A Roberts Family Christmas

Christmas evening we headed out to my parents' house in Gifford where we got to spend some time with Uncle Dustin, who was up from Texas, and Aunt Ashley who was home from Harding. Brock got a little power nap in the car ride from Rantoul to Gifford and it was just enough to perk him up for round three of gift opening! Brock and Jillian had such a wonderful Christmas filled with way too many fun, new presents. We are really blessed to have such a giving, caring family!

A Schlittler Family Christmas

After opening presents from Santa we had to rush to get ready to head to the Schlittler family Christmas. We were all set to go out to TJ's grandparents' house, but due to the ice, we couldn't make it out there. So, we had Christmas with his family at Moi and Papaw's house instead. The food was yummy and we had lots of fun opening even more presents! Brock and Jillian got some really neat toys and some super cute outfits.

Christmas Morning

Christmas morning Brock and Jillian woke up to find that Santa had left them some cool presents! This was just the beginning of a fun-filled day of present opening.

Christmas Cookies

Christmas Eve when TJ was out working the ice storm, the kids and I decided to bake some cut out sugar cookies. I was kind of worried how well Brock would be able to do it, but he did GREAT. I think the hardest part for him, was resisting the temptation to eat the cookie dough. Put something yummy in front of that boy and he gobbles it up! But he loved pressing the cookie cutter and making sure to get LOTS of sprinkles on the iced cookies. I think by the end, as you can see in the last picture, he had had enough cookie making. He didn't really even want to eat one! Jillian on the other hand, had dough all over her face!

The Birthday Boy

Brock had his John Deere themed birthday party this afternoon. He was surrounded by LOTS of family and even a few friends. His cake was super cute in the shape of a tractor! He went to blow out the candles and actually got them all blown out and when we went to sing to him, he turned into Mr. Shy and fell to the floor hiding his face. It was so funny. He just laid there as we were all singing to him. I recall him not liking being sung to last year, too! He got tons of nice presents. I was about to think we were going to be there all day as he was ripping the paper off one tiny piece at a time. He was so funny because he'd get a really neat gift and want to play with it, but I was trying to hand him other things to open, and he would get all upset. He got some nice books, which I think he would have sat and read for a long time if I hadn't given him something else to open. Any article of clothing he opened went straight to the floor, they just weren't fun enough for him. Then he opened up a colorful dragon and dinosaur stuffed animals from Moi and Papaw. He, along with Jillian, thought those were just awesome! We had a great time, but we were missing one very important person, TJ. We had a bad ice storm pass through on Thursday night. TJ got called out around 1:00 am and he didn't get home until 11:00 pm Friday night, only to then have to be back at work this morning at 5:00. So, after being up for 48 hours and working his buns off in this icy cold weather, he missed his own party since it was his and Brock's party together. Right now he's up north working and we are just hoping that he gets to come home by Christmas Eve!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

I can't believe Christmas is right around the corner! Still so much to do!! But, I need your help... go to this website http://www.parents.com/photos/photo-contests-1/spooked-by-santa/382100007/?firstPhoto=true&photoId=3831000 You will probably need to copy and paste it in your browser, but go there and click on recommend up by the photo of Brock and Jillian! I just know that their's is the cutest! THANKS!!!

Cutie Bug

Jillian got to open one of her Christmas gifts a little early. Santa brought her a little stroller walker so that she could be walking by her birthday. She can go to town on the thing, that is for sure, that is when Brock isn't stealing it away from her! So, I didn't post her 10 month birthday, so this will just be an early 11 month old post. She's just on the verge of walking. She can stand up in the middle of the room without hanging onto anything, but then she just plops onto her knees. She's cutting two teeth up on top and we are trying new foods every chance we get. We are sleeping much better at night now! I can actually put her down now in her crib without her being completely passed out asleep. It's nice! She gets cuter and cuter everyday and we just love her to pieces! Oh, and be sure to check out the shoes...how cute are those?

Happy Birthday, Daddy!

We celebrated TJ's 31st birthday yesterday. We went out to eat with Moi, Papaw, Kindi, Danny, and baby Dacey to Texas Roadhouse. Going out to eat with this big group is always entertaining. I'm not sure if you can recall back to TJ's cake from last year that was a complete disaster, I did cupcakes this year and over-filled the cups so they were hanging over the cups. One of these years I'm going to get it right! But we took some cute shots when we got home and can I just ask WHEN will they both smile at the camera at the SAME time? I can't even get Buddy to open his eyes!!! Oh, well.... HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TJ!!!!!!!