New Year's Eve

We had a wonderful evening with our friends, Andrew & Jessica and Tim & Holly at Grady's Restaurant in Fort Worth. The food was fabulous and the company was even better! Merit spent the evening with Mimi and Poppy. It was a great night! Happy New Year's!

Christmas with Papa D & Melissa!

We had a great time celebrating Christmas with Papa D and Melissa. They drove in from San Antonio on the 26th. We opened gifts and had dinner at Mi Cocina at the Galleria. They brought Merit the coolest gift; the Baby Einstein Jumping Gym. It has lights, music and toys on all sides. It is sure to keep Merit busy and entertained. He is almost big enough to use it. They also bought us a really wonderful gift; a Kodak flip video camera. I am certain we will get much use out of it. Thank you Papa D and Melissa! We love you.

Christmas Morning

We spent Christmas morning at our house this year. We invited my mom and dad over for breakfast and gift opening. Aunt Alicia and Uncle Marc headed off early that morning to Sharon & Dave's house. We were sad to see them go but look forward to their next visit! I made pumpkin pancakes, bacon and eggs. My mom brought delicious Holiday bread from Panera. We took pictures in the snow and let the dogs run in the park across the street. They had a blast! What a memorable Christmas! Merit's first Christmas was a white Christmas. We are so very blessed.

Merit's First Christmas!

Christmas Eve was so much fun! Merit really enjoyed seeing all of the gifts under the tree. He really loved looking at the lights on the Christmas tree too! Aunt Alicia and Uncle Marc came in town from Houston; what a treat! We spent the evening at Mom and Dad's house and Papa joined us. We took way too many pictures, which really annoyed the guys. Oh well...we had fun!

Shopping and Lunch with Poppy

While on Maternity Leave we spent many afternoons at North Park. Merit really liked Christmas shopping and eating lunch with Poppy. Poppy has a flexible work schedule, which works great for us.