More to check off

Well December is almost over. We had a wonderful Christmas. Just spent it with my two love bugs.This is my first year of doing any kind of Bucket List. It's fun but also kind of challenging. Taking a picture of Emma everyday has been kind of hard. and getting her to smile is impossible.

1. Donate old clothes 

2. Gaylord ICE Website and info

3. Picture with Santa

4. Our church does a BEAUTIFUL nativity  

5. Christmas Tree Lighting at Dallas Galleria Mall

6. Walk down Main St. in Grapevine

7. Journey to Bethlehem in Grapevine--Cancelled 

8. Farmers Branch lights

9. Highland Park Village Lights

10. Watch Elf, and The Grinch

11.Send cards to the Soldiers 

12. Make and decorate sugar cookies

13. Write a letter to Santa ( I KNOW HIM)

14. Give food to a local food bank

15. Make a Christmas Wreath

16. Read "The Christmas Story"

17. Go to a Parade-- Cancelled 

18. If it snows;; play in it.  NO SNOW FOR US, But we did have an ice storm 

19. Drink LOTS of Hot Coco

20. Take a picture every day of Emma starting the 1st--By far the hardest thing

21. Make a few goodie bags for the homeless.

22. Make cinnamon ornament

23. Make new family traditions

24. Pay for someones drink/meal

25. HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS WITH MY FAMILY.

This past week we were able to check some more off our list:

Have a merry Christmas

Gaylord

Highland park

and paying for someone else

I actally paid for the guy in front of me his grocery bill, he didn't have enough money and elderly people just melt my hard. This is happened to me twice now. But i am very grateful i am able to help.
12/23- If she fits, she sits. 

 12/24- Always gets free food

12/25- Christmas, This snow globe that my grandparents got her i think it's her favorite

12/26 - She LOVES suckers 

 12/27- She got some bath crayons, loves them

12/28- Such a little lady with her legs crossed

 12/29- Not the best picture but she is just so cute!! 

We went to Gaylord on Christmas Eve, if you live in Texas you should go. We didn't go in to the ice sculptures this year cause its kind of expensive but we were able to walk around still and enjoy our self's, Emma LOVED it. She loves Christmas. 

 Not the best picture of Emma below but she just loved these balls

 Stone cold. ps do you like her old man style of socks and shoes. hehe
On Christmas we decided it was time to get out of the house so we went and looked at Christmas lights in the highland park area. I don't think we were where all of them were cause it was small but worth seeing once.

We learned what a dog says this week .

Well i am hoping to get everything else checked off our list. I'm not sure if i will. Jared is leaving and well I don't drive on the highways here. Hope you all had a WONDERFUL Christmas.

Merry Christmas Y'all

We hope you all had a Merry Christmas. 

The Watson Family

Jared Amanda & Emma Jane

Buddy the Elf, Whats your favorite color?

Christmas is almost here! Hope you have all your shopping done! I have to return a few things and get a few more stocking suffers. I am kind of dreading going anywhere this week because i'm pretty sure EVERYONE has the week off and its going to be a mad house! Like i said before we are staying here in Texas for the Holidays, which we are kind of excited about. Our first Christmas spent together as a family.Jared and Emma sure are going to have a good Christmas this year. I can only check off a few things this past week from our list. 

1. Donate old clothes 

2. Gaylord ICE Website and info

3. Picture with Santa

4. Our church does a BEAUTIFUL nativity  

5. Christmas Tree Lighting at Dallas Galleria Mall

6. Walk down Main St. in Grapevine

7. Journey to Bethlehem in Grapevine--Cancelled 

8. Farmers Branch lights

9. Highland Park Village Lights

10. Watch Elf, and The Grinch

11.Send cards to the Soldiers 

12. Make and decorate sugar cookies

13. Write a letter to Santa ( I KNOW HIM)

14. Give food to a local food bank

15. Make a Christmas Wreath

16. Read "The Christmas Story"

17. Go to a Parade-- Cancelled 

18. If it snows;; play in it.

19. Drink LOTS of Hot Coco

20. Take a picture every day of Emma starting the 1st--By far the hardest thing

21. Make a few goodie bags for the homeless.

22. Make cinnamon ornament

23. Make new family traditions

24. Pay for someones drink/meal

25. HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS WITH MY FAMILY.

Hopefully we will be able to get everything checked off our list before the New Year.

12/16- Emma is loving to color, she uses both left and right hand

12/17- Emma LOVES to facetime Grandma

12/18- Emma got her first pair of TOMS, I think she loves them 

 12/19- She HATES anything in between her toes

12/20- Emma is 16 months!

12/21- This is what she does when we ask her where her nose is...

 12/22- Christmas Dress (only picture i got of her in it because she threw up right after this)

JARED TURNED 33!!!!

We celebrated with some of our closes friends here in Texas, We celebrated 2 birthdays actually, My dear friend Lesli's birthday is this week.We had so much fun. Our new years goal as a group of friends is to get some babysitters at one house to watch the kids while the parents go out! We cant wait!

Here is my Christmas Wreath. I'm not a huge fan but it gave me something to do this week! 

