Long Christmas Post!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year! I cant believe this year has gone by so fast. The years seem to fly by when you have children. We had fun going to our families houses for Christmas but glad to be home and no more traveling for awhile. It was Wyatt's second Christmas and Walker's first and we want thank everyone for all of their gifts! We were tired from all the traveling so we decided to stay home for New Years and celebrate with just our family. Sadly none of us made it to Midnight. I know we are getting old. New Years day our old friends Josh, Valerie, and their two daughter Katherine and Lauren came over to visit. It was so good to see them and I forgot to take pictures! We will have to do it next time and I hope we get to see them soon.

I have been debating on how I was going to do my Christmas blog. I thought about doing 3 different posting for each family. That was my plan at first but I was afraid I would do one or two posting and never get to the third one or never get to the second one. I get busy with the boys and don't have time to wait for our pictures to download. (Jan. 14th we finally are getting DSL! Living in the country has its downfalls.) I didn't want to upset anyone so I'm doing them all on this posting just in case I couldn't get back on the computer for awhile!

Be ready for lots of pictures! Since I'm posting so many pictures I'm not going to explain all of them. Sorry!

The weekend before Christmas we headed to Austin for Blake's dad side of the family Christmas. Friday Blake's cousin, Justin, got married to his High School sweet heart, Karisa. We arrived Friday night in Austin just in time for the wedding. I wish I got some pictures but our boys were not in great modes that evening. Walker cried half way there and they both were teething and fussy. We got to see Karisa walk down the isle and then they both wanted to talk! LOL! Blake and I spent the rest of the wedding outside but glad we were there. Saturday we had the Smith Christmas at Uncle Gary and Aunt Judy's house. We had a great time and now for the start of lots of pictures.


































We had to leave Austin early for my family's Christmas Sunday in Tyler. We were so excited because Kaylee, Connor, Tripp, Thatcher, and new baby on the way got to come this year! We don't get to see them every Christmas because they rotate between Texas, Idaho, and Boston. It was so much fun to have all the cousins together. While they were in town we my parents rented a 15 passenger van so we could all ride together. We went to Lindale and drove through big Christmas lights. After that we went to eat at Mercados. Since Kaylee is pregnant she had cravings for Mercados and Jason Deli. We celebrated Christmas on Christmas Eve because Kaylee and family had to leave Christmas day. We were sad for them to leave but knew they were ready to be home and Connor had to get back to work. Now for more pictures!























































































Last but not least we went to Ballinger for Blake's mom's Christmas. While we were there Blake and I went to the movies. We wanted to see Marley and Me but it was sold out so we watched Four Christmases. His mom watched the boys so we could celebrate our 8 YEAR WEDDING ANNIVERSARY! Man time sure does fly by! Friday afternoon we went to Abilene and ate dinner with Blake's baby brother Nathan and his wife Marsha. Nathan had to go back to work so Marsha and I went shopping while Blake went and hanged out with his best friend Heath. They don't get to see each other a lot so they had well needed guy time! Saturday we ate dinner and Christmas. Sunday we went to church and Blake's middle brother Ryan was the guest the preacher. We were happy the boys were perfect during church. After church, we had lunch with Mama, Papa, and Aunt Lissy and headed back to Tyler.