Happy 2008!

Sarah tried baby cereal this weekend. This is pretty much how it went...

New Year's Resolutions

So, what are yours? Do you make them? Do you ever keep them? Take the poll on the side of my page!

Here in the Garrett house, we are getting back to healthier eating and exercising. We had been doing really good, but have definitely slacked off during the holidays. For Christmas I got the book "Deceptively Delicious" so I now have a ton of recipes to sneak veggies into our foods. We'll see how it goes! So if I make you any cookies, brownies or other foods, watch out, they could be good for you! :)

Our Wonderful Christmas!

We had a wonderful time celebrating Christmas this year. I hope all of you did too. We did miss the Baton Rouge group. It's always a little sad knowing that we are missing the big party there. But, we had a great time here and enjoyed our time with Jacob's side of the family. We started our celebrating on Friday night with Mom, Dad, Mikey, Jenn and Sam. It was so fun to see how excited the boys were with all of their gifts. Saturday Jacob and I had a kid-free day! We finished up our Christmas shopping and hung out with our friend Trish. The kids were spoiled spending the whole day with grandparents. Sunday we went to church and finished up some projects.

Becky, Kasey and Baylee came over on Christmas eve. We exchanged gifts with them, ate some appitizers and caught a little of the Christmas Story marathon on TV. When they left, Adam got a phone call from...SANTA! We had to hurry to get ready for bed so he could come bring presents. We read "The Night Before Christmas" and the story of the first Christmas, in the Bible. It took forever, but Adam finally fell asleep.

Adam was very excited when he saw all of the gifts that Santa brought. His favorite was a Spiderman Big Wheel. He had fun helping Sarah open her gifts too. We went to Becky's house for lunch with all of her family. We had a yummy lunch and played a fun game called Last Word. Then we went to Mike & Maria's to exchange gifts and visit with them. It was a busy day but it was great. We are so thankful for our wonderful families and a great Christmas together!

Funny Faces

Santa came to the kids school for a visit and pictures. Adam really liked him, I was very surprised. I though the would be scared but I think it helped that Santa was holding baby Sarah. I guess he looked safe enough! They each got one really good picture but I thought these were kind of funny...

In this one they look like the couldn't be less impressed with Santa, especially Sarah.

And in this one I think it looks like Sarah is counting off the things she wants for Christmas. I want 1. A baby doll 2. A new dress 3. I think there was something else...And in this last one, Adam is sitting with his friend Kayleemarie. This is the face he makes when he's trying to get out of trouble. It's pretty cute, sometimes it works!

Our Weekend

Just in case you are wondering, here's what we did this weekend...

Saturday night we drove around looking at Christmas lights! I've always loved doing that. We went to Bedford and drove through Glenbrook, the neighborhood where I grew up. They always do a huge Christmas display. They have the story "The Night Before Christmas, In Texas" throughout the neighborhood on big storybooks in different yards and everyone puts up red lights. It was pretty, like always, and brought back lots of fun Christmas memories for me, especially driving by our old house. I'm so blessed to have had such a wonderful childhood and family!

Anyway, next we went to a place where you drive through and see different scenes about the life of Jesus. It was beautifully done and very nice. Adam just loved it. He really likes to learn about the Bible. He was a little confused about "seeing" Jesus and at the end you could get out of your car and have hot chocolate, he really wanted to have his hot chocolate with Jesus. Isn't he sweet?

So, Sunday was our annual cookie baking marathon. We always go overboard on the cookies but we do give a lot of them away! Sarah enjoyed her day with the girls! I can't believe it is getting SO close to Sarah's first Christmas! Yay!

Problems in candyland...

Well like most projects around the Garrett house, our gingerbread house project didn't go exactly as we had planned. I skimmed through the directions and began to assemble it. I seemed to have forgotten to read the part that said "wait 15 minutes before decorating." See what happens when you don't follow the directions...

Oh well, we had fun! We laughed, we spent time together, we ate some yummy gingerbread cookies with frosting and candy, we took pictures. I think we were successful in creating a fun holiday memory! Although if this becomes a tradition I think we'll go with pre-assembled from now on, or let someone else read the directions!

What a mess...

Adam sure was quiet while I was busy cleaning the kitchen...