Wow! Time flies.

I realized today that is has been a PROHIBITIVELY long time since I blogged. The holidays got away from us I guess. We very much enjoyed all of the holidays in our neew home with family all around. We have visits from the Cooks (coming from Austin) and Kevin's mother and grandmother (from Tyler and Nashville respectively). Of course, we spent time with all of my local family as well as my mom and stepfather in from Houston. Busy, busy, busy.

Colten had a great time with Christmas this year. He really loved seeing all of the Christmas lights around town, and he was super excited to bake cookies for Santa Claus. Even now, he says when we bake cookies, "Santa Claus cookies?" We aren't really grasping the fact that Santa comes once a year.

We have had a couple of rounds of snow (nothing major), but Colten really loves to look at the snow. It has been brutally cold with lots of wind both times, so we unfortunately haven't really been able to take him out to play in it.

On a random other note, do you like my new background? I chose it to (1) warm me up (it is freezing here) and (2) because it inspires me to hang in there for May when Kevin and I are making a trip to Key West for our 10th wedding anniversary/our best man's wedding. It should be a nice trip. We will be gone for five days/four nights, which will be the longest I have ever been away from Colten. I'm hoping that is not as awful as I fear it will be.

I'm going to do my best to blog more often, even if it is about mundane things. Until then, enjoy some pictures from over the holidays and such.



Like my shades?


Crashed out watching Veggietales



Playing "Colten's games" on my iPhone