Santa: Round 2

About a week ago, Micah and I had a morning date with Santa at Color Me Mine, a paint your own pottery studio.

 

 

 

 

Santa read Twas the Night Before Christmas and visited with the children. 

This will definitely be the last year we visit two Santa's in one holiday season.  Just one week before our date, Micah had a visit with Santa at our church.  So when Santa asked again if he had been a good boy and what he wanted for Christmas, Micah looked at him kind of funny.  He had that "didn't we go over this last week?" look.  Despite his confused look, I think we're still believers. 

After all of the excitement with Santa, Micah got to decorate ornaments, a plate and his favorite-- COOKIES!

Happy Holidays From The Deens

I'm not sure if I'll make it back here for more updates before the holidays, so I'd like to wish a Merry Christmas to all of my readers.

 

Another Reason I Love Texas

 

Here's a whole bowl full of reasons I love Texas.

 

It's December and we still have fresh tomatoes right out of our backyard garden.  Sadly, this will be the last bunch we get this year.  Tom and Micah picked these on Saturday before we had our first hard freeze last night.

Breakfast with Santa

My parents extended their Thanksgiving visit with us so Tom and I could go to Tom's company Christmas party and spend the night away from the kids at The Four Seasons Hotel. 

..But our fun night out meant we would miss the annual Breakfast with Santa at our church.  My parents were kind enough to wake up super early, dress the kids, and wait in line for the fun event.

I'm so proud of Micah for not being afraid of Santa this year.  He sat on his lap and talked to him.  Silas was a quite the opposite.  Perhaps in about 3 years he'll change his mind too.

Silas' Party

Now that Thanksgiving has passed us and we are now preparing for Christmas, I suppose it's time to share about Silas' birthday party from October 26th.

 

We kept it low key.  It was just the four of us at the celebration at our house.  We ordered pizza and enjoyed some cake. 

He really liked the balloons.  He stared at and played with them for several minutes before he was interested in the cake sitting in front of him.

...But he finally got into the chocolate cake with all six of his teeth.   

 

 

Happy 1st Birthday Silas!