Holiday Fun!

It sure took me awhile to get this Christmas fun posted! Everytime I tried on my work computer, Blogger was having issues (or my computer was). Either way - here it is! We had a wonderful Christmas / Winter Break. Tons of family time...a ridiculous amount of presents...crazy snowball fights...you name it! It was a blast!! And definitely hard to get back to work (and for C to get back to school).

He was so sweet and gentle with the Christmas ornaments.  He loves the ones with pictures...the one he is looking at is an old picture of Tim and I, back when we were engaged.

Being silly with Cousin Alex!

Figuring out how to take pictures with Mommy's phone, where he can see himself.

Sweet boys...

More fun with Mommy's phone...

Presents from Uncle Scotty! 

Another Longhorn jersey!

Hook 'em!

Cogsley!

Just love these Santa PJs...

Christmas madness!

Sleeping like such an angel...he placed his hands there.  So sweet.

More silliness with Alex!

Setting out milk and cookies for Santa and carrots for his reindeer :)

All the Santa stuff set up for Christmas morning!

Loving his new tool bench - just like Daddy's! 

He had been asking for Woody for quite some time...

 

A White Christmas!

Snowball fights with Daddy!  We watched Elf about 4,326 times over the break.  Needless to say, Carter's favorite part is the snowball fight that Buddy & Michael get into with the guys from Michael's school.  So he and Daddy had a BLAST re-creating it!  We have also done it about 6,543 more times inside the house...with socks instead of real snowballs ;)

Love this pic...

Had to put this one in here...Tim's face is so serious as poor little Carter runs away! 

Making...

 

Carter's...

first...



Snowman! 

The first Saturday of January, we got to go to Home Depot for another fun project!  A bird house!! 

Lovin' some Texans football!  My favorite part of these pics is how somehow he has his helmet, jersey and undies on.  But somehow pants got lost in the mix!  ;)

I hope everyone had a very restful, fun holiday!  I know we did!!  :)

Getting ready for Christmas...

I can't believe Christmas is upon us already!  Ok by me - I love this time of year.  We've been starting all our preparations...

 

We took a trip to the Dallas Zoo last weekend for Breakfast with Santa!  It was awesome...we had a great breakfast buffet, we decorated Christmas cookies and we got to see Santa!  It's all Carter could talk about all week...and all morning...and the entire ride there...and as we walked into the zoo...and as we looked for Santa.  And then, we saw Santa.  And of course, Carter was not having it!  Check out the pic...priceless! 

Had to zoom in on his sweet little face...

Had to feed the giraffes...

And see the lions of course!

Check out these Santa pjs I got for Carter.  So cute!

 I was busy wrapping Christmas presents one night, and C decided he needed to help me.  THEN he decided he needed to wrap his own presents.  So he got one of his books from his room, and wrapped it.  At first he said it was for Alex...but then he said it was HIS!  It's still wrapped...I think it's IN his tree...not UNDER it...but IN it.  That's where he thought it went!  Hilarious.

Had to break out Elf!  I think we've got C hooked...

This is Carter's personal Christmas tree in his room...he was so excited to have his own tree!

Emmerson Marie

That's right - baby girl finally has a name!  Emmerson Marie.  No special story on why we picked it...let's just go with the fact that it was one of the only names we both liked ;)  Marie is my middle name though...so at least she gets to share that with Mommy :)

Baby girl...in 3d!

Last week we went and volunteered at the Dallas Pregnancy Resource Center for a 3d ultrasound (this is the same place that we volunteered with Carter).  They are an organization who counsel women thinking of having abortions.  They train their volunteer nurses to do ultrasounds so they can show the mothers their babies, so they need pregnant volunteers to train and "practice" on!  Our nurse was AWESOME!!  I was definitely not her first ultrasound ;)  She got some great pics - although baby girl was snuggled up behind the placenta for the majority of the ultrasound.  Very weird to see the placenta in 3d, haha! (Which you can in one of the pictures). 

Here is her sweet face!  The left side is where the placenta is (somehow they were able to rotate the ultrasound wand and get most of it out of the picture).  But you can see her cheek, nose and eye are a little smushed - where the lighter, whiter portion of the picture is.  We actually have a picture of Carter where he is a little "smushed" like this too and they definitely resemble each other!

Well here is part of the lovely placenta - with her hiding back behind it, all snuggled up.  But what a beautiful view of her hand!  You can even see her fingernails...and the umbilical cord...and that is also her leg near the bottom.  Amazing!

And then she turned and went to sleep...so here is a view of her ear, arm, shoulder, back, etc.  So sweet...

Baby girl...

Last Friday, we had our big sonogram at the doctor's office.  Everything looked great with the baby - and the sonographer said she agreed it was a little girl!