Christmas highlights

We spent Christmas in Louisiana with my family this year. We won't be seeing Daniel's family this year for Christmas - being a part of a 22 member family makes scheduling a bit difficult sometimes and it just didn't work out this year for us to all meet up for Christmas. :-( We're hoping to all get together sometime in 2008, though!

As for our 2007 Christmas....

We were so good in 2007 that SANTA came to visit US - we didn't have to go find him!

He looks a bit like my Papaw...actually, more than a bit! He IS my Papaw!!!

Much of the holiday centered around the little ones in our family - it's so fun to have Meredith, Annie, Allie, Sydney, and Abbie around. They are our niece and our cousins' children, and they range in age from 6 months to 4 years old. So cute! Our family Christmas surprise was that Meredith was walking. She took her first steps the Thursday before Christmas and we got to watch her grow in confidence in her walking as the week progressed!

Meredith's first debut of opening gifts was in November at her first birthday. However, she didn't really get the concept very much then. Almost 2 months later, though, at Christmas, she was way more into the opening of the gifts. Here she is about to rip into a present.

She got a jack-in-the-box from my parents and loved it!



And, well, amidst all of the excitement, she pooped out!

At Granny's house there is a big framed picture of the cousins when we were around ages 11-16. Someone commented on the picture while we were at Granny's and we decided to recreate it...14 years later! I wish I had a scanned picture of the original one - maybe I can get that next time we go home. But for now, here's the updated version.

And finally, our family with Mamaw and Papaw in front of the Christmas tree at Mom and Dad's house in Ruston!