Texans Vs. Patriots

One of my Christmas presents from Chantz was tickets to see the Patriots and the Texans play!!!
I was super excited being that the patriots are one of my favorite teams.

Even though we were playing them I really wanted the Texans to win because it meant that this would mark their first winning season and we would be there to mark history:):)

Well guess what!!!!

They did it!!! Good Job Texans. I can't describe how loud and crazy that game was and even more when the game was over and we were going down the escalator and everyone was going crazy saying "HOU-STON" "TEX-ANS". I am so excited and would have been more excited if the jets or the ravens would have lost so we could've been in the playoffs but that didn't happen:(

I'm still very proud of them and now I'm super excited because my Cowboys are coming here next year to play them and we are definitely going and bringing Dalton with us. He loves "Romo" as he answers when you ask him "who's going to win tonight". We are for sure a football family and it was awesome to be able to go to a professional game this year:):):) Thank you Chantz!!!!

New Years Week

We had a wonderful New Years. We spent the day relaxing and cleaning for a fresh start in 2010 with clutter haha. That evening we went over to my Aunt Carol's house and ate some chicken wings and chips and dips and just had fun lighting some fireworks and watching football. Uncle Robert was there and so was Uncle's Ronnie's brother Michael with his wife Robin and their three kids.
Dalton had such a fun time playing with all of the kids. Since everyone was much older they were all poping firecrackers so Dalton stayed inside while they did those because he doesn't like them.

Right before the ball dropped in New York we went over to my Grandma's house because that's kind of been a tradition for me ever since I was small to go and see the ball drop at Nana's house. Nana and Papa and Uncle Robert watched with us while poor Ramsey Uncle Robert's dog was hiding in the closet from the fireworks.

Aggie did really well considering this was his first encounter with fireworks. We didn't have him yet on the fourth of july so we didn't know how he would do but he did amazing!!!

We had so much to be thankful for this year and some of our big highlights and memories for the year were.....closing on our house in February, Celebrating Dalton's first birthday in May, Celebrating my First Mothers Day, Adding Aggie to our family, Mommy going back to school to finish her degree, and celebrating all of our first holidays in our new home. Some of Dalton's accomplishments this year were walking, eating with silverware on his own, really talking, running, jumping, throwing, climbing, kicking, and so much more. It's so crazy to me to imagine how he was at the end of 2008 to the end of 2009. He was such a small baby at only 7 months and now he is my big boy toddler at 19 months. He has accomplished so much and I am so proud of him. Dalton you are one of the smartest little boys I know and it just awes me over and over at your will to learn and do everything you see and say everything you hear. We love you honey and look forward to another new year with you and all the many things we know you will learn in 2010.

After New Years it was hard for me to want to go back to work because I had stayed home with Dalton all that week prior to it. I had been home with him for a week and a half and it was soooo hard to leave him even though I know he loves playing at Miss Laura's house during the day.

We had fun making cinnamon rolls and this was Dalton's first time to eat them. From the pictures you can see he got the icing EVERYWHERE and wouldn't let go of the cinnamon rolls. At the end I asked him to give it to me so he shoved the whole thing in his mouth and his cheeks were sooo puffy haha.

We baked lots of things including, cake balls, cookies, oreo balls, cinnamon rolls, cakes, and biscuts. We had so much fun playing in the kitchen and Dalton really liked helping me cook every meal for that week.

He especially loved eating all of the DOUGH. I know I know you're not supposed to let your 19 month old eat raw cookie dough but I couldn't get it from him in time and then once he tasted it boom it was done. I had to hurry and make the cookies and put them in the oven before he could get them:)

We had so much fun playing with all of his new toys that he got for Christmas too. He is at the best age and I so wish I could be with him allday everyday. It is tons and tons of fun playing with him and listening to him tell me all about his toys and how they work and what he thinks of them:)

I had one of the best weeks of my life the last week in 2009 being home with him. It was such a great way to end the year.

