As you can imagine, these past few weeks have been slightly crazy and busy around here. We have been going and doing lots of things and have hardly had a chance to catch our breath. We had a great Christmas and a fun New Years and as usual Mommy took a ton of pictures! So, there are lots and lots of pics in this post. Hope you enjoy the picture story!
A couple of weeks ago we had our wonderful neighbors, Scott, Michelle and Riley, over for a Christmas dinner and to exchange presents.
This was Jayda helping mommy make snowman cookies for the get together!
Jayda and Riley opening their Christmas presents, not sure what the bad face is all about!
The next day, on Friday the 18th, Justin graduated from the University of Houston! Yay Justin! We are so proud of him! The ceremony was nice and they had a reception for him at the Inn at the Ballpark afterwards.
Justin and Lourdes with Lourdes' little sister Grace and Jayda at Justin's graduation party.
Jayda and Grace at the party. Jayda loved Grace so much! They have both heard a lot about each other through Lourdes, but this was their first time to meet in person.
The next day on saturday, the 19th Mammaw, Papaw, Nanna and Pawpaw, and Justin and Lourdes all came over to our house to exchange Christmas presents with Mammaw and Papaw. Jayda had lots of fun helping everyone open up their presents! That same night we had Christmas with my mom's side of the family. We met for dinner at Papasitos then went to Aunt Cheryl's house for deserts and to open presents. Unfortunately I didn't take my camera so I don't have any pics from that night!
She was so excited about her hooded towel from Mammaw!
The next day on sunday, Dec. 20th we had Christmas with all of Jacob's brothers and their families at Nanna and Pawpaw's house. We had a delicious lunch, opened presents, played games, and had fun hanging out with everybody!
All of the kiddos playing Monopoly together.
The whole gang!
Jayda trying on one of her new sweaters. She loves trying on clothes all the time!!
On monday, Dec. 21st, myself, Kristi, and Jolene threw a baby shower for Andrea. She is due on March 4th with a little baby girl. We had the shower at the Farmhouse cafe in Huntsville and it turned out so nice. The food was great and Andrea got a lot of great baby gifts.
Me and Andrea at the shower.
The girls!
We stayed in Huntsville a couple more days until wednesday. On Christmas Eve we went out to do some Christmas shopping and went to Kroger to get stuff to make for our Mexican fiesta that night. We had a great day as a family and went to the candlelight Christmas Eve service at our church. After church we came home and had tamales, put out cookies and milk for Santa and carrots for the reindeer and wrote Santa a letter. Jayda was SO excited about Santa coming and bringing her presents so she didn't want to go to sleep that night. She finally fell asleep and slept until about 6:30 a.m. to find all her presents from Santa under the tree!
Our little family on Christmas Eve night before church.
Sweet girl all dressed up on Christmas Eve!
All bundled up for church.
Going to put out carrots for the reindeer.
SO excited for Santa to come!!!
Opening up her new Tinkerbell thermos from mommy and daddy.
Daddy helping Jayda write a letter to Santa.
Snatching a few bites of Santa's cookies that she put out on Christmas Eve.
Digging into all of her presents from Santa on Christmas morning! She was super excited about everything! She came out of her room that morning looking for Santa because I guess she thought he would still be at her house. She seemed a little scared and unsure, but we told her he had to go to everyone else's house and that he wasn't here anymore. She was very curious to see if he'd eaten his cookies and drank his milk. Of course Santa had so she was very happy about that. Once she got everyhing figured out about Santa she started digging into her presents.
Getting on her new bike for the first time!
On Christmas morning Jayda played with all of her new presents and I made a yummy breakfast for us. We had a great morning then headed up to Huntsville to see the grandparents.
Jayda and daddy swinging at the park on Christmas Day.
Riding her new bike around the park. She loves it! She especially loves to go really fast down a hill then pick her feet up and go as fast as she can. Needless to say, daddy has to run along side of her so that she doesn't crash every 5 seconds! She is one fearless little lady!
Christmas afternoon we enjoyed a delicious Christmas lunch with Oma and Oupa. After lunch we had fun exchanging presents.
Oma and Oupa with miss Jayda!
Our fam on Christmas day at Oma and Oupa's.
Jayda showing Oma and Oupa the photobook we made for them.
Christmas night we went over to Nanna and Pawpaw's house to have a Christmas dinner and open presents. Nanna made a yummy mexican dinner for everyone and afterwards we exchanged presents!
Lourdes helping miss Jayda open up a new pair of shoes!
Jayda wearing one of her new Tinkerbell dress up outfits and bouncing on her new ball!
Chirstmas was very busy, but very fun! We had a great time seeing all of our family and it just makes us realize how very blessed we are to have such amazing families and friends! Thanks to everyone that gave us Christmas presents! We appreciate and love you all!
This past week we were home most of the week which was nice to somewhat get back into a routine. On wednesday evening Nanna and Pawpaw came to stay with us and help get Sydney's nursery ready. We moved her crib into her room and most everything set up. It is looking so cute and I will be putting up pictures soon! On thursday morning, New Years Eve, we took Jayda to see the movie Princess and the Frog. Scott and Riley also came with us. It was both of the girls first movie experience. They did really well for the first 30-45 minutes then it got a little rough. They seemed to have a lot of fun though and loved chowing down on the big bag of popcorn daddy got for them! That night we went over to Scott and Michelle's house for dinner and to hang out for New Years. Scott grilled up some delicious steaks for us and Michelle made some awesome baked potatoes! The girls played a new game called Elefun and then we did fireworks and had cupcakes that night. It was fun to stay home and hang out with our buddies!
Jayda and Riley enjoying their popcorn at the movies.
The two girls standing outside of the theatre.
Jayda and Riley playing Elefun!
The girls eating cupcakes while watching Scott shoot off fireworks in our driveway.
Yummmmmyyyyy cupcake!
Jayda doing sparklers! She loved doing them, of course being the dare devil that she is, and wanted another one and another one...
The girls and daddys doing sparklers.
On New Years Day we went to huntsville to have a New Years lunch at Nanna and Pawpaw's house. On the way there this is what we turned around to find...
Jayda riding on the tractor with Daddy and Pawpaw on New Years.
Yesterday, Jan. 2nd was Nanna's birthday! We met Nanna and Pawpaw and Justin and Lourdes for a birthday dinner and P.F. Changs in the Woodlands and hung out at Barnes and Noble afterward so that Nanna could pick out a birthday present!
Nanna and Jayda drinking hot chocolate and Barnes and Noble.
Daddy and Justin with Jayda at dinner.
Jayda and Nanna riding the carosel at the mall!
And because the carosel token machine was broken they were giving out free rides. So, she had to do it one more time with daddy and Nanna!
Well, I think you are all caught up on our adventures lately! We should be home for the next month hanging out and getting all ready for miss Sydney!
