Christmas with the Memphis Clan

Kim, Drew, Brandon, and Tiffany came up after Christmas to visit and we had a lot of fun even though Kim, mom, and dad were sick. We still had lots of time to catch up, hang out, and just relax. Michael came over to have dinner with us all and also to pick up the big kids and take them home with him.

Debbie and Nico came in also to visit so we had the whole family together for a few special hours. Nico went to Austin to visit his daddy and Tyler was beside himself for the 4 days he was not there. They got to have 2 sleepovers to maximize their time together and they had a lot of fun.

Someone must have said something funny to make Tyler laugh - I am sure it was Aunt Debbie - she is full of the best one liners.

Time passes too quickly when you are with out of town family, but we still had so much fun.

Christmas Morning with Grandma and Grandpa

Tyler actually enjoyed Christmas this year - I don't think he liked opening all the gifts last year (if only that would have lasted a little longer)

The majority of Tyler's gifts were dinosaur related - I know I was only fueling the fire, but I couldn't resist because he was so infatuated with them.

Tyler was excited about this movie (can't tell what it was). After we opened up our gifts, we had a nice quiet brunch in anticipation of the chaos to be expected later in the day over at Nana and Papa's. Tyler and daddy watched WallE on the new Blu-ray player while mommy cleaned up and got ready for the second half of the day.

Cookies with Santa at Autumn's House

Well, this was one cool Santa that visited a Mean Girls' House this year - he can even do a herky just like Daddy can! (hehe) What a fun day we had at Autumn's house with lots of yummy cookies to be had. Tyler had 5 different cookies - he insisted on trying all of them that were nut free and he did. Mommy got to sit in Santa's lap this year, but Tyler wasn't interested because he sat on Santa's lap last week, but this Santa played along and told Tyler he remembered seeing him last week and didn't Tyler ask for Dinosaurs. Tyler was so excited to see that Santa remembered his request. (Little does he know that Daddy remembers hearing the story of cookies at Landon's house.) What a fun tradition Autumn has started.

It's the Annual pajama picture with the Morton boys

The Morton boys and Tyler receive pajamas every year that match, and this year Alison found some too, so they actually got two pair of jammies each.






The boys were being silly during the picture taking, but what do you expect with 4/6 year olds.







This was a good one! They are getting so big!

Being Creative even we feel a little sick

Tyler is busy making his Christmas garland out of foam candy pieces. He enjoyed stringing them for about 3 minutes and then mommy worked on the rest.






We have tried to make a lot of decorations this holiday season, one to be crafty, and two to help pass the time while we are not feeling our best. Today Tyler had an upset stomach (and thank the Lord - nothing ever came of it).

Cookies with Santa at Landon Bounds house

Tyler was invited to have Cookies and Cocoa at his friend from school's house - Landon Bounds. He had so much fun because the 5 boys from his class were all there, so they were excited to have no girls there from their class.





Here is Jacob and Tyler being silly waiting for the special guest to appear.







The boys were all lined up while Mrs. Bounds led them in Christmas carols waiting for Santa to appear.







Santa was really happy to see so many kids coming together to celebrate the season.





Tyler got to have a little lap time with Santa in which he declared his desire for more dinosaurs for Christmas - surprise surprise.

Early Release again...

Tyler had early release the first Friday in December and we decided to head to Chuck E Cheese. This is one of Tyler's favorite places to play games, eat pizza, and pick prizes. We are very sad that the Peter Piper Pizza chain has closed - at least that was not a 25 minute drive. We still had fun and Tyler ate 6 of the 8 pieces of pizza after he gave me the two smallest pieces.



Tyler realized he could be on TV singing along with the Christmas songs Chuck E was singing after he watched a few other kids do the same. We had a lot of fun and he played for about 2 hours - seeing as I was feeling under the weather - I was very grateful for all the games.

It feels like Christmas

Well, we finally had some weather worthy of a fire. It has snowed here, we have freezing temperatures, the Christmas Decorations are up and it feels like winter outside.

Tyler loves the Christmas decorations and has a countdown until we get to celebrate Jesus' birthday. He is excited about having a birthday cake for him - we will see what flavor he picks for us to make.

We wish everyone a very happy healthy holiday season.