There may have been some bribing involved...and other Christmasy things

Well, I have been doing this for the last 13 years, so I wasn't planning on stopping now.  However, Brooks has turned into a teenager and for some reason he feels that he is a little old to sit on Santa's lap or take a picture with the big guy.  I have to admit, when I asked the kids what they were going to tell Santa as far as what they wanted for Christmas... and they replied iphones, I said, "maybe you are too old for Santa".  Anywhoo, I ended up having to bribe Brooks with some sort of controller for a game to get him in that picture.  But really, I feel that I got a 2 for 1 since he told me that he would take a picture next year with Santa barring that Little Man is here and in the picture as well.  fingers crossed.  So here's a little snapshot, it's not the real deal, because I don't have access to a scanner nor have I ever figured out how to use one.  But we do have the nice mall quality pic with Santa.

We are/or have been in San Antonio, depending on if you are a burglar ready to ransack our house.  Just remember burglars, just like we have told our kids, it's a small Christmas this year.. yada yada yada... so there isn't much to steal.... adoption budget, you know.

So while in San Antonio, of course we have eaten at some of our favorite places and done some of our favorite things...

Chuy's with Grandpa Don...

Making cookies at Gram Pam's

Chrismas at Gram Pam's

Halle Caroline and my sister, Robyn

And we saw Santa at La Cantera, where we always do...

And we shopped a little, we stopped in to Anthropology for Gram Pam to buy me a few lovelies... and my sweethearts patiently waited on the cozy Anthropology couch.

Well, I couldn't get Brooks to cooperate, but oh well.
That's a wrap for now.

It's weird that last year when we were down here at this time, God was doing a pretty good job at filling our heads with thoughts of adoption and we were in a state of "what in the world are we going to do???"  It's good to be past that..... but I think I may not be good, if we don't have Little Man home next year at this time.