Christmas 2013 Part 2

Christmas morning! Seeing Christmas morning through they eyes of your child might be the most precious thing ever. We brought E into our room while I went and turned the tree lights on. When we asked if she was ready to open her presents, she took off running into the living room and grabbed a present under the tree and started bringing it toward us. So so cute. 

Playing with a bow!

Her big gift from us was the chair! She loved it! She also got a Leap Frog phone in her stocking that she absolutely loved!.  

Opening one of her gifts from Nana and Papa. They got her the Little People Nativity set -  with the shepherds too!

She also got a tea set from them. 

One of the gifts Jason and I got her was a my first photo album that has pictures of us and her extended family in it. She loves looking at pictures, and this way she recognize them when they come to visit. 

Ladybug Girl board books - a new favorite

She got this fun learning turtle from her nanny Brandis!

We had to take a break from opening presents with her because she lost interest and wanted to play with all the things she had opened and play with all the boxes and paper. Hehe. After her morning nap, she opened up some more presents, and we opened up presents from the rest of the family.  

Bow sharing with her cousin

The best little present

And then after she opened presents from the family, she went to go give them all hugs. Awwww!!

Don't we all look tired?! Ha! Did I mention our little one hadn't been feeling good the last couple of days and so our nights were not so fun. 

This was a common thing to see all day. E sitting in her chair in the kitchen. For some reason, that is where she thinks her chair belongs. Even now, she brings it into the kitchen to sit in it along with her phone. 

Another break from present opening and then she opened her last gift from us. A cute little baby doll. 

 

In case you're wondering, I just can't get enough of this cute little girl. Here she is holding one of her stocking stuffer presents - a Dr. Seuss book. 

E wanted to try on her cousin's slippers. This was the result. It was kind of funny.

All in all, it was wonderful Christmas. Filled with family, love, and celebrating the birth of our Savior which is the best gift of all. I hope you all had a wonderful merry Christmas!

Christmas 2013 Part 1

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! We sure did! It was so fun to watch E this year with presents. Definitely different than last year. She was actually interested in opening them! Her excitement and smiles were just contagious.

We started our festivities off on Saturday. Jason's dad and stepmom and brother came into town and we opened up gifts from each other.

She had fun ripping the paper and handing it to her Uncle Jared. She was very particular about getting all the paper off all the box before opening the present. Ha!

We had to stop opening presents because E got distracted and wanted to play with her things that she had already opened. So we saved some for later that day to open.

On Sunday, we missed church because of an epic blowout diaper that required an immediate bath =). Oh well. We hung out for the day and made to an outdoor shopping area in a nearby town to pick up a gift card for my brother for Christmas. It was cold so we had to bundle Elyanah up really well.

She loves loves LOVES to play in the water in the pans.

Doesn't she look cute?

*Fast forward to Tuesday*
We hung out at the house in the morning, and then went to lunch at Pei Wei together as a family before heading to Christmas Eve service. Christmas Eve service was great. I love the candlelight service that is a tradition on Christmas Eve, AND we actually got in this year. We got turned away from the service last year because it was already full. It pays to go to the smaller satellite church than the big one =).

After service, we ran a couple of errands and then came home and spent the afternoon as a family before my family came into town. We had gumbo for dinner. It's becoming sort of a tradition for our family. We then opened up our pajamas to wear for the night. E went to bed and we watched Christmas movies and called it a night around 10.

In our cute Christmas pajamas. 

I will leave you a fun photo shoot of my girl in her cute Christmas Eve dress. 

 

Galveston Trip Part 2

Yeah so I meant to post this a couple of weeks ago. Oh well. I will get better at this. At least it's out before the end of the year =).

To see Part 1 go here.

On Saturday, it was still raining! We had a relaxing morning and then went out to lunch out on the pier. It was raining outside but they had the windows open and we were right on the water.

We took a couple of pictures on the outside of the restaurant after our yummy meal. 

After E's nap, the skies parted for seriously 20 minutes and we took that opportunity to take pictures on the beach.

It started raining again so we went back to the condo and hung out there for the rest of the evening. The sunset was beautiful on our last night so I had to take a picture.

On Sunday morning we left bright and early so we could meet up with Jason's mom, sister and grandma who were in Tomball that weekend.

I took a picture of this little beauty on the balcony chair before we left. 

We met up with Jason's family at the hotel they were staying in and hung out a bit. We met our newest nephew for the first time too!

E with her MawMaw and GG. 

After we had lunch with them, we left to head to Conroe on our way home to meet up with one of my great friends, Krissie and her husband, Eric really quick at Starbucks. I was so glad to get to see her even if it was for just a few minutes. 

Such a fun trip and I'm so glad we got to get away as a family. I always dreamed of taking family vacations together and now we are finally doing it. I hope to make this an annual thing.