Tuesday, December 27, 2011

2nd Christmas

On the Friday before Christmas we headed down to south Texas to spend the holidays with Shane's family!

We woke up on Saturday morning & after our usual yummy breakfast by Sharon, we celebrated Christmas with Shane's immediate family. It was so much fun watching Austin & Evie open gifts this year- they were SO into it!

Loving on Daddy/Uncle Shane

Sitting with Mommy before we started opening gifts

Mom & Daughter

Evie & Mat opening her gift from Austin (a Jesse doll)

Austin playing with his new Magnadoodle from Evie

Lots of gifts to open

A hug from Papa Gary

Mat & Shanna

Shane & I

Time to play with the toys!

On Christmas Eve we spend our evening with Shane's extended family- dinner & stocking gifts! Austin's favorite part was the train that Paw Paw & Maw Maw had around their Christmas tree!

Family pic- finally a good one!

Visiting with Shanna, Lindsey, & Courtney

Austin & Shane

Love Mat's shirt!

Cousins

They loved that train

Sweet girl

Love him so much!

The original 4~

I love this picture- they are so tickled

Our stockings

Getting some love from Gran

Seriously, how cute are they?

Cousins pic

With Maw Maw & Paw Paw

Jim, Lindsey, & Paula (we missed Laura!)

Courtney, Gary, & Linda (we missed Ashley!)

Lumpkins clan

Maw Maw & Paw Paw

The entire family- we take this same picture every year!!

Yes, he likes organizing his cars

Singing into her new microphone

Dress up time!

On Christmas morning we got up & headed to worship service before a yummy lunch of ribs at Gary & Linda's house.. what a treat!

Austin with Papa Gary & Gran

Another descent picture of us- yes!

The girls

Time for some messy ribs- seriously the best I've ever had.

You can't eat ribs without having to use a toothpick afterwards!

Courtney & I

Austin & Courtney

A few last pics from our trip- my favorites! Love spending time with these two!!

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

1st Christmas

Our Christmas began when Poppy & Gigi arrived the Saturday before Christmas- I love that we get to spend a little extra time with them around this time of the year! We visited some family, went to see Santa, shopped, made Christmas cookies, and more!

It was our 2nd year in the tradition of making sugar cookies for Santa- we made them earlier in the week because Santa was coming to our house on Wednesday night (not Saturday.) Here's a few pics of our goodies~








On Christmas Eve I got one of my favorite gifts (to myself) -a new vacuum! We'd had the same vacuum since we got married, so it was time for a new one! I love this thing- seriously I smile when I vacuum now :)



Setting out cookies & milk for Santa


Santa's elf getting the main gift assembled~

Another one of Santa's helpers... Jack

Santa came!!

Going in to see what Santa brought the good boy~ he's always a little shy to look

A BIKE!

Time to take a ride down the hallway

My gift to Shane- a Bose SoundDock Portable... we love it!

Time for a snack- why not eat Santa's leftovers?

His new guns- totally rethinking that purchase now.

Poppy likes his coffee mug

Max loves hiding in wrapping paper

Unwrapping with Gigi

A new big puzzle

Helping Gigi & Poppy

There's nothing wrong with a little chocolate on Christmas morning

Me & Dad

Yeah, a Nook Tablet!!

A favorite- his cash register :)

Riding his plasma car

Fun for all ages

Yep, I can still play a few songs!

We were all blessed with so many wonderful gifts and even better memories this year!

Monday, December 19, 2011

Visiting Santa

Austin was SO excited to go visit Santa & did really well when the time finally came! He's always a little shy, but jumped right up in his lap and told Santa he wanted a bike for Christmas.... we'll see if he was a good boy or not! :)


Sunday, December 11, 2011

Friday, December 9, 2011

Preschool Program

Austin's preschool program was really cute this year- his class dressed up as angels and shepherds! As usual Austin was extremely shy & spent more time watching others around him than actually participating himself. But near the end he got into it a little bit and started moving his arms to the actions :)

The Turtles class

Notice all the other kids are smiling.. he is SO SERIOUS!

Afterwards all the kids in his class & their parents went back to the classroom for cookies & drinks- Austin seemed to enjoy this part of the evening the most (surprise!)

Cookies with mommy

The 3 of us~