A Christmas Ending

Today we wrapped up our Christmas celebrations at the Richter's. We had a blast watching Jaxson rip through more gifts with excitement.

We were very blessed with some really great gifts.

The highlight for Jaxson was his Birthday/Christmas present from Grammie and Popo...an awesome new Jeep!

Despite the very, very cold temperatures we took it out for a quick test spin. He's certainly still on his learners permit with this vehicle!

We have so many things to be blessed and thankful for this Christmas season- spending our time with family and creating memories as a family is always a great way to spend the day. With two days of Christmas celebrations behind us we are worn out...and ready for a day of rest!

Christmas Morning

We kicked off Christmas morning with the exciting gifts from Santa.

Turns out our little man was a very good boy- he got some pretty awesome stuff from Santa.
He is quite possibly the cuttest little Aggie football player...ever!!

Then we opened up our other presents



And then spent the rest of the morning assembling the many, many pieces of every toy he received...while dressed in the football uniform...of course!

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve this year was with the Powers family, we met up at my parents house for dinner, church and lots of gift opening.

Jaxson had a blast opening up the gifts and he and Nikki were dressed up in their best gift opening attire.

We took lots of pictures....all of us.

Waited on big surprises...like this awesome hand made tool bench.

And tried out our toys as quickly as we could.

As soon as the gifts were all over we headed home to get the sweets ready for the big man in red.

Christmas Eve 2010 was a blast!

Merry Christmas!!!

Toeti The Elf

We introduced our Christmas friend Toeti The Elf here and we have had fun each day looking for Toeti's new landing place for the day. Here's some of the sightings from the last few days.

A Cowboy Birthday

Calling all Cowboys and Cowgirls in town….

It’s a special birthday, hope you’ll mosey on down!

JAXSON

Is turning three!!!

Saddle up and ride on out

Saturday, December 18th

Round up is at Arrowhead Ranch

The guests were too cute dressed in their finest country duds and boots!

Everyone had a great time riding the horses. We practiced our roping skills. We fed some friendly Goats. We petted some sweet rabbits. We filled our cowboy size appetites with some birthday cake. We smiled at the birthday boy as he enjoyed every moment of his special Cowboy Birthday!

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Three Years Old!!

Yesterday, December 18th, our precious Jaxson turned three!! The excitement leading up to this day and the constant excitement during the day were so fun to watch! He was SO into his birthday this year and we sure had a special day.

We started off the morning by giving him his birthday gift from us. He was so excited to get this new bike and so excited to get out and try it out. He still has some work to do on the whole pedaling thing and understanding that you can't go in reverse- that is the brakes. We look forward to many bike rides around the neighborhood.

The afternoon events included the big birthday party- at a Ranch- so we got all dressed in our cowboy gear for the big party!

He is so stinkin' cute, I really can't believe he is three.

We have been blessed with such a wonderful little boy and we are so excited to see what amazing things God has planned for his life!