Visiting Pop and family in Texas

My Pop, who lives in Texas with my Aunt Shelia, had a rapid decline in his health. My mom and I flew down there to visit and see how he was doing...

My mom and my Aunt Shelia both standing behind my Aunt Cheryl at the VA Hospital in Dallas, Texas.

My cousin Ray and his family, Heather, Devon, and baby Reagan...

Devon and his baby sister, they are so cute!

It was difficult to see my Pop so sick but it was great to get to see him!

We also had the opportunity to visit with other family members while we were there. My cousins Carrie and Michael. I have not seen either one of them in almost 10 years.

Baby Reagan with her Auntie Shawna!

Devon and Seth...

It's great that Pop lives around so much family in Texas. It was wonderful to get to see him while we were there.

My Grandpa Allen and his wife, Marilyn, live in Ft. Worth. Unfortunately, we did not experience any "Texas" weather while we were there. The Dallas area had some of the coldest temperatures on record in almost ten years!

Christmas Morning 2009

This is how we found the Christmas tree after Santa stopped by...

Roman was excited about his Choo-Choo train under the tree....

Violet was very excited about the new play kitchen!!

Roman received a set of drum pads to play on...

Aww, what a cute CHEESE smile.

Roman LOVED the Mega Block Legos and all of the other block sets they got. He enjoys building stuff with them...

The big present from Oma & Opa was this Elmo drum set. It is perfect for his size and it also has a cymbal!! It was a wonderful Christmas and we feel very blessed!

Christmas Eve 2009

Ta-da!!!

Both of them in their Christmas Eve pajamas eating the cookies..

We made our Christmas cookies for Santa this year and decorated them with icing and sprinkles.

Christmas Party

We were invited to a Christmas Party at Liam's house. We had a very nice time...
Roman and Violet are frosting cookies, Roman made sure to taste the sprinkles before hand.

Violet is doing great with learning her colors. She was excited to use yellow icing for her cookie..

The best part were the sprinkles!

Here are some of the cookies they frosted...

Santa also came to the party!!

They weren't very happy to sit with Santa at first. Once we put them in his lap, we started to sing songs and they calmed down.

Liam was one of the first kids to sit with Santa...

Baby Penelope broke the ice!

Thanks so much for inviting us, Liam!! I love your new haircut!

Next, everyone made snow globes out of baby food jars. It was a really neat idea and the kids had fun picking out the Santa for the center of their snow globe..

Hi Brianna! That is a cute reindeer shirt!

Ta-da!

We had a wonderful time at the party and enjoyed all of the fun activities!

2nd Attempt at visiting Santa

I took the twins to the mall for a second opportunity to sit with Santa Clause. We talked about it often, they knew who Santa was in books and would get excited to see him on TV. But once we got to the mall, they would not get near him. We had fun walking through the decorated area Santa sat in at the mall.

They are getting so big!

They were both really excited about the decorations and waving at Santa.

Chambers Family Yuletide Celebratioin

We went to see the Chambers Family Foundation Yuletide Celebration put on by the Eugene Orchestra at the Hult Center. They had this beautiful Christmas tree set up in the lobby that the babies wanted to stand in front of.

They enjoyed the show and the music. There is a part of it when several dancing Santas get on the stage together, I think that was their favorite.

Liam's Birthday Party

Roman, Violet, and Brianna had a great time playing piano together...

Violet and Roman had a chance to play with their friends and toys...

Again, the date on my camera is incorrect. It should be 2009. Unfortunately, I do not have any photos of Liam from his birthday party because my camera died soon after we arrived.

Festival of Trees

We went with Opa and Oma to the Festival of Trees 2009. The twins love to see Christmas lights.

This was our first attempt at visiting Santa this year. Neither one of them would sit in his lap by themselves.

But they were both comfortable enough to accept the candy canes he was handing out. Violet has a strange look on her face in this picture.

Violet loves to ride on Opa's shoulders! Roman was wearing his new Yankee hat to the event.

They were both excited to see Mickey Mouse stuff there also...

It was a nice day!