Christmas night.

Even though the holiday season always seems to go by too quickly, I feel like we took advantage of lots of opportunities to celebrate this year. We went to the Wimberley Trail of Lights twice--once with my mommy friends and once with Mom and Chris on our traditional Christmas Eve visit. We went to 37th Street in Austin to see the fun and funky lights. Paxton got to have Breakfast with Santa when we were in Pennsylvania, and he got to sit on Santa's lap again at the Trail of Lights. We had our typical madhouse of present-opening this morning, with Mom's delicious fruit salad and sausage bread (faux for me). Then, tonight we had Christmas dinner at Mom's house with a very entertaining group of friends and family. I feel completely satisfied tonight as I sit amidst sleeping, peaceful cats and piles of Christmas presents yet to be put away in their proper places. It was a holiday well-done.

We have been completely slammed lately with oh, so much. Besides the holiday and Paxton's actual birthday, we also have been planning Paxton's Sunday birthday party. We have Chris' family coming into town to celebrate with us. We've also had a wave of things going awry at our house. Our water heater went out yesterday morning. Our guest bathroom toilet is leaking. And there was a mysterious and disturbing smell coming from the other guest bathroom. With family coming in town, you can imagine our stress. God is good, though, and Chris found and solved the problem o' the stink. Our friend, Greg, is going to help Chris change the heating elements in the water heater tomorrow. And the other guest bathroom toilet will just have to wait until later days, I think. It's an easy fix, but it's a bit time consuming.

Anyway, I think I'll tell the story of our last couple of weeks with pictures. View them above and enjoy!