Christmas Morning 2009

This year, we bought James the DVD of The Polar Express. He fell in LOVE with this movie and I kid you not, watched it every day, sometimes more than once a day for WEEKS! The premise of the movie is the kids that are of the age where they are questioning Santa's existence, ride the Polar Express to the North Pole to meet Santa. And the TRUE believers can hear Santa's sleigh bells, if you dont believe, you cant hear them. James was infatuated with the bell that the main little boy in the story ended up getting from Santa to take back home with him......so luckily, Santa "found out" that James wanted a bell of his very own......

Well guess what? Christmas morning, i was downstairs just in time to hear Santa's sleigh bells up on our roof as he was leaving our house...and I ran up to wake James and Daddy...and told James Santa left him something special downstairs........yup, you guessed it! His very own bell from Santa's sleigh! So this first picture below is of James picking up his bell from Santa near the chimney where Santa left it for him...he was thrilled!!!
Finding his special bell from Santa near the fireplace

Star Wars poster from Santa

and another Star Wars poster from Santa...

Star Wars Legos....are you sensing the trend, that the boy is TOTALLY into Star Wars right now? He ended up with a new comforter for his bed too and a big ole star wars logo for his walls, glow in the dark stars and solar system for the other wall....his room ROCKS now, its awesome!

Loving his pillow pet from Auntie Berta....he falls asleep with this every night!

James and all his loot

The other kid (Bailey) opening up her bone......she pranced around the room with this for a good 5 minutes showing of...swear she prances around like a little horse! LOL!

James suddenly remembering to check the plate to be sure Santa had his cookies, and Mommy read him the note Santa left.....

Christmas Eve 2009

Christmas Eve...lets see, oh yes! We baked special cookies for Santa and James was so excited to leave them out on the special plate for him with some milk...and to write him a note all by himself!!! As you can see from the pictures below (and the note he left for James in return) Santa LOVED them! Great job James!!! :)

Mommy and her boy

Daddy and James

James reading me a story before bed dressed as "Santa"...hee hee

James' note and Santa's special cookies and plate

The note Santa left for James and the few crumbs of cookies he left....

Presents under the tree, and stockings stuffed from Santa's visit after James was fast asleep......

Soooooooo behind on this blog!

Ok wow.....I did not truly realize that the last time I updated this blog was BEFORE CHRISTMAS!!! What the heck? Well now that I am laid up in bed sick with some crazy viral something or other, and have been running fever for over two days now (tapering off some today, hoping it will break completely here soon).....I decided to grab the laptop and sit here and catch this thing up!!! May not be as detailed as I usually do, but here goes......

Its beginning to look a lot......

...like Christmas!!!

Freddy spent the day putting up the outside lights, so now its all done. Pics below....James chose the reindeer this year for the yard...lets hope his fate is better than ole Frosty we had last year...he was taller and did not fare well with the constant wind we get across our yard from the lake...spent more time on his side than upright and burned out the blower motor on him....if this one dies out, we are DONE with inflatables from here on out...we shall see!!! In the meantime....enjoy! :)

Snow In Houston...before Christmas even!

I have been lucky enough to have seen snow TWICE in Houston since I moved here just over 7 years ago. First time was for James' first Christmas in 2004, when we woke up to snow on Christmas morning...that was pretty neat! Second time was last year pretty close to Christmas and that was fun since James was old enough to get out in it and play etc.

Well it snowed in Houston for my THIRD time in 7 years yesterday! I was home sick yesterday (not quite walking pneumonia again this time but was headed that way...I sound like a barking dog...not a good thing!) but being home and all, I was able to bundle up real good and get outside for just a few minutes and get a couple pictures of our winter wonderland. Check it out! :)

Mommy's Angel

I cannot believe how BIG my kiddo is getting! He is so tall and has truly blossomed over the last year or so, it just blows my mind. Particularly the last few months since he started Kindergarten, he has just learned so much and holds full on conversations with us (what a HUGE CHANGE over a year ago, for any of you that have been around James in person). Every day it never ceases to amaze me some of the stuff he will come up with and talk to me about now, I just LOVE IT!!!

Love these pics I got of him while at my mom's house...sitting in the recliner at my mom's looking so big and grown up....and my sleeping angel crashed out on Grandma's couch...all that is missing from those shots is a halo over his head (which, would be held up by the horns that show up every now and then! HA!) I love you James, and couldnt be any prouder of you and the strides you've made the last year if I tried! :)

Grandma's Christmas Tree

On the day before Thanksgiving, my mom decided that she wanted to get her Christmas stuff out and have James help her decorate while we were there...since we were planning on getting up and bugging out early the Friday morning after Thanksgiving..no time like the present!

James had a BLAST helping Grandma get out all the ornaments and decorating her little tree. Its killing me that her tree is 4 and a half feet tall, and in some of these pics, James looks as tall as the tree! I know he's not yet, but danged close...boy is growing like a weed I tell ya. ;)