Family Pictures

Part of Grammy's Christmas present was that she wanted to go and have family portraits taken. Here's a few of our favorites.

David's ready to go, but nobody else is. Waiting on a woman (or four)!

Christmas in Texas

David's first christmas was lots of fun. We went to Christmas Eve services at church and then Ryan's family came to spend the night (they didn't want to miss out on any of the fun - and who can blame them).

David met his Mama and Papa for the first time (they live in New Mexico).

David "woke up" Aunt Courtney.

David liked ripping open the paper on presents. He got several fun toys and some clothes. David didn't even want to wait to get in the tub to play with his new bathtub toys. He just started eating the box!

Fun jungle toy from Aunt Courtney.

David had such a good time that we wore him out on more than one occasion. Can't wait until next year!

Meeting Santa Claus

So things were crazy busy with the holidays approaching, shopping, cleaning house, wrapping presents, cleaning house, thinking about updating the blog, cleaning house, decorating for Christmas, then cleaning up the mess I made decorating....you get the idea. I finally finished school and was on break, and on December 23 (only 2 days before Christmas) realized that I had not taken David to meet Santa Claus. Silly Mommy. Boy was I gonna hear it from Nana if we didn't get David to the nearest mall pronto. So after Ryan got off work we headed to the mall to join the throng of other parents who had put off pictures with Santa or had forgotten until the last minute.

Whoever designed the layout for the waiting line at this mall obviously was having a bad day. There was a huge wiggly line right near Santa, but then it stopped all of the sudden. Then you look across a major thoroughfare, past a couple carts peddling games and jewelry and stuff, and the line continues along the wall. At least there was a sign that said "Santa's Wonderland - Enter Here", but most people walked past it. This line got to the corner and stopped! And there was no helpful little elf to tell you when to make the trek to join the real line.

So we were talking with the people in front of us and it was decided that when it looked like there was enough room for you and yours to fit you took off and hoped that no one passing by would "line jump". It was finally our turn to cross over. Yeah! Ryan and I took turns making side shopping trips, feeding David, and finding a bathroom where David could be changed. The ladies behind us were really nice (a mother and daughter who had been having their pictures made together with Santa every year for the last 18 years). They thought David was so cute and I just have to agree with them.

Finally, after two and a half hours our wait was over. David was in a great mood and was smiling and laughing. He just looked at Santa and wouldn't stop even when I set him in Santa's lap. Here's a few pictures that we took ourselves.

After surviving the first year, I think we can handle doing this for the next eighteen years as long as we bring food, can find a bathroom, and have a shopping list so we can multi-task. And we might try not waiting until the last minute either!

Hanging with Logan

On December 13, Logan McKee got to come over and play while his parents were at a Christmas party. The boys had lots of fun eating and playing together. I think David was experiencing some of the "MINE" syndrome because he wanted to play with whatever Logan had (even if he had never wanted to play with it before).

Hanging with Daddy

Wrestling the Alligator

Wrestling Each Other

November...Where did it go?

November was full of craziness in the Walker house. David was sick and went to the doctor almost once a week (colds, ear infections, thrush, a breathing machine). So between the doctor visits and not sleeping well, we did manage to get a few things done.

On November 11 David got a new cousin, Mallory Noelle Auttonberry. Isn't she a cute little girl?!? Hopefully we will get to meet her in person next month.

Right before Thanksgiving David started to push himself up to a sitting position when he was laying down. And then he started to crawl - well I don't think we could technically call it crawling, but he started flopping and scooting around. If you turned your head he wasn't there when you looked his way again!

Here are a few of our favorite seven month pictures.

We flew to New Orleans to spend Thanksgiving with all of Mindi's family. Aunt Jess and Uncle Rob flew in from Nashville and Aunt Kayla came from Atlanta. Too bad soon-to-be Uncle Scott had to work and couldn't come play.

David with Aunt Jess and Uncle Rob

We spent Thanksgiving Day at Aunt Joey and Uncle Lonnie's new and improved house. Everybody was there! We ate good food, played games, took naps, played with the dogs, and even had a surprise baby shower for Stacy and Steven (pretty sure it's a girl!). Here's Mum with all the grandkids, grandkids husbands/wives, and great grandkids.

