Happy New Year!!

We rang in 2014 with several church friends at the Ellingson's house. Belton had a blast pretending to be a baby! That is, until we put him down for bed with the rest of the babies! :-)

 Then the adults had fun! We played several minute to win it type games and did a lot of laughing!!! :-)

 Melissa was a pro at this one!

 Matt was confident...

 ...and he got SO CLOSE...

 ...but not quite! He still had one ball in that box!

 The girls: Danika, Alissa, Laura, Melissa and Danielle

 The boys weren't as happy to take a picture as the girls were. I told them to take a lame picture, before I made them smile. Notice what Matt did...

 Aaand the boys! Mike, Nathan, Robert, Matt and Jesse

 Thanks for having us over, Alissa and Nate! We had a great time!

Happy New Year!

Abbi's 12th Birthday!

 Abigail turned 12 last weekend. This blows my mind because I remember being at her 7th birthday party! Crazy!

We at lunch at Fuddruckers, which has become the traditional place for her birthday lunch! Then she and some friends went skating and to a movie.

 Belton loves Aunt Abbi!

 We all do!!!

 Papaw, Grandma and Belton

Christmas Afternoon

 After a delicious meal and some wonderful family time, it was FINALLY time for PRESENTS!!!

G-Dad and G-Mom

 Grandma and Belton

 Abuela and Belton

 Belton walking with the puzzles he got from Grandma and Papaw to get some help with them. (This totally reminded me of Claire!)

 Belton and Papaw looking at one of Belton's gifts to him.

 G-Mom and G-Dad took Abbi on an amazing road trip this summer. I got the pictures from the trip and made books for both Abbi and G-Mom and G-Dad. They were well received. :-) (I guess now I need to get going on my 2012 and 2013 books! I hate being behind!!)

 Belton in one of his new hats!

Papaw, Matt and Grandma

Merry Christmas! We are very blessed!

Christmas Morning

 Merry Christmas! We are up and ready to see what Santa brought! 

Belton was certainly happy to see so many new toys sitting out for him!

 He loves pull toys. How fun that Santa brought him one!

 This tractor is definitely a favorite these days. So much fun to ride!

 He brought his new books to each of us for some reading time.

 Sweet baby!

Christmas Eve

On Christmas Eve, we went to Grandma and Papaw's house and Matt read Twas the Night Before Christmas to Belton

And Belton tried on Santa's hat.

Then we headed over to the Tovar Christmas Eve at DJ's house.

 Here are Grandma and Papaw (or Abuela and Abuelo) with their three great grandchildren, Belton, Blake and Riley!

 Belton LOVED exploring a new place and dragging this bag behind him for a bit.

 Santa came to visit and pass out toys to all of the little ones!

We got some of the kids dressed up in the Christmas pajamas before we left.

 Then we went to Grandma and Papaw's house to spend the night. Belton put some cookies and milk out for Santa...

 ...but not before snagging some of that icing for himself!

Then he was off to bed so that Santa could come visit!!

O Christmas Tree

 We have really enjoyed our Christmas tree this year!

 And Belton has been a VERY GOOD boy and has only touched it a couple of times.