The Colvin Christmas

We celebrated the Colvin Christmas on the 1st, schedules were had to coordinate this year. This is a picture of the kids...We all had a good time. The kids played outside on the jungle gym for a long time. We ate Chick-fil-a and Keith made Black-eyed Peas and cabbage for us.

Christmas Morning

Since the kids got the DS from MeeMaw, mom and dad sprang for some of the games. Richard got Star Wars and that dog one. He gets to pick a breed and have a virtual pet. We were all up bright and early for Santa. We also open our gifts to and from each other.
Emily got a bike from us and Richard got new rollerblades. Santa brought us all a Wii...mom got the Wii Fit (which she loves). The kids love it.

Christmas with the Tyra's

On Christmas Eve, we had Christmas at Richard and Roberta's. We went to Rancho's to eat and then we opened gifts. Richard got GI Joe men, the big ones and the old faithful, clothes. He was actually excited about the clothes, he has grown and needed longer pants. The last gift he opened was a Nintendo DS. He wanted one so bad. Emily got clothes, come arts and crafts and a Nintendo DS. Both kids were so excited. We came home and got ready for Santa.

Breakfast with Santa

Well we did get to see Santa...the kids even got a letter from Santa. Both are on the good list...they were both a bit worried. We had breakfast with Santa at school last Saturday morning.

We also got an elf that stays with us until Christmas is over. He goes every few nights to the North Pole to report on the behavior of the kids. He is a silly elf, changing places nightly making the kids have to look for him. We found him in the fridge one morning eating the vanilla yogurt...Emily even found that our elf loves raisins...thank god for the dog...

Snow in Texas...for real

Well you heard it right, we had snow in Texas. It started early in the afternoon north of town, but about five on the south side of town. I was out with a friend having coffee so I got to watch it for hours. When I got home Ricky wasn't even aware that it had snowed hard. The kids were in bed and wouldn't wake up to play in it.

Cold!!!!!!!!!!! November in Minnesota

Well as many of you know, my mom moved to Minnesota in the summer. The last time the kids and I had seen her was in July. So after watching the airline prices go up and down and back up and the down, we finally got tickets. The kids and I left on the 22nd and Maama was at the airport waiting for us with Lyle. Well guess what, it snowed that morning and at the airport there was still some left on the ground. We ended up stopping at the Mall of America, going only to one store, and riding rides. When we left there, the kids got to play in the snow a bit, throwing it at me. I snowed again on Sunday morning...and these are the pictures from that.