Time to Play

After over a week of traveling, Lauren took some time to enjoy her Christmas gifts. Mimi and Papa bought Lauren an outside teeter-totter. She loves it, and so do her friends. She also got a small four wheeler from Mommy and Daddy. She is still trying to figure it out, but she looks super cute on it.

Lauren and Will Christmas

Will and Lauren met up at Poppy's house on Christmas eve to sprinkle magical Reindeer food in the front yard for Santa's Reindeer. They were so excited to be together and loved tossing the food in the air. I am including a picture of these two cuties from last year so you can see how much they have grown.

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Presents at Poppy and Mer Mer's

Lauren opened gifts on Christmas morning at Poppy and Mer Mer's house. Santa Claus left Lauren and Will scooters under the tree, which they were both crazy about.

Reed Christmas

Here are some pictures of our sweet Reed girls at Christmas. We had a new Reed girl to celebrate Christmas with this year. Happy 1st Christmas Josie. Just for fun, I included a picture of Maia and Lauren from last year so you can enjoy how much our girls have changed.

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Aunt Heather enjoying some Josie snuggles


Aunt Mar enjoying some Lauren and Maia snuggles


Daddy and Lauren opening gifts

Sweet Family

This Christmas was made even sweeter because we got to spend some time with Uncle Gene, Aunt Sandy, Amy and Kevan. It was Lauren's first time to see Gene, Amy and Kevan and she absolutely loved them! She still talks about them, so hopefully we can get together again soon.

Lauren also met Papa and Pat Craddock this Christmas. We had a fun night of opening gifts, eating yummy food and chasing Lauren around. Thank goodness Landon and Ashton were around to help entertain Lauren. By the end of the night she was getting into everything, but we still think they loved getting to meet our bundle of energy.

Christmas Cookies

Lauren had several opportunites to make Christmas cookies this year. She was a little young to enjoy the process of making cookies, but she was an excellent taste tester. Mom was a little worried that she would get sick from eating raw cookie dough and spoon fulls of icing, but no harm done.

Christmas 2008

The Reed family had a wonderful and blessed Christmas, and we hope you did too. Lauren has changed so much since last Christmas, and it was so special for us to begin teaching her about the true meaning of Christmas. Of course she was showered with gifts, which she is an expert at unwrapping, but she also loved singing Christmas carols, playing with her nativity set, and singing happy birthday to Jesus. She definitely made the connection between Jesus and Christmas. It is an incredible thing as a parent to experience your child beginning to love Christ.
The week of Christmas seemed like a whirlwind. We travel from Houston to Whitney to see Mimi and Papa. From Whitney we headed to Midland, and stayed there from the Saturday before Christmas until the Friday after Christmas. We had an amazing time with all of our family. We returned home feeling very loved and very tired. There are many more Lauren Christmas stories and pictures to share, so I will be adding more to this post soon. I had to include a picture of Lauren from last Christmas so everyone could see how much she has changed.

Christmas 2008



Christmas 2007