Jayda's 2nd Christmas!

We had a wonderful Christmas this year and enjoyed getting to see all of our family and friends. We were gone for 10 days and had a great time. Momma took a ton of pictures, so I'll let them speak for themselves. Thank you everyone who gave us presents, we really appreciate everything and can't wait to see you all soon!

These pictures were taken the night before we left to go out of town. We turned on Christmas music and she danced around the Christmas tree in her pretty dress.

Dancing around in her Christmas dress.


She wanted to open her present so bad!


On Saturday we had a Christmas party at my Aunt Cheryl's house with all of my aunts/uncles/cousins. Jayda had a blast playing with her cousins Molly and Cecilia. They all loved playing with the mini water bottles, so cute!

Trying to get a cute picture in the sleigh, but Jayda didn't want to cooperate.


Jayda playing with cousin Molly, or "Mo" as Jayda liked to call her.


Jayda playing with her other cousin Cecilia.


Jayda giving Molly a kiss.


On Sunday we had a Christmas party at Jacob's parents house with his brothers and their wives/girlfriends and their families. Again Jayda had a great time playing with her cousins Cole and Caitlyn.

Jayda was excited about playing with the big girls!


The girls, how cute!


All 3 of us.


Justin and Lourdes.


Klint and Brandy.


Kyle, Karen, Cole & Caitlyn


Jayda opening her purple outfit!


She loved her pink outfit too!


She was getting tired after such a big day, pants off and paci in.


On Christmas day Jayda woke up and opened all of her presents from Santa. She was soooo excited about everything she got. We ate a wonderful lunch with my parents, then headed off to Oklahoma that afternoon with Jacob's parents.

Jayda right after she woke up on Christmas morning.


Jayda still in a daze on Christmas morning.


Jayda after waking up a bit on Christmas morning, she loved her gingerbread cookie!


Jayda loved her new Elmo cd player.


We arrived in Oklahoma around 8:00 p.m. and then had another Christmas with Jacob's grandparents, aunt, uncle, and cousins. We had a great Christmas dinner then opened more presents. Jayda couldn't get enough of her cousins. She called them : "B" - Brady, "Mo"-Morgan and "Wy"-Wyatt.

Jayda opening presents with Brady on Christmas night in Oklahoma.

Some Christmas Pics!

Well I just wanted to put up some cute Christmas pictures of miss Jayda recently. The other day she sat down in front of the Christmas tree and just started cheesing really big. It was so cute! I think she's trying to show me what a good girl she is so that Santa will bring her a lot of presents! Last night we made our first gingerbread house together. Of course she kept trying to eat all of the candy and even took a bite out of the side of the house! Thank goodness daddy was there to help control the little monkey while mommy put the icing on the house. I think we're going to go on a hayride tonight to look at Christmas lights!

Cheesing for the camera, silly girl!


Mommy and Jayda with our finished product!


Jayda's first gingerbread house. A bit messy, but fun nontheless!


This is what happens when Jayda feeds herself yogurt, because of course mommy can not feed her!

It's beginning to look a lot like ChRiStmAs!

Well, I am definitely feeling like it is officially Christmas time. This weekend Jacob put the Christmas lights on the house (big thanks to our neighbor Scott for all the help!) and Jayda and I decorated the Christmas tree and put up all the Christmas decorations in the house. We had so much fun putting everything up and listening to Christmas music. Jayda loved putting the decorations on the tree, especially the gold beads. Every time she sees the Christmas tree all lit up she says, "ohhhhhh". She loves Christmas lights too. Our neighborhood decorates really well so she gets to see lots of lights at night. It's so fun to be in a neighborhood that has so much Christmas spirit! After decorating all day saturday we made a trip to the galleria with our neighbors and their little girl and my mom. We had thought we may try ice skating, but there were so many people that had the same idea, so we decided just to get some dinner and watch the skaters. Jayda and her buddy Riley loved watching the skaters, I think it was mesmerising or something. On sunday we got dressed up and took some family pictures for our Christmas cards, but you'll have to wait to see the pics until you get your Christmas card! Hope everyone is having fun getting ready for Christmas!

Jayda helping mommy decorate the Christmas tree, how fun!


Jayda and Riley having a blast watching the ice skaters!


Jayda all dressed up for our attempt at family Christmas pics, but instead she wanted to play with the tree!

Video of Jayda on Thanksgiving!

This is what Jayda says when you ask her what the turkey says, so cute!!

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A Thanksgiving to Remember!

This year was the first year that we had Thanksgiving at our house. Now that we actually have room for everyone to come over, we decided we would go ahead and do it. It was a ton of work getting all the groceries/food/house/china etc. ready, but it was very well worth it! My parents, Jacob's parents, and Justin and Lourdes came over to enjoy the feast. We had a ton of food and everything turned out to be delicious! It went just the way I hoped the first Thanksgiving at our house would go! That evening we all went to the tennis courts and played tennis for a while. Even the grandparents joined in! They were all actually still pretty good! It was so nice spending quality time with our families, and it was so nice for it to all be at our house! The next morning all of us ladies headed out for the annual black friday crazy shopping. We left around 7:30 a.m. and returned at 5:00 p.m., so it wasn't as long as we sometimes go for, but it was still a blast! We all found some great deals and it really put me into the Christmas spirit.

I also put up some pictures below of Jayda at Riley's 1st birthday party the weekend before Thaksgiving and a picture of auntie Jo-jo's visit to see our casa a few days before Thanksgiving!

Jayda on Thanksgiving morning with her turkey head!


Our pretty Thanksgiving table setting. It was actually our first time to use our fine china, even though we've had it since we got married 4 years ago!!


Our lovely table decorations.


Jacob and his dad cutting up the turkey!


"TA-DAA!!!" The Thanksgiving feast is finally readay and the cooks are DONE!


Our Thanksgiving guests!


All of us playing tennis on Thanksgiving evening.


Jayda snuck into her Christmas presents and pulled out her new rain boots!


Jayda and Riley playing in the jumpoline at Riley's 1st b-day party.


Jayda trying to help Riley figure out how to work her new car.


Jayda and "Jo-jo" playin' in some big boots!