Christmas 2009

What a wonderful Christmas!!!! We drove to Houston on Wed. to spend the holidays with my family. Claire was so excited to be with her Grandmom and Pop-Pop and Aunt Alli and Uncle Joe...and the cat! Apparently it snowed here in Dallas while we were gone, which is awesome, but I wouldn't have missed this Christmas with my family for anything! We went to church on Christmas Eve, then the elves got busy putting together toys for Claire. I was so excited to see her reaction in the morning. I get the Mom of the Year award for forgetting the battery for the video camera so we have nothing on video! It's ok because she came down the stairs a little grumpy on Christmas morning! She quickly warmed up and spent the day playing with all of her new things. Her favorites included chap stick, tearing the paper off of the crayons and her art table. We got my parents a Wii and Wii Fit so we all played that a lot for the rest of the weekend. It was a great day...Santa was very good to all of us. Brad and I decided not to exchange gifts this year and instead we bought 4 wheelchairs for children in Iraq who need them. On the way home we drove through College station to visit Brad's grandmother. We are so blessed with a healthy, loving, happy family. Merry Christmas everyone!!