Thursday, March 14, 2013

Christmas 2012

We had such a nice Christmas morning AT our OWN HOME this year!  Don't get me wrong, I LOVE being with my family, but it was nice to be home in the morning and let Laila open gifts.  My mom and Darrell and Granny came over to do gifts with us since we were going to spend the rest of the day at D.J.'s mom's house.

Christmas Eve Service at Church

Christmas morning at home!

Got some new dress up from Grammy and Popo
Those are actually my slippers but she wouldn't accept that

 
Laila and cousin Hunter

Chasing each other, their favorite thing to do, back and forth, back and forth

Playing iPad with Mamaw

Merry Christmas 2012!

Pre-Christmas 2012

We mostly stayed home this year for Christmas.  Before Christmas Day, we visited D.J.'s dad, Julie, and little brother Colton.  Laila always has so much fun playing with Uncle Colton.






Cruisin'!

Before we got pregnant with Laila, D.J. and I took a ski trip to Breckenridge, CO.  Kind of a last trip pre-baby.  So naturally, we did the same thing this year since we knew we wanted to try for baby #2 soon. 

My sister and her husband went with us on a 5-day cruise to Progresso and Cozumel.  It was so much fun.  They are so much fun.  It was great to get away, kid free, for just a few days. 
On our way to the ship
 Leaving Galveston

 My friend/co-worker Sarah and her boyfriend also went with us
 At dinner
 They are so cute

 A natural spring fed watering hole in the Yucantan

 We are the 4 sitting and all those other people photo bombed us, LOL

 Carvings in a Myan tomb
 This sets up the next picture. We were eating lunch in downtown and we notice that people in the Yucatan are very, well, affectionate in public...see the couple in the background to the right?  There were at least 3 other couples in the park behind us macking down, like seriously. 
 Trying to be like the locals LOL
 Benjamin and D.J. being adventurous
 This is in Cozumel.  We took a picture in this exact spot 5 1/2 years ago on our honey moon.
You can't see the name of our ship, but this is the Carnival Triumph.  Yes, the same ship that broke down with all those people in the middle of the ocean.  Our cruise was about two trips out before that one happened.  As is turns out, we ended up having engine problems on our trip too, only we couldn't sail home as fast as we usually would and we got home 8 hours late.  We didn't have any power/food/water problems though thankfully! I'll take that over being stuck at sea with no power or bathrooms etc... its sad that they knew this ship had problems before and they still went out.  I'll never go on Carnival again.  

Christmas Lights!

In years past, I could never convince D.J. to put lights on the house.  It takes alot of time, blah blah. Well this year, I had help convincing him from our friends/neighbors.  So it started with one little idea to make our little circle cool with some lights around the sidewalk and lights on the house.  Justin and D.J. can't do anything "little" though so it turned into a big project. BUT, it turned out GREAT!!

Little helper 
 
 
 After the guys got done, this was the entrance to our coldesac, pretty cool!

I've known the manger scence since I was a kid. Every Christmas I would look for it at grandma's house. Now I get to put it out every year in my own. My favorite manger scene. Maybe be the smallest but holds great significance.




Thanksgiving 2012

We had a lovely Thanksgiving day out at Aunt Rhonda and Uncle Nick's house
 Most of the cousins
 Trying to give some food to Faith
 playing outside

 
 
One last picture with Laila and her cousin, just too cute not to share
 
 

Houston Zoo

It has been years since I went to the Houston Zoo and I have to say, it was awesome!  My sister, Laila and I met my cousin Rhea and her two girls there.  They had a blast.  The zoo is so clean and pretty and big! We spent hours there.  I definitly want to try and go more often!

 Perfect shot with a smile!
 Cousins!



 Silliness!

Texan Football

Laila likes watching the Texan's games with me.
We like to dress up and match haha!
 
Now anytime any football game is on, she starts yelling, "Yes! Yes! Go! Go!" and then she'll thrown in a random "Aw man!" Its too funny.
 
D.J. suprised me with going to a Texan game this year. So much fun! Can't wait till next season!