Saint Nicholas Day

In our house, we have a tradition of putting our shoes outside our bedroom door, the night of December 5th, in hopes of St. Nicholas coming. He comes and fills them with goodies. Growing up, that was a tradition adopted while we were living in Germany. We've made that a tradition in our home now and enjoy it. Making it more of a German tradition, I've made an effort to find German candy and chocolate. Dawson will hopefully get to enjoy some German chocolate next year. Not fun being a kid who can't have milk...


Here's a link to read more on it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas_Day

Loving food!

Dawson is an awesome eater! He's loved food since day one of trying it at 4 months old. He's only really snubbed broccoli and bananas. He eats bananas now, but the first time wasn't quite the reaction as all his other firsts. We tried scrambled eggs tonight and definitely enjoyed them.

Christmas Cards

Christmas cards are made, addressed, stamped, and on their way!!! Growing up, we never did Christmas cards. My mom never had time, raising 8 kids, to do them. So, my this is my very first year doing them and I'm very excited! I didn't waste anytime getting them out either. I'm proud of myself. They turned out cute, but I think I will be going with a different company next year because I wasn't too thrilled of the printing quality. But I did them!!! I count that as success. People should be getting them - starting today.

FYI - Since this is my first year doing them, I only did enough for our families (brothers, sisters, parents, and grandparents.). Next year, I will do more and will include more people. Those that didn't get a card, here it is to share.

Family Portraits!!!

We got family portraits done this last month and they turned out really well. We LOVE them!!! We love them so much that we've decided we will do Bluebonnet pictures in the spring as well. Krista did such a awesome job!!! I'm not going to post many because we wanted to keep them as somewhat of a surprise for parents. I'll post a few of our favorites though. I love the faces that were captured of Dawson.