a very biddle christmas

we celebrated christmas on biddle street this year, it was great - our first time sleeping in our own beds and waking up at our own house with our family at christmas. it was wonderful. garrett had a lot of fun with helping to open presents. santa brought him a sled, but his favorite gift was the ice scraper that was in mama's stocking. it has provided all kinds of entertainment! we carried over a christmas morning tradition from the bousley family and had chipped beef for breakfast and then got our stuff together and headed to great grama's for more christmas fun. the rest of the weekend was spend with grandma and grandpa, uncles jack, jared, and brett.

our tree that just made it up in the nick of time, a few days before santa came!

christmas morning in front of the tree, amazingly zoe posed too!

the two coolest gifts...the sled and ice scraper

almost ready to go to g-grama's for christmas

at great grams house, getting tired

phew....

the remodel is done as of yesterday afternoon and we are about to go back to life as usual around our house. we have a lot of stuff to get organized, moved upstairs, new furtinure put together and arranged. although, life won't be quite the way it was before the remodel because not only did we get a new bedroom and but we also are expecting two new roommies - jared and elizabeth! they are on there way back from colorado to their student teaching in the area. we are very excited to have them around, and garrett is too. here are a few shots of garrett posing in the new room.

welcome cuz

here is kennedy - garrett's brand new cousin! cindy got to visit her last weekend, unfortuantely garrett had to stay home so that he didn't give kennedy his runny nose and cough.

santa pic & remodel

i forgot to include this picture from thanksgiving weekend. grama thought it would be fun to take garrett and jack to get their picture taken with santa claus. jack was on board but garrett was not. he didn't want anything to do with sitting next the the jolly fella, so the only way we escaped getting a screaming garrett & santa shot was for me to sit with him.
we are at the tail end of a month long remodel project of our second floor/master bedroom. it has been a lot of fun for garrett to watch the workers go in and out of the house, up and down the stairs, bring in all kinds of neat tools and supplies to explore, and of course make loud noises. we're looking forward to the end of the project at the end of this week and moving back into our bedroom and getting organized, and heck maybe even decorate for christmas - it's never too late! we are also expecting three very special visitors over the weekend and all three of us can't wait! today while the workers were getting ready to lay carpet garrett took a rest on one of the carpet rolls....

garrett has a cousin

this just in - garrett's very first cousin was born last night -

welcome kennedy parker and congrats denise & michael!!

more thanksgiving pics

Here are a few more pictures from Grama Leisa that she took over the Thanksgiving weekend. Enjoy!

"who are you talking to?"It just wouldn't be a holiday without a posed photo shoot, now would it?? grama & garrett love props

although not staged, it looks like it could have been. garrett loved playing with g&g's corks

gpa & g


gpa, g, mom, & uncle b

an old pic from october at da cabin