now she is set, and there is no reason

she can't get going with a sewing business {right Mom?}.

Guess what else Noah got? A potty!

I love the picture of him eating his cookie on the pot. Haha.

Bibi and Abby-- happy little newlyweds.

Oh goodness, here we go.

To make a long story short, my Mom and Josh have

an ongoing war each Christmas where they buy each

other something ugly. For the first year or two, they

bought each other the ugliest ornaments they could find.

But this year, they changed it up a little and Josh bought my

Mom this ugly "make your nose hairs curl" type of candle.

And my Mom found this beauty for Josh:

Can you guess where the shirt ended up?

Before we left for Amarillo, Josh had me distract my Mom

while he laid it down in Samson & Delilah's cage.

I love seeing what those two come up with every year. :)

Such a sleepy little guy.

It was a quick trip, but a wonderful one!

After we spent some time in Oklahoma with my

family, we drove to Amarillo to see Josh's side of the family.

We had an easy four hour trip to Amarillo and arrived late Sunday

evening. Papa and Grammy met us at the door and we all stayed

up a few hours talking and catching up. It was so good to see them!

The next morning we had breakfast and opened up gifts.

One of my favorite gifts that Grammy got Noah was a Toy Story

book recorded with her voice. Noah loved it! And he still

smiles each time we open it up and read it. What a special gift!

I loved how Noah tore off the wrapping

paper-- he knew what he was doing!

What is it??

Woody!!!

And boy does he love Woody.

He also says a bunch of different phrases from the movie

when you pull the string on his back. But Noah's favorite

thing about Woody is putting the hat on his head.

Thank you Grammy and Papa!

I guess Papa was surprised! Love this picture!

Noah playing the tickle game with Daddy.

He looooves to be tickled.

We were so glad Nanny and Pa {Josh's grandparents}, Joseph and

his girlfriend, Ashley, and Quentin were able to come over to see us.

Grammy cooked out steaks, and we all had lunch; it was so nice

to catch up with everyone and spend the afternoon together.

Family picture!

We also went to visit my grandmother Gigi

while we were in town. We sure miss her!

And we had the chance to see Josh's Aunt Kim for

a little bit one afternoon. It was great seeing her too!

I'm kicking myself because I didn't have my camera with me!

Sweet, sweet picture of Noah and his Grammy.

They sure have fun together.

What a blessing to be able to spend Christmas

with both of our families! We love you all!