Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

What a fun filled Christmas with our little June Bug!

This was the white Christmas we all dream about! It was a snowy blizzard and Daddy was getting our car ready so we could head to church for the Christmas Eve service.

Look at this snow...unreal and freezing cold!!! Probably not the best idea to mingle in the snow with strept throat but we at least had to get a picture and take in the beauty!

Classic Sibling Picture...
All the boys and their little darling!

After several birthday celebrations last week and the Christmas present excitement that keeps on going, June Bug definitely has the present opening thing down by now! Every gift is accompanied by "happy to you!!!" She said the Christmas prayer before dinner and it was so cute with her little eyes closed as tight as they can go and her hands squeezed together. As mamaw said, it will long be a sight I wont forget..I love that image frozen in my memory of her! She was holding a candy cane and she said "God our Father, God our Father thank you for a blessing, and a candy cane, amen!

This was an actual photograph of Darrell K Royal stadium that I gave Grandaddy for Christmas! He was so funny with his magnifying glass trying to see if you could see our crew at the game in our seats! He actually had Gran's vanity mirror out looking!

Sugar always makes up a funny poem that goes along with the gifts to these two! Everybody was in tears this year after hearing her Tiger Woods...hilarious and so entertaining!
Mamaw always finds her spot on this little couch with Maxi!
Oh yippee a "Bebo" Longhorn "hook en horns" bike from Gran and Grandady!




Hayden really wanted a red rider bb gun from the movie The Christmas Story! Instead Holden surprised him with this little suit from the movie! We LOVED it!

Daddy's little helper with the tools! This was her new kitchen! She loves to pretend cook

Santa was very good to June Bug this year! Im sure its because been nice and not naughty! I think the theme was pink, pink, pink and baby dolls! Her favorite is her new pink corvette which she wants to drive to school and she mostly enjoys playing the music!

June Bug giving her American Girl Doll twins a ride!

Checking out Gran's fountain on the deck that was frozen from the ice! Daddy helped her crush icicles and lick them too! Christmas day was so much fun! We all sat around and watched June Bug play with all of her toys for hours on end. She really got into it this year and definitely knew what was going on! We had Grandaddy's delicious Christmas breakfast, played fun games with all of the cousins and then went to the movies!

She loves to wear her "hoodie" so she was sporting around in her pink mustang and pink juicy!
Trying out the baby doll crib for herself!

Enjoying some spiced tea with all of the uncles in town for Christmas!

Pops loves his singing Buck and laughs out loud for a long time!
We always manage to find a way to pull out the camo with these three!
Lots more celebrating and gift opening!!

We always end Christmas with a special night with Mamaw and opening gifts at Sugar and Papa's house. Maxi and I laugh because we pull out our oldest pj's (usually some tca shirt or scary old college shirt or in Nellie's case hes even been known to wear my pj pants ;)) and we lounge around with pizza and a fire. Its always so much fun and one of my favorite times of the year! Sugar's house is always decorated so incredibly and its so warm and cozy! Its like a winter wonderland! June Bug loves all of the lights and the singing figurines and was especially inot the tree which has lots of singing ornaments! There is a cute little toy train and carnival scene under the tree that she stares at for hours! Mamaw always stays for a few days after Christmas and we get to enjoy her famous cream of wheat and eggs, and watch the cowboy game at night with her and we just love having that time with her.

Giving mommy's old baby doll a back rub! She loves this doll in particular and seems to like her dolls with no clothes on as outfit of choice! She gets out the diapers, wipes and lotion and takes good care of them!

wait...daddy wants one too! This runs in the family!
Mamaw is always so sweet to give Nellie A&M stuff!

Mamaw loves to help her little angel...dress and undress the babies over and over again!

Daddy gets to join the Iphone world!

Matching crocs for the boys!
Mom gave me the prettiest Lladro pieces and Maxi went on a piece too! It was one of my favorite gifts this year!

One of the fun things we did over Christmas was load up in the car with Gran and head to Nevada where she and Grandaddy grew up..they were born just houses apart! I loved hearing all of Gran's stories which are quite entertaining and we had such a good time driving through the small towns and reliving the memories of her childhood! I can remember when we used to have Christmas out at her parent's house and I always loved going to see Flossie. I always get that same feeling when I drive into her neighborhood..just filled with good memories!

Pretty much the best spot in the whole house and eating ice cream straight from the carton...life doesnt get much better than this!

We all went to see the Ice at the Gaylord with the Campbells (yeah for Brodie, Tristan and Savannah), CiCi, Sugar, JoDo, Emmy and even Daddy, Papa and Maxi took the day off of work! All the kids looked so funny waddling around in these huge parkas!

June Bug did the ice slide all by herself! It was so cute...at first she went really slowly and then she picked up some speed and zipped down! Prego mommy followed not too far behind!
The ice was amazing this year and the theme was the Grinch! It was freezing cold and June Bug looked like a little eskimo who couldnt move!

The Brady Bunch Wreath!

These two liked the shopping Bevo! June Bug just loves Jo Do and Emmy and always wants them to hold her (even though shes half their size..Jo Do toted her all around to look at the decorations and fountains! Of course her favorite was the goldfish pond which she just stared at forever!

Taking in the sights and Christmas decor at the Gaylord Texan!
New Year's Eve was such a special night! Actually the whole day was really special! We had a date marathon (thanks to Sugar and Papa who rung in the new year with Bug at Bonnie Ruths)! We had a fun Bubba's dinner and a movie night snuggled on the couch with candy the night before! Then we spent the New Year's day taking down some of the Christmas decorations so we can start focusing on the nursery and Kennedy's big girl room! We ended the afternoon with some shopping at Nordstrom and then got our fancy clothes on for a romantic evening at Ocean Prime! The food was delicious and the company was even better...we even got to see Maxi, Hayden and Sarah for a drink beforehand! I opted for grapefruit juice, salt and olives! YUM!