A snapshot of Christmas

Well, a little more than a snapshot! This last couple of weeks have been wonderful! Levi and I have both been blessed to have 2 full weeks off to focus on Noah and lots of time together as a family. We have been able to take him to some fun activities, spend good time with family, and catch up with friends. Here are some pictures!

Decorating the tree

Santa pics at the Galleria with The May Family
(an annual tradition, with dinner afterwards)

Homegroup Christmas Party

Polar Express in Grapevine....so excited!

making ornaments

Polar Express movie at The Omni
Niki and I showed up in the same shirt!

They both actually sat through the whole thing!

Santa's Wonderland at Bass Pro with The Rakestraws

Christmas at Levi's mom's house

opening his first little backpack from Lisa

They had so much fun with the marshmallow

shooter Uncle Mitch made

Christmas morning at our hosue

The "green tape!" see story below....

Christmas at The Stockton's

awwww....;)

such a little ham

His second little backpack from Kelly and Lane

Merry Christmas!!!

So the green tape - Before we went to see Santa, we asked Noah what he was going to ask him for. He said "green tape." We asked several times again, and he always told us "green tape." I was afraid he was saying something else and we were just hearing "green tape." He even told the Santa on the polar express he wanted "green tape." Finally Levi realized why he wanted it. When Levi had taken him to SMU to wrap angel tree gifts, he kept Noah occupied by letting him play with scotch tape the whole time. Apparantly he loved it, because that's all he wanted. It was at the bottom of his stocking on Christmas morning and he kept getting frustrated when he opened up presents and it wasn't the tape (I guess Levi and I could have gotten away with spending 99 cents for Christmas!). Once he pulled it out he jumped up and yelled "woo hoo." Later that morning Levi had a musical Christmas program on the t.v. and Santa came on. Noah ran up to the t.v. with tape in hand and said "I got it!"