Back row (L-R): Stacey, Kayla, Jess, David, Mindi, Ryan Front row (L-R): Rob, Jon, Mum, Steven, Stacy

The next day we had Christmas at Nana and Papaw's. David got lots of fun toys, but I think he liked the paper more than the presents!

He loves his tool bag. Look who got wrenches!

David really liked being outside at Nana and Papaw's. He got to swing, he played with bubbles for the first time, and he rode the four-wheeler!

David also got to see some of Mindi's friends.

Nancy and Dylan Michelli

David Bordes and David Walker

We had a great time in Louisiana and were so glad to see everybody. Can't wait for Aunt Kayla's wedding in June!

Happy Halloween

Before David was even born, we were given his first halloween costume. Although we didn't know if we were getting a boy or a girl at the time, we would have a precious little lamb to show off on Halloween (thanks Mrs. Susan). David looked so sweet in his costume. I told Ryan we could go for macho next year.


David's school had a "Parade of Costumes" to celebrate the day. This is the second parade David's been in since starting daycare. By the time Mardi Gras rolls around David will be a professional "krewe" member!

Luckily Ryan was working at home that day so he was able to go to the parade and take pictures. Ryan didn't think that David was too interested, but would you be excited to be in a toasty warm costume on a hot Texas day at the end of October!

These daycare parades just crack me up. Everybody lines up in their costumes and they circle the parking lot two or three times. The whole thing takes 10 minutes tops. Babies who can't sit up get put in bouncie seats inside of baby beds and they roll too. You've gotta see it! Maybe I'll get to go to the next one.



Where's David?

David and Caleb the Monkey

Six Months

Time has flown by and David turned six months old on 10/23/08. Ryan has taken over doctors visits and everything checked out at this one (shots and all). Although the doctor did say David wasn't eating enough solid foods. Obviously the doctor wasn't looking at "The Belly" when he made that comment. We've been working on playing peek-a-boo. See David play. Laugh David laugh. Good David!

We took this picture of David after dinner one night because he looked like our friend Jeremy. Jeremy's been growing a mustache and it looks something like this (luckily Jeremy's face isn't as messy).

Five Month Pictures

So we were a little late in taking (and posting) our five month pictures. David did so good sitting up for the pictures. I sat by him to "catch" in case he lost his balance on the hard floor. I only missed once (he fell backwards). Then Ryan took over and not two minutes after the first fall David decided to try a nose dive. Poor baby. No lumps, just tears (but they stopped pretty quickly). David took so many good pictures playing with fake pumpkins and apples and he just drooled the whole time. By the time we changed into our last outfit (the first two were wet) the photographer checked the other pictures and realized that something was wrong with the flash settings and the last 27 pictures she had taken turned out black. Big time sad face :( We tried to take a large amount in the last outfit, but by that time David was getting tired and those pictures didn't turn out so good. Oh well! We still managed to find a few pictures we really liked. Here are our favorites! (Personally, I love the last one.)

At Lifegroup

Kristin brought her camera to lifegroup on 10/1 and was so nice to take pictures of everybody. It was funny to watch Claire jump up and down trying to get a mid-air shot. Here's a great one of our family. Thanks Kristin!!

Baby Dedication

Sorry it has taken so long for me to post again. Between David, school, and the house my evenings are shot (really I'm just too tired to stay up the few minutes more to add pictures...sorry).

On September 28, 2008 we dedicated David to the Lord at 121 Community Church in Grapevine, TX. Dylan and Kristin Thompson graciously agreed to be Godly Influences for David and to come up on stage and pray over him during the dedication. It was a very special day because we had several people there to join in our celebration. Grammie, Grampa and Aunt Courtney were able to come and all of our Lifegroup friends were there. We were sad that not all of our family members could be there, but we know that they were there in spirit. David has so many people praying for and loving on him that he is one very blessed young man.

We were dorks and forgot to take a family picture or a group picture with Dylan and Kristin. Not really quite sure what we were thinking, but we did take this one of David and Mommy.

Afterwards, we went out to Zuroma's to continue the festivities.

It was a very special and fun day and we were glad to be able to share it with so many of our friends and family!