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| At our annual Christmas Party {hosted by wonderful friends!} Don't you love our Christmas outfits! Ha! |
Thank you for everyone who posted with well wishes and congratulations
for our new little Johnson! We are beyond excited and feeling so very
blessed for Liam to soon have a little brother or sister! I am about 12
weeks along now, and for the most part feeling very good =) Now, on to
our Christmas festivities!
We had a wonderful Christmas - actually about 3 of them! LOL. First, we
spent Christmas Eve at my parents house for a relaxing day of eating
and hanging out. Liam did get to open a few special gifts that day, one
of them being a cool remote-control robot from his Gigi that we all had
a blast with! It shoots little foam "washers" out of it's mouth,
dances, and walks - Liam loved it!
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| Opening his first gift! |
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| Robot! Trying to figure this guy out - I wish I had more pictures, but I started videoing it instead |
We came home Christmas Eve after a fabulous dinner (that I cannot take
any credit for, thank you Aunt Connie and Mom and Dad!), and put out
some milk and cookies for Santa and carrots for the reindeer. This is
the first year Liam actually understands who Santa is but also the real
reason we celebrate, Jesus' birth. It was so fun to do traditions with
him and they really be for his enjoyment and memories!
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| Munching on some cereal - waiting for mom to take pictures! And, Roxy is hungry too =) |
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| "Cheeese" face! |
Liam was up the next morning at his usual time, and I made him come and
sit in our bed while I went and turned all the lights on, plugged the
tree in and got the video recorder (a.k.a my phone) ready to record the
morning. And now I realize I don't have any pictures of Liam opening
his Santa gift! Only video =( Oh well. It's always been a tradition
in my family that the parents get up and go "downstairs" to put on the
coffee, turn the tree lights on and get ready for the kids to come down,
while the kids stay upstairs until they are told to come down. As a
child, this just added to the excitement for us (and was very hard to
wait!), so I hope to continue that.
We chose to just do two gifts this year, Santa brought his
and we gave Liam one present from us (and then his stocking of course,
but that doesn't count, right??). Liam received his "Octonaut Play Set"
from Santa and we got him a "Gup-A" to match. Octonauts is a show they
play on DisneyJr and is actually a British cartoon...SO, let's just say
Santa had to order his gifts from overseas this year and have them
shipped! LOL. But it was well worth the smiles and fun he has had
playing with his favorite Octonauts!
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| Octonauts Gup-A and holding the coveted Octonaut Alert button! |
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| Daddy putting together the Octonaut Play Set |
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| Cool Star Wars figurines from cousin Lukas! |
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| Enjoying his presents! |
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Christmas day we packed up mid-morning and headed up north (well, 30
minutes north! ha!) to visit Dustin's sister and her family. Liam just
loves playing with his cousins and the adults enjoyed playing with some
of the toys and enjoying yummy food all day! We were anticipating some
snow that day and I'm glad I packed a spare bag, because it ended up
snowing about 4 inches and the drive home was pretty much ruled out by
late afternoon. It was so much fun to see all that snow here in Texas, a
white Christmas doesn't happen very often here!
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| Cousins! |
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| Opening his Color Wonder set and Hot Wheels Mega Loop Mayhem! |
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| Putting together the "Mayhem" ha! It was very cool! |
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| Starting to snow! |
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| A couple hours later! |
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| Snowball fight! We decided it'd be best to go out in the back driveway so the wind wasn't so bad. It was VERY windy still, and still snowing wet, thick snow. We were all soaked in the 10 minutes we were out! |
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| COLD! |
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| Love this picture - too cute! |
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| Mommy snuck out of the garage to take a quick pic! Too cold for me out there =) |
And finally yesterday, we had our 3rd Christmas back at my parents house
with my brother and his family from Florida. It was so much fun with
my nephews and Liam - they always have so much fun together! And Liam received a lot of great gifts, (SO very blessed this Christmas,
is all I can say!). He loved all of them, and his nephew's gifts too
lol!
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| Great stocking gift - sippy cup with his name on it! Such a great idea! |
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| Another "cheese" face! And apologies for the blurry iPhone pics! |
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was one of Liam's favorite gifts {and a sweet memory for us too!} When
we visited them back in November, my sister in law read this book
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom to the boys and Liam just loved it. So she got
him his own copy - too sweet! |
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| Aunt Heather reading Chicka Chicka Boom Boom to Liam per his request - Liam's face is precious - He just loved it! |
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| Hess Helicopter - very cool gift! |
And a big thank you to my brother an sister in law for coordinating the
amazing personalized gifts this year for my parents and Gigi. When I
went to visit, she set up a photo session for the boys so we could give
my parents a good picture of all three of them together and ordered Gigi
a blanket with the picture. Very thoughtful!
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| Mimi and Bawbaw opening their gift from us - a sweet picture of all 3 grandsons together! |
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| The boys having car races down the hall! Crashing into each other and giggling the evening away! This is their favorite activity at Mimi and Bawbaw's house! |
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| And the annual Christmas PJ's picture! Cutie pies! |
After the whirlwind of Christmases is finally to an end, I look back and just am in awe at how truly blessed we are...I know I keep saying it, but it's never been more true. The Lord had just been 100% faithful, in His provision, direction, guidance and love for our family. 2012 was a great year for us, filled with changes, but we were always given a peace and purpose for the path we traveled. As 2013 holds more unknowns and new paths to travel, we are confident in this:
"The LORD is our shepherd, we shall not be in want.
He makes us lie down in green pastures, he leads us beside quiet waters,
he restores our souls. He guides us in paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Even though we walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
We will fear no evil, for you are with us;
your rod and your staff, they comfort us.
You prepare a table before us in the presence of our enemies.
You anoint our head with oil; our cup overflows.
Surely goodness and love will follow us all the days of our life,
and we will dwell in the house of the LORD forever."
Psalm 23
May goodness and love follow you for your 2013 and beyond - and may your cup runneth over!! Blessings to all our sweet friends and family for a wonderful New Year!
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