Texas Christmas

We weren't leaving for Maryland until late in December, so we had lots of time to fit in some Christmas at home too. 

Our neighborhood is awesome! They had Santa come and take pictures with the kids. It was totally free too! We weren't sure how Russell would handle Santa this year. Last year he was too little to care who was holding him. 

They had a fun photo op while you were waiting in line. 

Hanging out with Mrs. Claus before seeing Santa 

Santa points too!

Each child alway got a goody bag from Santa! 

And he brought some reindeer 

We missed our ward Christmas party because Russell had s nasty flu bug, but Robin was in charge of their wards party and let us crash it. 

My cute Christmas family 

Russell needed some crazy hair to match the You-vile theme

Checking out the snowman who makes snow. And a brief glimps at the amazing decorations going on in there!

And of course, the event Stephen had been waiting for- Star Wars Episode 7! We got tickets to a "midnight showing" of the movie (aka 7pm). He wanted to one of the first people to see it so no one could spoil the plot for him. 

Star Wars date night!

Empty theater- that quickly filled up haha

Speaking of Star Wars, Russell was pretty sure we needed this in our front yard. He always wanted to see it when we went to Walmart and would sing the Darth Vader theme song. 

And we did other random Christmassy things to:

Be an elf in a sink

Get some good winter shoes

Decorate the Christmas tree- and try to keep Russell and Zoey from undecorating it!

Made delicious cookies

Played outside in the beautiful weather

Destroyed dads home office 

Went to church on Christmas Sunday looking very handsome 

Became an official cookie tester- even plastic cookies!

Ate giant Star Wars waffles thanks to some early Christmas presents from GBear, Papa and aunt Ashee! 

And figured out how to put some lights on our house! 

We had lots of fun, but we're still counting down until we got to party with everyone in Maryland!!