Seasons Greetings everyone! Well life has settled down here for a while...a day to be exact :) We got home from Corpus Christi tonight and my in-laws will be rejoining us tomorrow for the New Year. The party just keeps going :)
Our festivities begin here in Austin with my family. Everyone was able to make the trip and we celebrated Christmas Eve at my sister's. Its amazing to see the enormous amount of presents around the tree every year. Sometimes I imagine they are all for me-LOL. Our family always opens presents on Christmas Eve and then we await for the "Santa" gifts in the morning. The kids gets so excited and ask all night long, "Can we open our presents now?" When its finally time, its so much fun, but so much chaos. You can only imagine the amount of wrapping paper, boxes, tissue paper, ect that literally covers the whole floor. David and I have gotten smarter each year, we put our presents aside and each are assigned a child to watch. They grab, tear open and we put aside. Woo...chaos I tell you :) So the best part for me is Christmas morning....less mess and much anticipation from the boys...well Andrew and David at least...of "Will it come today?" (it being whatever they asked for that they didn't get on Christmas Eve) They had a GREAT Christmas and could confidently say they got everything they asked for and more!
After Christmas, we headed down to CC for Christmas with my in-laws. We ate, vegged out and ate some more :0 It was GREAT! LOL (I know what my New Year's resolution is going to be-heehee) Our last gift to open was Rock Band. Our cousin gave this to our whole family and we already started "Rockin Out." It was TOO FUN! Like I said we had a GREAT Christmas! Thank you to all our family and friends for the great gifts and time spent together. We love you!

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Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all our family and friends. I hope Santa was good to you this year, he sure was to us. I will post more pictures and entries soon, but I just wanted to quickly say "Merry Christmas" and we love you!

The Twelve Days of Christmas.....

Oh my GOSH can you believe there is only 12 days till Christmas? How time flies. I am bumbed that my camera is on the fritz and I have no new pics for you today. I was especially bumbed that I couldn't get pictures of the "snow" the other night and Christopher going "kkkkoold Mama." :) So now of course my hubby is telling me, "If we had "that" camera (that camera being the $600 camera he wants) we could capture the snow." Oh well,I'm gonna try new recharchable batteries and then go from there. I definately need something before Christmas.
Doesn't this song just bring tears to your eyes? I heard it the other day on K-Love and had to come find it. It is my Christmas prayer for you to have love, strength and hope this Christmas. And if you want to get me anything, I simply ask for the same. Pray that our Awesome God continues to bless our family, keeps mine and David's love blazing and our children healthy and safe! We are so blessed this year and I couldn't ask for anything more.
David Rey is doing great in basketball, although he is very hard on himself. Which I guess is good, because it got him moved up to starting. Andrew was very cute yesterday. We have a holiday store at our school for the kids to buy presents for their family. He had a list and was going to use his OWN money. He had me, Pretzi (don't you just love that Sue-he got her a chew toy) his daddy, Christopher, David Rey, Aunt Neese, cousin Vicki and Whitley. He must have had like 20 or more dollars on there, so we had to cut some of you :) LOL But I was just amazed at his thoughtfullness. Once again, another moment where you know you are doing a good job at parenting :) Christopher's new words are "touchdown" (daddy's favorite), "move" and "sorry." The word "sorry" says a lot about Christopher if a almost 2 year old already had to use that word-LOL
Well we love everyone and hope you guys are doing great. I'm headed down to Corpus this weekend for my mother's retirement party so I'll check in with you Mitch :) In fact, the minute I post this blog, my husband will call me or email me to quit blogging and get packing :) LOL Bye!

An Update from the DeLaGarza Fam.....

Happy Thursday everyone. It's almost Friday-yipee and then only 10 more work days till Christmas break-yipee again! I hope this post finds everyone well. I haven't been able to take any new pics of the kids, but here are some that haven't been shared. Just wanted to update you on what's been going on around here. David Rey had his first basketball game today. Unfortunately I wasn't able to go due to a prior commitment with Andrew, but he said they got slaughtered. He just amazes me every time we have a conversation. I am sure he is getting tired of the "dazing" stares I give him. But I just keep wondering, "When did my baby grow up?" As a teacher your mind is always on fast forward. So for me right now its already January, but before I know it it will be Spring Break and then May, which is when he will turn 13. I'm gonna have a TEENAGER!

This is him and his cuz Matt trying to see who could keep their hands in the ice water the longest. I guess I shouldn't worry too much huh??? Boys!

Tonight Andrew and I went to a meeting at the church. Andrew is getting ready to make his First Reconciliation this month. We rotated through centers that were set up to get him ready for this. It was pretty cool and somewhat emotional. One center had me say a prayer over him. I was trying my hardest to keep it together and not get chocked up. I did pretty good, but wow what a great feeling that was. Just what I needed, since the other day I was ready to send him back to the womb-LOL The other day I told him to take a quick shower. Andrew has a tendency to take 30 minute showers and every morning is somewhat challenging :) So I told him to make it quick and jump in and out and his response was this, "So you want me to jump in and them jump right out?" I could feel the glare of eyes coming from David(hubby)as I turned to look at him and give him the look of "This is your child!" It's cleaning bathrooms for him for now on :)



Christopher is just talking more and more now. He has finally added "YES" to his vocabulary along with the over exaggerated shaking of the head up and down. He can say two word phrases. Some of his favorite are:
Hi DayDay (big brother)
Hi Mama
Hi Dada (daddy)
Hi Na Drew (Andrew)
Hi Nana
Ok so you can see he's got the "hi" down LOL My favorite though, when used with the pointing of the finger of course is "no, no, no." The other night I was lying on the couch and out of no where he walks up to me, shakes his finger in my face and says "no, no, no." It was priceless!

But his all time favorite has to be "Matt." He LOVES his big cuz Matt and every time their together its "Matt, Matt, Matt."
Well I hope everyone is doing great and staying warm. I can't wait to see everyone for the holidays! Love and miss ya :)