Merry Christmas

There are many more Christmas pics to come, but I wanted to go ahead and post this one. . . its a message from Austin and our family. . . Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

My Early Christmas Present

For Christmas, Ricky got me a Nikon D80 camera. I was so excited and BEGGED him to let me use it before Christmas. Being the sweet, loving husband he is, he agreed.

It has been ages since we've had a proper family picture taken so we went out with the Soben's to take pictures with my NEW camera. It was so much fun! (Well, it was fun for Holly and me. . .the boys would probably disagree!)

Our good friends Wes and Holly with Davis and London.

The boys had so much fun riding down the street.

Even Ricky joined in!

We MAY have kept the kids out a little too long. . . I think London spoke for all the kids that it was time to go!

Davis and London

Davis and London got to come over and play tonight! Davis and Austin had so much fun playing with Lincoln Logs and putting the train tracks together while London had fun trying to knock everything down!

Austin, Davis and Ricky are in serious concentration. This is hard work!

The trains wore them out, so they decided they wanted to watch a movie and have a snack.

London is as cute as always. . . I love this little girl!

Bunco Christmas Party

The bunco group that I am a sub for had a Christmas party at the Leavenworth's home. This is such a crazy, fun group of ladies and we had a gift exchange where we got to steal gifts. Courtney. . . I am really sorry for stealing your tree, but I blame it on Karri for stealing my candles first. :) But I know you really wanted the gift that Mandi stole from you. . . Christmas gift exchanges are so much fun!

A Weekend Away

Our good friends Adam and Mandi (Carter and Averi's parents) invited us to go to Lubbock for the weekend to go Christmas shopping. . . .and we left the kids with the grandparents! It was a great time to get away and have fun with friends. We even finished all our Christmas shopping early. YEAH!!

The back of the Wood's surburban. . .and I think we went a couple of more places after this!

Christmas Party

We had our Sunday School Christmas Party this past Friday at the Hildebrand's home. It was really fun. We do a white elephant gift exchange and let me tell you there are some funny gifts that are given. As you can see below, the girls stay in the kitchen, talk and take pictures, while the guys stay out in the garage and play kanip-kanop.

This game is serious!!!

Painting. . . Painting. . . and More Painting

This weekend, we painted pretty much all of our house except the bedrooms. Did I add we did this all in one day?? We were exhausted, but it was worth it. Austin was with us the whole day and boy did we put him to work. He had so much fun! At first, we only gave him a dry paint roller and he kept asking when he was getting the "real paint". So we let him go to town on a few of our walls. He did a pretty good job.

Christmas Parade

We had so much fun at the Christmas Parade this year. Austin got to see the marching bands, the horses, all the fun floats and of course, Santa!

My Crazy Men

These are just some fun pictures around the house of my two crazy men. I love them!!