Monday, May 19, 2014

Phillips Christmas 2013

We know what we said about keeping up this blog.  We made the commitment to catch up and keep it current and we meant it.  But, we've been busy.  Besides, it seems like many other bloggers are either posting less or have stopped altogether.  We aren't going to stop blogging as we find it a good journal of our lives and it's so much fun to go back and remember good as well as hard times.  So, with that in mind, here is a short attempt at Christmas 2013.

This was a little different year for us.  It was our year to celebrate during the New Year holiday.  But, all plans of mice and men can be changed and the flu bug sure changed ours!  While Jeremy and Annie were in Houston for Christmas with her family, Jane and Jack came down with the flu and had to delay their arrival by a couple of days.

So we had Christmas with Jordan and Jennifer's families first and later we had Christmas with Jeremy and Jennifer's family.  Needless to say we were unable to take our usual family Christmas picture.  In fact, we didn't do a very good job on pictures this year at all.  We ate a lot of good food, played a couple of new board games and enjoyed each other's company.  And, most importantly, no one else got the flu!

 Christmas 2013


Kid's tree in the playroom.

Leighton likes to "help" Bebe with these bubble lights on Nana and Grandad's little tree!






Jennifer loved her A&M diploma frame from Toby.


Taylor teaching Jane the tricks of using the Ipod.

Presley is more of a Kindle girl!

A game called Settlers of Catan.

Dan was pretty involved in a game of Ticket to Ride!



No horse, but she did get her guitar!

Jack just chillin watching Cars!




Jane playing her Dad's high school trumpet!

Jack's first "real" Texas haircut.


He cleans up pretty good!


1 comment:

ajphillips said...

Does seem like no one is blogging these days, but I'm going to try my best to keep it up too! It's the only way I find time to record special moments of our lives---and I try to remember how awesome it will be for our kids one day! I guess everyone is just into social media these days but Jordan and I decided this week to delete that and spend more time with our family, than worrying about everyone else's life! Keep blogging! We're reading, even if we don't always find a moment to leave a comment!