Christmas Pictures

This is all for now, I can't get anymore to load for some reason! I *think* I'm almost finished... haha =)


Austin opening Buzz! Yeah! He's been wanting it!

More presents!!=)

She loooooved the ribbon!



Cutting the turkey

Lots of cute clothes for Christmas!!

And amazing toys!!
Cute lil cowboy!

Mama and Sydney on her first Christmas!

Put 'em up!!

Daddy and Sydney on her first Christmas!!

Great Grandpa and Austin having a cap gun fight =)

Isabel and Jen with Jen and Nic's new puppy Deuce

My handsome man =)

Their new puppy, Deuce

Three beautiful women

Unc with Austin... they love each other so much

A true cowboy!

First Christmas jammies!!!

Her other Auntie Jenn!

A-D-O-R-A-B-L-E!!!

Brothers

Cutest outfit EVER!

Uncle Jeremy and Sydney

Grandma Dee and Grandpa Rick with Sydney

Sydney opening a gift from Auntie Louana and Uncle Mike

Cousin Jennifer... she's a baby whisperer! Sydney fell right to sleep in her arms, and she never does that anymore!!

Grandma Dee reading to Austin

Auntie Jenn and Austin playing a Cars game!

Aunt Beth... Sydney's look cracks me up

Aunt Beth reading to Austin... he sucks everyone in!

She's chewing on celery! Helpin those teeth come in

Opening presents

A stuffed dinosaur

Yummy wrapping paper!

Her first piggy bank! Came with money already inside(from mommy and daddy, not the store.. I WISH! haha)

Austin and daddy readin

Us and the kids in their Christmas jammies

Austin torturing Nana while her neck was out =(

Papa and Austin reading

Looking for Santa the night before Christmas

Setting out PB balls for Santa

He was super proud! (He put the milk on the other side of the fireplace...haha)

Santa ate the PB balls, and even dropped a present! cool!!!

The present that Santa dropped

WOW! Clothes!

Yes! COUGS!

Molly the Train! He hugged it to himself after he opened it, he was so excited

Hanging his ornament on the tree

Cool Spiderman hat!!!

Grandma GG getting big morning smiles from Sydney

She was pretty interested, I was shocked!!

Austin helping his sissy open her presents

Austin and Grandma GG playing puzzles

Sydney's first Christmas!!!!

Sydney looking all cute=)

Papa with Sydney

Papa with his Grandbabies

Getting ready to play with the V Motion that Gramps and Grammie Hines got him... He LOVES it!!!

Grandma GG with Sydney

Great Grandma and Great Grandpa with a few of their Grandchildren

Daddy playing with Austin's toys =)

Nana getting Sydney's feet

In his new cowboy hat... he loves it.

Yummy, Monster truck wheels!

Riding on his scooter from Unc and Auntie!

Aw, I love this picture... she loves her Unc.

Great Grandma and Grandpa with the kids

Unc and Austin

Nana and Sydney

Unc and Auntie with Austin and Sydney

Papa and Sydney

Mama and Austin at Papa's game.

Austin got to sit on the bench with Papa!

Me and my beautiful Mama

Nana with her grandbrats

Papa and Sydney

Unc, Auntie and Sydney

What a whirlwind!... 10 for Tuesday

So I get that I haven't updated in quite awhile, and I am sorry! I'll try not to be so long winded, but I'm certainly not promising. I'm not good at shortening any story! =) Maybe I will try by doing my 10 for Tuesday blog in this one, and I can hit more points in a shorter way... hmm... good idea, Kami. Here goes:

1. We got to spend 12 days in Washington for Christmas. It was nice to be home, however felt so chopped up with everything we were doing, and seems that there's always someone we cannot please. I hate that feeling!
2. I threw my back out again while home. We were 5 days into our trip, so the last half was a little miserable for me.
3. This was Sydney's first Christmas.... so it was a very special time for us!
4. I took over 700 pictures in the 12 days that we were home. WOW. I will load pictures onto a separate blog... and I am really honestly not looking forward to it! It takes forever!!! haha =)
5. My Christmas decorations are still up. I'm procrastinating. Maybe if I procrastinate long enough, I won't have to put any up next year.... hahahah. Bryant is a Grinch though, he won't let it go much longer, I'm sure.
6. Sydney got her ears pierced the day before we left for Washington. I wanted to do it before she found her ears and started grabbing and pulling at them... she looks adorable.
7. I am out of white chocolate powder for my lattes. I usually buy the 10 pound box from Cash N Carry in Boise, but I ran out... so I have to drink regular coffee with creamer. It isn't hitting the spot the past couple days. =(
8. We had a good New Years. We had friends over and played games and watched a couple shows. I got a Big Top Cupcake maker for Christmas and used it on New Years to make a Strawberry cupcake... it was so good. We cut it up and chowed down =)
9. Austin is still telling us what he wants for Christmas. I don't think he understands yet that Christmas only comes once a year. Everything that he sees that he likes he says "I want that for Christmas!" Sorry buddy, it's still a year away!
10. We found our puppy. We weren't planning on getting one for Austin until the Spring, just so it would be warmer while potty training, walking, etc. We've been doing a lot of research on the type we wanted, and thought that a Beagle would be a good fit. When we got home from vacation, I saw an add online for Beagles at a steal of a price. We couldn't pass up the offer, and actually ended up getting the pup for 1/4 of what the guy was asking for. Amazing! So we got a 10 week old Beagle puppy, whom Austin named Petey. (He said he wanted to name him Sam, after his friend Sam, but we said no, so Petey it is!)

Well, now that we're back home, I will be blogging more often again. I'll work on getting those pictures uploaded, maybe only a few at a time, but I'll get working on that! Hope this finds you all well!!

xoxo

k.