Christmas 2011

Wow, what a wonderful Christmas we had this year! The snow on Christmas morning looked beautiful on Granny & PePaw's wreath and I thought it completely captured the beauty and joy of Christmas. Sure the presents are great, but the best part is speninding time with family and thinking of all the blessings God has given us.

Mom and Dad moved into a new house this year, and I loved their new tree.

Since my birthday is so close to Christmas, there's almost always at least one picture of me opening birthday presents in front of the stockings.

The stockings at Mom & Dad's were also beautiful. Christina has a stocking on the end...we can't wait for her to join our family in May!

I love this picture of Avery and me with MeeMee & PaPa.

Bryan was tickled with one of his new presents!

I loved how Dad stacked all of his presents up in his lap! He must have been a really good boy this year!

Mom got a new bead for her Pandora bracelet...a cute bead of a house since they moved into a new house this year.

Here we are at Granny & PePaw's house on Christmas Eve.

Look at these 2...don't they look great!

And here's Terri with a great picture of Avery & Christina! Granny always loves pictures of us...she sure grows a pretty garden with them!

MeeMee & PaPa's stockings always look beautiful. Even Emma (Rick's sweet puppy) got her own stocking this year. So cute!

When there was still a lot of snow on the ground the day after Christmas, we decided we had to go sledding! It was really fun!

Admittedly, I was not the best sledder. Dad got the record for the longest sled ride!

I think Avery wins the award for best form. The backwards hat really gave him an advantage with his aerodynamics.

Bryan was working on his manuevers before he went to the big hill.

Avery and Bryan invented a new sled/football combo. Bryan (since he looks so much like Tony Romo) was the quarterback and Avery was a wide open receiver on a sled. We won't talk about the completion percentage...although it was actually pretty high.

Here goes Bryan on a world record run. Look how steep that hill was! Yes, that is a small creek down there...Bryan actually skipped across it. It was unbelieveable. None of the rest of us were brave enough to actually try it.

And here he is making the hike back up. I'm actually not sure which scared me more and prevented me from trying this hill...the steepness (and speed) of going down, or the fact that you would have to hike back up that monster hill.

We are looking forward to a wonderful New Year as we embark on 2012.