Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas, Happy Birthday Jesus!  Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas.  We have really enjoyed our holiday and hope everyone is doing well. 

Here are some pics - you can see Carly's excitement.  She really loved all of her dress up clothes and had to strip down in my grandparents' living room to try everything on immediately.  It was quite entertaining.  Brady has quietly soaked everything in and enjoyed all of the attention.  It's a good thing he likes to cuddle because he has felt the love.

Almost Christmas

Everyone at our house is excited for Christmas and our celebrations have begun.  We celebrated with Jon's family over the weekend and Carly is having a blast.  We hope everyone's holiday is off to a great start and we wish you all a very Merry Christmas, God bless!

"It's Christmas time"

All I can say is that Christmas is magical with kids!  Carly is so excited this year.  Someone asked her this morning what she wanted Santa to bring her and she replied, "Presents for Brady."  I thought that was so sweet.  She is filled with excitement and runs around the house yelling, "It's Christmas time."  It makes me excited and full of anticipation. 

Hope everyone is enjoying the preparations for Christmas and the New Year!

Holiday Season

Sorry it has been so long . . . We have been busy enjoying the holiday season. Since Thanksgiving we have been to Silver Dollar City with Papa and Grandma Willis. That has been the highlight of the season so far. Carly loved the huge Christmas tree on the square. She is also really interested in trains at the moment, so the train ride was a big hit, along with the singing. She even got Papa to ride the frogs with her. That was a true Kodak moment!

Carly is much more interested in everything Christmas this year. She loves the Christmas tree, despite the fact that I tell her not to touch it at least ten times a day. One day she was very clever. She picked up Elmo, looked right at me, and started to make Elmo's hand touch the tree. It was so hard not to laugh, because it was so obvious that she was testing the limits and putting me on the spot.

We were also able to visit the Magic Tree (http://www.magic-tree.org/) in south Columbia, a very unique attraction.

This week Jon started his vacation and celebrated his 30th birthday on Monday. Unfortunately, there wasn't much celebrating. Over the last three days we have endured a nasty stomach bug with nasty symptoms. I think we have it beat, but we are all ready to feel well and more festive.