I guess I'll start back mid November. Last time I blogged the Allen Eagles were heading into the playoffs. We had an awesome first round winning 35-0 but unfortunately fell short 35-34 to Southlake Carroll in double OT during the second round ending our season the Saturday before Thanksgiving. I must admit it was nice to have Matthew home for the week, but I would've loved to be playing football into December! We traveled to Wichita Falls for Thanksgiving and spent a few days with my grandparents and the rest of my family. Very nice!
The weeks between Thankgsiving and Christmas are a complete blurr! I have no clue what I did during that time other than shopping and eating! Once school got out we began our travels for the Christmas Season. We started off by heading to Temple for the day for Matthew's extended family Christmas. It was really nice this year b/c Bryson was old enough to entertain himself and I kind of got to relax a bit and watch everyone else play volleyball. Next year won't be so easy though! : ) We came home early Sunday morning and spent the next couple of days getting everything ready for Christmas. Bryson was completely into Christmas this year! He loved to talk about Santa, he will tell you the REAL meaning of Christmas and he loved shopping for everyone and helping to wrap the presents! It was awesome! We had our Christmas celebration at my parents on Christmas Eve morning with everybody! It was great! I love watching the kids open their presents! I loved seeing Bryson's face when he looked on the fireplace and saw the blue Allen Eagles helmet that he had asked santa for! Priceless!! After our breakfast we got back in the car and headed to Temple for Christmas. (Jans, Crystal and Julianne headed to Wichita Falls and got stranded in the horrible blizzard for 17 hours! Can you imagine being in a car with a 15 month old for 17 hours!!!) It snowed on us a bit on the way down to Temple and a little bit off and on all day when we got there! (Of course Allen/DFW had the first "White Christmas" since 1925! We missed it!) We spent the next few days with Matthew's parents, sisters and their families! It was a lot of fun and Bryson had a blast playing with his cousins! We headed home the Sunday after Christmas and actually got to spend 2 days at home just the 3 of us. That was really nice! We took down Christmas decor, cleaned out and gave away clothing and toys, found a place for new clothing and toys, and found a little time to just relax!
For the last 5 years, we have gotten together with my college rommates and their families to celebrate New Years. We have rotated from house to house and this year it was our turn to host it! Everyone has a kid now and 2 of us are getting ready for our second so you can only imagine the fun we had! 3 boys (almost 3, 2.5 and almost 2) and 2 girls (10 weeks and 8 weeks)! Love it! We did decide that we need to start researching places we can rent out to hold us all! We are getting too big! But in my opinion...the bigger the better!
Well, Matthew started back to work today, Julianne came back, and we are trying to get back into the swing of things! We'll see how it goes! BTW...only 17 more Saturdays until our new addition arrives! Kind of freaks me out a bit...but we are very excited to be a family of four! Enjoy the pics!
