Happy New Year's Eve!
Day 61: Babinec Family Celebration (12/31)
Day 59: The Morris Family Visits (12/29)
Every year after Christmas, the Morris family heads to Oklahoma. Sometimes all four members are able to make it and sometimes not. Sometimes, Shae's fiance makes the drive down and other times friends are brought along. This year Libby came to Oklahoma with the entire family.
We have come to have traditions when the Morris family comes to Oklahoma. Here are my favorites:
> official dinner- every night there has to be some kind of good food and it has to be official there is no messing when it comes to dinner and food
> pedicures with the girls - sometimes separate sometimes together but it always happens!
> shopping
> movies
> golfing
> alcoholic beverages
> onion dip and wavy chips
> Champions of the World - men verse women in Aggravation and Yuker
> float the river {obviously only in the summer}
I always enjoy when they come to visit and I feel as if I missed all the good times this year because of my stupid intersession class.
Thank you for coming every year Morris family. I love it so much!!
Day 58: Christmas Gifts (12/28)
Just wanted to make note of what Rennie and I got each other for Christmas 2011. Rennie got me a new black Coach purse. I got Rennie a wine area/shelves; he even put it together himself. It looks great in the kitchen.
Day 57: Breakfast with Daddy (12/27)
Gavin is just at the age, when we doesn't quite want the booster set and more but won't sit still when eating. This morning we went to Denny's for breakfast and Gavin chose to sit next to Daddy.
When our food came, Rennie made some comment about scooting over so that he could use his fork to Gavin. So Gavin decided that meant scoot even closer to his Daddy and moved his drink and plate so that it almost touched Rennie.
It was so cute, I had to take a picture to remember the moment. Rennie is literally on the edge of the table and booth!
Gavin is eating his most favorite meal, breakfast of eggs, sauce {sausage}, pancake. He ate all those eggs, most of the sausage and couple of bits of pancake. He also drank his first fruit smoothy and loved it!
Day 56: A Jumpy Jump (12/26)
I honestly don't know who is crazy, my mom and dad or better yet Nana and PopPop or Rennie and I! We are so lucky to have such wonderful family members in our life. Gavin is so blessed by both sides of the family but sometimes I ask myself {in a very good way and with a smile of my face!} "What were they thinking?!" First, Susan and Brian started Christmas with a wonderful drum set and then my mom and dad topped it off with a mini-trampoline {which in our house is called a jumpy jump.}
Then to top it off Rennie and I decided to set it up in the extra bedroom for the winter!! We set it up without Gavin knowing what we were doing and then had him close his eyes and be surprised when he saw it. Check out the video at the bottom of the my post.
However, now whenever Gavin wants to jump he also wants to re-enact the surprise part of the gift. He will now call us over and put his hands over his eyes and stand in front of the door and then say, "Surprise!" He has done it everyday without fail!
Day 55: Merry Christmas! (12/25)
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
Santa Claus came to our house last night!!
He brought a city train set. It was so fun to see Gavin's expression when he saw what Santa brought him. After, that we headed to Stroud to spend some Christmas time with my family. Nana and PopPop bought Gavin a mini-trampoline!! There will be a blog post coming with video about this gift. We decided to set up the trampoline in the extra bedroom! BEST PARENTS EVER?! I think so...
Day 54: Christmas Eve (12/24)
Today we spent the day with Susan, Brian, Ryan and Taylor {Rennie's family} and had dinner and opened presents. Our own little Nickell family Christmas. Mese and B.R. got Gavin a drum set! I hate to say it but I love it! He does so well and enjoys it so much. It's great that he is exposed to such great stuff at a young age. I kinda hope that he picks it up as a life long hobby. It would be so fun to watch him play in a band.
What a great gift idea, Mese and B.R.!
Right before he starts playing, he'll tap his sticks together and say, "One, two, eight, GO!"
Day 53: Ryan and Taylor get ENGAGED! (12/23)
Ryan {my brother-in-law} proposed to his girlfriend, Taylor tonight!
We were invited to participate in the proposal at the Chickasaw Christmas Lights. It was beautifully planned and I teared up! What girl wouldn't?!
Ryan walked Taylor across a lake on a bridge filled with Christmas lights and up to a Christmas light covered gazebo. At the gazebo, family and friends held candles and watched as Ryan proposed to Taylor. She said yes!
The picture of Taylor was stolen off the facebook from one of her friends. I was way to busy watching to worry about taking pictures. I did however manage to take two of Gavin holding a real, lighted candle before Taylor and Ryan arrived!!
Congratulations to Ryan and Taylor!!
Day 52: Puppy Chow (12/22)
Love making Christmas time snacks. This is one of Rennie's favorites and probably became one of Gavin's today as well!
Day 51: Addicted to Pinterest (12/21)
I was sick all day today. Like literally didn't get out of bed until 1o'clock only to make it to the living room to fall asleep again. I played on my phone most of the day and spent a majority of it on Pinterest. It's a great website that people pin ideas on all sorts of things. I took screen shots all day so that I could remember some of my favorites. These are only four of many...
PS I made the cinnamon rolls in the waffles maker and they were a hit in my house. I didn't eat them, still sick but definitely be doing it again!!
Day 50: Finished Christmas Shopping (12/20)
When Rennie and I got married our traditions had to become one. We needed to take the things that we did with our own families and mold it into what works for Rennie, me and now Gavin. It's difficult because we are both compromising and changing the ways we did things in the past. However, I think that we did well when it comes to Christmas traditions at the Nickell house.
On Christmas Eve, we eat dinner with Rennie's mom and family. The three of us come back to our house and open gifts from each other. Rennie gets things for me and I for him and then as Mommy and Daddy we get gift for Gavin which he opens Christmas Eve. On Christmas morning, Santa comes and brings one or two really neat gift(s). When we are ready to move around, we get dressed and head to my Mom and Dad's house for Christmas dinner.
It's not exactly how I did Christmas when I was younger and not exactly Rennie's traditions either but it's comprise and it works perfectly for us.
So my picture is my Christmas tree with gifts under the tree for Mommy, Daddy and Gavin {plus family gifts that haven't gone out yet.} We are finally done Christmas shopping! YEA!!
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