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!!!

Happy Thanksgiving

A few pictures from Thanksgiving day at the lake. We sure missed Grandad as he was spending Thanksgiving in the Decatur hospital ... but we're happy he's back home now and feeling well!

Pryce's new robe

Dawn bought Pryce this adorable puppy robe. He looks so cute after his baths, we don't want to change him into his pajamas!

Ciao Bella!

Doesn't Everett look cute in the t-shirt Big Sis brought him back from Italy? The second picture cracks me up because it looks like he's doing the Macarena!

Go Go Go!!!

Everett LOVES to take rides in his little red wagon. Luckily, it's big enough for little brother to join him. He's a pretty demanding little passenger ... yelling for us to "GO GO GO" and when you ask him "go where?" He points and says "That way!". "That way" usually happens to be the direction of the neighborhood park!

Happy Birthday David!

David turned 48 today! He took the day off from work and we went for brunch, did some shopping, and then went to Fireside pies for dinner. He was happy to get to spend the whole evening with all of his kids. I completely forgot to take any pictures, but here are a few my Dad took from when we celebrated with my family a couple weekends back.

Under the weather

Everett wasn't feeling well last Friday so I kept him home from school and took him to the doctor. He was diagnosed with pink eye (in both eyes) and an ear infection in his right ear. When we got home, I was having trouble getting him to take a nap. In an attempt to at least get some "quiet time" I put in a DVD for him to watch. It didn't take him long to doze off. Doesn't he look sweet?
P.S. He is feeling MUCH better this week!

Trick-or-treat!

On Halloween, we went to a neighbor's party and Everett went trick-or-treating with some of the neighborhood kids. He had a blast. It didn't take him long to figure out how this trick-or-treating works!





Everett was very sticky after getting into his Halloween candy stash, so he went straight into the tub when we got home! After he got into his pjs, he was being very sweet with his little bro and wanted to hold him.

We'll chalk up Halloween 2007 as a success! We were happy to meet some more of our neighbors and get to know others a little better. We have some very nice families on our street. Our boys are the youngest of all the kids but the age difference didn't seem to bother any of them ... they all played so well together.