My dad came in early and stayed about 2 1/2 weeks. It was great having him here, although I don't think he got too much sleep and he went back with a very bad cold from the kids, so I don't know when we will be able to talk him in to coming back down. The kids got used to having him here and would go wake him up in the morning. They loved to play outside, and yes, he did catch them some slugs if you saw that from a post earlier this month. Dad also got to see Jason quite a few times and stayed 2 nights over at his apartment. My mom and Aunt Susie came down the Tuesday night before Christmas, so they were here about 5 days, and then my mom, dad, and Susie all drove back to Oklahoma the day after Christmas. Rick, Sue, Stacy and Justin came down the same day and stayed through the 29th, and the kids had a great time with them too. We had Brian's Aunt and Uncle in from the Woodlands, the kids got to go see Tangled (to which Jacob has talked for days about a sword fight scene being the best part, and of course Gwyn agrees it was her favorite part even though she slept through it), everyone went out to Maggiano's for dinner one night, and of course, we had round 2 of the Christmas present extravaganza! Gwyn has a little crush on Justin and it was funny seeing her make all googly eyes at him!
I'm embarrassed at how few pictures I took while everyone was here. It has been a crazy few weeks with just about every one here getting sick, so I'll use that as my excuse. The kids had a great Christmas, I regret not having the video camera ready to record everything as they came down the stairs on Christmas morning. Jacob was the first one down and he peeked his head from around the stairs and started yelling, "he came, he came!" Santa brought Jacob a razor scooter and light up sketchers. Gwyn got a big chair like Jacob's and light up twinkle toes, and Annie got a few baby toys. When they saw the shoes they started screaming, "they light up, they light up, these are awesome, they are so cool!" It was great. They were also SO excited over their stockings and were practically screaming over a batman toothbrush or princess stickers. The unwrapping festivities seemed to go on for hours, the kids wanted to play with whatever they opened right then and would forget about the rest of the presents. Annie just wanted to walk all over and sit on everyones presents.
We have been having so much fun around here. With the kids being out of preschool, we have been filling our days with lots of fun things. Here are the pictures I got from the past few weeks, Santa's milk and cookies:
Jacob on his new razor scooter. He is surprisingly REALLY good at this thing. He said, "I didn't even tell Santa I wanted this." I told him that Santa must have known how much he would love it.
Gwyn on her princess scooter that Jason got her. She was really excited about it, especially since it has a princess pouch on the front that she can fill up with some toys.
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