Christmas Austin Style

after our raetzsch christmas, we headed to have a unnasch christmas in austin. first up: adam's parents' house and cute kids.
ah, it's our nephew, boston, in a doggie bed! he looks super cute anywhere!

lovin' summer's christmas dress! anything polkadot works for me.

adam's mom and i sportin' our scarves from adam's sister.

i ordered summer a pillow dress off of etsy.com. i should've gotten it monogrammed though!

caden has been talking to me about the places he has been learning about in school esp. rome and athens. so, i thought what better than to get him an atlas that has facts about places around the world! we might have a future jet-setter on our hands. right up my alley!

adam's grandparents and i. they couldn't be any nicer.

the good lookin' family of five. adam's brother's family.

four generations. wow.

we went to adam's aunt and uncle's house on the 27th to get together with them.

every year, adam's grandparents save their change in a jar. during christmas, everyone gets to guess how much is in the jar and the person who has the closest guess gets to keep the money! i just love traditions.

adam's aunt. quite the hostess!

adam's aunt made summer this apron (it has cupcakes all over it) to go with the kiddie kitchen she got for christmas!

i adore personalized anything--his aunt had place settings with our name and our name's meaning on it.

Christmas Seguin Style

adam and i began our festivities with my side of the family in suburban seguin.
my cousin amy and i on christmas eve.

first, we went to church and then headed over to my aunt kathy's house.

we ate our traditional tamales with chile and queso. we had a very nice time but we were all missing michael.

we took our traditional cousin picture but we were missing an important person.

christmas morning came and did you know? santa still comes to visit when you're in your twenties, hah. {this pic was taken after we opened presents}

my aunt nancy needed a new stocking, so she got a HUGE one and wrote a little message for santa on it: insert tv here. too bad the note didn't work. better luck next year, nance!

nancy made us new stockings. i can tell these took a long time! thanks, NIYP!

here are some gifts that nancy wrapped. nancy has good tastes and crafty hands. ah, i just love stylishly wrapped gifts.

time to eat AGAIN. this time it's turkey. here i am feeling stuffed like a turkey.

we got gold crowns from our english christmas crackers.

here are the christmas crackers before we opened them. classy and simple gold and white.

cousin alejandro and kathy. i can tell that he loves getting to wear a paper crown with his football uniform!

alexander in one of his christmas gifts. he's got his football moves ready. now it's time to play ball!

next stop: austin with the unnasches

The Blind Side

You have got to go see The Blind Side. It is a MUST SEE.

Watch this clip to hear more about it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bzjOZrQnU0

a great beginning to christmas break

i love the way adam did our outside lights. all white. my favorite.

adam in front of his gifts from me. christmas is such a good time to help him restock his wardrobe, hehe.

adam made an album of the past year. so sweet!

and he made this "brochure" asking me if i wanted to go to ruidoso or memphis for spring break. creative, huh?

we also had a visit from adam's aunt who lives out of town! she is so nice, so it was such a treat!

his grandmother came, too. we were so honored that she came all the way to see our new home!

enjoying the company.

here is what i decided to do with our christmas cards. i stuck them on a ribbon and then, tied a bow at the top. oh, how i love christmas cards with pictures on them!

it's party time!!

adam and i had our small group christmas party at our house this week! we had a fun time planning for it. i made cupcakes and adam made delicious stuffed mushrooms and sausage balls. so sad we didn't get a pic of all of the food!
this is the children's area taken before the party! we had the kids decorate cupcakes, color christmas coloring pages and watch frosty the snowman. they seemed to have a really fun time and the activities kept them occupied! (you probably can't see but we covered the carpet entirely in plastic ahead of time, heh)

the adults had a great time socializing and getting to know each other better outside of regular small group.

here we are playing the white elephant game. it's normally not really my fav activity but it turned out being fun.

we had some good laughs.

and lots of smiles.

one of the white elephants gifts was this blue, stretchy shirt. if you hold it up, it looks like a baby size shirt, but that thing really does stretch! 3 of the guys had to try it on for kicks and man, were they stylin'!

here's our group leader, bob, sportin' the top.

this is us after everyone left. we were still all smiles after the party, so i would say it was a huge success!

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