Hope's first Christmas

On the way to Grandma's

Hope's first Christmas was a great one. She did well, and enjoyed meeting everyone, spending time with her relatives, and of course, eating wrapping paper! Stephen and I had fun too. It was a much needed break after all of the stuff we had to do prior to Christmas. We went to visit my mom first and stayed with her through Christmas morning. Then we went into San Antonio and celebrated w/Stephen's parents and then my dad and Debbie and the kids. We stayed in San Antonio for about a week and then came back up to Howe for a few days, went to church on Sunday and then got ready to go to Houston for Stephen's music conference. We left early Monday morning and got into Houston at about 12:30, only to find out that his conference had been cancelled at the last minute! We were SO upset, but glad to see Krissy and Gary for a night. We spent a little time with them and then headed back to Howe on Tuesday. We are now trying to settle back in. Hope's sleeping schedule is REALLY screwed up because our schedule has been so iffy, so we are having major issues right now. She seems to think that it's time to wake up at 3:00 in the morning every night now and won't go back to sleep for 2 hours plus. Last night we did a little bit of cry-it-out and she eventually went back to sleep at about 5:30. Naps aren't much better either. We need to try to get her re-trained, but I'm afraid it's going to take lots of time and patience on my part (which I don't have much of at 3:00 in the morning). Anyway, we did have a good time and were glad to see everyone. Some pics are posted below. I will hopefully post more later.

Eating her stuffed toy

Eating the wrapping paper

Opening giftsMore gifts...