How to Unwrap a Christmas Gift...

We celebrated our family Christmas on Wed night since we leave town early Friday morning. So we picked up Rachel from Daycare, had dinner and let her open gifts. It was a lot of fun. In this video she explains how to unwrap a gift, we love that when she sees the doll...her first words are..."hot dog!" She learned that from the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse show...then sits patiently as Daddy tries to unbox the Ariel doll. As she grows impatient she tries to open another but is told to wait...then as mommy grows impatient the camera shuts off... :-)

Getting Ready for Christmas

It is that time of year where we pull out the Christmas decorations and begin hiding gifts. Rachel loves Christmas, she talks about it and Birthdays all year long. She loves to look at Christmas lights...so of course we went all out this year. I even decided to let her deocrate the tree in Mickey Mouse rather than my beautiful Victorian Tree, but her smile is always worth it. I will try to get some pictures of the house up later, but for now wanted to attach some pictures of Rachel decorating the tree. Love the hat!!! Of course these pictures will also make it to our annual Christmas card along with some others...We have a busy month ahead of us, next week we go to Georgetown to see my mom and step-dad, then we leave Rachel there and Matthew and I head to Houston. We have tickets to see the Titans beat the Houston Texans! We are very excited. Then the week of Christmas we head out to Memphis for a couple of days to see Matthew's parents, and then swing down to Dothan Alabama to my sister and her HUGE family - husband Chris, and the kiddos - Allison, Nicholas, and Grant, and then of course there is Nellie the dog. Then we head back to Memphis for an overnight stay and then head home. Whew...December will go by so quickly. Oh yeah...and today we are driving to Lake Whitney to see my dad and of course Sebastian who we miss a lot...Stay tuned for more posts..since I am home now I hope to do this more often.