Busy Ball Popper

Santa brought this fun toy to Harper for Christmas.  She loves her new Busy Ball Popper.  Several of our friends have this toy and she has played with it at their houses.

Notice the wind blown hair.

Enjoy the video.

Relaxing in Paris

I love hanging out at my parents house.  We get to relax and stay in our pajamas all day.  We have help with Harper so I can do important things like update my blog. =)  I'm enjoying using Carol's new camera to capture Miss Harper.

Don't mind the black and white shoes and the green outfit.  Her daddy dressed her today.

Yummy - this candy cane is good.

Cutrell Family Christmas

I just realized that this was saved in my drafts and I never published it last week.


*Warning - A lot of pictures below.  My sister, Carol, got a new Nikon camera for Christmas. 
I look forward to Cutrell Family Christmas every year.  It's usually the only time during the year that my Dad's entire family all gets together. This year we all meet in Sulphur Springs on Friday night and spent the night.  

Reading some of the books that Harper got from Aunt Susan

We always enjoy playing games!

Dad plotting his next move.

One of my favorite traditions is gathering around the piano and singing Christmas songs. 

Harper singing with her Aunt Carol

Aunt Gail teaching Johann how to play the piano.

Another Cutrell Family tradition is the White Elephant Gift Exchange game.  We all bring a gift and then you draw numbers, open a gift when it's your turn and then you get to steal if you want someone else's gift.  It always gets a little vicious with all of the cousins playing.

Crystal goes in for the steal.

I picked this gift to open because it was wrapped pretty.

Little did I know that Johann had wrapped it in about 10 layers of newspaper and put duct tape around each layer.

It took me about 10 minutes to open it.

After all of that - it was stolen from me! Jeff ended up with the College Football Encyclopedia!

Harper with her Great Grandmother - my Mama.

I think I might just steal my sisters camera.  It's fabulous!

Christmas Morning 2009

We made it to Paris in time for a yummy Christmas Eve dinner.  My parents had a full house and it was so fun to have everyone home.  Harper woke up at 7am ready to open presents.  This year was such a difference from last year.  Harper enjoyed opening presents and helping everyone else.

They make toys so hard to get into these days.  Papa had to use the electric screwdriver to open up one of Harper's new presents.

Trying to figure out her new Disney Princess cash register.

Her new leopard from Grandma Sherman.  It purrs and looks like the real thing.

Aunt Beka helping open Harper's presents.

Aunt Beka gave Harper several Spanish / English books.  Aunt Beka is leaving for Spain soon.  She will be studying in Bilbao for the Spring semester.  I think she expects Harper to be speaking Spanish when she returns in May.

Looking forward to watching my new movies with Papa.

My dad is the king of wrapping presents in unique ways.  He wrapped a picture of our new big screen TV in several layers of different clues in an old shoe box.  It was fun to open it and read the clues and try to figure it out.  The TV is waiting for us at my Aunt's house in Dallas.  We can't wait to go pick it up and start watching it.  For the last 3 years we have not had cable. We just used bunny ears antenna and watched the 4 local stations that we could get in Wylie.  When we moved to McKinney I gave in and got Direct TV. We will now have quite the upgraded TV viewing with our new HD TV.

Grandma Jane got a big screen TV as well.  What else do you get a 101 year old woman?

Harper made Mimi a special potholder with her handprint on it.

Opening more presents

Checking out Daddy's new electric drill.

Having a Tea Party with Papa and her new pink princess tea set.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Harper's Post Christmas Workout

Harper enjoyed a little post Christmas dinner workout.

Aunt Beka helped Harper get a little workout in.