Christmas with the Murrays!!!

Christmas 2009

Pryce with Santa 2009

Luke and I took Pryce to the Choo-Choo to get his picture made with Santa. We weren't sure how it would go (and were more concerned as the child in front of us pitched a fit), but Pryce was SO good! He just giggled while he sat in Santa's lap. It made me so proud for some reason (I teared up a little).

Pryce's First Christmas Parade!

The big Christmas parade downtown was unfortunately at the same time our Sunday School Christmas party. Turns out I was a little sick and didn't get to do either one. So, on Sunday, we took Pryce to the Ooltewah parade (which wasn't exactly the same as the downtown parade...it was mostly advertisements for local businesses and lots of Brownie and Scout troops). It started with police motorcycles and lots of sirens, and Pryce got scared when he heard them and cried. I hope we'll be able to see the downtown parade next year!!!

Roll Tide!

This hasn't been quite the way Luke imagined SEC Football season this year. No doubt we are glad Alabama is up for the National Championship, but we haven't exactly watched every bit of every game this year. Luke LOVES having Pryce around to watch the games with! Roll Tide!!!

Pryce's First Snow!

Last Saturday (12/5), we woke up at our usual 6:00 am (early for a Saturday) to a nice surprise --- it was snowing! We were so excited that Pryce would get to see his first snow already!!! Still, it was a little too cold to have him out in it for very long, so we bundled him up and went out long enough to take a few pictures. Luke got some great shots of our house and our street in the snow too. We had to put socks on Pryce's hands (he doesn't have any mittens). The snow quickly melted...maybe we'll get more this winter & maybe it won't come on a weekend!

Ready for Work!

Yesterday morning started off great! Pryce slept until after I was out of the shower & then he watched Sesame Street in the bathroom with me while I got ready for work. We usually get ready a few minutes early, which gives Luke and I a little time to play with Pryce before my mom comes over to keep him and we head off to work for the day. Just as Grams (my mom) pulled into the driveway, Pryce sort of coughed a little (I was holding him), and then seemed like he was a little choked. So, Luke came to the rescue, swooped Pryce out of my hands, turned him on his belly (which made Pryce face me) and was patting his back to stop the choking. It was really the perfect storm....out comes what seemed like gallons of puke right onto my hair, my sweater, my pants, my face. It literally was dripping from my hair. Luke tells me just to wipe it out of my hair so we could leave for work....yeah right. I did my best to rinse it out, re-dry my hair, and change clothes before having to head out the door for work. I knew parenthood would be difficult, but I really never thought I'd go to work with puke in my hair!!!