Christmas Eve 2008

This Christmas Eve we spent over at our friends, the Walker's. They invited us as well as the Taggarts, and the Robinson's. It was really fun. We had a yummy dinner and had fun hanging out. The boys thought it was great. The Walker boys Jace and Kai have 7 light sabers, could it get any better? This really helped make our first Christmas away from home a special one.

Alyssa did such a nice job. The tables looked so cute. I didn't get a picture of the adult table, but look at the kids table.

After we went home the boys were able to open their Christmas PJ's from Pp and Poppy. Isaac opened it and immediately said, "oh just what I wanted". On Christmas he told me these were his new favorite clothes and he wanted to wear them all the time, but that he would take them off to get them washed as needed.

Getting the cookies and milk ready for Santa and the reindeer. They got sugar cookies, oreos, milk, and even some cheese.

I think Beckam ate more than he left on the plate!

Just checking.

Pictures of the tree and presents pre-Santa.

The boys got to watch a little of The Christmas Story before crashing. Then Sam and I stayed up for several more hours getting all the last minute things done to be ready for Christmas morning.

Beckam's Weekend Birthday Bash

For Beckam's birthday this year we decided to take a little weekend trip. It's hard to know what to get you child for his birthday when it's a week before Christmas. I think we had found a great alternative. I think we may have to take a fun little trip for Beckam's birthday every year.

After just a few short hours we made it to our hotel the Edelweiss in New Braunfels. The boys were excited to open presents. But we had to take a quick cookie break first.

Beckam got lots of fun presents all of which his big brother helped him open.

Dad, Isaac, and Beckam trying out the new "Quadzilla" aka a marble run.

The next morning we didn't have any plans for the day so we hopped in the car and started to drive. We took the road along the rafting river and made plans to come back to try that out. It was a really pretty drive. Then we drove out to see the dam and the reservoir.

The boys helping mom walk down the trail to the water.

I don't think my boys could ever get sick of throwing rocks...

...and more rocks...

...still rocks.

Hanging out near the water. We even built our own little dam.

Isaac also built a computer. He found just the perfect rocks. He even found one to be the mouse. Everyone had to try it out.

After playing with the rocks by the water we hiked back up to check out the dam.

The boys found these all along the way and thought they were pretty cool. They would run and then stop at the next one.

Isaac told us he worked at the dam and even found his rock key that he was going to use to open the gate.

I love to take pictures of my boys.

After the dam we went back into Gruene ("green") and after Beckam took a 15 minute nap we went and found some lunch. We ate at the Gristmill. We had a fun table that had a great river view and the food was really yummy. Then we walked around Gruene and check out lots of the cute shops.

We got back to the car just in time for a quick snack break and then we were off to our evening activity.

Isaac was so excited to see Santa again. The first time he had only asked him for the whole Star Wars and had forgotten about Kung Fu Panda. So he was excited he had a chance to redeem himself.

Beckam had the same reaction both times he saw Santa this year.

The boys loved the hay maze. They kept going through it over and over and we even had to go back a second time before we left.

That night we took the boys to Schlitterbahn. It's a huge water park just outside of San Antonio. Instead of water and slides. There were tons of Christmas lights, Santa, and some fun things for the kids to play on. This was the initial reason for heading out this direction and I have to admit is was kind of a disappointment. They made it look a whole lot cooler on their website. Although the boys did have lots of fun, we were very happy that we had had so much fun during the day.

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The week of Beckam's birthday I was in charge of playgroup. Since the weather had been rainy all week we ended up at McDonalds. We made rice crispie treats for everyone and Beckam even got a few gifts. Thanks.