Christmas Pictures

I did not do a great job of taking pictures at Christmas this year. It makes me a little sad, but then I think that I must have been having too much fun to document every single thing! Our "Christmases" started on Christmas Eve morning at Jeremy's parents. It seemed to be quite a feat to get Cason to actually sit still for a picture. He has been in rare-form (also known as: completely whacked out of his mind crazy) lately, so this is a good picture of the two of them in front of Nana's tree!

The only other two pictures I took that morning were of Cason trying out his new sleeping bags. He didn't quite get the concept, so he dove in head first....

Then he decided to just lay on the floor and put it on top of himself!
Luckily, with some help from Cassidee, he's mastered the sleeping bag now, after many movie nights on the living room floor lately!
Christmas Eve afternoon / evening was spent with my side of the family at our house. We have the tradition of eating tamales and chips and queso, watching White Christmas or other Christmas movies and playing games. My favorite game this year may have been Mad Gab and the "dis-solve of the peas" phrase of the year!!! :)
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Christmas Morning! Santa Came!
And Cassidee and Cason sure did rack up this year. Santa must not have been watching Cason too closely this year--or he gave him the benefit since he's only 2!!!

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Cassidee's highlights:
Pink Barbie Escalade
Set of 10 Disney Princess dolls
Texas Longhorns cheerleader uniform
Leap Frog Tag Reader books
and from Santa -- Toy Story Woody and Bo Peep

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Cason's highlights:
John Deere Gator
CARS Mater remote controlled car
Buzz Lightyear light-up/sounds wings
Toy Story 2 & 3 figurines
tons of CARS cars
and from Santa -- an 18 wheeler that holds Hot Wheels + 2 monster trucks

And this is the best by far....

(Jeremy captured all of this on video, which will make great black mail some day....)

Cason ran down stairs first and made a bee-line for Cassidee's pink car. He got in and started "driving." As soon as she got there she kept telling him to drive his tractor, but he was almost impossible to get out of her car. He kept screaming, "I want the pink car! I want the pink car!" I think Jeremy didn't know whether to laugh or cry! Luckily he understands now and loves his "tractor" and loves driving it while Cassidee drives her "jeep!"

She has already spent countless hours with those princesses!

And yes, if you look to the left of Cassidee you will see Cason's football helment and jersey by Cassidee's cheerleading uniform. He doesn't love to wear it much since it's a little big, but he sure does hit hard when he has it on!

Cass was so proud of herself for picking out Jeremy's present. She was very certain that he wanted a Slinky Dog so that daddy could play "Toy Story" with her and Cason!

Cassidee (and everyone else) also thought it was funny when Grandaddy put the present bows on his head and he kept saying that he looked just like Blayze! :)

Another big hit: Cassidee's tu-tu from Evan and Kelsey!

Cason's favorite present was anything CARS related!

And sweet baby Blayze knew exactly what to do with her purse and lipstick!

Merry Christmas from 3 of the cutest kids I know!

And Merry Christmas from the Broom's!

And before I'm late on this too....

HAPPY NEW YEAR!