Top 5 Things I Love About The Holidays

5. The food! It's OK to gain 5 lbs. from Halloween to New Year's... um, right?
4. Decorations!! The house always seems so festive.
3. Christmas Ornaments
old:
and new:
2. Getting Thanksgiving, Christmas, or New Year's cards in the mail
1. Getting to spend time with my family and friends
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Merry Christmas to all!

Photo Shoot

Thank you to Deann Arnold for capturing our babies on camera. (Charlie at 8 mths and the triplets at 9.5 mths.) Deann is the same photographer we had for Charlie's 4 mth. pics. We love her! Here are some of my favorites:

Happy Holidays!

The Allen clan is headed to Spicewood for the week to celebrate Christmas! Safe travels and Happy Holidays to everyone!

Zoo Me!

Thanks to the Leclercq's for getting us a zoo family pass for the year. We went on Sunday and had such a great time. The zoo is HUGE, so we only got to see about 1/4 of it in our 2 hr. visit. But don't worry, we will spend many more days there throughout the year!

Chunky Monkey

We got in Charlie's 1st school pictures yesterday. How cute is our little chunk of a man???

The "-ing"'s of Charlie

As a Speech Pathologist who works with pre-school ages children I am constantly trying to get my kiddos to understand and verbally name action words. We aren't there yet with Charlie, but here are some of the actions that he is practicing doing:

Pulling up:

Walking:


Talking, Throwing, Sitting:

Christmas at the Arboretum

We took Charlie to the Arboretum today to meet Santa. He was not too sure about Santa. He cried a little bit and was very serious (per usual) in his pictures. Once we get the picture from the photographer we will post it!

Charlie also got to meet a live reindeer (which he loved)...

and a fake reindeer (which he hated).

We visited Santa's workshop.

Here he is showing off his cute outfit and his teeth!

With daddy (and his cool new haircut!)