Christmas Catch-up

Whew! It's hard to believe that Christmas flew by so fast! We had an awesome and busy Christmas week. There's tons more to post, but here are some of the highlights from Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

The week leading up to Christmas we were in Dallas with Jill's side of the family. On Christmas Eve before going to bed, we had to make sure that we put out cookies and milk for Santa. The plate and glass both were empty in the morning, so Santa must have thought that it was pretty good!

Ethan woke up nice and early and couldn't wait to see what Santa brought him. Sure enough, Santa read Ethan's list very well - he got a new tool bench (with power tools), some cars, a big football, and a big football tee!

Poppy got a new power too, too and showed Ethan how to use it:

Ethan also knew just what the safety goggles were for. If you're going to work with the tools, don't forget safety, Uncle Alex!

Oh, and Santa must have gotten my letter because we had a white Christmas! On Christmas Eve we got some good little flurries that dropped an inch or two of the white stuff so it was gorgeous when we woke up.

It wasn't long until Ethan wanted out in the snow. The only problem was that we didn't bring any snow gear. So we put E in some fleece lined pants, put him in his jacket, and CC got some little gloves for him. Uncle Alex showed Ethan how to make snowballs and he was soon pelting anyone within range!

Later in the afternoon we packed everything up and headed down to Waco to spend the rest of Christmas with my side of the fam. Grandma, Grandpa, and uncles Kevin and Keith showed incredible self restraint to wait for us to get there to open presents.

Here, Ethan got some great stuff to play with outside. Ethan got a baseball helmet that he wore about half the weekend...

...and some walkie-talkies and a little lantern!

We took it pretty easy at Uncle Kevin's house. Keith and Ethan snuggled on the couch to watch TV more than once...

But we were a bit silly when Ethan got into Uncle Kevin's mini-dart gun....

Like we said, it was a busy Christmas! We still have tons more pics to show, so stay tuned!!