Anniversary in San Antonio!

Cheers to another wonderful year! Happy Anniversary, honey. I'm so happy to have you!

San Antonio, here we come!

The Alamodome...Northwestern University and Missouri are playing here in the Alamo Bowl in two days.

The pictures don't do it justice, but San Antonio is absolutely beautiful, especially at night. There are hundreds of lights strung across the river and boats floating up and down, gorgeous! I just didn't have enough flash.

So remember the movie Miss Congeniality? You know the one, with Sandra Bullock. Well, this is where she did her water glass talent and spotted the guy with the gun. I'm standing in almost the exact spot where it was filmed. I thought it was super cool! Anyway, we passed by and ran into a pep rally going on between the two teams. It was so exciting even though I've never heard of either one of them!

The infamous Alamo.

Northwestern University's band.

And football team.


smOOches, Emily

Austin

While we were away everyone else took a mini trip to Austin to sight see. They visited the capital and some places downtown.
Texas capital building

Edy squatting in the flowers!

smOOches, Emily

Ice skating!

So we went to an ice rink on Christmas night and had a blast. I hadn't been ice skating in years and Lucy got her first experience. If you can't tell by the pictures, she absolutely loved it. She has never thought she was so cool before. It was fun to watch her light up about it.

look out Nancy Kerigan!

lacing up, well, kind of.

the ice rink

soldier boy

smOOches, Emily

I give up!

After sitting here for hours trying to sort through all my pictures and get them in order sequentially, I give up! It is too much work and I just don't have that kind of time. So you're just going to have to deal with them being out of order. They're all part of Christmas anyway!

Lucy telling Edy good morning Christmas morning and telling her that Santa came.

Edy registering she just hit the jackpot.

Lucy ironing the baby's hat.

band practice. (I gave JD Rock band for Christmas. Such a blast.)

Kait, Jamie, Edy

Cheese.

A Cheese.

More cheese.

Santa's snacks

A lil' note to St. Nick.

Matt and Edy

Lucy strumming the guitar.

Rudy's for Christmas Eve dinner, can we say, yum! And JD holding up a corny sign that he thinks looks like longhorns.

Now to the drums.

More band practice.

Surprise!

Grammy and Edy.

woof! woof! Charlie joined us for Christmas too.

Black Hole Sun, won't you come....

Before we broke into the presents Christmas Eve.

Poppa and his girl.

My mom, Aydin and me.

So sweet.

BILs

Grandma Grier (JD's mom) came to spend Christmas with us. It was so nice to have her.

Getting ready for the party! The new Dora vanity.

Lucy putting Daddy's necklace on...

...and curling his bangs.

profile pic!

The girls kicked Charlie out of his cage and took over.

Trouble.

JD and Denise

baking cookies for Santa with Aunt Holly.

Right after Santa dropped the toys off and left.

Christmas fun.

smOOches, Emily