Happy New Year!!!

Trying to get Savannah and Bo to sit still for a picture! Pretty funny! Savannah is wanting in my arms and Bo is trying to run away!

We managed to get a descent one though!

Savannah and her friend Jayden

The kids table

Savannah LOVES baby Aubrey! Savannah loves ALL babies!

Daddy and Savannah doing sparklers together

We had a wonderful time at a Pre-New Years party at our friends house. I say "pre" because we all had our children with us so it was going to be an early night. Of course, even without the children I am not sure I could have stayed awake until midnight these days! Anyway, it was nice getting to socialize with our friends while letting the little ones run around together. They are all close to the same age which makes it nice. We stuffed our face with some yummy food and delicious chocolate fountain!! I think I ate too much chocolate : ( I am going to relax on the couch for the rest of the evening and watch the ball drop on TV ( if I am still awake). I hope everyone had a happy and safe New Year!!

Our baby is growing up!

Tonight, our little girl poo-pooed in the big girl potty. No, I had not planned on potty training her yet, I felt she was still too young, but am thinking about it now. Actually what happened is she was in the bath tub said "poo-poo" and then I saw a couple of bubbles come up from the tub. I said to her "you need to poo-poo" and she told me "yes". So I asked her if she wanted to go on the big girl potty and she stood up and screamed "YEAH"!!! So I put her on and well....there you go....she did it! I can't believe it! Now I need to decide what I am going to do about this. She has a huge fascination with the big girl potty right now and thinks it is very cool!!

Merry Christmas!

Savannah with Oma and Uncle Clay

Savannah with Oma and Opa

My mom letting Savannah try out the big girl potty

Our gift from Savannah...ornaments that said "World's Best Daddy & World's Best Mommy"

Savannah watching her new Praise Baby Video

Savoring the taste of my Lowery's peanut butter creams

Taking a Christmas nap

Savannah and Uncle Steve

Mom, Aunt Debi and I in our matching Christmas Jammies

The Family

Emmy

Singing "Happy Birthday to Jesus"

Sydney and I

We are back home after spending time with both my parents and Joel's parents. We had a wonderful Christmas! It was great to see my aunt and uncle from Oregon. And it was a blessing that they got in on time with all of the winter mess out west. Savannah enjoyed being center of attention and playing with all of her new toys. By the way, she is now an opening present pro. She found one last present under our tree this morning and came running to me with it in her hand saying "open...open". She has come a long way!!! She finally understood how fun it was to open presents. I am now looking forward to organizing our house to find room for all of the new toys.

Too Funny...Had to share!

So since we are going to be at my parents on Christmas eve and Christmas day we decided that we would let Savannah open up her presents from mommy and daddy tonight. She also had an early visit from Good Ol' St. Nick. He left her a play kitchen. She really seems to like it. Well later we took her downstairs to open up presents from us. Her first present was a Shake N' Go dog car. She really liked it and kept saying "again...again". The more you shake the car the further it will go on its own. She didn't really care to open any other present. She was very satisfied with the one she had. I opened a little section of the next toy and pressed a button that sang the ABC's. That got her attention and she came to look. It was the Leap Frog Magnetic ABC's that she always plays with at our neighbors house. She took off with them dancing and singing. So cute. After a while I chose another present from beneath the tree that I knew would be a hit. Again, I opened a small section of the toy and pressed a button (it was a cash register). She heard it and knew exactly what it was (she plays with one at the little boy's house that I watch). She was THRILLED! This was her FAVORITE toy so far. She played and played with that thing. It was getting close to her bed time so I thought I would try and encourage her to open another toy. I pulled another package from beneath the tree and said....

Me: "Savannah do you want to open another present" (in a very excited kind of voice)

Savannah: "No!" and continued playing with the cash register

Me: I begin to open a little corner of the present trying to convince her...."OOoo...what is it"

Savannah: "Nooooo!" she screams....takes the present out of my hand...walks over to our Christmas tree and puts the present back underneath

Joel and I looked at each other...shocked...and began cracking up. I guess she is more than happy with the toys she has and doesn't think that anything can top them!

Gingerbread Houses

We decorated our annual gingerbread houses, trains, and trees at my parents house this past weekend. Savannah enjoyed the icing and candy corn. My mom also bought some adorable aprons for the girls this year!

Christmas with the Mason's

My mom very proud of herself for shooting down a bottle!

Sorry mom...but these pictures are just too funny!

Emmy LOVES to feed Savannah

Yikes!

My cousin Brooke and Savannah

"Here Uncle Ray-Ray I will share with you"

The Mason crew...minus my grandparents. We miss you : (

Had a hard time getting a good picture of all the cousins

Little Cowboy Noah

Charity (Chi-chi) and Savannah

We had our first Christmas gathering tonight with my extended Mason family. We had a wonderful time. My parents got my cousins boys' a target practice where you shot at these plastic bottles and they would pretend to break. It was very cool and as you can see from the pictures it was a huge hit! It was very chaotic tonight with all the kids (and noisy adults), but very fun. It is always great to get the family together. I wish we were able to do it more often. My grandparents were unable to make it down for Christmas this year. We really missed them a lot. We love you so much, Nanny and Pawpaw!!