Merry Christmas from The Carrolls

2007 CDC Christmas Program

Here is a picture of some of Caleb's class in the Christmas Program last night. They decorated the buggy to look like a sleigh, and the jingled their bells while we all sang "Jingle Bells". I will try to get the video on here if I can ever get it to go into Photobucket right.

2nd Picture With Santa

If you liked Caleb's last Santa picture, you will LOVE this one! It is so great! When Ladydenise handed me the pictures, she said that I was going to have to put this one in his senior slide show! Man is she right! I didn't realize that they had snapped a shot of this, but I am so glad they did! But really, I think he's had enough torture for one year.

This is the picture that I took with Caleb so that we could have a non-crying picture.

Santa Visit #2

Well, the CDC had pictures with Santa today. I wondered what Caleb would do since he didn't much like his last experience. (See previous post) I hid behind a pole so that maybe he wouldn't see me.

Tresia had Caleb in her arms, and she said that he was shaking from just seeing Santa. This is with standing pretty far away from him! So, when she tried to put him in Santa's lap, it just wasn't going to work. Caleb was not going to stay in Santa's lap no matter what.

So I came out from behind the pole, and took at picture with Santa with me holding Caleb.

Hopefully next year will be better. I'm sure he'll have the whole Christmas thing figured out by then and know that he needs to be nice to the Santa guy. I was hoping to take Caleb to the mall Santa to get another picture, but after today's scary experience with the big red man, I don't think I have it in me to make him go through it again.

So, when I get the picture, I will make sure to post it on here.

Oh, also, Caleb got a shiner at school this morning. He was playing with the cars that you can sit in, and he fell and BOOM! Tresia brought him in so I could see him, and it is quite the boo-boo he has. I tried to take a picture of that too (I know, I'm such a mean mom!), but he kept wanting to grab the camera from me and then run away. I'll try to get one tonight. He'll love those pictures when he's all grown up! :)

Trip to Santa's Village

We took a trip to Santa's Village last night. It is a way cute Christmas park by the Richardson Library. We had a good time, but I really can't wait to take Caleb next year when he'll get into it even more! Here are pictures!

Caleb getting a cookie from Mrs. Clause's Bakery.

Here we are waiting in line to see Santa. The line was very, very long! It was a good thing that they had a clown there to entertain everyone in the line.
Here we still are in line, but closer. We are in Santa's Toy Shop!
Here is the cool train in Santa's Toy Shop. Caleb kept saying "Choo-choo!"
Here is Caleb with his best friend Santa. Caleb does this with all of his best friends. They had a really good Santa. He had a great beard!
Caleb is thinking "Why did mommy just put me in this weird guys lap, walk off and stand there laughing while I'm screaming my head off!!! What is wrong with this picture?!!"
Poor Caleb! He wasn't happy for a little bit after seeing Santa. Santa had a good sense of humor about the whole thing though and mentioned to me when I picked Caleb up that he thought he wanted a fire truck for Christmas (because of the siren - crying - well, you know!) Funny Santa!

Caleb's School Thanksgiving Lunch

Here is Caleb sitting in a big boy chair with his turkey lunch!

Here is some of the family that came to eat with Caleb!
Here are more of Caleb's guests. Mommy not pictured.

Halloween Night Pictures 2007

Last night we went to Mimosa Lane's Hoedown festival and then went to Forney to Uncle Casey's church's (CLIFE) Trunk or Treat. We had an awesome time! My parents and my grandmother made the rounds with us, and it was a blast!

This was at Casey's Trunk or Treat (it was in the parking lot of Chick-fil-A, Walmart & Lowes in Forney - they had a ton of people, and the atmosphere felt like the fair. So cool! All of the cars had games, so that was neat too!)

Caleb was scared of Sponge Bob, so we took a quick picture and went on our way.

Daddy & Caleb hanging out at Mimosa.

