Isaac's Birthday!

Yesterday was the big SIX for Isaac! I can hardly believe I have a kid so OLD! We had a fun two day celebration. On Friday, I took brownies and icecream to Isaac's class, then we had his cake that night with all of our friends. I found this cake on Family Fun's website and I thought it turned out soooo cool! Isaac loved it!



(She's so cute, I just had to toss her in!)

With candles on both sides, it was kind of tricky to blow them out, but Isaac handled it like a champ!

On his actual birthday, we went to the train museum, McDonald's, and then ended the fun and games at Inflatable Funland! He got to take a friend, and he and Gracie never stopped running. Thanks to my mother-in-law who came to save me! She figured I might like a little company and with three turbo kids it was nice to have an extra adult to keep an eye on them. Especially since I couldn't resist for long and was racing and jumping right along with the kids!

Carter is almost impossible to take a picture of these days. I worked hard to get this one!

We ended the night with dinner with my in-laws and a little more cake and icecream. Isaac said "he had the BEST day ever!" I'm glad he had such a great birthday!

Someday...

So maybe she's not quite ready for piggy tails yet, but we're getting there!

Happy Birthday Eric!

Eric turned 29 on January 2nd and boy is he sweatin' it being so close to 30! He's one of those who never believes HE can get old! He was gone all day, so we didn't get to celebrate too much, but the kids made sure we decorated the house so it was all ready for him when he got home and his parents came and treated us to BBQ. It was great! I seemed to have a little trouble with his bday cake, so H.E.B. was so kind to come through for me! We got him a NERF gun and it has been his most useful present yet. The kids make great target practice as they streak through the room. I think I'm more grateful for January 2, 1979 than anyone else. If he'd never been born, how would I have found such a WONDERFUL husband?

Christmas!

Here's a quick recap of our Christmas vacation for you.

We drove to AZ this year and it was more than worth the trip. We had a WONDERFUL time! Here are some of the highlights -

- Being spoiled by Grandma

- Tractor rides with Grandpa

- Grandpa and Daddy taking the boys to the mountain to play in the SNOW! They got to build their first snowman.

- Santa making a personal appearance at Grandma and Grandpa's Christmas Eve. BIG highlight!

- Enjoying Christmas morning.

- Spending extra time with my brothers and sisters-in-law.
- Seeing friends I hadn't seen in awhile.

- Cody taking Eric and I out to shoot his automatic gun.

- Eric and the boys checking out the cool helicopter that Uncle Mike flies in.

- Playing with cousins

- Hanging out with my sisters
- Bringing home Cindy's Explorer. Hooray for air conditioning!
- Ashlyn's fever FINALLY breaking the day AFTER we left! She really is a happy baby! :)

Thank you so much Dad and Cindy and Kimberly for all of the good eats and pampering! I hope everyone had as great of a Christmas as we did!

Christmas at Nana and Papa's

Before we took off to AZ we had Christmas, Nana and Papa style. They sure do know how to spoil us!

The boys got brand new scooters. Hooray!


Ashlyn loved the pretty packages...

...and what was inside of them, too.

Fun! Fun!

Even Daddy gets excited!

Uncle Mickey came through, making sure Ashlyn got her first Teddy Bear, and what a bear it was!

What a great day!

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