Birthday Party

We were invited to Kannon Koop's 2nd birthday party this morning.  Kannon's Mom, Jill is like family to me and Kannon is the same age as Cooper, Greyson & Bode.  The Koops hope to return to Edna soon to live and raise their family so I hope that K and the Trips will become best buds! 

I'm afraid that he may have to fight the boys off his Sister, Kora with a stick!  They were pretty smitten with her! 

Christmas #3

Christmas with Todd, Holly, Riley and Gus

I know "Paw Paw" (my Dad) is looking down on this crew with a BIG grin on his face! 

LOts of bball was played

Peyton and Riley

Bode goofing around with Uncle Todd

Riley came over the next day to visit some more.  She was so good with the boys!

Christmas Day 2011 - Christmas 1 & 2

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Santa came!

And he left a note with a special gift for the family...a family pass to the Texas Zoo in Victoria for a year! 

Cooper

Peyton

Greyson say "Sssshhh...Don't tell Mom that I'm messing with her tree."

Bode trying out his new toys.

After opening gifts from Santa...we went for brunch and Christmas at Grans house.

Cooper

Peyton loves books!

Bode was pretty excited!

Can I eat it?

Playing us a tune.

Practicing with his new bow from Santa.

A hot game of Guess Who?

Christmas Eve 2011

Tonight we attended Christmas Eve service at our church, FUMC-Edna.  The boys made their presence known as they were a tad bit loud and obnoxious with their snacks, toy cars and dinosaurs.  Crazy as it was, it was a beautiful evening spent with family and friends.      

Bode, Greyson, Cooper & Peyton

"Merry Christmas to all and to all a goodnight!"

Peyton's Little School Christmas Program

Today Peyton "performed" in his Little School Christmas program.  He was one of the Wise Men...more particularly, the Wise Man that brought Frankincense to Baby Jesus. He said his line perfectly and did great on stage.  They also had their Christmas "party" with cookies and punch following the performance.  He does love school but I think he is excited to have a break till January 5th.  I'm not sure he realizes how much he will miss his friends though.  Guess we will need some play dates during the holidays!

Little School Christmas Program

My little Wise Man enters...

Three Wise Men and friends, Edgar, Peyton & Whit

 

FUMC-Edna Children's Christmas Program

The boys (yes, all of them) performed in the Children's Christmas Program at our church on Wednesday night.  It was such a cute program!   

Cooper, Greyson & Bode were a part of the "Jingle Babies" group.

Peyton was a "bull" at the Nativity.  He was more like a "bull in a china shop."  I think he was hot in that outfit and got a little antsy.  He def got shot a lot of "STOP IT" looks from Mom, Dad and Gran that night! 

Our handsome little man/bull child!

Fun times with the McCarrell Cousin!

Jason's Brother Jamie and his wife and son (Kristin & Lincoln) came to town this weekend.  They flew in to sing in the First Baptist Church's Christmas Cantata.  Jamie and the Choir Director, Charles, have been best friends forever and has been begging them to come sing with his choir.  Lucky for us, they had lots of practices along with the performances so Lincoln got to come hang with us a lot.   The boys had so much fun playing with their cousin and the Cantata was just beautiful.  It was a great weekend!  

We tried to get a pic of the cousins in hopes to get a good enough one for a gift for the Grandparents.  HA!  They had other plans.  The below pic is the best we could do.   

Meeting Santa

The boys were officially 20 months old on 12-2-2011 and we went that evening to the Shop at Home Event/Christmas Tree Lighting on the Court House lawn. They had fun seeing all the people and Christmas lights and Peyton jumped in the bounce house. They also met Santa. You can see below just how well that went....Cooper was not so much into Santa.