Christmas Time in Austin

While you might be busy putting holiday decorations away, our blog needs a little Christmas spirit before we completely put 2010 behind us.  After stuffing ourselves with turkey on Thanksgiving, we couldn't pass up an invitation from my cousin Dusky to come to their house for her husband Shane's finger lickin' good fried turkey.  On a beautiful Saturday in early December we took our little city mouse out to the country to meet more of the Denton clan.

Kate had a blast playing with her cousins Cody and Skylar.

Waiting for the turkey to finish cooking

The beautiful bird.  Thank goodness we had a fireman in charge just in case!

Four generations of women in the Denton family.

Once back home, Kate set about making new friends with some of my oldest friends. Here she is meeting Stephanie Land and her little girl Kaki.

 

Soon to be best buds!

 

With Dad starting his new job, we had to enjoy the last few days we had with him. The weather in Austin has been so nice this December so we had lunch at Ski Shores, an old Austin hang out on the banks of Lake Austin.  Kate wasn't too sure about her perch up on the table.  She was probably afraid we'd dump her in the lake.  We might wait a few years before we do that :-)

 

The sad day finally came and we had to see Dad off to his first day of work.

 

Kate is super cute in the mornings and when she wakes up from naps.  Here a a few shots of me trying to capture her yawns and smiles. 

 

Lots of smiles on her changing table.

 

Big stretch!

 

Have to throw in another picture to capture Kate's crazy hair.  It is getting longer and starting to lay down a bit.  I will be very sad once her crazy hair is gone.  Here it is in all it's glory.

Kate had her first visit with the Big Man (aka Santa) and while she didn't scream we didn't get any smiles out of her either.  Santa was visiting at Baby Bugaloo which is an adorable store owned by a friend of mine from college. If you want to check out more from her photo shoot here's a link:

http://www.brookewestphotography.com/kbrownsanta2010

Here we are trying our hardest to coax a smile out of Kate.

One of Kate's new found pasttimes is chewing on her hand.  She holds her hand like the letter 't' in sign language and shoves it in her mouth.  With this new hobby has come significant amounts of drool.  So in addition to her clothes for the day she is always draped in a bib. 

We'll close this blog post with a few pics from her three month photo shoot.  We got some good smiles this time because I had Dad there to help me.  He also bought her the reindeer socks that brought a little holiday cheer to the pictures.

Check out that belly!

 

Kate had a big Christmas and New Years and I'll work hard to get a post up with those pictures soon!