How Did I Forget About ELMO???

Okay, seriously, this post is about 2 months overdue, but somehow I completely forgot all about ELMO!!! Some time in mid November we took the kids to see Elmo Live in San Antonio. Originally we were going to just take Tristan but at the last minute decided to go ahead and bring Parker too. Since he didn't require a ticket, it didn't matter either way, but I am glad we took him because I think he enjoyed it as much as Tristan did!

The show was "When Elmo grows up" and featured all the Sesame Street characters in different skits about what they wanted to be when they grew up. It was really cute and we had great seats, like 4th row from the front. Tristan even got to touch one of the characters when they came down off the stage and I happened to get a little video clip of it, which I of course posted after the pictures. Enjoy!

Tristan and Daddy in line at the concession stand before the show; Tristan of course wore his Elmo shirt

All the characters

Tristan dancing along

The characters came down off the stage a couple of times during the performance

Couldn't take his eyes off

Look at that face

Here comes Tele Monster

Okay, now look at this face!

Too engrossed to look at the camera, but not Mommy

All the boys

Family Pictures

As if you aren't already on picture overload from my last three posts I thought I'd top you off with one more. I mentioned previously that we had family pictures taken in early November and I have been dying to share them with you guys.

Unfortunately since I was keeping them a secret in order to surprise our families with albums for Christmas I couldn't post them on the blog for fear they would figure out my surprise. I almost didn't post our Christmas card since I used pictures from the shoot to create it but I was so proud of my design I couldn't help myself. I was regretting it when my dad asked where we had the pictures taken after he looked at our card and I just tried brushing it off as "just some pictures". Luckily, he didn't pursue with any more questions and everyone was surrpised with the album. By the way, for those of you looking to make a photo album with your digital pictures at am incredibly great price check out www.smilebooks.com. The software was super easy to use and they have pre-made layouts for the pages or you can make your own like I did.

Okay, back to the pictures. I found this lady, who considers herself an amateur photographer who will take your pictures and give them all to you with complete rights on CD for an extremely decent price. I actually found her through a friend of a friends' blog (thanks Courtney for allowing me to blog surf from your blog!). She is so talented and comes up with the neatest places to shoot. And she took all of our pictures in like 45 minutes...great when you have two very restless little ones (this shoot was nothing like the one at Picture People!). I guess she has some experience dealing with little kids since she has 6 of her own and is expecting another. Amazing!

So, check out our family pictures and to see more of her work, check out her blog, http://www.xanga.com/kiddosphotos.