Riley Family Christmas

The day after Christmas we headed to North Houston to spend Christmas with my family! We have a very big family and my parents are always so generous, not only to the kids, but to the adults as well! AND every year since Trenton arrived Nana and Paw Paw trump Santa! I guess because we tell them to buy the expensive stuff so Santa doesn’t have to! Gene ended up with a new PS3 game, gift cards and a really cool jalapeño popper for the grill. I got a digital frame, huge frying pan, bath and body works, home decor and gift cards!! Trenton went home with EVERYTHING. I mean all the kids did! T got an Imaginarium Spiral train, art easel, hot wheels, gift cards…….need I say more! We are truly blessed to have such a great family on both sides. We wouldn’t have it any other way!

All dressed and ready to go! Thank you Grandma & Grandpa Flores for my new shirt!

This is funny and gross. These are the cubes the cat plays in and T and Mandi thought they were so much fun.  

Look at this face! So excited to open more presents and yes those are all his with him!

This is the Christmas Overload face!!

DINOSAURS!  

Art Easel (Thank you Mimi) We put it together today and he painted for hours!  

Coby and Trenton

New addition to the family Tony (My brothers fiancé's son)

Sweet Mandilynn! Her and Trenton are BFF!

Mom, this is getting ridiculous!  

My boys!

I am not sure who is more excited about the hotwheels…Daddy or Trenton!

My brother and his new fiancé Sonya! Finally after 2 years! 

Candy and Cheetoes!

I mentioned earlier that Mandi & Trenton are BFF well this is what they did all evening. Waving bye bye on cars!

Trenton was getting his inspection sticker done. Mandi is having a blast.

I love this picture!

Trenton and Mandi have the same blankie. Mandi’s is pink and Trenton’s is yellow/green. Nana is playing tug a war with them!

We had so much fun and I am happy to report I cleaned ALL day today, organized the new toys, got Trenton to sleep by 7 and am now relaxing! I am grateful for family and Christmas, but so pleased it has passed! I am ready for a new year with new outlook on life and hopefully a smaller waistline!

Santa “bing” presents…..

Christmas was so much fun this year! Trenton understood that Santa was coming and bringing him presents. It was so cute, right before he went to bed he said “Santa bing presents when Tenton sleep?” Santa did come and Trenton must have been a very good boy in Santa’s eyes because he really got a lot! Just to see how excited he was Christmas morning made it all worth it. I actually got up first, loaded the batteries into the camera and we went and got Trenton. He said “Santa come?” I made him go look in the living room and he was like “OH WOW, I LOVE IT!” (Which is his new phrase by the way) Santa likes to wrap some presents and leave the bigger items unwrapped and put together. To save Mommy & Daddy the hassle right??? As he opened a present he wanted to open it. I think Christmas morning took about 4 minutes because he was so excited to see what else he got! His list to Santa was candy canes and wouldn’t you know he didn’t get a single one! Woops! We enjoyed blueberry muffins for breakfast and lunch with our good friends the Jefferies. I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and can’t wait for Trenton to be able to share is toys with his friends!!

I took a lot of pictures so CAUTION! CAUTION!

Straight for the stocking that had Color Wonder Paint, Transformers and a Nerf gun!!

Present 1 (see all the fun stuff behind him!)

We really like to play games so Santa brought Trenton several for everyone to enjoy! Sponge Bob Ants in the Pants!

Spiderman Memory!

Watch out Mom, I’m loaded and I know how to use this thing!

Work Bench! This is pretty neat because you can fold it down into a tool box and take it with you and you can build a car!!

   18 wheeler full of cars!  Helps with the mess, but puts more small cars on the floor to step on!

Trenton’s “big” gift was his new Spiderman Scooter!

Triceratops! He loves dinosaurs and this one is amazing. It walks, growls and eats!

Trenton kept insisting he was hungry!  

Mixing up the blueberry muffins!

Playing at his new dry erase table!

