Texarkana Christmas Pictures

Well, we just got back today from Texarkana....we had a great time and I am posting some pics below from our trip.....4 more Christmas gatherings to go!!! (Jones side/Christmas Eve, Dad and Deb Christmas morning, Brown side the 26th, and with the Hodges family (Brandi, Greg, and Kylie) on Monday the 27th....
~K

Some Holiday Pics....

Below, I have attached some of the pictures that I have taken so far this holiday season (some of which I included on our family Christmas card this year.) I will post again with more Christmas pics and fun memories to share!

It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas!!

Well, it's officially time to start celebrating CHRISTMAS!! We are leaving tomorrow right after school and heading to Texarkana to celebrate Christmas with the Johnson side of the family. We will stay there from Friday until Monday and then head back to Mansfield.  I am looking forward to spending some quality time with both of our families for the holidays.  We started a new tradition as a family this year with our family "Elf on a Shelf"...... The kids named our elf "Clay" (They decided on Clay because that name had a "C" like Camden and then an "L" like Lydia....I thought that was pretty crafy) and are very excited to find where Clay has hidden each morning when they wake up. I am glad that they are having so much fun with it.

~K

Here are some pics from our ONE year anniversary!! David and I had a wonderful time and stayed at the Hilton in Southlake:

Clay, our family elf:

Clay

Right after Cam and Lyd named Clay...

Lydia found him on Day 1

Lydia found him on Day 2

Lydia's ornament exchange party with her soccer team:

Family Time at the Pumpkin Patch

We took a family trip to the Mansfield Pumpkin Patch today.....To tell you the truth, I was just excited about the photo opportunities that the patch presented!! Lydia is still way into the whole picking out a pumpkin, posing with the scarecrow, getting stickers, and taking pictures. Camden, on the other hand, is getting a little old for the experience. However, he does a great job of humoring me when I am telling him to smile for a pic every other minute.
Regardless, this will be a family tradition of ours for years to come....especially when we have a little tot of our own! :-))
When we got home, David and Lydia (Camden wasn't too impressed with the activity) carved the pumpkin into a jack-o-lantern. Lydia liked getting all of the "goo" out! The pumpkin carving kit I bought last year on clearance proved to be worth the $2.00 I invested when the blade broke on one of the knives after David cut into the pumpkin 2 times. Initially, the kids wanted the pumpkin to have two teeth....but, that didn't work out so well when D accidentally cut too far with the knife and one of the teeth was cut off. We decided he looked silly with one tooth....so, now we have a very happy toothless, smiling jack-o-lantern on our porch! :-)
David looked up how to roast pumpkin seeds on the internet, so after we picked out the seeds from the "goo"...we cooked them and now they are sitting on a plate in the kitchen and haven't been touched! Ha!
I am so glad that fall is here and the holiday season has begun. I look forward to Thanksgiving, and Christmas and all of the fun that those holidays bring!! Below are some pics from our pumpkin adventure! Enjoy!

~K










I bought my (plastic) pumpkin at Target....way easier!!!!

"The Toothless Wonder"

Lydia is currently calling herself "The Toothless Wonder."


This past weekend she lost both of her two front teeth. Today was her first day back to school since this exciting event happened in her life....she said that her friends were calling her a vampire and she did NOT like it!.

She saved the teeth until she got to our house tonight to leave them for the tooth fairy. And yes, of course, I took pictures of the event!

She had me type up a letter that was exactly word for word what she wanted to tell the tooth fairy. We read The Night Before The Tooth Fairy (a tradition we started....we read it every time she looses a tooth before the tooth fairy comes) and left her teeth under the pillow. She was so giddy before she went to bed...she kept on saying "I wish midnight would hurry up and get here!" Here is what the note said:


Here are some of the pics I took of us getting ready for the big night!:


I just love this girl!
~K