Merry Christmas 2011!

We hope everyone has had a wonderful holiday season so far and ours was particularly great. Leigh and Brooks hosted their first Christmas Day event as new parents in their house in Richardson and we had a super time. Brooks' parents, Judith and Larry Whittington were staying at Leigh's house and we arrived Sunday morning for the event; coming over from our park in Grapevine. Because we were having such a good time the pictures were slim ... but here is a pretty good family shot except for the intense flashback from Brooks' head.



At first little Everett was off doing one-year old stuff crawling around the place but then arrived to see what the fuss was about and really got into it.

Leigh just gave him a box full of tissue and that was fun as some of the simplest things are the most fun ... especially when you are one.

Then he was off to test drive the Cozy Coupe below that I had assembled and Buster had test driven. This thing will be good til he is about five so the first attempts were humorous at best ... he has a lot of time to get the hang of it.

After the present opening we had a really nice dinner prepared by Brooks and Leigh. As this was the first Christmas in their home with Ev and all four grandparents, it was a pretty special event. An interesting point is that this is only the second time we have seen Brooks' parents, the last being 13 years ago at the kid's wedding ... we'll try to do better in the future, eh.

And lastly a shot of the decorations in the town of Grapevine which were done extremely well, earning it the name of, "The Christmas Capitol of Texas."

All in all one of the best Christmas Day events that we can remember and we hope all our family and friends had a similar experience. Love to all this holiday season!!