Merry Christmas!

We had a great Christmas this year!! It was a lot of fun because of the fact that Bryson seemed to understand the excitement of Santa Clause coming this year. On Sunday last weekend we went down to San Antonio to spend time with my dad's side of the family at my aunt and uncle's house. They have 2 little ones, and so it was fun for Bryson and Finley to have playmates that day. Finley enjoyed climbing up the stairs over and over again, and looking through the doggy door, and we hardly even saw Bryson, he was so busy playing.









On Christmas Eve we went down to San Antonio again to spend time with Mike's family at his parent's house. Bryson had fun decorating cookies that Mimi baked, with Aunt Kerrie. Finley roamed the house, and loved to give herself kisses in the mirror that is in their hallway. Bryson loved to tear through the presents. His big dump truck was so cool!









We drove home later in the afternoon so the kids would take their nap during the car ride home. When we got home we made cookies for Santa, and placed them by the fireplace before Bryson headed to bed.



After the kids were in bed, the Santas got to work wrapping presents and putting together the kitchen that Santa was to drop off completely put together (until 1 a.m.) and then we finally hit the sack, only to wake up early enough to wait for Bryson to walk out and see things, so we could get a picture of his face.



On Christmas morning, when Bryson came out to the living room, he was excited to see the kitchen! We went in to go wake Finley up so that they could start opening presents.







And, open presents they did....









Later in the day we went over to my sister's house, and spent time with my side of the family. It was there that Finley started walking, on Christmas day! :) She has previously taken about 1 or 2 steps without holding onto something for both Mike and me, but we had her walking between us across the living room over and over again. She was so proud of herself, and it was so much fun to see her taking steps! We had a good time, and it was a nice finish to a great Christmas season for 2008!