Christmas Day 2008

Here is Miss Lydia flipping the pages to her new wooden princess book from Grandpa Bob and Grandma Ruth.

Trying on mittens from Granny and Baba

Playing with her new tea set from Granny and Baba

A new doll house from Mommy and Daddy

Opening a new baby doll from Grandma Jan

Grandpa and Granny got Princess boots for Lydia - she had quite a time walking in them - of course, today the temp was 75 so we may have to wait a while to wear them :)

Lydia was so gracious as she opened all of her gifts. She "oohed" and "ahhed" for each gift she opened - it was so sweet!

Christmas Festivities

I will do my best to update the blog, but I was a little overwhelmed when I did my picture upload and it told me I had 155 pictures!!! Oh, my! We have had a busy week. This blog will have some of the activities we've done before or after Christmas - I will do another post with just Christmas pictures.

I love this picture with my little girl - at the Dallas Arboretum.

Here's the fam...from left to right...Grandpa, Granny, Me, Lydia, Matt, Aunt Krista, and Uncle JD

I love the look on Lydia's face as she's walking.
Here we are at the Gaylord Texan after visiting the ICE exhibit.

The Nativity at the ICE exhibit.

Grandpa and Lydia - all bundled up!

I love this pic - cute, cute!

An attempt at a Christmas picture...

Lydia with Grandpa and Granny

A picture that could have gone on Christmas cards, if we had done them :)

Daddy and Lydia

Mommy and Lydia

Cuteness Captured on Film

Above is our cutie patootie!

Lydia has learned to kick a ball. She is rather exaggerated in her efforts - she arches her back and lifts her leg rather high to kick it. She is getting better but it is so cute!



Here is Miss Lydia helping me make some chocolate chip cookies. She was much more interested in her pretend batter than the real stuff. She is such a good helper!

Our Christmas Design Assistant

"Hmmm...what would happen if I pull this sheet? Maybe I could see the houses a little better."

"Okay, you see the little high chair? That's the one I need...Just need mom to step away for a minute and it's all mine!"

"What? My hand is empty!"

Today we had the special task of putting up the outside lights. Okay, Daddy did most of the work but we showed up in time to help a little and to inspect the work that was done. Lydia is an excellent inspector - very thorough!

Our inspector was so helpful we had to contain her to the speedracer for the rest of her shift.

Here's a video of Lydia inspecting the lights. You'll have to excuse her little toots in the video :)