Christmas in Houston...

The weekend before Christmas we traveled to Houston to be with the Halls and Chenoweths. We started out Saturday morning with the Hall cousins and Mimi and PawPaw. Aunt Kim made a wonderful breakfast and the kids opened presents from Mimi and PawPaw.

Anna got this Barbie she has had her eye for a long time!

Saturday night all of the Chenoweths and Halls gathered at Mimi and PawPaw's house.

lots of cousins!

Just some of the grandkids, I missed the other table of the older cousins.

Lighting the advent candles.

Wish this was in focus of my sweet boys.

G got tools!

Present chaos with 24 people!

The biggest gummy bear you have ever seen! Thanks Mary:).

Sunday morning we went to Mimi's and PawPaw's church and then to brunch at their club. The Christmas decorations are always incredible!

The Halls met us there, too.

The food is always amazing. Graham's plate was waffles, pizza, fruit and mac n cheese. What more could you want?

Santa was there!

This is how G feels about Santa.

Decorating gingerbread men. He wanted a few sprinkles.

Santa and the Hall kids. (I wasn't going to torture G again.)

Sweet cousins! Mimi got them all these cute outfits!!

Boys gotta stick together.

Thank you Mimi and PawPaw for a wonderful weekend with our wonderful Houston family!

Christmas Preschool Sing-a-long!

Anna Lou had her first ever singing performance at school for their Christmas Sing-a-long. This girl loves to sing at home and in the car, but I wasn't sure if her shy side might come out.

Anna's biggest fans!

They started with the live nativity and some very enthused shepherds and wisemen:).

Our little star singer!

This girl sang her little heart out! Her music teacher, Honey, loved every minute! And so did her Mama!

All of the kids were pretty darn cute in their santa hats and did so well! Let's just say, Mrs. Jerry (Honey) keeps those little bits in line!

She had the best time and we had the best time watching her!

After the sing-a-long we went back to their classes for snacks. Georgia enjoyed hers!

Graham adores these two boys!

Honey and her peeps.

Visiting Santa...

We took the kids to see Santa at the Village in Fairview. Loved that place! We checked in online, they gave us a time to show up and then they called my phone when it was almost our turn. I haven't scanned the actual pictures of my two in his lap, but just picture Anna smiling sweetly and Graham screaming his brains out! We saw that poor boys tonsils!

The dads

Moms and big kids.

the crazies.

Uncle Nick wanted some good old Mexican food, so he treated us all to some of the best, Uncle Julio's!

The Junods are BACK!

My sis and fam are back in the States! We got to spend a week with them in December and then will celebrate our Watkins Christmas a few days after Christmas when the get back from visiting family in Houston. We spent lots of time just hanging out at Honey and Papa's.

The kids decided the wanted to have lunch in the garage.

Always love being Honey's helpers.

more gingerbread house fun!

We took some pics for Honey and Papa's Christmas card.SSSo

So glad they are back for a visit!

Preschool Party Time!

I always love a party and so does my Anna! It was great helping with her preschool Christmas party! Cookies, Kool-Aid, crafts and games- what more would you need to celebrate the Reason for the Season!

We crafted these little Rudolphs made of plastic cups, brown paper sacks, fun foam and peppermints.

The ornament has the kids' thumbprint that they painted a few days before. I added the antlers, eyes and nose and they took it home as a favor. I can't get enough of the homemade ornaments with a touch of my babies on them!

The kids also got to turn sweet Mrs. Christi into a Christmas tree!

Such a fun afternoon with some sweet kids!