Christmas!!

 Daddy and the kids at Bricktown

 Mommy & Daddy at Bricktown

 Trees at Chesapeake...beautiful!!

 This is the cool tent little R got from Grandma & Grandpa

 Making Jesus' birthday cake!!

 Putting out oats for the reindeer

 Putting cookies out for Santa

 The finished product!  I think Jesus liked it!

 The tree overflowing with presents!

 The stockings were hung...

 Christmas morning, about to sing Happy Birthday to Jesus, and eat some yummy cake!

R got a train table...he LOVES it!!

I LOVE Christmas, and this year did not disappoint!  We had a quiet Christmas morning here at home which was great!  We got to see LOTS of Christmas lights this year, a visit with Santa, visit from Grandma & Grandpa, dinner with friends, and we even got some quick visits in with family in Arkansas and in Oklahoma.  And it was really neat to introduce little R to all our holiday traditions, and he actually participated and enjoyed them all!  All in all, a great Christmas for our family!

Artistic kids

 This is R's Spider!

 This is R's "catapitter"

 And of course he had to draw a Monster Truck!

 This is T's Christmas cake made from Play-Doh

T and R working hard!

Little R has never had any interest in art projects at all.  At school, he usually declines participating in the craft project each day.  He can't stand getting his hands dirty with paint or anything like that.  Well, at school he has discovered Play-Doh, and now he is all about doing "artsy" things!  He LOVES Play-Doh, loves to draw on his Magna Doodle, and now he even loves to paint with his watercolors!  Although, he still has NO desire to finger paint...too messy! : )  I'm not sure why A isn't in any of the pictures...she loves her art projects, too!

Visit With Santa/Neighborhood Sleigh Ride

We are loving our new neighborhood!  The girls have already made a few friends right here in our cul-de-sac, and our neighbors are great!  The neighborhood also has quite a few pretty Christmas lights throughout it, and the HOA does a horse-drawn sleigh ride through the neighborhood to look at the lights.  They also had Santa here for the kids to talk to.  We weren't sure R would have anything to do with Santa...he usually wants to stay as far away from him as possible.  But this night he talked to him, told him what he wanted, and even gave him a "high five" when he was done!!  I was so proud!!  He wouldn't sit on his lap...I had to hold him, but that is still tremendous progress for our little guy!!  It was SUPER cold that night, and I don't like cold, but all in all it was fun experience for all of us!

Schnauzers are SMART dogs, right? Right?