"The Twins" Welcome Baby Kasen: Christmas in Austin 2009

Merry Christmas!

Hey Everyone!

Pat and I just got home from a wonderful weekend up in Austin at my parent's house for Christmas. We had a great time with my dad's family on Christmas Eve; eating, drinking (well, not me!), opening gifts and playing dice (Put'n'Take). We had a blast hanging out with family that we don't get to see very often...we really do miss everyone!

On Christmas Day we all woke up early and dove into the gifts! Pat and I were not expecting anything, since everything goes towards the babies now; however Santa was very generous to us! I think he was giving us our "last real" Christmas. Later that morning, Pat's parents drove up to my parent's house in Austin. We all exchanged gifts and ate a late lunch with my parents and aunt and uncle. It was a great, relaxing day.

We used the rest of the weekend shopping (taking things back), and finishing my baby registry at Babies R Us. The mall was not very crowded and the lines were not bad at all. However, finishing my registry was a bit over whelming...All of the decisions...Do I really need all of this crap?...Do I really need 2 of everything? ETC! Well I did the best that I could and after almost 3.5 hours in that store I was exhausted and totally over it! I needed a drink :) So needless to say the Babies R Us registry is pretty much done and as you may have noticed I have also started a list of links at the top right corner of the page of other items I may need (want) that Babies R Us does not have.

All in all our Christmas awesome and we are ready to ring in the new year....The Year of Babies!

Below are pictures of our weekend.....

Belly up date...24.5 weeks

The next few pictures are of my Aunt Kathy's house. Every year she goes all out and this year's main theme was UT Football.

Pat got me a cooking apron for Christmas. The week before I had been cooking baked goods for all of his accounts )clients) and some of our friends. I had melted chocolate, dough, and who knows what else all over me...He thought I definitely needed an apron! I love IT!