All Aboard, the Polar Express!

 The moms and the "littles" rode in the Bacot car and the dads and the "bigs" rode in the Dennis car.  We stopped at Torchy's Tacos in College Station for lunch, then continued the 3 hour drive to Palestine, TX.  They had a small playground right in front of our parking spaces.  I was SO glad the kids had a time / space to stretch their legs.

 Anna Belle's yelling, "All aboard! the Polar Express!"

 The betrothed children...

 Reaching the North Pole...

 Seriously... can you say wedding slide show?

 Copeland spotted Santa

 Santa handing out bells for each of the kids

Christmas Part II

So, my Christmas themed post is really just our lives since Thanksgiving.  Brady's friend Will came over for one day.  The kids thought that inhaling the oils from the diffuser, when the light was green, would turn your face green.  When they inhaled the oil from the diffuser, when the light turned blue, they would run to the mirror to see if their face turned blue.  It was pretty funny to watch.

We went to an awesome first birthday party, for our friends.

We went to see Madagascar Penguins with uncle Jeffrey.

Here's my little Anna Belle dressed in mama's post shower attire.

After Thanksgiving with my family, we always make gingerbread houses.  The kids are finally at a really, really great age to work on projects like this.

We bought our first Christmas yard decoration.  Brady BEGGED for it last year.

Thanksgiving with the Bacots.

Christmas Stuff Part I

This morning we had "breakfast with Santa" at the Aquarium in downtown.

Some people sit on Santa's lap, and some people take a picture with scuba Santa.

On Friday, Brady had his class Christmas party.  I feel so blessed to have Brady at this school.