Christmas Eve and Day....Santa Came!

So I think that this is the last of my posts for 2010~ 

I am glad to finally try and enter 2011 and see what all it holds for our little family of 3!

This is a little of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day...I had so many pics, it was hard to pick just a few, but I needed to get it done! 

Christmas Eve night was filled with lots of family, and everyone getting really excited for Santa to come the next morning!  Here is the cookies that we made for Santa to sample that night....I picked out this cute, little, Santa plate for Eli (and our other kids to come) as part of the traditions for us to start with out little family. 

I love that my grandmother puts up her Christmas village every year, and Eli got to see it for the very first time!  These are some sweet pics of my little man and his Papa looking at the village. 

 Christmas morning arrived and we were all up bright and early to see what Santa left us...

He must have loved his cookies!

Opening our stockings...my favorite part... 

Just a few more pics of everyone enjoying Christmas morning together.....

I had to throw this pic in, one of my favorite gifts this year, Kelly surprised me and got me a pair of TOM's...love them....thanks Kelly!!!

This pic has a long story about it, but meant so much to me, even though it wasn't my gift....it was Eli's from Gigi and Papa...thanks so much mom and dad!

My cutie in his new hat

Eli's loot...Santa brought him a kitchen, a T-ball set, a cool truck that makes all kinds of noises and that  lights up, a Texas Longhorn hat, and a fun Paul Frank shirt! I guess that means he was a good boy!

Football and Cookies

I have so many pics to post from Christmas, so I just figured that I would try and capture all of them in groups and not have 1 huge post!  Here is some fun we had Christmas Eve afternoon....

 We took a lot of toys for E to play with, but of coarse his favorite is his football!  I got some cute pics of him playing with his football...touch down and all!

 Later in the evening we all decided to make some Christmas cookies for Santa to eat!  We had all kinds of icing, and sprinkles...and had a blast decorating with Gi Gi, Granji, Aunt KK, and Emily.

Catching up with Christmas

Here is to catching up on all of my Christmas blogs and whatever else that comes along!  I really had good intentions of trying to catch up with my blog about a month ago, but time has gotten away from me!  So here ya go....This one is the first Christmas celebration that we had in 2010.  We went to Ryan's parents house to "have Christmas" with his side of the family, bc I got the holiday off at work so we travelled to Louisiana the next week. 

We had some great food and a lot of fun.  The weather turned out great that day, so the kids got to hang out outside also!  I didn't take a whole bunch of pics, but here is some of the day.   

Opening presents with Landry and Nana...

Now with daddy...

Eli had a great day, getting lots of fun gifts, and playing with his cousins.  I brought some flavored popcorn for the kids, and Eli was one of the first to grab some...he loves his popcorn!

 We had some fun cookies to decorate and the kids had a great time....Eli really liked to lick his fingers every time he tried to put icing on them!  Too cute!

Finally at the end of the day I wanted to get some family pics together....the cousins...

being silly.... 

Now serious...

Bill, Elizabeth and the kids...

Ryan, Denise, Billy, and Gardner

Papaw, Nana and the Grand kids...what a great looking group!

Visiting Santa...2010

 When it came time to go see Santa Clause this year I was very excited to see Eli's reaction.  I was wondering if he was going to cry or laugh, or would he have that classic "Santa is scary" look or walk right up to him?!?!?  We are blessed to have that sweet baby that has never met a stranger, so I was hoping that he would do well!  Last year we took him to Bass Pro Shops in Grapevine, bc they have an awesome Santa, the lines were short, and they give you a free picture with your visit...and this year was no different!  This year Eli's great grandparents were in town and got to go with us, so we asked Gi Gi and Papa to come and watch Eli with Santa also.  We got to BPS around 2pm, and our time slot was 3:30, so we walked around for a while enjoying some of the things they had to offer. 

First stop was the big fish tank!  E loves those fish...he was making fishy lips

2nd stop the 4 wheelers...

Hanging out with Granji and Grandaddy, and Papa

Next stop...the Merry-go-round

FINALLY it was about that time to go get in line for SANTA...

Waiting in line...

SANTA TIME!!!

He did great!  He walked right up to Santa with daddy and sat right down and told him what he wanted... ;)

Merry Christmas Eli 

 

Putting up the lights

This year when we put up the Christmas Lights, it happened to be unseasonably warm!!!  It actually was kinda hot, but it was nice to be able to put up lights without the blowing, cold wind that would normally freeze us to death!  Ryan and I tried to put the little man in the bed and get them hung, but he must have know that we were up to something, so he skipped nap time and decided to help us out!  He actually did really good and is a great helper!

(ps...If the pics look blue tinted I tried to add a "winterized" feel to my editing...ha!) 

Here is daddy doing the real work, and part of the finished product...

After trying to help and getting bored with the lights, Eli rode his little"4 wheeler".  He played for a while and then wanted to get on the big boys toy....so after daddy was done with his work he took E for a ride! 

6 Flags

In November we got free 6 Flags tickets from my work.  I LOVE 6 Flags, and Ryan couldn't go, but I really wanted to take Eli...so GiGi and Papa went with us, and we met my friend Amy and her son Will there.  The weather was perfect, the boys had a great time, and we had free food vouchers...it turned out great!

Eli and Papa

I knew that there was not much Eli could do, but really thought that he would enjoy all the characters and people.  The first thing that we rode was the carousel...the boys were so cute waiting in line together and really enjoyed the ride!   

E climbing on the railing to get a better look!

 

After the carousel we spotted bugs bunny....we took the boys down to see him, but as you can tell, they were not fans! 

Off to Looney Tunes Land!!!

We found quite a few rides the boys could enjoy here...

After lunch we headed over to drive the old cars and ride the train around the park...

Being silly!

Boys will be boys...waiting in line for the train and playing in the dirt!  Also sharing a bag of popcorn for snack time...I think that they had more fun throwing it on the ground and smashing it with their feet!

So glad we got to enjoy the day with GiGi and Papa, and hanging out with Eli's buddy Will!  Eli's first 6 Flags trip was a success!