This year we spent Christmas Eve and Christmas day with my family here in Allen. We continued with the tradition of going to Christmas Eve Service and then the whole family eating and spending the night at my parent's house. Christmas was so much fun for Bryson this year! He was totally into every aspect of the day: giving, Santa, food, family and of course Baby Jesus! He loved it! Jaden was such a good boy too! He was just so layed back and relaxed watching everyone opening presents! It was a great couple of days!
The day after Christmas we headed to Temple to spend a few days with Matthew's family! We had a good 3 days of more family, food and gift opening! The kids always have so much fun when they are together and this Christmas we had two new babies with us! 
When we got home from Temple we quickly unpacked, washed and repacked for our annual New Year's Eve Roomie Reunion! This year we were all going to Cynda's brand spankin' new house in Oklahoma City. Josh and Lacey came to our house Thursday and then we all left Friday morning for OKC! It was great to spend a couple of days with the girls, their hubbys and kids! I love how our friendship is so simple and easy! The way it is supposed to be!
When we got home from OKC Sunday, Matthew immediately started getting ready for work on Monday. And so it began...back to the grind for us all!.January sure did fly by! I don't even know what all we did b/c it went so fast! All I do know is that we had several days of the month where atleast one person in the house was sick! Bryson had the stomach bug, Jaden had strep (the youngest patient his dr. has ever had to have strep) and Matthew and I both suffered with congestion and nose issues! We did have a nice snow storm during the month too and the boys enjoyed playing in the rare North Texas snow!
Track season has started up and Matthew's Saturdays are starting to be consumed with track meets so we decided to be spontaneous this past Saturday (it was 75 degrees...today it was 16 degrees) and take the boys to the Zoo! We hopped on the train and spent the afternoon looking at all of the animals and being amazed at how smart our Bryson has become!
Today, we were home ALL day! The roads are covered in ice and schools were cancelled today and tomorrow. It's nice that we are all here together but it would be nice if we could get out and do some things as a family! Oh well, games and movies it will be!Well, that is just about it for the last couple of months! I am in the process of planning Bryson's 4th Birthday Party! It is in about a week and a half! I'm sure I'll blog about it! Until then...
