Christmas in the Spring

Quick re-cap of Christmas for us...

Christmas Eve we did the usual.  We went to my parents for lunch, church, pancakes, and gifts!  It was a great time with all of our family, and we had a new little one to share the experience with. (My older brother had another son, Chase Aaron, born in July)  Here are some pictures of the highlights!

Christmas Day Mason had some goodies from Santa to explore and play with, and then we had the grandparents (both mine and nick's parents) over for brunch and a few more presents.  This is a new tradition we are hoping to start.  Because my parents do everything Christmas Eve, all of Nick's family except for his parents are in Chicago, and we want Mason to still get to have a special Christmas morning at home, this worked amazingly well!  I really hope we can continue this for years to come.  Pictures from our fabulous Christmas!

The day after Christmas we went to Santa's Wonderland.  Mason had a blast!

Winter/Christmas

Finally getting around to share some of our holiday season!

 

 

Annual trip to the Christmas tree farm!

Mason loved his window decals! He played with them every single day!

Making cookies from scratch with our favorite people, Eric and Jackie!

We do a ginger bread house every year.  This year it turned into a huge family event that got very competitive.  We made a village and so much fun!  I especially love that Mason gets to experience things with all of his grandparents at once!

I will hopefully have Christmas Eve and day up soon!

Fall Fun

I am determined to do some catching up on the last several months!  Tons of pictures to follow...

Beautiful TX weather called for a picnic!

We spent an afternoon at the Museum of Natural Science...

Mason loved the dinosaurs.

Then, we had a picnic and headed to the zoo!  I love fall in Texas and how gorgeous it is outside.

It just isn't fall without a pumpkin patch visit!

S'mores on the fire pit...

We also visited a farm where they had tons of fall things to do.

Corn field maze

Giant slide

We painted pumpkins...

We had a pretty spectacular fall!  Up next, winter and Christmas!