Busy, Busy, Busy

December, like all the months before it, is just flying by! We started off the month celebrating Phil's 33rd birthday! Jackson was so excited. He was at Walmart with me when I bought the ingredients for Phil's cake, and afterwards ran around the house for days yelling, "Dadoo birthday cake!"

Helping Daddoo blow out his candles...

Here is Heather and Phil's combined birthday and Christmas present...

Isn't it purdy? Although it's taking me twice as long to create this post trying to figure out all of the Mac stuff. We absolutely love it, though!

The next weekend we went to see Santa arrive in KFalls in an F-15....

Mrs. Claus got to meet Santa out at the jet...

After seeing Santa we went inside the hangar and enjoyed some fun Christmas activities. Jackson's favorite was frosting a cookie...

Here's Jackson and his sweet friend, Brock...

Emmett took a little snooze with Dad...

We didn't get any pictures with Santa because the line was reeeeally long and we knew Jackson would be scared to death. Maybe next year!

My sisters and I met in Vegas last week to celebrate Becky's birthday (a few weeks late). We had a great time!

Here we are at Bobby Flay's Mesa Grill in Caesar's Palace...

...and at the National Finals Rodeo...

We had seats in the balcony, but after the rodeo started we snuck down into the lower seating area and sat in some empty seats. We were six rows up from the floor, and we ended up sitting next to a really nice cowboy who was actually a moderately-famous horse trainer. Becky and my dad had attended a horse-training seminar that he held in Jacksonville a while back. She was a little starstruck!

We were so close that at one point one of the horses kicked a clod of dirt up onto us! The ladies behind us took a picture of it after it landed on the floor.

Bull-riding was the last event and, unfortunately, only one cowboy was able to stay on for the full eight seconds. We were expecting a little more with this being the National Finals and all, but I guess those bulls are unpredictable.

After the rodeo we took a shuttle back to the Wynn hotel. One of those celebrity-photo-taking backgrounds (called a "step and repeat"... thank you, NYC Housewives) was set up outside of a club there, so I had to take advantage of that. Like my Hollywood pose?

Some other pics from the week.... I love my sisters!!

A big thanks to Phil, again, for staying at home and taking good care of the boys! He's such a great Daddy. Here are some pictures from the boys' week...

Emmett is still trying desperately to crawl! He's getting closer every day, little by little.