Monday, December 15, 2008

Claire's loving Christmas!!

She's been enjoying old treasures! Loving all the Christmas books, toys, ornaments, movies, music, and even dishes that we get out each year!!


Having fun with new treasures! This new snow globe from G&P doesn't even have to be shaken. Just turn it on, and the snow blows and music plays for as long as you want!


She even got to ride the carosel when we went Christmas shopping!


And my very favorite is her love for "Away in a Manger". We have children singing it on 3 different movies, so she'll watch any of those - but would prefer to watch only that song (Maddie & Jack love that)! Then when we're in the car, I have to keep replaying it over, and over, and over! But when she sings along so sweet, I just don't care!

Monday, December 8, 2008

Santa's Village

For the last few years, we've headed to Santa's Village in Richardson with Aunt, David, and (for our second year)Chapman!! This year, Grammy and Poppi were in town for some Christmas shopping, so they got to come along! As usual, it was pretty crowded, but it's cute and the kids really enjoy it!! The littles weren't much in the mood for pictures (shocking!), but I ended up with a few cute ones!





















Chapman really, really liked the cookie he got from Mrs. Claus!!!!








Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Thanksgiving Memories

We headed to Wichita Falls last Tuesday after a quick stop to visit our new niece/cousin Lily. She was just precious, but of course I forgot to bring my camera. Hopefully we'll get some pictures with her soon!

We weren't in the Falls long before Grammy brought out all we needed to make darling little Turkey Cookies! The kids had so much fun using candy corn, icing and baby m&m's to create these cuties!







The finished product!


Although many chose to take a few things off before eating their cookies, Claire loved the whole thing!!



Thursday we had a delicious Thanksgiving dinner (special thanks to Grammy for that!!) and darling table decorations made by Maddie and Aunt at Night of Fun! Each person had a unique turkey marking their spot!

The Nelson Family


Grammy and Maddie always sit at the end of the table together on the piano bench!



After dinner, it was off to the park for the boys and the kids. They had a blast and Poppi took these darling pictures. I had a REALLY hard time chosing just these!


My walking nephew!!




I love him!!!










Claire with her Uncle! He is sooo sweet with her! And she might have him wrapped around her little finger!






Love, love, love these next two pics and these two people!!









What's Thanksgiving without a little football?? Even though they live in the same town, Jack and Nathan had to travel to Wichita Falls to get together!! They had a fun game with their dads!





Huddle










Friday night we headed out to see some lights. It was pretty cold, so Grammy went searching in her coat closet for hats for the littles. This is what Claire chose and then wore many more times. Sadly, we couldn't bring it with us :(


And Finally!! Saturday, Jack, Bill, Poppi and Uncle headed to Lubbock for the Tech/Baylor game! I hear they had fun!!