I know 2010 has so much in store for our family and we are so excited to see how the year is going to unfold:):)

Christmas Eve and Morning

I know this is extremely late but I am just now getting around to posting our Christmas Memories. Christmas Eve is when we spent Christmas with my Dad and step mom. They came over around lunch time and we ate and opened presents with them. Dalton got a ton of clothes and a ride on radio rocket filled with wooden cars and airplanes inside the storage seat. When they left we went to church service. Last year I had to walk out with Dalton during the service so we were nervous about this year. Thankfully, Dalton did amazing and stayed in his seat quietly during the whole service. I haven't uploaded the pictures from when my Dad and step mom were with us or of Dalton playing in the snow and with the live nativity at our church. We got to service early and met up with Nana, Papa, Uncle Robert and John John since they had went to the service before ours. We got Dalton something to eat at the cafe and we went to find his Class that he will be getting enrolled for when he turns two. Dalton was so excited to see all of the little kids and they had Santa, who he was NOT thrilled to see, a penguin, an elf and frosty the snowman all there to say hello to and take pictures with. At our church all of the services are always PACKED so we went and got our seats and enjoyed the magnificant service that Pastor Kerry held. When it was over we went to nana's house for tradition in our family of Christmas Eve calzones and chivilet. This is when we always open our presents from the grandparents and aunts and uncles. Dalton had so much fun at nana's opening all of his presents.

We have this exact same picture of him last year with his presents from then all around him. I put them next to each other and couldn't believe the difference. I feel like it was just yesterday that he was having his first Christmas.

Everyone always sits in a circle and we go one by one to open a present. It takes longer but it's nice to see what everyone gets and their face reactions rather than us all jumping in at once to open presents.

Gammy and Uncle Robert being silly. They were the only two out of the brothers and sisters this year because usually my Aunt Carol is there but this year her and her family spent Christmas in Disney.

Dalton kept running around everytime he would open one present. He even tried on Uncle Robs reading glasses:) That is one of his newest things is to put on glasses lately I don't know what it is with him because when he was small I would have to literatly FIGHT him to keep some sun shades on and now he wears them even when it's dark outside.

Dalton was so excited when he opened Uncle Aaron's present that he got for Dalton. It was a HUGE red back filled with all of Dalton's favorite things. In there was a nerf football that Dalton went completely inside of the bag to get out:):) I couldn't get a picture of it that wasn't blurry but it was hilarious to watch him go into the bag. That was it once he opened that and his kitchen from nana and papa he didn't want anything else to do with his other presents.

As you can tell by his face expression he is mad that I was "disturbing" his play time with the kitchen and his Poppy:) He has an attitude that has developed out of nowhere and we're doing everything in our power to help him control his moody fits that he gets. Alright terrible twos we're in our gear and ready for you lol.

At one point Poppy had to go outside to take the trash out and Dalton went CRAZY. He was crying and yelling and when one of us would try to get him away from the door he would kick and scream. Yes I know wonderful way for my child to act on Christmas Eve. We're working on the tamper tantrums.

He had such a good time throwing touchdowns between him and Uncle Robert. We taught him how when we say ok catch it he sticks his hands out right in his chest where his elbows are WAY back behind his back and he scoots back to try to catch the ball:)

Dalton's other new thing is to say "touchdown" and throw his one hand in the air. He says it when football comes on the tv and he sees everyone cheering. He said "pootball" and we are 100% sure that he LOVES football so hopefully next year we'll take him to a game with us and he can say "touchdown". His favorite teams are the Florida Gators and Dallas Cowboys go figure hahaha. He takes after Daddy and Mommy but as soon as he sees Tim Teebow even if he's not in uniform he says "pootball" and same with Tony Romo. If you ask him who's our favorite player he will say Teetow and when you ask him who's going to win in football he'll say Romo.

Our family has a tradition that on Christmas Eve we sing happy birthday to baby Jesus and we have his birthday cake for dessert. This year was pretty funny because my Uncle John who is known in our family for going back for thirds and fourths was the first one at the table for Jesus's birthday cake. It was only him and Ramsey the table begger that were there and all of the rest of us were finishing presents. We kept saying where's John John and then we looked and saw him in the breakfast room and started cracking up.
Dalton did a great job this year of singing happy birthday he just sings happy over and over again and he also said the blessing at our Christmas meal which was "Jesus tayne tou food eat amen"

We thought it was super cute how Ramsey and Dalton were the same height when they were both begging Uncle Robert to pick them up. Ramsey wanted to eat but Dalton really wanted to sit on him and snuggle. That's my lovely little boy the other attitude is when he's Chantz's hahaha.