Cute picture of the hotdog and the mustard smiling at each other.
Caleb with Uncle Casey. He wanted Casey to hold him the whole time we were there!
This is a way cool transformer that was at Casey's Trunk or Treat. It was huge and had lights, smoke & sound. Very cool, but these people obviously have way too much time on their hands!
The Chick-fil-A cows were at Trunk or Treat too! I couldn't pass up a chance to take a picture with them! So cool!
My grandmother and Caleb walking into Mimosa.

Grandmother & Caleb
Hotdog Chris! He is such a good sport!
They had a cute backdrop with a saddle, and I had to get a picture with Chris & Caleb! So cute!
Chris was still hungry after dinner, so he wanted a hotdog. Something's not right in the world when a hotdog eats another hotdog.
We had such a great time at both of the churches and hanging out with family and friends! It was so good to see people that I grew up going to church with, and it was fun to show Caleb off! I love parties, and Halloween parties are some of the best!

Trunk or Treat 2007

Here they are at last! I know you've been waiting for them! We had a great time again this year at Trunk or Treat!

Daddy (Hotdog) & Caleb (Mustard)

Pops came to see Caleb all dressed up!
Pops bought Caleb a whole bag of M&M's and fed him some. Caleb will be hyped up on sugar for a very long time. Thanks Pops! :)
The Carroll family Hotdog stand. Daddy (hotdog), Caleb (mustard), Mommy (hotdog vendor).
Caleb & Daddy walking around to visit the other trunks.
My little mustard (minus his hat...it was too top heavy...but pretty cool anyway!)
There's the hat!


Can't wait till next year!

School Pumpkin Pictures

Caleb had pumpkin pictures at school yesterday. I finally got a picture with him smiling (with a photographer taking the picture - he smiles really goofy for me!)! Yesssss! I love these pictures!

Caleb's 2007 School Pictures

Check out Caleb's school pictures for this year. The kid won't smile when he is taking pictures for other people, and he kind of has the deer in the headlights look, so I can't wait to see what our pictorial directory picture for church is going to look like!

I am going to buy one of the pictures with me in it for Chris to have at work. Which one do you think is better?

Can you believe it?

Can you believe this summer is almost over? It always goes by way too fast. This year has been unreal with how fast it is going by. I can't believe it is August already! Crazy!

2007 Books

Ok, I am copying Rachel too. I had a list going on the blog where no one else could see it, but I would like to have a link to my books, so I decided to make a post for it. I'll add more as I think of the others I have read.

Rating System 1 (Lowest) -10 (Highest)

Books I have read in 2007:
Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert - 7
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak - 9
Shattered Dreams by Irene Spencer - 8
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez - 8
The Wednesday Letters by Jason F. Wright - 6
Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith - 7
His Favorite Wife by Susan Ray Schmidt - 9
Looking for a Miracle by Wanda Brunstetter - 7
Beloved by Toni Morrison - 7
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho - 9
We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates - 8
Blessings by Anna Quindlen - 8
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling - 10
Abide With Me by Elizabeth Strout - 8
The Awakening by Kate Chopin - 8
Life of Pi by Yann Martel - 7
The Englisher by Beverly Lewis - 6
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield - 10
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver - 7
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls - 8
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See - 9
For Better For Worse by Carole Matthews - 7
Next by Michael Crichton - 8
Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller - 7
The Warrior by Francine Rivers - 8
An Ordinary Man by Paul Rusesabagina - 9
The Color of Law by Mark Gimenez - 9
Left to Tell by Immaculee Ilibagiza - 9
The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue - 9

More Vacation Pictures

A sweet picture with Mimi

Another sweet picture with Mimi
Caleb doing his favorite thing while camping...digging through Mimi and Pops' buckets of stuff!
Chris reading Caleb a book.
Aunt Kathy came to visit us!

March 1st

How can it be March 1st already?! This year is going by way too fast! I'm not even used to it being 2007 yet!