All the goods! He also got a remote control car, but Santa forgot batteries so we will be playing with that later!

Silly boys! 

Dressed and ready to go! He wasn’t leaving without that scooter!

We enjoyed a delicious Christmas lunch with the Jefferies. Drew is much older than Trenton so his toys were way cooler!

Drew helping T play the drums!

Playing baseball!

Me and Gretchen

Now this was hilarious. Trenton and Drew chasing each other around with the nerf guns. Drew would shoot T and say “Die sucker” and T would dramatically fall to the ground! Hilarious!

Look at this boy go! Trenton loves to play with The Jefferies boys skateboards so this is T’s first scooter/skateboard! He is so coordinated and his favorite part was starting at the top of the walkway or driveway and going down hill really fast! 

We also want to give Grandma and Grandpa Flores a BIG THANKYOU for all of the paints, 3D sidewalk chalk and clothes! We are sad we didn’t get to see you on Christmas! We head to my parents house tonight for many more gifts and then relaxation until after the new year!!!

Weekend Overload!

Christmas time is my favorite time of the year because you get to direct your house inside and out with lights! This year we changed things up a bit and added Frosty. I couldn’t get a great picture, but here is our yard and house! Gene braved the roof in the freezing cold all by himself this year! He always does a great job!!Trenton was sick all last week which made him loads of fun to be around! He was finally able to go back to school on Thursday and this is him all bundled up ready to go! Doesn’t he looked pumped to go to school!After a week of being sick we had a very busy weekend planned! After work and school Friday we headed to Spring to stay the weekend with my sister Laurie! We had Breakfast with Santa, 2 birthday parties and a lot of shopping to get done. On top of that I had an ornament party with my girls! Saturday morning we woke up and headed to the  elementary school my niece attends. Does anyone remember Secret Santa store? Well I remember going as a kid and spending a whole dollar on bubbles and bouncy balls! Well wouldn’t you know T did the same thing! He was so excited to carry his own bag of goodies! We got to take a picture with the best Santa ever! T usually bolts in the opposite direction at the site of Santa, but he seemed to LOVE this one!! We enjoyed breakfast and then headed to birthday party #1!

Ready to go see Santa with his Penguin Shop gifts! Awwww!!!! He told me “I wuv Santa” What a big boy! Mommy is very proud. This was really the nicest Santa I have ever met! AND HE WAS FREE!

Jaycie is Trenton’s favorite cousin! She would make such a good big sister! They played all weekend and she even got to babysit a little!

   Donut for Jaycie and yogurt for T! He has never seen a Gogurt that isn’t frozen! In the gym-cafa-torium was this life size poster of Tim Duncan. WOW! Look how teeny T looks!

After the breakfast we headed to a carnival themed birthday party for my step nephew! T had so much fun getting his hair spray painted, tattoos, face painting, moon bounce, strong man contest and bowling! Sonya did a great job! We had so much fun and it gave me a good idea for T’s 3rd b-day!

Red hair is a good look for him!Getting his tatoo! T is totally obsessed with snakes right now! He asked the girl to paint one on his face and this is it! (She was only 12 so we will give her some credit for artistic ability!) Good thing he didn’t ask for a dinosaur! Strike! We may have a pro-bowler on our hands…HA HA Monkey Elephant LionI mentioned we went to another party, but I have to admit we started at 9 am and got to the 3rd event is was 3:30! The 2nd b-day party was for my good friend Carrie’s son Dayton. He turned 1 and chasing kids and taking pictures was not something I wanted to do! We had fun at all parties and were extremely exhausted by the time we got home!

So what happens when you have pushed your kid to the limit with no nap the day before?

ULTIMATE BREAKDOWN from the minute they wake up ‘til the minute they go to bed! We had a train show and Walk Through Bethlehem planned for Sunday that we opted out of going to because….well the pictures should explain: Poor baby! We have kept this week pretty low key! We have yet another visit with Santa this weekend and maybe a visit from Grandma and Grandpa Flores!