Christmas 2010 In Reverse

There are so many pictures in this post that I feel sure my 2 loyal blog followers (the Grandmas) will be the only ones reading by the end of it! The way I downloaded the pictures, they go in reverse order, so we will all have to stretch our brains to see Christmas in rewind!

Luke LOVES his Buz PJs! Back at home, winding down from a very fun visit.

One more story time before we say goodbye:

Santa brought Luke the coolest train set!

Daddy... get in on this before Momma steals all my Christmas sugar!

Aunt Jamie makes the best french toast in the world!

Debbie lost her wedding ring years ago... Dwight secretly replaced it this Christmas with a beautiful (and I mean beautiful!) set! It was fun to watch it all unfold!

Giving $$ is still fun!

Dwight and Debbie are in housing limbo... Debbie made do and Santa still knew where to drop our goodies!!!

Luke got his very own Woody!!!

A Santa Sack with socks?!!! That silly Santa! The soccer ball and books were a much bigger hit.

Aunt Jamie makes sugar cookies every year... Luke helped. She tires at icing them, so I have stepped in, in year's past.

Christy got 6 bowls dirty to keep all of the icing colors separate! Ha! Her cookies turned out prettier than my brownish purple iced cookies... you are hired!

When we arrived to Chris and Christy's house, we saw a fire truck! Granddaddy took Luke up real close to get a look inside!

When they left, they turned on their lights for Luke!

The Christmas Eve service was beautiful... we got to hear the preacher who married us deliver the sermon and Luke did great all the way until the lights went out for the candles. The music was so pretty- a night to remember for sure!

The best full length picture I got of Luke... he had a train applique vest over a red plaid shirt. Cutie pie!

It works out nicely that both of our family's go to the same church, so we got to do this together (as in almost every year we have known each other). Here is the group at Papasitos afterwards!

At the Allison household, Granna dressed Luke so Santa would not miss us! These are his Santa shoes!

Christmas kiss!

Making cookies with Granna:

Santa filled our stockings early! He somehow always finds us!

Army guys:

Opening presents was really fun! Luke was a great helper running from person to person to open every EVERY last one!

Riding his big boy tricycle from Granna and Pops:

Opening cars from Honey:

A quick hug and then he was OFF to play!

Breakfast with Honey:

On our way to Houston, we stopped in College Station to see our Buddies, Ben and Tiffany... we took a run through the Holiday in the Park too! Luke and I twirled around under the big Christmas tree:

Daddy recalled in his younger years jumping up and touching the rim of this basketball goal... he thought he would try again, so he stretched out real good

AND.... (got close!) Ha!

We had a great Christmas... I will certainly miss the age of two!

Memaw Visits

I had training in New Jersey for a week, so we called on Memaw to be my stand in while Brent had class at night... she did a great job, as always! They made gingerbread men:

Luke thought rolling the dough was so much fun!

They played cars:

They went to see the fish at Cabellas:

And they loved on Horsey:

Aunt Jamie came up for the weekend and got some hugs too!

It was a good feeling to know my boys were well taken care of!

Santa 2010

So, we thought we would do it up big this year and go see Santa at the Gaylord- we were pretty sure Luke would throw a fit that would cost us $15, but hey, no Christmas is complete without seeing Santa!:

Walking into the Gaylord

EASing into walking toward Santa... the trains were a big hit!

Waiting in line to see Santa... filling up on cookies makes us all happy!

I'll have to scan in the actual Santa picture, but Luke was a CHAMP! Brent bent down and narrated through what would happen while the kids in front of us went. When it was Luke's turn, he hesitated for a second then walked right up and sat in Santa's lap! Santa asked him what he wanted for Christmas and he said Cars! I am sure my mouth hung open in shock as I watched my little boy being so brave! I am a proud Momma!

Directly after the Santa encounter, Luke was so excited, he started doing cartwheels! What a ham!

While we were there, we thought we would try to get a Christmas picture... we had a lot of out- takes!

Here is about the last one before we were all D.O.N.E!

Merry Christmas!

PS- The following week, Santa visited Luke at day care-- when Santa walked in their class, all of th kids except Luke and one other boy were crying... Santa gave them all books and on his way out the door, Luke gave him a big wave and said "Bye Santa" like they were BFFs! Ha!