Merry Christmas!!

We hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas!!

Christmas Decor

I love love love decorating for Christmas!! It is my favorite time of year!! I have especially been loving decorating a new house for Christmas!! Our tree this year is in the playroom upstairs. I decided not to put it in the living room this year because our ceilings are like 20 ft. tall and a 7.5 ft tree would look tiny in there!! I plan on trying to find a 12 ft. tree on sale after Christmas to put in the living room for next year.

I made all of our outside decorations! It took a couple of weeks, but I think they turned out great!!

Next year, I am going to make a really cute centerpiece for the dining room table. I just ran out of time this year, so I just used what I have been using the last few years. My grandmother gave me the santa on the bookshelf and I just love it!

Dining room decorations

Pantry door

Back door. My SIL, Kasey had a great idea of putting all of the new and old family Christmas cards on a wreath!!

Breakfast nook table decor.

Kitchen Island decor

I got this Christmas card idea off of pinterest and I love the way it turned out!!

The half bath door in the entry way. Henry, our elf on the shelf just happened to be on this door this morning!

Living room decor.

Willa Kate's girly tree.

Brady's tree

Our tree in the playroom!! Hopefully next year these decorations will be on a 12 ft tree in the living room and this tree will be decked out in cute kid ornaments!!

The kids have already gotten their big presents from Wilse's parents!

Willa Kate got this adorable retro kitchen and Brady got this awesome train table!! Brady was beyond excited about it and has been playing with it all day every day!!

Adult Vacation

The first of November, Wilse and I went on a 4 night cruise out of Galveston! The Grandma's flew in to keep the kids while we had a wonderful vacation!! Brady and Willa Kate were sick and we about didn't go on the cruise!! I took Brady to the doctor two days before we left and he had a upper respiratory infection! The day before we left he threw up a few times in the car going to get the grandmas!! He would just cough and cough until he threw up! Then that night he started breathing really fast, so we had to start giving him breathing treatments! Then the day of the cruise Willa Kate woke up with a runny nose, so I took them both to the doctor and sure enough Brady had to get on steroids for his breathing! I felt so much better and more comfortable about going on the cruise since we got Brady a prescription for steroids, because it usually only takes one dose to make his breathing much better! So the grandmas had to give Brady his antibiotics twice a day, steroids once a day, breathing treatments every 4 hours and his coughing and congestion medicine as needed and also Willa Kate the coughing and congestion medicine as needed!! Bless their hearts!! They didn't know what they were getting into when they signed up to keep the kids while we went on vacation!! LOL But like I said we ALMOST didn't go, but I knew the kids were in GREAT hands!! I mean we left the house at 11 that morning and the ship starting boarding at 12:30! We made it to Galveston at 1 and I even had time to stop on the way and get a spray tan:)

We had such a great time on the cruise and it was MUCH needed!! My psoriasis completely went away while we were on vacation!!! Of course it came back like the day after we got back :( I still called everyday and checked on the kids to make sure they were getting better and of course they were!!

On the cruise we had one stop in Cozumel and we just went to the beach and relaxed!! It was so nice to just lay out in the sun all morning!!

Halloween

We had a great Halloween! We went to a fall festival at Brady's school and we also had a block party in our cul de sac and then went trick or treating.

We ♥ Kindermusik!!

We are really enjoying our Kindermusik class once a week!! Brady and Willa Kate just LOVE it!! Here are some pics from our Halloween themed class!

If you are local (around the Katy, TX area) you should definitely check into Kindermusik with Kathy and friends!! They are AWESOME!!

Branson, MO

The second week of October we traveled to Branson, MO and met my parents there for a week long vacation. The weather was perfect and we had a great time!!

The first full day we were there we rented a pontoon boat on Table Rock Lake. It was such a beautiful day for the lake!! We all really enjoyed the nice relaxing ride! I couldn't believe Brady never really cared about the life jacket. I thought for sure he would have refused to put it on, but he didn't!

Brady watching the Branson Belle on it's lunch cruise.

Brady got really tired and took a nap.

Willa Kate also really enjoyed the ride!! She had a really long nap!

We went to a drive through safari park just east of Springfield. I went to this exact same one when I was a kid and loved it, so I wanted to take Brady! Here he is pacing with the snow tiger (A very rare tiger that has a few very faint stripes). It was the cutest thing ever! Brady would stop and he would stop and when Brady started walking again the tiger would start walking again and every time Brady would turn he would turn!! My camera died shortly after we entered the drive safari so I didn't get many pics.

Brady loves dinosaurs, so when I saw that Branson had a dinosaur museum, I knew we had to go!! We took about 100 pics of all of the dinosaurs and Brady loves looking at all of the pics!

An eagle we saw outside of our window at the condo one morning.

We went to silver dollar city one day and really enjoyed it! They had a lot of kiddie rides! I wasn't sure how Brady would do on them because most of them you had to be over 38 inches tall and most 2 year olds aren't 38 inches tall. There were a few that you had to be 40 inches tall and Brady rode those too! He loved every ride he went on! He even went on the little roller coaster 4 times!!

Pumpkin carving

Riding the frogs that hopped!

Brady's fourth time on the roller coaster!

Wilse got so tickled riding the pirate ships because they went soooo fast and Brady was mashed up against him saying "wee" and "yay"!! LOL

He doesn't look to thrilled riding the swings, but when he got off he had the biggest smile on his face!! He said that he loved it!!

Huge sand sculpture

Lots of pretty pumpkins.

We also went to a dinner show at the Dixie Stampede that was a lot of fun! Wilse and I went to the Titanic museum one afternoon while the kids napped! It was so neat! I am so glad we went and saw all of the artifacts! We had such a great time and I can't wait until our family vacation next year!!