Four Christmases

No, not the new Reece Witherspoon movie....we actually had 4 Christmases! It all began a week ago in Lubbock when we drove to visit my family to do Christmas with them and watch a Tech b-ball game. Unfortunately I forgot my camera, so I don't have any pics from Christmas #1. Christmas #2 was on Christmas Eve with all the Dunn/Posey/Spannaus cousins...which was so fun! Then Christmas morning, Lee and the kids and I had our own Christmas, then we packed up all the remaining presents and headed to Tim & Terri's for Christmas #4. Wow! It was all so great! One side-effect of having so much Christmas is that our girls have been basically ignoring Lee & me for all the new toys! They love everything they got! Here are some (okay, a lot) of pictures from our 4 Christmases.

Annalee snuggling Brady while I did some last-minute present wrapping
the cousins at Christmas #2
Annalee & Aunt Lindsy
Hilary, Heath, & Brady
Gee, thanks Dave...always wanted to see Brokeback Mountain
silly Addie
Addie is obsessed with Beauty and the Beast, so we got her a set of little dolls; it even came with several different dress options for Belle
Annalee had asked for "a ballerina who wears a red dress". After searching everywhere online and in stores and having no luck, it came to me: EBAY!! You really can find anything on Ebay!! Please ignore the bed head.
Wally got more than he asked for when he tried to make Brady smile
these guys love making babies smile!!

long time no post!

I can't believe I haven't blogged in nearly a month! Not that there hasn't been anything going on. We've been busy decorating for Christmas, working on Annalee's AWANA verses, teaching Addie how to count (she can consistently count to 4!), going to Christmas parties, and watching Brady grow into a small moose (he's in the 90th percentile across the board). I also had a stomach bug last week, and miracle of all miracles, I'm the only one in our family who got it. Thank you Jesus!!
We've also been exposing Annalee to the arts: I took her to see The Nutcracker, which she absolutely LOVED, and Lee and I took her to see the local theater's production of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. She liked that too, but when I asked her which was her favorite, she immediately said The Nutcracker.

Our church had its annual children's Christmas program which actually just consisted of all the 2-yr-old through 6th-graders singing along to a CD of some Christmas songs and reading the Christmas story. But it was super cute to see the little ones dressed up in their costumes!

Annalee the sheep (far right)

Brady's adorable smileBrady's latest sounds