Merry Christmas (early)!

We celebrated Christmas with my side of the family early this year. We had a great time! Everyone came to our house, except for Tony and Eric. They had to work and were missed! We ate, unwrapped gifts and played Chinese Christmas. It was a lot of fun! The boys played outside most of the day, it was a beautiful day! The neighborhood boys had fun playing with them as well.

We celebrated Christmas with the McClure's this year. It was so much fun! I'll post with pictures and details later.

Riley

Coltyn

Ryan, Mel and Twylah

Anthony

Ryan, Mel, Twylah and Lacretia

We also were able to meet Megan's boyfriend, Terry. He was a trooper hanging out with our loud, crazy family! :) He's very nice and we were glad to meet him!

Mark

Mel, Lacretia, Steph, Meg, Twylah, and Mom

Justin, Lacretia, Coltyn and Anthony

Steph and TJ

McClure Christmas

Christmas, this year, was spent at the McClure's. We had the best time eating, visiting, watching movies and of course, playing with Thayne! He is a blast!! TJ and I left Midland on Christmas Eve. It was so cold and had snowed earlier that morning. Jeremy, Allison and Thayne drove in from Amarillo. It took them 4 hours to get from Amarillo to Lubbock. Needless to say, it wasn't an easy trip for them. We were glad to see them pull up! TJ's grandparents got in later that evening. We ate and visited for a while. Of course Santa had come when we woke up Christmas morning. Once Thayne realized this, he had a blast playing with his gifts. We did too! :) We had a nice relaxing day enjoying each other's company and opening presents.

Santa visited Thayne!

He liked his work bench!

What a cutie!

Granny opening gifts.

TJ and Jeremy got John a guided fishing trip for 3 for his 50th birthday. John, his dad and brother went. He's commented before on the boys going with them. So, TJ got his dad, Jeremy, his PaPa, his uncle, and himself a guided fishing trip to be taken when the weather warms up. They are all excited about it. They will have to do it again when Thayne gets older!

John and Jeremy opening their fishing trip gifts.

PaPa opening his fishing trip gift.

TJ watching them open their gifts.

Debbie watching Thayne open a gift. Isn't she so pretty!!

TJ opening some tool I got him.

Thayne loves to be read to. It warms this Aunt, who teaches, heart! He got several books and wanted them read to him. He loves Elmo!!

Christmas was wonderful! We are so blessed with great lives, a wonderful family and fantastic friends. We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas as well!!

The rest of the weekend was spent hanging out and visiting. Twylah and Mel came in to visit and we shopped a little on Saturday. That was fun! TJ's grandparents went back Saturday and his uncle came in Saturday. We don't get to see him very often so it was nice being able to spend time with him. We all left Sunday. TJ and I made it to Midland long enough to unpack, repack and head off to Lincoln, New Mexico. I'll post more about that later.