Christmas Eve Dinner

Here are a couple of pics from Christmas Eve Dinner- love the one of the boys laughing and tickling the kids. And below that is one of my favorite ladies- Mary Beth- Uncle Steve's wife...she is wonderful and I am so glad I finally got a shot of she and Lucy together!

We had a fabulous time with family as Lindsay mentioned below. Christmas Eve is really one of my favorites because it is such a special time rich with Woodard tradition. Now that we have toddlers, Linds and I have had to become a little flexible and thankfully, the family has embraced some new aspects of the tradition with us (earlier church service, change of venue, hecticness of wild kiddos, etc.). Below are some pics from church...

Christmas Card Photo Shoot

Linds and I took it upon ourselves to schedule some time to do a little photo shoot for our cards this year. There is a quaint little tudor development that I discovered a couple of years ago and I suggested we poach the spot again to see if we could get some fun, wintery looking backdrops to shoot our sweet babes. It worked and Henry and Goose were so great Lala came through with some HUMONGOUS lollipops.

Christmas Eve Brunch

We have had such a great two weeks celebrating the Christmas season. I am going to attempt to catch up on posting pics and videos. These pics are from a Christmas Eve Brunch that we went to at the Herberts. Such a fun tradition to start and the kids had a great time! Sam House took Goose for a spin in Nell's Mustang...and then let her drive. What a gentleman.











Playing outside in the playhouse.

christmas post

here are a few pictures from christmas eve and christmas day. i think carrie has some better ones so she can pull those out! we went to the 5:00 service on christmas eve and it was quite different then last year!! a year ago he slept through the entire service but this year it was a contest to see how much he could move & make us sweat. afterwards we all came back to our house and had dinner here......a new tradition that might be starting! for years- or for as long as i can remember- we have always gone to uncle steve's house for christmas eve dinner. we decided to change things up and i actually really liked it! it was fun to get the house decorated, set the table and pull out all of those fancy things that you never use on a day to day basis.
the next morning we headed to honey and samdaddy's for breakfast and gifts with the kids. we decided not to do gifts this year for the adults but mom was creative and pulled together a bag of things that were our favorites from growing up. in the last picture below you will see henry climbing the stairs with the superman cape- i think that was jeff''s from when he was little. mom had called brett's mom, carrie's mom and kayla's (jeff's girlfriend) mom to send a few things so it was cool to see everyones treasures and get some good laughs and stories.

my stylin' christmas eve outfit from cousins in san fran

christmas morning at our house: he was actually into tearing into the present....must have been the practice from the birthday festivities!

his new sesame street ride.....another piece of plastic!

brett & stephen being silly with kayla.....yes, we all love each other very much!

my little super hero

christmas activities

ummm...not so sure about santa! i have another photo that the photographer took & it is so much better but it is on my work computer. brett's office had santa set up for an afternoon so henry and lucy headed over for a visit. lucy didn't make it to his lap but did get up close and personal with santa. as for henry- brett just threw him on santas lap & then 3 seconds later he realized he was in a strangers arms!

after visiting with santa...."hey goose- these marshmellows are really good!!!"

at a christmas brunch...once again eating sweets! i think he has his momma's sweet tooth!

this is henry's friend charlie. they were so funny in this chair together. of course we were trying to get their picture with both of them looking at the camera but i think this shot is even better! looks like they are in total conversation!!

fun times in the front yard

one of my favorite photos so far this year! brett put henry's swing up this month and he has loved every second of it. he tends to throw a fit when it is time to get out :).