All growed up...

One of Braxton's new favorite playtime activities is to shave his face - just like Daddy. I am going to thank my Mom for this because I would never let him have the shaving cream at our house because I thought it was too messy... but she, as usual, always let him play with it at her house. Now it is our new daily ritual... thanks Mom!

So serious...

Recent cute pics...

A little random... but stuff we've been up to recently!

This picture is from his class Christmas party at Reading Friends - 2009 (shy boy)

Emma and Braxton at our annual Christmas exchange dinner at Brix

Emma with her new Fancy Nancy phone

Playing with legos at Mimi's with Britt and Alex

Roar... taking on his lego creation

New smile...

One of our favorite activities... playdough

So musical now...

Helping mommy shop!

Dinner with Chloe and Casey! Braxton taught Chloe how to play with playdough:)

New favorite thing to do in the car... watch movies! ROTTEN

With Kamryn and Dylan at Central Market

Playing at Emma's when Anneke was in town

Christmas time...

My little Reindeer

Christmas Eve at my Mom and Dad's... excited about his BIG present from Mimi and Baba Rick - a LEGO table!

Too cool...

Sweet Lucy

Christmas Morning at Our House... this year was extra special because Uncle Alex spent the night!

Uncle Alex - look at this!

Can we please do/open/play this next?

Time for this next...

My very own piano... Braxton says "Pie-ano" with his Texas twangy accent

Veigel house Christmas

Mom and Alex

Dad and Scott

Uncle Ralph and Aunt Jeffie

Mom and Grandma

More lego fun...

Beautiful Nativity my mom gave me that has children's faces on the characters

Playing with baby Harper's first baby doll...

Loving on her...

More presents...

Bauer house Christmas

Look at all these presents!

Me and Grandma Marj

Cool Plasma car his twin cousins gave him!

A big new kitchen in the playroom for all the grandkids

More Mickey...

Warming up by the fire

Showing his cousins his new Mickey computer

No touching, please!:)

Bedtime...

All in their pjs and ready for bed!

Santa at Shady Oaks - 2009

One of our family traditions is to go visit Santa at Shady Oaks Country Club and have brunch with family and friends. Santa and Mrs. Claus ride up in a horse-drawn carriage and all the kids patiently await their arrival. Then everyone sits on Santa's lap and tells him what they want for Christmas. For the record, Braxton calls it Chris-a-miss... which is so cute. This year he asked Santa for a dump truck. Go figure! And Emma asked for princess things in a box! It is so cute to see all the different reactions from children of all ages...

Here is Braxton on Santa's lap when he was 6 months old... precious baby boy:)

2007

Here he is the next year - not so thrilled!

2008

Here is this year's photo... when Mom and Dad have to be in the picture you know things weren't going so well...

2009

Santa saying hello to Braxton, Emma and Mimi Lyn

Being shy... or scared...

Saying hello to Santa's "Reindeer-horse"

Playing on the golf course...

Me and Francesca

Orchestrating our Santa photo OP's...

The Papini's

Emma and Braxton waiting for brunch

Mark and Francesca

Mom and Dad

Me and Scott

Scott and Juliana

Delicious dessert...

Rides in the carriage

Playing in the sand traps

How cute are they?

Merry Chris-a-miss to all!

Snowy fun -- Part II

So after the sleety-snow started falling the other day, the real deal started coming down and we had to change outfits to accomodate his freezing body... so into his Thomas rain boots, mittens and warmer clothing and back out the door we went. We had to take the soccer ball because who doesn't like to play soccer in the snow? And we walked over to the park to find all the neighborhood kids building snowmen, throwing snow balls, and living it up!

Check out these moves...

Precious face...

Singing in the rain...

Here is the first Snowman that Braxton has seen in person and he was wowed by it. He did ask, "Mom, where are his eyes?"

It's made of real snow?

This one has eyes, nose and mouth!

Home to take a nice warm bath...

Let it snow... AGAIN!

Well it snowed again today! And Braxton was so, so excited that we had to get out in it immediately and play. Can you see the pure joy on his face in the picture above when the snow/sleet just started falling? And my silly child wanted to blow bubbles in this snowy rain. That one was hard to explain... Here are some cute pictures from the first part of our snowy/sleety adventure. I will put the part II in another post!

Snowy fun this Christmas!

It was so much fun to have a wintery white SNOWY Christmas this year... We Texans don't really get to enjoy the snow very often and it usually isn't on Christmas! Quite a few people we know jet off to the Rockies or colder climates to have a white Christmas, but this year it came to us:) Braxton took full advantage of the snow we did have and wanted to run, jump, throw and play in it a lot!!! It was too cute... as usual.