Saturday, December 18, 2010

A Lone Star Christmas!


Gramma and Grandad surprised us with an early Christmas present...a night at the Gaylord Texan resort! We were so excited to go check out all the beautiful decorations and to see the Charlie Brown ICE exhibit.

But first, we decided to visit Santa. It's hard to squeeze 3 kiddos on his lap!


Then we headed over to the ICE exhibit. We bundled up in hats, gloves and parkas before we even went in. It's 9 degrees in there, so we wanted to be prepared for the cold!


They provide special parkas to put on over your own, too. Here are the boys all ready for the cold! Luke looked a bit like the Stay-Puft marshmallow man. :)


The theme this year is Charlie Brown, so we got to see the whole Peanuts gang carved out of ice!


Lukey was very upset that Charlie Brown was so sad. Look how tiny he looks!


And of course, the boys' favorite part was the ice slides. All 3 boys went up and down a couple of times before we just got too cold and had to get out of there!


We wandered around a bit more last night and enjoyed all the beautiful lights and decorations!


This morning, we explored a bit more! We saw some amazing toy trains and gingerbread houses, along with a few festive reindeer.


Then we had a really nice buffet breakfast. Luke loved it....I think he took at least one of every single item offered.


The Gaylord is such a beautiful place, and we really enjoyed our stay! What a great start to our winter break. Bring on Christmas!

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Cody's Letter


Our Elf on the Shelf is named Buddy. He first started visiting us last year right around Thanksgiving. He observes the boys' behavior every day and reports back to Santa at night. Then he hides in a new spot in our house each morning to watch the day's events unfold.

Cody had a very important question to ask Buddy, so he wrote him a letter. ALL. BY. HIMSELF. He sounded out the words on his own, and I didn't help him one little bit. Didn't he do an awesome job?

I bet Buddy is really going to love that letter.

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Santa Boys


I know, I know, I'm terribly behind on blogging! I haven't even done an entry for Cody's birthday, and here it is December already. Ack!!! I'll get there, I promise.

But first I had to share the pictures I took today.

Remember this one from our Christmas card last year?


And there was this one I took 2 years ago:


I just love these, and I thought it would be fun to take new ones every December and see how much the boys have changed each year.

We ended up at the Frisco Heritage Museum this afternoon, and we had a great time!


All Cody wants for Christmas...


...is his two front teeth! :)


The boys got SO tired of me taking pictures that they decided to take matters into their own hands...


Cutest. Santas. Ever!!!