Merry Christmas!

We have been preparing excited for Christmas Day for a month now.  We started with building a real ginger bread barn with Aunt Tonya and Lewis right after Thanksgiving. 
 
They had so much fun and I think we learned that next time we will just use graham crackers.  Our ginger bread roof kept caving in, but the boys had a great time! 




Kaden has really been super excited about everything Christmas this year.  It's the first year that he really "gets it" and isn't scared of Santa Claus.  He LOVED helping put up and decorate the Christmas tree. 

Daddy, Kaden and I did this little craft foam tree from Target for Kaden.  This was his very own tree he could decorate however he wanted.  He really had fun sticking the ornaments on this one!



I think Daddy even had fun!

Our front door nativity wreath, I just LOVE this piece. 

I bought this Santa at Home Depot several years ago, and I just love him, he is perfect for a country Texas family!

I have quite the collection of Mary's Moo Moo's figurines for Christmas.  I have enough to do a whole tree in cow ornaments.  I didn't get that tree up this year.  But, I did get some of my favorite pieces from the collection out.  I just LOVE this!

This is our count down to Christmas!  I want to get a different activity calendar for Kaden to do next year.

There are little hints of Christmas all over our house, and I just love it! 

I love my Christmas tree because all of my ornaments are ones that have been given to me each year since I was a child.  Most of the wooden, hand painted ones are my favorite.  They were made by Billye Kovar, my Dad's  neighbor as I grew up.  They had a wood shop and she painted and sold all these wonderful wooden treasures.  I have so much from Billye and they are so special to me.

I love these two that she made,  The Heart of Christmas is Christ, and the old country church ornament. 


Here is our Living Room arranged for Christmas.  I love our new wood floors!

Our hand made stocking my Mother-In-Law made.  Love them!

Kaden's finished foam tree! 

A quick trip to Bass Pro to see Santa!

This picture that follows of Kaden with Santa is a very long story, and it is NOT the best picture, they gave us one that is much better, but I was happy to have this one after the ordeal we went through to get his picture made.  Let's just say we probably wont go back to Bass Pro again for Santa.  On a happy note, Kaden was excited to see him and told Santa he wanted a Lucky Horse. 




We will share Christmas morning here soon and all our Christmas parties.  We hope you all have a Merry Christmas! 

We are Thankful...

This Thanksgiving Holiday, We are thankful for this precious little red headed boy, Kaden Angus, who is the light of our life.  And Kaden Angus has a Thanksgiving message of his own to share!

This shirt was so much fun to share with our families!  I didn't get a really good picture of him because they wouldn't be still long enough.  My sister Tonya and I found out the SAME day that we are expecting a baby and we are only about a week apart!  July babies!  We are SO EXCITED!!!

Kaden is two months shy of 3 years old and Lewis is five and a half.  They are the same size!  And, both gonna be big brothers!

My little Pumpkin

This is our third year at the Pumpkin Patch.  This patch is less than 2 miles from our house, and we just love it!  The first year we went Kaden was only 8 months old.  The second year, he was 20 months, and then this year, a little over two and a half!  I can't believe we have already been going for three years with Kaden.  This year, the drought has really taken a toll on the Pumpkin Patch.  You can see in all the pictures the scorched pastures.  We desperately need rain here! But, they still have the cutest opportunity for pictures there.  And, Kaden was in LOVE!!!







































We had a TON of fun at the Pumpkin Patch!  I am so thankful for my family this fall.