Christmas w/Nanno & Papa

We celebrated Christmas with Dennis's Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles and cousins on the Sunday before Christmas. There were about 50 people there in all! I think the great grand kids are about to outnumber the kids and grand kids combined.


Cora and her cousin Tate...he's about a month or so younger than her.

Cora really needed to take a nap, but all the rooms were occupied and there was way too much action going on for her to sleep...so I decided to take her to Nana's for a nap. Well, we had to wait on the visitor that was coming by tractor!

The surprise visitor...

The only way we could get a picture with Santa was for him to sneak up behind her.

Of course I am still in the picture!

Most of the little kids (and some parents) with Santa.

There was a major paparazzi in the yard when Santa showed up!
And the rest stayed n the porch.

David, Santa and Dennis

Nanno and Papa and their kids.

Eyes, Ears, Nose & Toes

Cora loves to sit on the front porch. It has the perfect height step for her to sit on. Saturday morning we were working around the house and she wanted to go outside, so we did.Since she was sitting so pretty in her unmatched play clothes, I figured I would capture all the body parts she knows so far:

Where's your nose?

Where's your eye?

Where's your foot?

Where's your mouth?

Where's your ear?

Where's your hand?

Sitting pretty.

Ok and this one was classic - she was filling her diaper. She was working hard on it.

Christmas w/The Seely's

We always have a little Christmas with The Seelys. Normally we do it over Thanksgiving weekend, but since we didn't end up in Dallas this year, they came to us. They stopped by on Friday evening on their way into town and saw our house...Cora had already fallen asleep by the time they got there - any other night she would have been up until 9, but that night she was out by 8! So we went to The Wolfords Sunday morning and spent some awake time with them.

Uncle (Papa) Den Den and Aunt She She

Papa Den playing with Cora and her new toys.

OJT Christmas

All of our camping crew got together to celebrate Christmas. It was a great idea and thanks to Mike & Julie for hosting. The kids had a ball and so did the adults!
Luke was teaching Cora all about chocolate candy in the candy dishes...too bad Mommy was too close by and stopped it before she consumed anything!

Cora and Bella sitting pretty.

Cora thought she would help Luke open his gift.

Bella helped Cora open her gift.

Some of the girls - Kayla, Morgan, Bella, Cora and Reagan (Brynna is in the background)

Cora playing with little Bella.

We did a White Elephant gift exchange amongst the adults...and this was one of the cleaner gag gifts.

And we celebrated Julie R's b-day!

All the Adults

All the Kids

HCA Christmas Party

We went to the HCA Christmas Party at the Hilton in north Houston. It was a very nice party and we had fun. This was also Cora's first night away from Mommy. It was hard, but we all survived!
Alexis and Michele Pavlis.

Bass Pro

We went to Bass Pro to take some pictures of Cora at their Santa set up. I had heard the Santa was pretty old and creepy, but we figured we would try. He was very old and very creepy, so we didn't wait in line. We took some other pictures though.

She didn't like this funky chair.

Coloring with Daddy.

Daddy can't wait for her to be old enough to go hunting.

Da Da

Daddy was outside working on a project for me and Cora was trying to get his attention by banging on the glass and smooshing her face up against it. Really cute - as always!

Texas Snow

We got a little bit of snow down here. Cora had no clue and really wasn't impressed with it. She was cold and wanted to go back inside...sounds like her mommy! It was her first snow and Daddy was excited to show it to her.

This was the beginning - we ended up with about an inch or so when it was all done. Not much was left in the morning though.

Big Girl

More big girl pictures. She loves to read books.
She propped her feet up on this pillow.

She's wanting to go outside and look for Da.

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