Enjoying Phoenix Winter

Selah feeds Petros twice a day

Petros's first long bike ride to Tempe Town Lake

Petros's first swing experience

Christmas in Texas (and Louisiana)

Santa's elves

Buddy's first Christmas

Grandpa's cookie factory

Daria and Selah take Christmas tea

So much fun with Grandpa and Granny

Lots of time with Uncle Matt and Aunt Andi

Presents

The only thing Selah asked Santa for was an electric train.

Casson, Blair, John

John, Chandler, Chase

"We love Chapman"

Money gifts don't have to be boring.

Christmas snow

Pete and Chase

Collecting a snowball to keep in the freezer

Visiting the Mathis side.  Here with Mamaw (Betty Sistrunk)

Selah with second cousins

Casson and his cousins Greg, Melissa, B.J., with Mamaw

Selah: (reading Casson's sock) Smart Wool.
Lisa: Where did she read that?
Casson: On my sock.
Selah: Yeah, Smart Wool.  (Then looking at her own socks) I have smart cotton.

Busy month

My cousins Jody and Michelle, holding the second cousins Sebastian and Pete

I love Lyle!

Vanessa is a majestic bride.

The most beautiful wedding day you can imagine!  Uncle Michael and Aunt Kate

Sim and Pet

So much has happened this month.  Babies have milestones like rolling over, which are fun.  But Uncle Michael and Aunt Kate got married on Oct 27th, and Aunt Vanessa and Uncle Jason got married on November 17th.  We've flown to Minnesota twice in three weeks!  Pete is an awesome flyer, and he can barely recover from the flight oxygen, sleeping 20 hours a day it seems, for  a week. The weddings were unbelievably fun.  Selah danced like crazy and ran around with the ring bearer Cristian, her second cousin, for hours at the Burdine wedding.  She made a new friend, Jayden, the ring bearer at the Peterzen wedding.  Pete got to be held by his great aunts all evening.  I don't remember ever having so much fun and feeling so much happiness in all my life!

Part of Mike and Kate's Wedding Video

Visiting the Brookshire Museum

We drove out to Tyler for a quick visit prior to attending Casson's father's memorial on Saturday.  In Tyler we got to spend some quality time with Granny and Grandpa (I didn't get good pictures, will update when I snag pictures from Avara's camera over Christmas), too short of a time with Andrea and Matt, went to an animal museum (incredible, but also a bit disturbing), attended the Rose Queen Coronation (incredible, quite extravagant), and Casson and I got a good m.b. ride in the mix. Then we all drove down to Jasper to memorialize Ron Mathis.  It was a nice memorial, and we got to see Casson's aunts and uncles (Bob and Cindy, David and Cindy) and the man that Casson is named after, J.C. Casson Jr.  We also got to see sweet Wanda Mathis again, after ten years.  Sorry I didn't take any pictures at the memorial. 

Reading Fun Facts

Going to the Rose Queen Coronation

Fancy dinners at Granny and Grandpa's

Little journalist

Driving across Texas is hard on the digestion

Robin and Sim at Granite Mountain last weekend, during our "turn" to watch the kids while the husbands went for a m.b. ride.

We attended a "Pinata" last night.  So cute, and a whole new level of chaos - example: 15 children on 1 trampoline? 

Selah's favorite: the brinca-brinca

Selah with the birthday girl Janisse, who turned 4

Pete with Maria and Lupe

Pete's first ride to church