Lake Conroe, and so much more.....

 Keeping it classy in our jammies

 Boardwalk fisherman

 Dad and Mom

 Why Paul is unbearable after we get home from vacation with my family

 Playing Liz's ipad

 It's tradition

 Gas station queen

 THE place to be - outlet mall near Conroe

 Santa's house

 Attittude

 NASA tour

 Sammer the giant

 LEGOS!

 Houston, we have a problem

 Like an orange on a toothpick

 End of the day

 Strongman Sam with helper Paul

 Sam's crab pot at Joe's Crab Shack

 A man and his bib

 Liz and Matt making pancakes at his beautiful house

 Bad Piggies as often as he could

 Lovely day at the beach - perfect day!

 T-Bone Tom's Steakhouse - yummy dinner!

 Thanksgiving day in the hot tub

 Tree lighting, Santa visit, Candy Cane Scramble the day after Thanksgiving

 Petting Zoo - last day of vacation

 Lizzy afraid of this docile dear

 Paul loves all the animals

 Cow and Zebra

 Zip line fun

 Darling boy

 It's a race!

 Dad is the grand champion of this game

Thanks Pa and Ma!

Thanksgiving at school

 Pilgirm Paul

 Paul and his friend Ella

 I love to go and hang out with this cute boy!

 Minus the boy in the batman shirt, these kids are all in our ward.  

It's so fun to have that many church friends in his class.

10 little Indian boys and girls

2011 isn't over yet...

At least on my blog, I'll attempt to catch up what did not get blogged in the midst of moving.

Batman continues to make regular appearances,

and is always sure to keep up on local news...just in case.

 Since we were mostly packed at our apartment, but not unpacked at our house, 

we had Thanksgiving dinner at Cracker Barrell

 thanks for the scarf Shayla!

 with our friends the Desrosiers.

 Fast forward, we had Paul act out the nativity for FHE on Dec. 12

 Angel coming to the shepherds

 Finally able to decorate the tree a few days before Christmas

Christmas Eve, Paul got to open one gift and he opened a cozy blanket from Grandma Jan 

And dad opened a flashlight and Home Depot gift card from Jon and Ana. 

 Oh the kitten....

 Christmas Eve, we Skyped for about an hour and took a picture of matching boys in their jammies.

Yep, he's pretending 

 Because we almost forgot to put out the traditional Baklava for Santa, 

and carrots for his reindeer.

We pulled out our futon mattress and snuggled in by the fire trying to catch Santa.

But, he came and left presents without us catching a glimpse. 

 We were so busy Skyping and opening presents, that I didn't take many pictures....

okay, any pictures.

Paul is ready to go to church

 Then we spent the evening at Hugh and Lucy's house

 More Batman things! 

Grandma Nae and Papa gave Paul a Batman Leapster game, Batman shirt, and a Batman washcloth.

 The next day we spent afternoon visiting with Packard cousins.

(This gave me flashbacks to Grandma and Grandpa Brown's basement, 

where someone always ended up crying after playing pool.)

Eating with his cousins 

 Jared and Talmadge Packard (His great-aunt)

 President Packard, Jared, and Paul (He is the Dallas Temple President, and Jared's great-uncle.)

 We were lucky to get $5 tickets to the BYU bowl game here in Dallas, 

but unluckily Jared had to work.  So Ben, Paul, and I went with our friends

from our old ward.  We only stayed a quarter, but they won!