January Recap

This month FLEW by.  Where did the time go?  I planed to post more than three times this month, but things - you know, life - intervened.  So, here's a brief recap and photo dump from the past month:

10 Months Old (several days ago!)

It's hard to believe the girls were *10* months old on January 12th!  In keeping with recent happenings, turns out we had a party to go to on the same day ... this time for our friends' son's second birthday.  So after spending a laid-back Saturday afternoon at home, we loaded up the girls and headed over to Gymboree for the party.

Happy New Year!

My, wasn't 2012 a whirlwind?  It ended on a good note (despite the rain and coldness of the day); we put the girls to bed, made an impromptu batch of chocolate chip cookies, and watched movies on HBO.  And, thanks to some people in our neighborhood, we watched live fireworks from the comfort of our own couch.

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!