Christmas 2010 Part 1 - Flower Mound

This was the first Christmas back in Texas for Grammy and Papa, so we really enjoyed spending the holidays with them.

Christmas Eve

The boys opened a few little presents on Christmas eve from Grammy and Papa which got everyone really excited for the next morning.



Before we went to bed, we were serenaded with Christmas Carols on the trombone and piano.





After the songs it was cookies and an acrostic poem for Santa, carrots for the reindeer and a note about pouring the milk slowly out of the teapot. Then off to bed!





Christmas Morning...they got so much stuff!
Charles got this game he really wanted called Loopz


AND an air hockey table...that his brothers are playing.


Thomas going through his stocking goodies



And everyone got robes and slippers and marshmallow gun shooters...


Thomas got a new helmet


A $50 bill and an Ihome (for the Itouch he can now buy with all the money he has saved). Look at that expression!



Joshua got some great stuff too, books, a FLIP camera, a new jacket. For some reason he just didn't make it into many pictures.

That night, we went to Grammy and Papa's for Christmas dinner and MORE presents!

Despicable Me (in 3D) and a new book for Josh


A cool hat and a penguin pillow pet just to name a few.


And Charles got this humongous dog that we later named "hairy".



Whew...it was definitely a Merry Christmas!

Fall 2010

Halloween was a blast again this year. We carved pumpkins and went trick-r-treating as usual. Nothing out of the ordinary but lots of fun.


Thomas carved this Longhorn with no help!!! Pretty nice.


Joshua did this scary skeleton face and Charles did an old-school jack-o-lantern.










Thomas went as a UT Longhorn football player (notice a Longhorn theme with him)



Charles went as a policeman with big muscles...



And Joshua's costume was a bit of an optical illusion. He was riding around on his little friend's shoulders. He is with his buddy, Jeremy, who on a dare dressed like Cinderella.


We began the evening at our good friend's house, the Morales', with a little pre trick-r-treating party on the front lawn. Then all the little kids headed out together.



We spent Thanksgiving this year in Flower Moud. Danny and Tricia came into town with the kids too. For Danny's birthday we roasted hot dogs, made smores and had a little "party" at Grammy and Papa's house.



Thomas had to take a picture with uncle Danny because he turned 41 and that is what Thomas had on his shirt!

Uncle Danny is a big Longhorns fan too. He got this helmet for his gameroom.



Next on our list of activities was the ICE exhibit at the Gaylord. We had never seen this before although we always wanted to. This year was a Charlie Brown theme, which I LOVE! It was pretty amazing and fun to see. They keep the temperature at around 10 degrees, so they provide big heavy parkas to see the exhibit.




The Ice Slide!






Thanksgiving day was spent cooking, playing games, and eating!!


The boys enjoy some appetizers.


Grammy and the boys made these placemats one night a few weeks before Thanksgiving. And the placecards were Turkey cookies with everyones name on them. So cute!


Papa pretends to carve the bird!

And here is a shot of the kids table. The meal was great and it was fun to hang out with all the Wintons!!

Thomas turns 9!

We celebrated Thomas's birthday this year with dinner and presents at Grammy and Papa's new house, and then the next weekend he invited his two best buddies, Blake and Jay to go to Medieval Times and for a sleepover!

Grammy made a "monster" cheeseball for an appetizer.

Grammy and Thomas

Cake and presents!




New Bike from mom and dad!


Medieval times!


Thomas got Knighted




Our Knight (red and yellow) won the whole Tournament!


The boys reluctantly took a picture with the princess too. What a fun birthday!!!