Sweet Girl

I couldn't resist blogging about my sweet little niece Mia. I love your imagination and how you take care of your little cousin Briggs. Thanks for all the fun this Christmas

White Christmas

Hope everyone had a great Christmas weekend. We took off Thursday afternoon headed to Decatur, Illinois to try to avoid the winter storm that hit Kansas City. Good thing we left when we did because we got hit with about 6 inches of snow. We got to spend our Christmas weekend seeing lots of Greg's family that we rarely get a chance to see. It was the first time many of them got to meet Briggs and we love showing him off. Great Grandma Doris graciously let us overtake her house for a few days but I don't think she minded too much. Briggs was a great traveler and really just a good sport all around. He loved Christmas presents and got spoiled rotten with all the presents he received. We really had a great holiday weekend and feel so blessed to have family to share these special times with. Thanks Gram, Grandad, Uncle Mark, Mia, and Great Grandma Doris for all the great gifts and special memories you helped us create. We love you all.

Christmas Memories

We got to spend this past weekend in Chanute celebrating an early Christmas with the Herron side of the family. We had a great weekend all around. We did just what you should do on Christmas, wore nothing but pj's all day, ate way too much food, and spoiled the little ones like crazy. Briggs did not care much about actually opening the presents but loved the toys inside. We was actually pretty content watching whatever Lydia was doing, she is a celebrity in his eyes. He got a grocery shopping cart, a little tykes basketball goal, big tonka truck, books, clothes, and so many other things I can not even remember. Christmas really takes on a new meaning when you have a little one to celebrate with. We feel so fortunate to have such a wonderful family to share our precious little boy with. Thank you Doe Doe and Papa for hosting such a lovely weekend. Hope we did not leave too much of a disaster in our wake. You always make the holidays so special for us and the grandkids. We love you.

Hope you all have a very Merry Christmas and find some time to relax and be with the people who mean the most to you.

Briggs & Mia

Mia is trying to teach Briggs how to hop with the help of Grams piano playing. Although Mia is a good helper I am afraid Briggs has not yet mastered the art of leaving the ground. Too cute!

Holiday Cheer

Sorry I am so tardy in getting a blog posted, I will blame it on Holiday insanity. Above are pictures of our first of many holiday programs that we will be attending in the next 18 years. Briggs daycare put on a Christmas program for all the little ones at the center. We were dying to see how Briggs would do after hearing he was quite a ham during rehearsals. Well he did not quite live up to his name at the real performance. We got him up on the stage and he made it through the first 4 songs and then it was all over. after spotting his entourage in the back of the room the tears and screaming ensued. I ended up hanging out with him up by the stage the rest of the performance. All in all we made it through and by a unanimous vote we did decide he was the cutest and sharpest dressed little man there!

We are getting all geared up for Christmas and finally got our tree up this week. Briggs loves all the decorations and we hear a lot of oohs and ahhs. Keeping the ornaments on the tree is becoming a bit more difficult but I think it is all part of the fun. We are heading down to Chanute on Friday to have an early Christmas celebration. It should be really fun this year now that Briggs is a bit more aware of what is going on. We will post pictures of all the festivities as soon as we get back. Really just looking forward to spending time with all the people that we love the most this Christmas.

First Snow

Briggs got to see his first snow of the season tonight. Cross your fingers for a snow day tomorrow!!!

Thanksgiving Pics

Thanks

Update

Hello all!! Figured I'd throw my hat into the ring and try this blogging thing out for myself. Sorry we haven't updated this blog lately, but we've had a lot going on with the little guy lately. Between being sick, teething, and not wanting to sleep at all, we've had some trying days and sleepless nights. Let's just say that Thanksgiving night he decided to stay up from 1:00am-4:00am and tested his daddy's patience.....I have a sneaking suspicion that that won't be the last time testing it in his lifetime either. I can already tell he's going to be an ornery one by the way he looks and smiles or laughs at you when he's doing something he isn't supposed to. I love it though...I have to admit. Who wants a boring kid really? But through it all he's been a trooper and taking it pretty well we think (thank you Children's Tylenol). We all went down to Chanute for the Herron Thanksgiving and had a great time seeing everyone!! I think Briggs was in a little bit of shock when he left because he was getting used to having 6 or more people giving him their undivided attention at all times. Not that we let him play in the street by himself at home or anything, but he constantly had something fun to do down there. It was either looking at chickens, shopping, riding in a wheelbarrow, getting a haircut (yes...again), shooting baskets, or playing outside. When we got back to KC, we passed him off to the Tomlinson side and Sara and I were able to go on a mini-date of dinner and Xmas shopping at Zona Rosa. Sunday was our annual family Xmas trip to the mall....I try to go only once a year. We knocked out most of our shopping and Briggs was fantastic during the entire time. He was either sleeping in his stroller, pointing at balloons, or just people watching which is always fun to do at the mall. This weekend we are going to pick out his first real Xmas tree and will hopefully have some pics for you real soon (um...Sara...that's up to you).