What are your family traditions? We are loving opening a book a night. Emma gets so excited when she sees any present now!

Check list

So Far....

1. Donate old clothes 

2. Gaylord ICE Website and info

3. Picture with Santa

4. Our church does a BEAUTIFUL nativity  

5. Christmas Tree Lighting at Dallas Galleria Mall

6. Walk down Main St. in Grapevine

7. Journey to Bethlehem in Grapevine--Cancelled 

8. Farmers Branch lights

9. Highland Park Village Lights

10. Watch Elf, and The Grinch

11.Send cards to the Soldiers 

12. Make and decorate sugar cookies

13. Write a letter to Santa ( I KNOW HIM)

14. Give food to a local food bank

15. Make a Christmas Wreath

16. Read "The Christmas Story"

17. Go to a Parade-- Cancelled 

18. If it snows;; play in it.

19. Drink LOTS of Hot Coco

20. Take a picture every day of Emma starting the 1st.

21. Make a few goodie bags for the homeless.

22. Make cinnamon ornament

23. Make new family traditions

24. Pay for someones drink/meal

25. HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS WITH MY FAMILY.

This has been a crazy fun week! I know i said last week that our churches nativity was closed but...they opened it up because the ice was melting! It was so beautiful and you could just feel the spirit when you walked in! Christmas time is so much more fun when you have a child. Emma loves opening a new book every night. She may like the wrapping paper more at times.

Picture of the day;;

Emma Loves to Help me clean things. 12/9

We leanred how to pop bubble wrap. 12/10

First time finger painting. 12/11

 Took her an hour to fall asleep, then she only slept for an hour 12/12

Cutest reindeer 12/13

This is the face i get when i ask her to "smile" 12/14

Two of her favorite things, monkey and blanket 12/15

Also this week we got our picture taken with Santa at Bass Pro Shop. As we waited in line Emma was so excited, she was waving and smiling when i picked her up to put her on his lap...yeah that was not happening, she held on to me like i was leaving her for days, even had donkey tears. After 10 minutes of this we got back in line, more tears but she sat on my lap.

Tonight,we went and saw some lights, the lights matched the music! It was awesome! We let Emma sit in the front with us, we were going 3 mph, don't call cps on me. She was dancing to the music shaking her shoulders and saying "ho ho ho" After we drove by we got out and walked. They had Popcorn and Hot Coco, a Santa (we tried to get another picture) AND i was even able to drop of the bag of food i bought to donate! So we got two birds with one stone tonight! 

I made Emma a Felt tree this year cause well being 1 she wants to touch everything, it turned out great she loves it and is so soft with it!

 She loves taking the ornament off and then putting them back on. 

I'm sharing this picture because i love my stockings i made them and am so proud of the way they turned out!

This is a video of Emma, Its okay if you watch it at least 5 times because it is just that funny.

This week is Jared's birthday! The big 3-3.

December

First things first bucket list pictures: 

 Send cards to the soldiers - check

 write Santa - check

 Take a picture of Emma everyday - check for this week

Donate old clothes - check

Watch Elf and The Grinch - check

Make Cinnamon ornaments - check Emma helped me (Last picture on the collage)

Start a new family tradition- check (Emma gets a new book to unwrap every night, see middle picture ^)

Drink LOTS of Hot Coco - check we may have went through a box just these passed few days 

Emma knows who Santa is and does a great impression of him..." Ho ho ho" while patting her belly.

So Texas had a huge Ice Storm, which is so crazy because it was 80 degrees for two days than BAM! freezing cold and ice. It's been crazy. We literally could not leave our complex because we don't have 4 wheel drive. .On the second day of going crazy and stuck inside all day we HAD to get out we HAD to get some food and other things before Sunday. Randomly Jared went down to the truck to get something and he remembered her had chains! Crazy that people from Arizona have chains right. So we started the van it only took 45 minutes of turning the van on for us to even get the ice off the window! put the chains on and went for it. It was going so good we felt like rock stars, i called a family that lives in our same complex to see if they needed anything. They said yes and he wanted to come. So we went down a huge hill.....that was our mistake Jared got a little sacred and went on the breaks. We did not hit one car. We cam seriously with in INCHES of hitting one but heavenly father was with us! Finally after an hour of just being in the complex we made it to Wal*Mart. Wal*Marts parking lot was ice, nothing else. I think i had at least 5 anxiety attacks. We made it inside and omg! I have never seen a store so empty in my life! The bread was gone, the soup gone, water bottles gone! You would think the would is ending! Anyways after 30 minutes in the store we got back in and headed home. took us another 30 minutes to drop our friend off and get back to our place. After this ice storm i have decided...i hate the cold, and i hate the ice. There were at least 6-8 cars in our complex that hit. I am so grateful that we were not one of them. ( The picture on the bottom left is Emma all bundled up to Walmart ^)

This poor RV was stuck her for at least 12 + hours

So due to this ice storm THREE things on my bucket list have been canceled and are not re-scheduling. 

Our churches beautiful nativity 

The parade 

Journey to Bethlehem 

Church was also cancelled today.

Until next week Friends!

Stay Warm!!