Christmas 2010

We spent Christmas with Trevor's family this year in Houston.  We were able to leave for Houston on Wednesday and got to stay there until Sunday.  It was so fun to be able to stay there for a while and not have to try to cram everything into a few days.  We were blessed to get to spend a lot of quality time with the fam.  We got to run some last minute errands, do a little shopping, celebrate Ruby's birthday, eat some yummy food, and go see a movie all before the Christmas festivities began.

Christmas eve we went to the Christmas eve service at church and then out to our traditional Chinese dinner with friends.

We woke up super early on Christmas morning to start the day.  Following with tradition we all woke up and sat at the top of the stairs for a picture before we all race down the stairs to see if Santa came!

 
We spent the morning opening stockings and watching everyone open their gifts.  Bethany is the best at playing Santa and passing out all the presents!

Ruby had lots of fun running around and taring up wrapping paper.  Here is our festive Ruby the the red-haired reindeer:

Soon after we finished opening gifts the rest of the family all came over.  All of the cousins except for one were able to be there for Christmas this year!  We spent the rest of the day catching up with everyone, eating tons of yummy food, watching basketball, and celebrating Christmas!  

Clayton got a remote control helicopter this year so we all had fun playing with it.  Ruby, however, was not a fan!  She was curious about it at first but then we started chasing her around with it and she quickly  decided she needed to take care of it or it was going to take care of her.

The last pictures that I took on Christmas were of our little family warming up by the fire and being festive :)

We had a very merry Christmas this year!

The next day was Trevor's Grandpa's Birthday so the whole family came back over to celebrate.  We grilled some burgers and had brownies and ice cream to celebrate.  He laughed the whole time we sang happy birthday and when we were finished he said he was laughing so hard because we were horrible at singing :)

We were sad to leave this party but it was getting late and Trevor had to work the next morning.  But, it was a great way to end a great holiday! We sadly said all our goodbyes and got on the road back to Corpus.

 

Ruby's 1st Birthday

Our baby girl turned 1 on Christmas Eve!  We celebrated her birthday at her grandparents house in Houston.  She spent most of the morning resting up for her party.

For her party we invited our friend Jennifer and her puppy, Abby, over to play.

Ruby and Abby were fast friends.  First Ruby showed Abby around her grandparents backyard.

Then they quickly turned the party into a pool party.

We finally coaxed them out of the pool and took a walk to the park down the street.

Then we came home and opened presents.

The rest of her day was spent locked up in the laundry room while the fam went to the Christmas Eve service at church and then out for our traditions Chinese dinner.  Poor baby!  But we finally came home and let her out to play before going to bed early so Santa could come :)  I think she really enjoyed her 1st birthday!

 

Deer Season 2010

*Warning- This post contains pictures of dead animals.  If you do not like to see those kinds of images skip this post and go on to the next one!!



The Prewetts had a successful deer season this year (at least the ones with hunting licenses did)!  Trevor and Ruby have gone to his dad's lease in Cuero almost every weekend the past two months.  I've joined them a few times, but I am definitely not as hard core as those two!   Trevor has enjoyed taking my camera in the blind with him to be able to take pictures of the deer he saw each weekend and get a feel for the deer that were out there.

Finally last weekend he saw a deer that he hadn't seen yet and decided to pull the trigger.  Looks like we will be able to eat again this year :)

We went back again this past weekend with Trevor's dad, Logan, and Bethany.  We were talking Friday night about how this would be the last chance we all got to get something this year before deer season ended.  We ended up all getting something!

Here's the deer I shot... with my camera :).

Logan with his deer:

And Bethany with hers:

Logan, Bill, and Bethany with their deer Sunday morning.

Love this shot of the Prewett men!

It was a great season, we had a great time hanging out with everyone at the lease.  However, Ruby is looking forward to dove season which is a little more hands on for dogs :)

Ainslee's 3rd Birthday Party

Back in February I made Cara a rainbow birthday cake for birthday.  If you missed it you can check it out here.  Well, thats when she recruited me to make Ainslee's birthday cake for her 3rd birthday in December!  I decided to kick it up a notch and make cupcakes also, and make a few decorations for the party.  I made Cara choose a theme for the party pretty early in November to give me enough time to work on everything :)  She decided to go with black and white polka dots with hot pink accents.  My first project was this happy birthday banner which can be reused every year on her birthday.

I also made a few of these tissue paper pom poms and found balloons to match too.

Ainslee requested chocolate cupcakes.

And I wanted to make a white cake with colorful layers.

 So I made both! And we had tons of leftovers! 

Sticking with tradition Ainslee did not enjoy everyone singing happy birthday to her :)

 But she quickly cheered up and enjoyed eating her cupcake... with a fork because she hates to get messy.

However, I don't think her bff Cameron minded :)

Here's a shot of the inside of the cake.

 It was so funny to watch Ainslee open her presents, she is finally at the age where she gets really excited about opening gifts.  Here she is with her gift from Aunt Yo and Uncle Trevor.  I'm pretty sure she liked it, apparently she woke her parents up the next morning at 7:45 asking to play the ladybug game :) Your welcome.

I can't believe she is already 3 years old!

Love you party girl!

 

I Heart Faces {photo contest} Pets

The theme this week for I heart faces is pets, so here is one of my favorite pictures of Ruby.  I can't believe she is going to be one on Christmas eve!  She is just growing up too fast.

Go check out more pet photos at I heart faces by clicking on their logo above!

O Christmas Tree

We went and got our Christmas tree on the first Sunday of Advent.  We came in from spending Thanksgiving in Kerrville that afternoon, unloaded the car, and then headed to Home Depot to pick out our tree.  We got there just as they were closing, but they let us in to quickly find a tree.  In keeping with tradition we picked out a noble fur.  We loaded up the tree and picked up a pizza on the way home to eat while we set up the tree.  We set it up and got it all decorated in record time this year.  I put on my fireplace blue ray that has the image of a crackling fire and plays Christmas music as we decorated the house for Christmas.  Unfortunately it was a little too hot for hot chocolate this year :(

Ruby thinks we have lost our minds because we brought a real tree inside the living room and put lights on it and hung all of these round sparkly balls on the branches.   And her mom keeps getting this roll of paper and covering boxes with it and then tying them up with ribbon.  Then she puts them under the tree and expects her not to eat them.  She is very confused by it all!  She keeps gently taking the ornaments off the tree with her mouth and bringing them to us, its like a never ending game of fetch.

Speaking of Ruby, look how cute she looks wearing her new Christmas trapper hat sitting by the tree.  Notice there aren't too many ornaments left at the bottom of the tree :)