Christmas at Hunt

As you may already know, Michael works at Hunt Oil. His job title is GIS Specialist, in short, he makes maps. Hunt is located in downtown Dallas in a relatively new building to the Dallas skyline. The construction on the building was completed in 2007 and Michael went to work there in 2008. The building it's self is gorgeous, sleek, modern, just plain cool, and it has won many awards. Inside there are so many details and beautiful things and artifacts. It is almost like going to a museum! So when Michael invited us up to have lunch with him, I jumped at the chance to go up there again! It has been since Jonathan was about 7 months, so 3 years! Jonathan has not stopped talking about visiting Daddy up at work, in "TownTown Tallas"!

I stole this picture from Hunt's website so you can see what the front of the building looks like. I can never get one of the front myself! The guy to the top right there is Ray Hunt, the CEO of the company.

This is in the lobby. A giant pendulum. It's hard to see what you are looking at, but the big brass thing is what is swinging. It's really neat in person.

The front desk. Giant Geode's behind them! (I love geode's, so I was impressed)

One of the neat features of the building is that on every floor there is a featured rock. This is Michael's floor. You can click on this picture to enlarge it.

Ben is hanging out in Daddy's office!

Michael and Jonathan checking out his computer and desk! (that is one of the map's that Michael made behind him)

We went upstairs to the top floor, where the cafeteria is located. They had a large train table set up! Look up, that is a Dale Chihuly master piece (the glass chandelier! I love his work)!

Looking down on the construction of the new park that they are building over the freeway! It is going to be so cool! They say it will be completed Spring/Summer 2012! So stay tuned! We will for sure go hang out with Daddy for lunch one day at the new park!

J is pointing all the cool stuff. The top of the building you see the most of is the Dallas Museum of Art.

Hey Ben!

The inside of the dome of the top floor! Very cool! - It was super crazy up there that day. It was the Thursday before Christmas and they were having a Christmas Luncheon. But we didn't stay for that, went to eat at Campisi's on Mockingbird, Michael and my favorite place to go.

Fossil's located in between the bathrooms.

Info on the above fossils.

This is the entrance...it is super secure. Looks like the FBI or CIA of something! :)

Very neat petrified wood.

The info for the above Petrified Wood. (click on the photo to enlarge)

Outside playing in the rocky river. Check out the giant Nutcracker!

The boys walking to the car...and another giant wreath!

Looking back at the building!

Merry (Be-Lated) Christmas

The past few months leading up to Christmas have flown past us in a blink! We have had so much fun, it is my favorite time of year, but...I will admit, I am a little happy that it is over. When I woke up on Dec 26th, I felt my blood pressure was definitely lower. But then again, it was all worth it!
Jonathan was really into all things Christmas this year which made it all so exciting! He talked all about the baby Jesus, the angels, the barn, the North Pole, SANTA, frosty...etc...he loved watching all the Christmas movies and going seeing anything Christmas related...The Candle Light service at church, driving to see Christmas lights on houses at night, the Train Exhibit at North Park Mall, Gaylord Texan Resort, sitting on Santa's lap...I could go on and on...we did a lot this past month, and there was still things I wanted to do that we didn't have time (or energy) for. Since I have been bad about keeping up with my blog lately, I am going to do my very best to post all of our fun pictures of the exciting things we have done. I hope all of you had an amazing Christmas too!  

This was at the beginning of Dec at the Gaylord Resort. I actually Photoshop'd Ben's head from another photo. I can hardly ever get a photo with both of them and at the time I was taking this it was super crazy. Ben was either looking down or away, or Jonathan was just wanting to get down to go look at the trains behind him! You can tell behind Ben's head that the seams on the chair are off, but otherwise I am happy with the results, so this picture was our Christmas Card this year!

This was also on our Christmas Card this year! One of my favorites! This is in our backyard at the beginning of December.

I love this photo because he is looking at Jonathan! ;)

Just a Happy Boy!

This is the third photo that was on our Christmas Card! Just my silly and sweet boy!

He is not really into sitting and smiling for me anymore, so I gave him some bubbles and told him to blow them at me. It didn't turn out like I thought it would, but it is still a cool photo of my big blue eyed boy! It was between this one and the one above for the Christmas Card, but I just love his smile in that one.

Just another one that I thought was cool. The colors are so amazing, it's hard to believe it is December, especially after the drought!