Happy New Year

With a two year old and being 6 months pregnant, we decided to have a low key New Years Eve at home this year. Katherine liked the hats and noise makers. She would yell "Happy New Year" and give us a kiss. She made it until midnight, we watched the ball drop in Time Square, she liked that so much we watched it three times on the DVR. We had lots of snacks all night and she was out by 12:20pm. I celebrated with some sparkling grape juice! Man I miss margaritas at this point!

We had a great 2008 and look forward to a even better, but more hectic 2009!

Christmas

Katherine really enjoyed Christmas this year. She was very excited about Santa coming, the Christmas tree, and Christmas cookies! We went to a lot of Christmas parties and she got a lot of really great gifts. She was disappointed after about 6 days, there were no more gifts to open. She got really sad when the lights were taken down and the Christmas tree was gone.

I'm a big girl now

Part of Katherine's Christmas gifts was a "big girl" bedroom set! Yes, we said goodbye to the crib, it is now in the baby's room. The first night she only slept half the night in it, but each night after that she slept a little more and more. Now she sleeps all night in it. She loves to lay in bed and read her books and play with her toys. Now if we can just get rid of that pacifier!

Gingerbread House

Matt and Katherine had a blast making their 1st gingerbread house. Though with Katherine making it, there was hardly any candy to decorate since she kept eating it all! She was very proud of her creation. That day we also made Christmas cookies. SUGAR OVERLOAD!

Snow in Texas

Yesterday it did not get out of the 30's all day, not very normal for Houston. On my drive home yesterday, I went through some real light snow flurries. After we ate dinner, we had really big snowflakes falling. They weren't sticking to the ground where we live, but my parents house had a good amount stick the ground and cover their whole yard.

Katherine had fun trying to catch them, but after about 10 minutes, she was cold and wanted to go watch Dora.

It was a nice surprise two weeks before Christmas. Some of the pictures around town are amazing how much snow some people got, makes my pictures look a little sad!

The bottom picture is from my parents house since they had a lot more snow.

Christmas Cookies

My work had a Christmas party for the kids this weekend. They got to decorate Christmas cookies. Last year Katherine was not very interested in it, but this year she loved it. She was VERY concentrated on decorating her cookies. They had candies out to put on the cookies, Katherine would put one on the cookie, eat one, put one on the cookie, and so on.

She seemed to really like decorating with the blue icing. Which was fun when we got home and let her eat it, then we had blue icing everywhere!

Matt enjoy himself too! He was trying to make a really nice one, but Katherine soon took that over and put her own flare on it. Somehow I walked away with the most mess on my jeans!

Santa showed up with some gifts for the kids. I was surprised to see Katherine was very excited, stood in line, and went right up to Santa, sat next to him, and got her gift. Last year.. she had little to do with Santa.

Christmas Tree

Friday night, it was nice and chilly, and we decided to go get our Christmas tree. We always said when we get a two story house, we wanted a big tree, well we got our wish this year. Our tree is about 11-12 feet tall. It didn't look that tall when it was out in the field at the tree lot, but the size really showed up at home. I am very impressed Matt carried it in all by himself. At the tree lot, it took 3 men to carry it!

We had to get a ladder to help with the lights and ornaments. But it was all worth it, it is the most beautiful tree we have ever had. Katherine loves to turn the lights on and sit and stare at it. She gets mad when we have to turn it off.