Christmas update

I thought I had better give a little update even though I haven't uploaded any photos from Christmas yet. It has been a whirlwind week (or so).....and I probably gained a bazillion pounds from all the food we ate. Christmas Eve was spent at dad's house (tradition) with the Brown side of the family....just a small group of us. Justin flew in that morning from his 6 week trip in Peru. We had some great food (as usual) in great company. After our dinner we started in on the gift opening. Grayson got some fun things and also some loud things...."electric" guitar, basketball hoop, clothes, jammies, etc. This was the first night of many that Grayson stayed up way too late. He does really well with late nights and probably gets a second wind like his mama.

Christmas morning we got up and opened more gifts....from the Texas family and from Santa. Grayson had another good time opening gifts and making a mess with the paper. He got a new personalized cushy chair, trucks, tractors, books and other fun stuff. That night we went back over to dad's to eat and hang out with the Boyles. Another great meal!

The following evening was spent over at the Homestead (Gary and Debbie's) for the Edwards side Christmas. This is always a big event.....lots of people and kids. More wonderful food again! Then....another Grayson spoiling.....he got a Craftsman kids tractor, a large excavator, some small CAT machinery, books and my favorite....Trigger the horse. Trigger is a very old spring type "rocking horse" that my grandpa Lee made about 50 plus years ago. I had him growing up and always thought that grandpa made him for me. I was quickly corrected by my aunt Ruthy....who told me that he was made for her when she was a little girl. Trigger looked great, despite his age....he had a total makeover! Grayson enjoyed getting on him while I bounced him around, then he quickly figured out how to make him "go" on his own.

Well, we had a couple days of down time (which was spent running around taking gifts back and hitting the sales) before our next event. Last night was spent at our clinic Christmas party....dinner at the new golf course restraunt (very good), then a quick drink at Bar Cinco, then off to Don and Karen's for the gift exchange. A few of us decided to get dressed up in cocktail type attire just for the heck of it. This was fun to do since I'm usually seen in jeans and tshirt type attire.

That pretty much sums it up. We don't have any official, concrete plans yet for New Years.....but we may lay low a bit. This was a great Christmas week.....it was fun to see Grayson getting more into it this year. Now we just have to get him back on some sort of normal sleep schedule! I will be posting pictures shortly....stay tuned!

Christmas time is here

Hanging ornaments....what a good little helper!

This is our wonderful Noble Fir! We are loving it and think its the best one ever. Even though its not quite as tall as we normally get, it is more full....which means that I probably need to get a few more ornaments. I think I ran out of branches last year. Last years was a little more Charlie Brown-ish. Grayson is enjoying his tree and asks me to turn on the lights every morning...."on, on, on, on!"

Deep in thought

I really like this picture and how the lighting turned out (or didn't turn out). This was taken the during the same time when he was wearing his fancy bow....he must have found a really good book!

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

I finally downloaded some photos that were taken the first week of December. These were taken the day I put up most of the outdoor lights. Grayson loved seeing the lights and was "oohing" and "wowing" (as you can see in the bottom left corner picture). Grayson found a red ribbon in some of the Christmas decor and put it around his waist. I then tied it on him and after awhile he didn't even think twice about it not being there. We took it off right before we had to go to our community Christmas dinner....I decided it was a little much :)

Long time, no post

Its been awhile since I've posted any pictures....or a blog for that matter. We've been pretty darn busy and I'm just starting to feel like things might get caught up. We finally got our tree up yesterday.....a beautful Noble from the "hills"...that Gary and Debbie picked out. I think this is our best tree ever! We also have a tree to get put up at dad's while he is away hanging out with all sorts of celebs. I won't go into any detail due to the confidential nature of the event he is at....but I will surely let you know when I can and whether of not dad makes People magazine. I have been totally living vicariously through him. He is having a terrific time and is hoping that the high winds will cause him to be stranded there for a bit longer.
Anyway, I will soon be posting some pictures...I promise!

Feelin' the cold!

Ok people I stuck to my word and got outside today to put up my lights. I thought this was going to be a great day to do so....no wind, rain, etc....yet. The moment I get outside it starts to snow...kind of. Anyway, I did manage to get some lights up despite the frigid temperature, the freezing of my boot-tay and a few choice words. As usual there were those extra fun times when the already-tested lights decide not to work once I get them on top of the world's larget freaking tree. Most of it went quite smoothly though (even with frozen fingers). I'm not quite finished (of course), but the majority of it is all up. Pictures to come soon.