DPP - Day 5

Family shot at the wedding! I'm thinking my parents should use this as a Christmas card photo.

DPP - Day 4

We were in Austin for a wedding this weekend, so I got a couple of days behind.... oops!

This is Carter, my brother Andrew, and Eric while waiting for the wedding to start. Love my boys eyes!!

DPP - Day 3

Carter's favorite thing to do lately is play with his cars. He loves to play with them in the dining room window sill in the mornings and watch all the cars, trucks, and buses go by!

Getting Ready for Christmas

We spent some time on Sunday getting all our Christmas decor put off. Given that the house is for sale and I didn't want to clutter it up too much, we did very little. Really all we did was put up the tree, hang a couple of wreaths, and did the mantel up with some candles and stockings, of course. Eric also put lights up outside.

Here are a few pictures of Carter "helping" us decorate the tree. He got into some old gold beads I had in the storage boxes, and managed to get himself all tangled up.

I am really excited for Christmas this year for some reason. I always love the holidays, but I guess there is more to look forward to when you have a toddler to shop for and spoil! I can't wait to see him open all his gifts... I know he's going to love what he's getting from Santa! I just don't know where I'm going to put it all!!

DPP - Day 2

We went over to Mason's to play this morning.

Gotta love the great weather in December!

December Photo Project - Day 1

I saw this on a friend's blog, and thought it would be fun! I've never done anything like this before, so hopefully I can keep up! Hope you enjoy each of the daily pictures. If you have a blog, feel free to join in... just click on the button below for details.

Day 1

I took this over Thanksgiving weekend. Simply put, I just love it. I see the carefree attitude of a little boy just figuring out a new way to have fun in an unquestionably gorgeous setting.
This moment, to me, is priceless.

Thanksgiving 2010

We had a very busy Thanksgiving weekend this year! Warning: Picture Overload Ahead!!

On Thursday, Eric and I were lucky enough to get to use my Dad's season tickets to go to the Cowboy game. It was a pretty exciting game, but definitely would've been more fun had the Cowboys pulled off a win. I think this was our first Thanksgiving ever to not celebrate on the actual day of. Eric and I had pizza for lunch at Boston's before the game... ha!  

 From our seats....

 Keith Urban doing the halftime show

Friday morning we drove up to Eric's parent's place to celebrate with the Beckman side of the family. Carter had the best time with his cousins! They were so much fun to watch!

Carter and Devin heading down to the lake

 They were giving each other hugs ALL day long.... so precious!

 The "kid" table!

 They were racing from Eric down the hill to me.... there were a couple of hilarious spills, too!

 Love this picture! They were trying to spot turtles on the shoreline

 Sitting on stumps....  

 They ♥ their Grandma!

 Boys being boys....

 Throwing walnuts in the water.... this was probably the favorite activity of the day.

 Check out the adorable boots!

My precious boy....

 Throwing more walnuts

 Carter, Eric, and Devin enjoying a little swing time

A little rough-housing after dinner....

 Devin wasn't too sure he liked his younger cousin messing with him, but I think secretly he did!

And more hugs!

 

Saturday we headed to my parent's house. Besides us and my parents, both of my brothers were there, my Grandma, my Aunt and Uncle from Missouri, and my cousin from Austin with his three boys. We had a full house, for sure, with lots of energetic little boys to keep busy. Between the basketball games in the driveway, a bonfire out in the woods, and about 1,000 matchbox cars among other things, there was plenty for them to do!

Jack pushing Carter in the swing

 Proof that I was there too! I'm always the one behind the camera it seems.

 Another yummy thanksgiving dinner!

 Grant and Carter play a game of basketball....

 ...and then soccer

 ...and then play in the leaves.

 Such a great helper!

 Everyone out around the bonfire

 John and his boys roasting marshmellows

 Mmmmm.... s'mores!

Brett-9   Grant-6   Jack-4

 Just hanging out by the fire!

 Oh look, there I am again! Somehow this is the only family photo we got.

I do really love this picture of the three of us though, even though Carter has a mouth full of graham crackers and I have no make up on!

Hope everyone else had a wonderful holiday weekend! We have so much to be thankful for, and I always love the family time as a reminder of that! Looking forward to Christmas!!

Elfed

I couldn't help mysELF.

Happy Holidays from the Beckman Family!!

Road Trip to Austin

My brother Andrew is a freshman at UT and is in the UT band. Our whole family traveled down to Austin this weekend to go to the game and spend some time with Andrew. Here are some pictures of our weekend. 

Carter hanging out with Uncle Andrew and the BBQ before the game.

Wearing Andrew's hat!

 This cracked me up!!

 First try at a family picture.... look at Carter!!

 Second try... much better!

 Almost game time... checking everything out!

 Love my sweet boy! 

 Cheese!

 Sitting in his own seat

 Snacks and lemonade to keep him up! He was so tired!!

Tired boy snuggling with Uncle Matt.

We had a great trip despite the Longhorn loss. Can't wait until the next one!!