Gifts & Golf

Gifts from Christmas at my parents' house.  William got a golf set and loved playing with his cousin's paper 

jamz guitar.  Isabella got some shin guards.  I great time was had by all.

Gingerbread House

The kids made a Gingerbread house.  They worked so hard on it and did a great job.

A Quick Christmas

This is a picture of the great-grands on my mom's side.

Christmas Morning

Christmas...  We have always tried to really focus on Jesus' birth as the real reason we celebrate Christmas.  We have done well with that until this year when the kids really got hooked on Santa.  I still don't talk about Santa unless he is brought up by one of them.  I certainly don't like to ask, "what is Santa going to bring you?"  We give the kids the majority of their presents and "Santa" only brings a few small gifts.

The kids slept in our room on Christmas Eve so we would know when they got up on Christmas morning.  I love the looks on their faces when they came around the corner.

Dressed for Sunday morning church to go and celebrate Jesus' birth with our church family.  This is the smile we often get from William.  Isn't is cute?

Cardoza Christmas

This year we decided to allow an Elf on a Shelf to visit us.  His name is Chippie.  The kids had a great finding him every morning.

We spent time with Matt's family before Christmas this year.  We all spent the night and enjoyed our time together.  The kids had a ball playing together. 

  

Ansley, Isabella, & Andersen

 Ansley & Isabella

They love each other!

Pogo sticks for Andersen & Ansley from us. 

Making Christmas crafts

Playing with the train

A Griswald Christmas

Matt & Michael enjoying their annual Griswald eggnog.

May-Cardoza Christmas

Every Christmas we get together with our good friends the Mays to celebrate.  We try to let the kids decorate something, usually dessert, eat dinner, open gifts and just hang out.  The kids have a blast.

This year they decorated cupcakes.

It was Logan's first Christmas!

We had a little jumping/flying action going on too.

Kiddo picture

I wish I had Connor's first expression and response videoed!  He was so excited about his glove!

Once upon a time...

December 15, 2001

There was a girl who met a guy.  They fell in love and the rest is history.

Matt and I were married on December 15, 2001.  It was a beautiful day!  We enjoyed having our families and friends there with us as we celebrated our love for one another.

This is one of our photos from our wedding album.  Thank you Mercer Harris for your work capturing our day.

This is our 10 year anniversary.  We took a big trip back in October during my fall break to Cabo San Lucas.  It was also wonderful to spend a week together with no responsibilities.  Here's to the next great 10 years!