Dashing through December

   Here is what we have been up to this month in a "blog-shell":)

Grammy, Mimi, and I took Madden to see Santa for the first time!  As you can see....He loved him! Honestly, it's just a given that little one's aren't  fans of sitting on Santa's lap.  Is it bad that I think the screaming pics are the cutest?  This will be a great memory to look back on when he's older.

 

He was seriously traumatized!  He buried himself up against Grammy and didn't want anything to do with Mommy.  I'm pretty sure he thought I had betrayed him!

 

Dreaming on Mimi

 

Mike is so wonderful!  While we were visiting Santa, he stayed home and put up the Christmas decorations! Husbands are the best!

He also got adventurous and decided to paint the wall red after putting up the tree!  I love it!

   

Madden's little Christmas tree

Daddy, Madden, and Mommy's stockings are hung.  This is our first year to have stockings! 

 I thought I would be able to get some sweet pics of Madden in his Christmas P.J.'S.  It's very hard to get a 16 month old to cooperate and smile, while looking right at the camera.  Here's the best I got.

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 Mike, Grammy, Madden, and I went to the cemetery to take Erika, Mimi, and papa some flowers.  We miss all three of them so much! Even more so during the holidays.  Madden seemed to know just which marker was Erika's, because he just went a plopped his cute self right on it!  They would have absolutely adored one another! It was a bitter-sweet moment.

 Madden has also had a couple of sleepovers at Mimi's recently. She always gives us a good report and this was one of the many happy pics from his time away from home.  I'm sure....What happens at Mimi's.....Stays at Mimi's!

 

 The first Saturday of December, for as long as I can remember, my family has been going to the Terry Christmas party.  I am not always in attendance, but this year I was.  Madden and I decided that we needed to go.  He enjoyed running around and playing with his cousins.  However, I did not have a blast chasing him.  I need to invest in a leash!!!!! 

Caught him for a pic

So much to look at

Partied like a rock star! Time for some beauty sleep!

  Random Cuteness!

Melts Our Heart

Looking handsome, just like daddy

 This weekend we went to Tyler to spend some time with Mike's dad and his family.  We had a nice visit:)

I love him!

My Sweet Peas

Maci Jo giving Madden some love

Cutest Cousins Ever

Happy 90th Birthday, Annie Mae!