Budding Monets

For Christmas presents to the grandparents this year, we decided to make pottery with handprints and footprints of the girls.  SO much easier said than done!  We went over to Cafe Monet, where you can paint pre-made pottery and then they fire/glaze it for you.  Pretty cool - I had never been there before, but had always wanted to go.

Recapping Christmas, Part III

Christmas Day in Dallas started off rainy and cold.  I ran over to Starbucks and grabbed all of us some warm drinks, and then we spent a leisurely day playing with the girls, eating some great food, and opening presents.  About mid afternoon, the rain turned into SNOW, so we ended up having a white Christmas!!!  It was beautiful (but I was happy we didn't have to go anywhere in it).

Recapping Christmas, Part II

On Christmas Eve, we went over to my parents house, and while we were there Annette came by to visit the girls.  Three Annettes in one house, and all born in March!  :)

Recapping Christmas, Part I

The Christmas recap is broken up into three posts, mainly due to all of the cute pictures.... ;)

We trekked up to Dallas for the Christmas holiday, and spent an enjoyable few days with Matt's family (since Thanksgiving was predominately Griffin-related, it seemed more than fair).  The girls loved all of the attention, and especially loved playing with tissue and wrapping paper! Abby, in particular, repeatedly attempted to eat the paper (she's a very intent little person). :)

Santa, Babies

Back in November, we took the girls to a mini-photo shoot with Santa.  The pictures were taken by Gwen (of Be True Photography - betruephotography.com), who also did our pumpkin patch pictures.

Fortunately, unlike our last visit with Gwen, Hazel wasn't completely against the idea of pictures, but overall she didn't seem to happy or thrilled with the idea.  Abs took a while to warm up to the idea, but soon enough she (not surpisingly) went into "full charm/smiling" mode.  :)

"Buh-Bye"

As Karen was leaving tonight (Monday), she said and waved goodbye the girls, as she always does.  This time, though, Abby said "bye" back!

Papaw Visit!

Papaw visited us the girls this weekend (on the way to a MTV hearing south of San Antonio).  They seemed pretty excited to see him.  He got to help feed Hazel, which ended up being hilarious for all involved.  And I took some cute pictures, too.  Of course!

NINE Months Plus Other Celebrations on 12-12-12

The girls are NINE months old today!  Where did the time go????  Seems like I was pregnant with them only a second ago.  And yet here they are, growing, smiling, sitting up, and about to celebrate their first Christmas.  

Hats, Redux

The girls received the cutest hats (and outfits) from my aunts over Thanksgiving.  With the cold snap this week, we tried them on for the first time...and of course, took pictures:

Visiting Cousins

Matt's cousin Amber, her husband Danny, and their daughter Naomi visited us this past weekend from Houston.  It was great to see them - it had been awhile, since we keep missing the annual family reunion in June (hopefully next year!).  They were able to meet the girls for the first time, and Naomi had a great time playing with the girls (and their toys).

DJ Abtronic & DJ Hazelnut

For the last month or so, the girls have been doing "raspberries," and Matt laughingly joked that they were "beatboxing."  So, without further ado, here are the little dj's in training.  (Not surprisingly, it is somewhat difficult to actually capture this on film...seems like every time you bring out the camera, the girls stop doing whatever it is you planned to film.)

The Food of Champions: Oatmeal & Prunes

Hazel and Abby tried oatmeal with Karen on Friday and prunes with us on Sunday.  Hazel took to both like a champ, but Abby is going to need time to warm up to the idea of food from a spoon, I think.