Portraits

After visiting Santa last week, we (Jenny, my parents and I) took the kids to have portraits taken. We wanted some nice pictures to give to close family and friends for Christmas. We also wanted a picture of all four of the grandkids to give my parents. Here were the results:




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Everett's new haircut

I took E in for a haircut today. The lady styled it differently than it's been done in the past. I wasn't too sure about it at first, but it grew on me quickly. He looks about 2 years older, but he's still pretty darn cute! Now if I can just figure out how to style it the same way. I never dreamed I'd be using "product" on my 2 year old!

Sleepy Kid

On Sunday, David and Everett went on a short walk while I was feeding Pryce . When they returned, Everett was supposed to be finishing up his lunch when I walked past him ... only to notice ... he was completely asleep ... standing up with his head on his chair! He didn't even budge or move an eyelid when I picked him up and put him to bed. Our poor boy was pooped out!

Photos

Hey Santa!

We headed to the Stonebriar mall bright and early last Thursday to get pictures taken with Santa. Everett has been very intrigued with the Santa decorations around the house and has pointed to the picture of himself & Santa from last year (that's still on my keychain) and says "ho ho ho" ... so I actually hoped there was a chance he wouldn't be scared of Santa this year. Pryce didn't seem to mind Santa a bit, but the visit didn't go over so well with E!

Christmas Cards

Phew ... I finally got our Christmas cards in the mail today. I must say, trying to get a nice picture of a 2 year old and almost 4 month old is not my idea of a fun evening. Thanks Gigi and Baba for helping to distract, divert, amuse, and even bribe the boys in an effort to get a picture of the two of them worthy of the ink, labels, envelopes, spit, postage, and energy that goes into getting out Christmas cards.

The photo shoot wasn't as successful as I'd hoped, but at least David and I survived without getting into a tiff (as was the case with E's first Christmas picture ... hey, these photo shoots are very stressful on sleep deprived new parents!)

We ended the photo shoot feeling a bit defeated, anticipating that the following evening would be spent enduring the chaos all over again. However, as I scrolled through the digital results of our efforts, I found a couple that weren't too bad. We settled on one, a bit reluctantly, but with a huge sense of relief that we wouldn't be going through all this hoopla again this week!

Here's a few of the pics that didn't make it onto our Christmas card.

Vacation

We spent last week at Tanglewood Resort at Lake Texoma. It was nice to get away and relax a little. Everett sure had fun playing with Brayden and Karly. The weather was unseasonably warm on Tuesday and we had perfect weather for a round of golf. One of the highlights for the kids was the big jacuzzi tub ... bath time couldn't be more fun!

Congrats Lesa & Jason

Lesa & Jason were married in Jamaica last month. We attended their reception on December 1st. Here are a few pics:

School Pics

Everett's school had their pictures taken earlier this month. We brought Pryce along to try and get a nice pic of our two boys .... well ... E was quite serious during our photo shoot ... but $ sure grinned for us in the end ... here's what we got ...

Gotta love that big smile!!!