Christmas 2010

We feel so very blessed that Austin has had such a wonderful Christmas!  He is definately a loved little boy by many and we wouldn't have it any other way.  We did Christmas at 5 different places (includes friends and family) so I've got pictures from all of them.  Thanks to everyone who made this such a wonderful Christmas for Austin because he was certainly excited about this year.

The 1st stop was at Mamaw & Papaw's on Thursday night.  He and Scooter were dying to open gifts, but they had to wait a while so when the opening commenced it was a little wild to say the least.

 He was tearing into presents like there was no tomorrow.

 And it was the Batman Cave that he's been asking for the last 3 months.

A remote control spider for our little "Spiderman".

 At this point he was just overwhelmed.

 And here's the pile he got from Mamaw, Papaw, Scooter, Ayla & Mikey.

 And a group shot of Mamaw & Papaw with 3 of the 4 grandkids.

Scooter, Ayla, Austin, Papaw & Mamaw.

 Then on to Friday when Karla came over with his gift.  He got a BBQ grill set with food.

 And a barrel of monkeys.  He has really enjoyed dumping the monkeys out and seeing how many he can pick up.  Thanks Karla & Keebey.

 Friday night we had Brandon's family over for supper.  To go along with his Batman Cave he got the Joker's Fun House and now his favorite saying is "the jokes on you Batman!"

 Some Iron Man toys.

 And more Imaginext stuff too!

 Here are our cookies and milk that we left for Santa.  Austin didn't want to go to bed and it was 10:30 before we finally got him to sleep.

 I guess the anticipation was just too much because at 3:15  on Saturday morning he was awake and trying to find every excuse in the book to get out of bed.  First we went to the bathroom and then he was hungry.  I was trying to hold him off as long as I could so we could get some more sleep, but he was having NO part of it.  Finally at a few minutes til 4 AM his feet hit the floor and he was headed to the tree.  He was so excited to see that Santa had left him toys and immediately ran to his daddy and said "look daddy Santa brought me presents, I told you I wasn't on the naughty list".  Apparantly he was worried that he might be on that list!

Checking out everything that Santa brought.

 Pulling everything out of the stocking.

He finally got the Jessie doll from Toy Story.  He's been wanting this one for a while.

 You can see that he's one happy little guy.  He tells us that he got everything that he "needed" for Christmas.

 Gotta get a closer look.

 This is the Dragon Castle.  He's been asking for this as long as he's been asking for the Bat Cave.  So glad Santa was able to bring him one because otherwise we would have never heard the end of it.

 Our next stop was at Aunt Sherrell and Uncle Keith's for lunch.  As always we had some good food and my favorite hashbrown casserole.  Austin got a dinosaur and a Sonicare toothbrush.  Here he is with Uncle Keith.

And of course here he is with his only living great grandparent, Mamaw Margie.  Austin just loves Mamaw Margie and in her words she thinks "he's the stuff"!  Like I said earlier he is a very much loved little boy and we are so thankful for that.

Our last stop of the day was at Kim and Chris's for Austin and Abby to exchange gifts.  Austin was conked out when we got there so we ended up laying him down on the bed and letting him get a little sleep.  We went ahead and let Abby open her gifts and just let Austin open his when he woke up.  I didn't get pictures because I had left the camera in the truck since he was asleep.

Christmas 2010 was wonderful and we are so thankful and feel so blessed to have so many people that love our little man.  He is definately a special little guy and we love him so very much.