Another Year Gone By

Another year has come and gone.  Today is New Year's Eve, the last day of 2009.  It has been a great year.  Our family has been very blessed this year. 

*Blake is 14 and a freshman in high school.  He loves football, basketball, baseball, and track.

*Cordell is 7 and a second grader.  He loves to hunt and fish.  He also enjoys playing baseball, basketball, and soccer.

*Ayden is 4.  He is mischevious and always into something, but he is also a bundle of fun.  He is so full of personality.  He loves any type of sports, playing outside, and riding his bike.

*Sutton is 8 weeks old.  He was a precious addition to our family this year.  He is a very good baby.  He loves to eat, sleep, and watch his bears mobile or a ceiling fan.

Santa Came!

The boys all got bikes for Christmas this year from Santa.  It is 2:00 now, and Ayden has hardly been off of his all day.  It is still very cold and wet outside from yesterday's snow.  It is beginning to melt, but not enough yet to get outside with the bikes.  Cordell rode his around the house a little bit too, but his and Blake's are just a little bit big for indoors.  We are looking forward to this summer at the lake house when we can all go bike riding.  We will have to get a carrier for Sutton.  Cordell and Ayden got bristle blocks, a bug game, DS games (Mario and Zelda), camouflauge shirts, bug bracelets, an alarm clock, an ant farm, and Webkinz (Cordell's is a moose, Ayden's is a puppy).  They also got lots of candy, gloves, underwear, socks, and flashlights in their stockings.  Ayden loves the gloves!  Blake got a new phone that he had been anxiously awaiting since his got run over back during the summer and a Wii fishing game.  He also got underwear, socks, a flashlight, and lots of candy.  Sutton got a lights, motion, and music soother to go on his crib, a mirror that plays music and fits in the car, linking rings, some new clothes (one camouflage), bottles, pacifiers, and a couple of soft books.  We had a great Christmas!

Sutton's conclusion after his first Christmas is, "Christmas is just exhausting!"

Christmas Eve

It's Christmas Eve, and it is a tradition to read The Night Before Christmas at our house.  Usually Blake reads it to the little boys, but he is gone to Randall and Kate's tonight for another Christmas.  He will be back too late for the boys to wait up.  They wanted to go to bed at 6:00, because they were worried that Santa would not stop.  Maybe Santa should come more often!  Anyways, Cordell took over the task and read the book to his 2 little brothers this year.  He has gotten to be such a good reader. 

Only one more sleep till Christmas!!!

Baby It's Cold Outside!

Yesterday it was 74 degrees.  Today it is 26 degrees.  Only in Texas, will you see weather like this.  I dressed Sutton in his warm clothes, so he could go out for just a minute.  This is his very first snow!  It had just begun to snow then, but it was a cold and windy blowing snow.

 

            Ayden tasting snow                              Blake

By this time, there was getting to be a lot more snow.

SNOWBALLS!

After a while, the boys came in.  I told them to stay in for a while.  They were getting way too cold.  Ayden was so worried that they were going to miss the fun.  He told me that he prayed to God that the snow would not melt before his momma let him go back outside.  Too sweet!

JoAnn, Wayland, and Thomas came by for a while.  Thomas helped the boys build a small snowman.  They were so excited!  His first hat blew away.  Ayden chased it down once, but the next time it was uncatchable.  The wind caught it and blew it through the fence, across the pasture, and out to the road.  Baby it is cold outside!!  That wind and the dampness were just too much.  I had 2 little cold snowboys when they got back in the house.

                   Frosty                                 Warm Up Time!

Ayden said he needed hot chocolate because it was so very very cold outside.  He needed something very very warm inside.

Santa Baby!

This is my little Santa Baby!

Licked With Love!

Each and every one of our Christmas cards were licked and sealed with love by Ayden this year!!

Granny's Christmas

We had Granny's Christmas this year at my house.  Everybody had a great time.  There was lots and lots of food, many games of pool and basketball, and baby holding going on!

Blake & Thomas thought they would be funny.  They did not want their picture taken.  We took it anyways! LOL!

Ayden's Christmas at MeeMaw's

                                                                     Best Buddies - Ayden & Grant

Second Grade Christmas Party

Cordell and Jeron

Cordell, Gracie, & Makenna

Growind Like a Weed

Sutton is now 6 weeks old.  Time has just flown.  He is such a good sweet baby.  I took him to the clinic and weighed him.  He already weighs 12 & 1/2 pounds. He is changing and growing every day!

Cooking Up Christmas

Chef Cordell & Chef Ayden

The boys were in the Christmas program at East Side Baptist Church.  It was very cute.  Cordell really got into it.  He was really singing and moving.  Ayden just stood there and stirred his bowl, occasionally singing along.  Then when we got in the car, Ayden sang for us!

Have You Seen Santa?

Cordell decided to go hunting instead of talk to Santa.  He thought a letter would be sufficient.  Sutton slept through the whole thing.  So, I guess the only one who actually saw Santa was Ayden. 

After our Santa visit, Ayden rode on David Woolam's pony drawn wagon.  Then we watched the parade and drove around to look at Christmas lights.  It was a fun night!