Christmas in Dallas

This past weekend we went to Dallas and had Christmas with Jay's family. It started with the big family get together on Saturday. All of the kids get a present, and this is Andrew scoping out the other presents that he thought were way better than his:


Aunt Mindi is very happy!
Saturday night we had our gift exchange with Jay's immediate family. Andrew, of course, got tons of stuff!



He thoroughly enjoyed opening the presents this year. After he opened all of his, he then proceeded to open all of mine. He's such a great helper. Then Sunday morning while I was making breakfast, Andrew opened his Pop's present! I re-wrapped it and explained that it wasn't his...I'm not sure if he cared. We spent the rest of Sunday just lounging around and enjoying spending time with family.

Dylan Kane

Yesterday my little sister had her second baby, Dylan Kane. He weighs 6lbs. 7 1/2 oz. and he's 18 inches long. Isn't he adorable??

Since my sister had a c-section, I decided to take my neice, Alyson, off of her hands for her until Friday. Andrew and her are having so much fun together!

Andrew's First Awards Ceremony

This past Sunday night, the precious praise choir got to walk across the stage and get their award for memorizing hymns (which Andrew did not, but they had pity on the little guys). Let me tell you that when they told me Andrew would be doing this, my heart stopped. Andrew LOVES, I mean, LOVES to be on stage. So I just knew that he would never get down once he was up there, but he surprised me once again. They brought them in the sanctuary all together, as seen here:

When they called his name, they led him on stage and he got his trophy (with his name engraved and everything!). He then turned around (wish I had a picture, but the camera malfunctioned) and just looked out at everyone and smiled. He started to protest getting off the stage, but then miraculously just came down and sat with Jay and I. We were very proud of him.