Christmas Week 2011

Rouse Family Christmas
The whole Rouse clan (minus a few) came in town for the wedding, so we decided to have our family Christmas on Saturday night with them. We enjoyed a fajita buffet ;) at a local Mexican restaurant then went back to Yaya & Papi's for desserts. Papaw read the Christmas story from the Bible, and we cleared out the living room for night two of dancing! Fun times were had by all.


A quick shot of some of our family at dinner.

Brady & Luke are always very excited to spend time with their cousins on the Rouse side.

Sunday- Christmas with the Allens

Right after church on Sunday we had our family over to watch the Texans and more fun time playing with Cash. They boys never miss an opportunity to play in a huge pile of leaves :)

After that, we had dinner and family Chrimstas at Yaya & Papi's with just our immediate family and Mamaw & Papaw. It was lots of fun and shame on my for not taking one single picture.

My Birthday Celebration

For my 31st birthday we celebrated the night before with dinner out with our friends. We are blessed with awesome friends! I always look forward to hanging out with them.

Mom & O-dawg!

My actual birthday was so much fun! We woke up and took the boys to see a Christmas movie. After that we came home and made Christmas cookies and got ready for our family to come over for gumbo that night.

About to go in the oven...

Ready to decorate!

We waited until that night so we could have fun decorating with our cousins.

Grandma Sue even joined in on the decorating fun!

and Owen enjoyed eating sprinkles right out of the jar :)

Kennedy!

Lindsey, Erin, me, & Courtney. Cousins!

Christmas Eve Eve Service

Our church had an awesome Christmas Eve Eve service on 12/23. It was "Lone Star Christmas" complete with petting zoo, cowboy singers, and a chuck wagon. Super Cool!

Luke enjoyed petting the animals, while Brady & Owen stood and watched.

Our family in front of the chuck wagon out front. Merry Christmas 2011!

Our traditional Luke & Madi Christmas picture. So cute!
After church we had a nice dinner at Chili's with Sam & Steph to hear all about their honeymoon.

Christmas with the McGlaun family

On Christmas Eve we had our traditional Christmas with the McGlaun side of the family. We played the White Elephant game and some enjoyed playing poker. It is always great to be together with family. I look forward to this time every year.

After that, we headed back home to get ready for Santa's big arrival the next morning!