Thanks Mom and Dad!

Santa came a little early at our house last weekend. I put in a request to my parents a while back for a new camera and they delivered!!! I have been having a great time taking pics of the kids this last week. Here are just a few fun shots.

Decorating for Christmas!

Christmas time is here! We have started decorating the house and the kids are having the best time. This year at our new house, we are putting up 2 trees. The kids have their very own tree upstairs in the playroom. Monday night we got it set up. We used some candy garland that I had saved from when I was growing up. They really loved that. We also decorated their tree with all their ornaments that they get every year from me & Dee and all the fun ornaments that they have made throughout the years. Nathan & Abby also got to open their new ornaments for this year. Nathan was super excited about his golf ornament and Abby really loved her Ariel oranment. Nathan has also set up his train around the bottom of the tree and made a tunnel out of blocks for it. He has wanted to put a train around the Christmas tree for years. I'm not sure where he got the idea, but it's really cute!

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving morning I got up early and ran the 10k at the Turkey Trot. It was a good run that I always look forward to. It sure takes away some of the guilt of eating the rest of the day.


After that we went to Grandma's here in town for Thanksgiving lunch with Grandma, Grandpa John, Shelby, Alyssa, & Ryan. It was a yummy meal and a good time playing. After lunch we came home for a bit and packed our suitcases to go to my mom and dad's. Before we left town we went over to Grandmother and Pa-Paw's to say hello and of course do a little more eating.

Then we headed over to my mom & dad's. We ate Thanksgiving there again on Friday. We had a great time there with Paw-Paw, Dee, Mallory & Parsh. We even got to see Mallory take some of her first steps. Christmas will be so fun with her toddling around. We of course had to have a photo shoot on Saturday afternoon in hopes of getting the perfect Christmas card photo.

Care Group Thanksgiving Feast

We had our care group over to our house the Sunday night before Thanksgiving for a feast. It was a great night! We had great food, lots of laughter, some crying, & even a special Oreo dessert for the kids. Thanks Hannah!

Nathan's First Hunting Trip!

Nathan got to experience opening weekend for deer season with Clay this year. Not many deer were seen, but they had a great guys' weekend. They had so much fun being outside, eating junk food, & shooting stuff. They came home awfully dirty & full of candy!

Best Girlies!

Whenever I ask Abby who her best girlie is, she says, "Mallory is!" Denise, Amy, Kim, Kara are some of my best girlies. We all became friends when we lived in Nelson our freshman year at ACU. We had SO much fun together. We all became the best of friends so fast and created so many great memories together. Since college we have all moved away from each other, but every so often we are able to get together and hang out and it's the best! We had the chance to spend the day together in Southlake a few weeks ago. We shopped, talked, ate, & laughed our heads off. We ended the day by going over to Denise's and looking at old pictures from college. You can imagine how funny that was. I wish I had some of those pictures to post. It was the best! Every time we are together we pick up right where we left off. It's like no time passes. So to me that definitely makes these girls some of my best girlies. To borrow Abby's term. Thanks girls! Can't wait for our next reunion.

Halloween 2008!

We are having a girls only Halloween night. Nathan & Clay are on a boys' hunting weekend. So Abby and I did Halloween festivities alone tonight. We started at a birthday party for a friend of Abby's from school. It was a Snow White themed party with lots of little cuties in their costumes.

Our Little Ballerina!

Apple prints with the poisonous apple.



Several of Abby's little friends from school.
Ella, Julia, Abby, Juliana(Bday girl), Cameron, & Ivie


Such concentration!

Such girlies! Abby and Sofia are just a small portion of the large group of blonde girls in their class at school.
Abby & Sofia doing the mummy wrap to mommy Angela!

Pigs-in-a-blanket!

After the birthday party, Abby and I went to eat dinner at Chick-fil-a and then we headed to Trunk-or-treat at another friend's church. I will say I am a fan of the trunk-or-treat approach. It's much more laid back than some of the other church festivals I have been too. Perfect for a girls only Halloween night.

Here's Abby with her little buddy Matthew. He LOVES Bob the Builder right now.
Ready to go home with plenty of candy!