WVU Bowl Game

We vegged out and watched the bowl game at home on our comfy couch eating disgustingly unhealthy food. We were all very excited about the bowl win and proud to be Mountaineer fans. (I love when Braylon smiles big enough that you can see his dimple).

Braylon and Pat (in the back ground), warming up their throwing arms just prior to the start of the game.

Name Game

Jeni, D.J., and the kids got Braylon and Lando matching pajamas for Christmas. They are so cute. You can see Lando's name on his in this picture.

You can't see it as well, but Braylon's name is on his too.

Lando literally got under the Christmas tree for these pictures on Christmas night. As soon as we sent Bray off to bed Lando fell asleep...I guess his pjs were pretty comfy!

Speaking of names. Two stories:
1.) I was working on some posts earlier with Bray on my lap. He said,"I want to show you my letters to make my name." He then proceeded to point to the the keys, in order, to spell out his name. I have been working with him to learn to write the letters in his name but we had never really practiced spelling his name. So then I asked him to tell me how to spell his name and he rattled off B-R-A-Y-L-O-N. We of course had to call the grandparents and do it for them via phone. I am so proud of the little squirt. He wrote all of the letters in his name in Mom and Dad's anniversary card last week. They weren't in order, but they were all there.
2.) Last night as I was getting Braylon ready for bed he told me his whole name. I asked him if he liked his name, if Mama and Daddy did a good job picking out his name. He shook his head yes, then he said, "what are we going to name our baby sister?" I said, "are we getting a baby sister?" to which Bray replied, "yeah, we just have to ask God to give us one." Then he said "how do we tell God to give us a baby sister?" I told him that we talk to God through prayer so he immediately bowed his head and said:"God, give us a baby sister...please. Amen." Too cute! I hope God heard.

Christmas Day

After spending a nice morning with just the three of us, the grandparents came up to see what Santa brought Braylon and to have Christmas dinner. Having the close family at our house apparently put Braylon in a very Zen mood. I have a better picture of everyone but I like this one with Bray's pose better.

BooBoo and Papaw arrived late Christmas morning and we exchanged gifts with them. As always they spoiled us all. Braylon got a wheelbarrow, some yard tools, a bike, an easel that is a chalk board on one side and a dry erase board on the other, and several other things.

Then MaMaw and PaPaw arrived Christmas evening. We had already exchanged gifts with them on Christmas Eve. They got Braylon a camera, a keyboard and microphone, some clothes, a stocking full of goodies, a disc sled, and some other things. Oh, how have I managed to fit all of this new stuff in our house?
Then Lando was very cooperative for a photo shoot. Again, Braylon was all over the place and only about 5 of the 400 pictures I attempted turned out pretty nice. I love his one.
It is like Lando goes into good boy mode when the camera comes out. He seriously just lays down and lets Braylon do what ever he wants to.

Christmas Morning

Santa Came! And Braylon must have been a very good boy this year.

Santa ate all of his cookies and drank all of his milk. All the proof Bray needed to be sure that Santa had visited our house.

Braylon got lots of "cool Star Wars", two robots as he had requested, the plastic zoo animals he asked for (meercat, zebra, lion, polar bear, and grizzly bear), the stuffed animal leopard he wanted, a talking/information sharing globe, some books, Kung Fu Panda DVD...and that was just from Santa. Funny story about the robots. All we have heard for months is that Santa needed to bring him two robots for Christmas (so they could fight each other). But anyway Santa came through. When Bray opened the second robot he said: "Two robots! Santa are you kidding me?" Then after looking in his stocking he busts out "Holy God!", which I am assuming he picked up from someone at preschool because no one else he is around uses it.
Even Lando got a visit from Santa. He had this and the other toy he received completely destroyed within two minutes.

Christmas Eve Marathon, Phase 4

Phase 4 of our Christmas Eve was an evening stop off to Drew's Gramps' house in Calhoun County. We got to visit with Gramps and with a lot of Boo Boo's family. But again, shame on me, I didn't get any pictures. Braylon and Gramps did make plans to do some tractor riding and fox chasing sometime this Spring. Here is an old picture of Braylon with Gramps. I can tell by Bray's balding/comb-over that he was five months old in this picture. The five month mark was not a good hair time for Bray.

Christmas Eve Marathon, Phase 3

The third stop on our Christmas Eve is MaMaw Helen's house. I didn't get any pictures of her this year. Shame on me. We are not as good about getting family pictures with Mom's family as we are with Dads. Some years it happens, but most years it doesn't. I did get some pictures of the kids though.

Cousin Kayli

Cousin Amara...just look at those big beautiful brown eyes!

Cousin Noah

Cousin Kelsi, or at least her eyes. I love this kids eyes. (Maybe because she is the only member of the family with gray/green eyes like me...although hers are much prettier!)

Cousin Aleigha. She is developing quite a sweet, with a splash of rotten, personality.

Christmas Eve Marathon, Phase 2

Bray's PaPaw Otto and MaMaw Edith. Also Uncle Ronald, PaPaw David, Aunt Cindy, and Aunt Kandy. Uncle Dale didn't get to make it in until Christmas day this year. Dad's family is so big and MaMaw and PaPaw's house is kinda small, so we rent out the fire hall to have space for us all.

Cousin Sabrina

Cousin Joshua

Cousin Christine

Cousin Isaiah

My Little Man

Cousin Caden

Cousin Aryka with her boyfriend, Zack

JoLee showing off a dance move.