After Dalton and his Uncle Aaron finished their wrestling matches on Nana's floor we decided to go ahead and take our little man home.
We set out cookies for Santa when we got home and then Dalton had to go to sleep so Santa could set up his toys in our living room for him.
When Dalton came down the stairs Christmas morning he was all smiles as soon as he saw the living room floor COVERED in things that Santa had brought for him. At first you could tell he was a little overwhelmed and in shock but then once he realized it was all for him to play with he got down and started running around.It took forever unwrapping one present at a time because then he would want to get it out and play with that one for like twenty minutes before I could get him to open another one.
Uncle Aaron had stayed the night with us and he did a great job of helping us with opening presents with Dalton. We pretty much opened presents all day long:)
And if you tried to tell Dalton look do this side first or anything like that he would give you his mean look like don't talk to me let me do it myself.

The rest of Christmas we spent putting toys together and playing with them. We had the christmas lunch at our house this year where we make baked ziti. My family is italian that is why we have all these weird italian foods that are made from scratch through the recipes that have been passed on by generations for the christmas holidays.

Nana, Papa, Gammy, Tim, Uncle Aaron, Uncle Robert and Uncle John came over to eat with us and then watch some Christmas movies.

I feel like every year I say this was the best Christmas but it just seems like every year it gets better and better.

Dallas Trip

Well the first weekend in December we headed our way to Dallas as it was snowing in Houston. Luckily the roads were great and we didn't hit any really bad weather because no one down here really knows how to drive in it. We went up there because Chantz was invited to play on a flag football team in the state championship game. Our hotel and gas were paid for and then Chantz got paid for playing so it was a nice way to get away for a little while and have some extra spending money for Christmas. Dalton loved jumping on the beds as you can see in the pictures.
But he didn't really like being cooped up in the room. I think he just gets chlostrophobic in hotel rooms because when we were in Florida for our Disney Trip he did great but we were in our timeshare which is the size of a small house but everytime since he's been born if we're in a hotel room he gets so fussy. He kept going to the door and saying buh bye and then he wold bring me his shoes. Saturday when daddy had to go play, Dalton and I packed up and drove to Fort Worth to see Uncle Robert. We were going to go to the zoo with him but since it was only 23 degrees there they said over 90% of the animals were up. Uncle Rob and I joked about so what are you going to do in Africa if they ever get a freeze hahaha go around and build a bunch of heated cages for them to go into?? After finding this out we took Dalton to Trinity Park to play with the ducks.
Dalton had a blast running through all the leaves and kicking his sponge bob ball around.
Him and Uncle Robert were running up that very big hill and I was very nervous at the bottom. I just kept seeing Dalton rolling down the hill in my mind but luckily that didn't happen:)
Dalton loved playing with the ducks he was telling them "wack wack" whenever they would start talking to him. He even said it in this funny raspy voice which was hilarious. We bought him a new lightning mcqueen beanie with the matching gloves and to my surprise he actually kept them on while we were out. Last year he wouldn't keep them on for anything so that was wonderful that he did this year. AND he was holding his little toy truck tube that had candy in it and would not let go of that thing no matter what. Luckily Daddy's team was out by the end of the first day so we were able to go and eat dinner with him at Outback and go shopping in the Galleria there in Dallas. It was decorated Beautiful and they had a christmas tree that reminded me so much of rockefeller center I kept imagining we were in New York!!! That next morning we ate a good breakfast and headed home. When we all woke up we were stuffed up and coughing really bad.
Our little angel was AMAZING in the car there and back which totally shocked me. Usually he has a fit but this time he was GREAT!!! That next day I took off with him because him and I were not any better and we went to go to the doctor.
And of course because Mommy is a softie and daddy wasn't there to tell her no Dalton got to open a christmas present.

I just felt so bad for him the poor little man couldn't breathe and was so miserable so I knew this would make him feel better.

Plus this is a doodle pro that is for the car and he got a bigger one for the house also for Christmas so I figured he could get this one opened already and start using it.

And that little one has so many presents under the tree and I don't want him to be overwhelmed Christmas morning so it couldn't hurt to let him open one ya know, ha!! But now the hard part is he thinks he can just go under the tree and pick out a present and open it...woops!!!