Happy Birthday Daddy-O

Happy 39th birthday Clayton, we love you!

Daddy opening Oliver's card

Miles was really interested in Grammy's thumb while she was feeding him

Our little family picture before everyone came for ice cream, Miles was SOOO tired!

Oliver took some pictures when people came in to celebrate Clayton's birthday, I liked this one

and this one too

We decided it would be fun to have an ice cream bar for Clayton's birthday...Clayton was a great server!

Installing the new big screen

Grammy held Miles while the guys installed the new big screen and I made some dinner.

Miles isn't sleeping here, but he REALLY wishes he was

Grammy Oliver sharing a story and a sucker. I LOVED this picture! :)

taking it out of the box

LOVED Oliver's worker face!

and now a smile with the finished product. Looks GREAT!

the picture definitley doesn't do it justice, but it is a nice TV

Oliver & Clayton watching Sound of Music together, after which I was told Oliver just had to have this movie (now we own it)

Utah Christmas

How many kids are lucky enough to get three Christmases complete with gifts from Santa? Can you say spoiled??? :)

My mom's tree after Santa came and visited

I love the look on Miles' face, so cute!

Oliver LOVED his doctor kit

Daddy wearing Oliver's glasses from his gift

My mom modeling her gift from Aunt Jerry

Grammy & Miles loves

This picture cracks me up every time I see it...PERFECT!

When will this end, he can't keep his fingers out of his nose.

Aunt Shell and Miles

sweet little Layla

My mom opening her gift from all of the siblings, a new flat screen TV

what a cutie!

Christmas Eve in Utah

We arrived in Utah late Christmas Eve afternoon and both my little travelers were very tired, but Oliver got to read stories with Grammy and put some cookies out for Santa.

I took this picture from the airplane as we were arriving in SLC. It looked like the mountains were nestled in nice little cloud blankets. It was beautiful at this altitude, unfortunately under the clouds wasn't quite as beautiful.

Texas Christmas

December 23, 2010

Oliver wrote Santa a letter early this month requesting play-doh and a little chickee for Christmas this year. Santa, in return, sent Oliver a video message that you can watch here if you want, letting him know that he knows he wants play-doh for Christmas and that he needs to be a really good listener and then he will receive what he wanted. Because I had Santa's e-mail, I sent him a message asking for him to come early this year since we were to be in Utah and Christmas day and this morning he arrived just as requested. Oliver was VERY excited Christmas morning. Here are some of my favorite pictures that day:

he took all his presents out of the stocking before opening them

he was very pleased with his giant chocolate bar

Miles was very excited about his presents too

Miles with his I ♥ My Big Brother shirt from Oliver

Oliver opening up his little chickee from Santa, he loved it! (he got his play-doh too)

Oliver opening up his I ♥ My Little Brother shirt from Miles

Our Sneaky Chef Christmas morning smoothies with avocado, bananas and frozen strawberries...YUM!

Miles trying avocado for the first time

Merry Christmas!