Wow. Just.... Wow.

It's time to get rid of our Christmas tree. It's beyond dead. So we bought a tree disposal bag:

And it came with this disclaimer:

Ummmmm.... OK. Wow. Really? They have to put that on there? What exactly does that say about us as people?

Alamo Bowl

For Christmas I got Brian tickets to the Alamo Bowl in San Antonio to see Mizzou play Northwestern last night, so we spent the night in San Antonio while my parents watched Chase (Thanks again, Mom and Dad)! It was a GREAT game. We had a blast! Mizzou beat Northwestern 30-23 in overtime and Brian was freaking out.

We did a little tailgating beforehand and I even had my face painted for the first time since I was really little:

And here's the finished product!


I think they were good luck charms myself. ;)

Christmas Photos

OK, I have now had a chance to somewhat organize all the photos we took Christmas Eve and Christmas morning. With three cameras it was quite the project! Here's a little recap of Chase's third Christmas.

Grandma and Grandpa K bought him his own airplane which he fell in love with the moment it came out of the box!

He loved it so much, he had to open some of his other presents while riding it:

Grandma and Grandpa W's hit gift was his railroad set, which we bought some Thomas the Trains for:

They also got him a remote control dinosaur, but it was a little scary at first...

...so the dinosaur went night night:

Chase did occupy himself with packing peanuts while we "big kids" opened our gifts:

It was a pretty sweet deal! We opened all of our gifts while he played in the "snow," and then we were able to focus fully on his stuff when we were done. Thanks, Chase!

All of our photos from the festivities are now in our Photo Album, if you are interested (though they are only kind of in order... please forgive me)!

More updates to come about the rest of our visit with my parents. We have done lots and there are TONS of pictures to go through.... Baby steps!

Merry Christmas!

We have had a very nice holiday so far. Hey, it's almost 5:00 and I'm still in my PJ's. It doesn't get much better than this! We went to church last night and Chase enhanced the service with some commentary and one huge belch as a little boy was reading some scripture.

The photo above of us with my parents was taken after we got home from church. I'm glad we took it when we did because shortly thereafter Chase suffered another unfortunate accident. Let me back up. A few days ago he fell into a pile of dinosaurs and bruised his cheek/lip area. Then the day we went to visit Santa he was running around (trying to escape me as I frantically tried to style his hair) and ran head first into the corner of a wall. Result: a big ol' bruise/goose-egg/cut on his forehead. Last night he was excitedly chasing after the cat and ran head first into the corner of our new wooden-armed love seat. Result: a bleeding eyebrow gash, swollen eyelid and lots of tears (Mommy's included). My dad took this picture of our sorry-looking baby while he ate breakfast this morning:

I'm in the process of downloading more photos and will write more when that monumental task is complete!

Happy Holidays!

Santa!

Chase got to see Santa today and he did pretty well. He didn't want to sit on his lap but he did fine with us holding him. I can't believe I paid TWENTY DOLLARS (ridiculous!) for two 3x5's of this, but here is the photo:

He looks a little distressed, but he was actually just beginning one of those cheesy smiles of his! Too bad they didn't catch it. My parents said it was quite funny!

Wiggle Worm

Chase celebrated his 2nd birthday for a second time yesterday. We gave him a little "boom box" that is actually an mp3 player we can download his music onto. It came with 20 pre-loaded songs and he fell in love with what he calls "The Wiggle Song." He had to listen to it over and over again and we eventually incorporated the turtle Grandma and Grandpa got him. We had so much fun!

We had a cake and Chase (Mom) blew out the candles...

...and then dove right in (literally)!

Happy Birthday (again), Chase!

Proof

When you get your Christmas card from us this year, here is proof that Chase really did sign them all himself!