Saturday, December 25, 2010

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.

Merry Christmas...

from our family to yours!

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Sunday, December 19, 2010

The Big Day...

For Amanda that is. Saturday the 18th was her long awaited wedding day and she made an absolute beautiful bride. I didn't get many pictures as I was busy trying to keep the little man in a calmer than normal state! So here are the few that I did get.

Austin and Amanda.  He was too busy to look at the camera!
Austin and his cousin Mackenzie.  She was a flower girl.
Looking handsome in his tux.
He looks a like a little gangster to me.  All he's missing is a black hat!
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Friday, December 17, 2010

Pre-School Christmas 2010

Austin's pre-school Christmas party was today and everything went really great!  They all got to decorate their own Christmas tree ornament and they enjoyed that.  What they wanted the most though was the treat bags full of candy, but that wasn't happening til time to go home.  So here are a few pictures from the party.

The ornaments I made for each of them with their pictures on them.

 The Group.


 Austin and Owen

The ornaments that they made hanging on the tree.

Group picture which Austin didn't want to be a part of.  He was having a bit of an attitude at the party.

He finally wanted to get his picture made, but he wanted it by himself.

Cookies

Austin helping me make Christmas sugar cookies. He even has his own rolling pin and cutting board to roll his cookies out on. At least he'll know how to cook if the need ever arises!


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Sunday, December 5, 2010

The Greatest Show on Earth...

On Saturday my sister-in-law and I took all the grandkids to Little Rock to the circus!  It was an awesome show with a lot of acrobatic stunts!  The kids all had a good time.  Thank you Mamaw & Papaw for buying all of us the tickets!  So here are a few pictures from the day.





Mikey, Scooter, Ayla & Austin.  The three boys fought most of the day.
You would almost think they were brothers.






And I'm not even sure where to start here.  Mikey picked out these rings at Chuck E. Cheese with his tickets.  I have no idea why, but he was sure proud of them!
Maybe he's going to give them to his girlfriends at school?!?