White Christmas 2009

What a wonderful Christmas we had this year.  On Christmas Eve James spent the day working and Caleb and I were off to visit Santa at the mall and then came home right before the snow started to come down...it came down from about noon to 7pm!! We had 2-3 inches and since it was so windy there were drifts of over a foot... we still have some snow that hasn't melted yet and are expected to get less then an inch today! It was a white Christmas for us.  Caleb and I went out in the snow, it lasted about 2 seconds and then he wanted to come in, he was not having it.  

Our Beautiful House w/Snow

Caleb Wanting to Come Back In

After our adventures in the snow, it was cookie baking time.  Caleb helped me cut out all the sugar cookies, there was 2 dozen!

We also took some time out of photography sessions, he really gets into having his photo taken.

When James got off work we had dinner and were planning on waiting until Christmas Day to open gifts but there is something in the Wall blood that you have to open gifts early.... so we opened gifts.  

 

(yes, that really says 1,000 stickers)

 

After every gift Caleb had a play with each new toy! 

and when you need a little rest, just sit on the next gift to open 

On Saturday James parents arrived and we had a good dinner and then it was time to open more gifts.  

April was very excited to open her gift from us. :)

Caleb got more Thomas the Train..movies, books & a cup!

Where is Caleb?  He was helping Grandpa open his gift.... all you can see is his little hands!!

Spending some time with Grandma

The next morning we were off Grapevine, stopping at the Gaylord Texan (the most amazing hotel ever) and of course shopping at Grapevine Mills! 

Caleb & April

Caleb and Arinn

Our Family 

Caleb and Grandpa have a tradition that whenever we all go to Grapevine Mills, they ride on the carousal. Caleb loves it!  

Our Little Fish

Last Saturday Caleb completed his second swim lesson session and graduated from Waterbabies 2.   Thankfully, we have a few weeks off from swim lessons and will start up again the second week in January.  Caleb will be moving into the Waterbabies 3 class, where he will begin to have classes without mom! I'm looking forward to not having to participate in swim lessons. :) This next session is 20 weeks and after that he'll be on his own.  Of course the weeks when we don't take the camera he is wonderful and the weeks we do have the camera he's stubborn.