A day trip to the San Antonio zoo and railroad

Christmas in San Antonio

We had a wonderful trip to San Antonio. It was more than a week and they got quite a bit of work done on the new addition to the house. Everyone took the day off for some Christmas fun.

Johnny had a Wall*e Christmas. He got wall*e, M-O and an Eve action figures. Not to mention pj's and a sweatshirt.

Meghan had a baby doll Christmas. She got a new talking baby and lots of accesories. There is also a new high chair and swing to go along with her new baby carriers. Their room is a mess and I am going to leave it alone for a while. We will have to thin out some older toys to make room for the new ones.

Darlene was happy to see everyone and had a good time.

Johnny helped Meghan open her presents. We take turns youngest to oldest.

Meghan had a lot of fun opening her gifts.

The kids were first in line to open presents!

Family Christmas Pictures

Meghan is truly a "princess" she loves to wear fancy dresses and spin around granting wishes!

This is my favorite Christmas picture of the kids. Tarah insisted no Santa pic for her, so I settled for a picture in front of the tree at church.

This is a wonderful pic of the kids as we were decorating the tree. I don't know how I got them to all wear the hats at one time.

Tarah took this great picture of us.

Johnny was Peter Pan in the schooll fairy tale parade. I made this cute little costume the night before and then they tell me the feather was the wrong color and in the wrong place. No one at school noticed though.

Johnny comes home every day with some type of cute class project. These are his raindeer antlers.

This is our family Christmas photo. Expect to see it in a variety of Christmas presents this year.

A day after Thanksgiving feast with friends...

We went to our friends house on Friday and spent the day letting the kids play and eating a lot more food. There were several deep fried turkeys, faijtas (spicy) and lots of beer for those of us not driving. Larry and Norma's children are only months apart from Johnny and Meghan and have been very close since they could walk.

Each year I get the cutest pictures of Johnny and Alexis. There are always cute pictures of Benjiman and Meghan. They act like cute little old couples.

Johnny and Meghan loved playing on the new swing set.

A Family Thanksgiving in San Antonio

Kevin serving pie to his parents, Wayne and Darlene.

Kevin's sister Heather and her fiance, Cory.
We made lots of food and everyone ate bunches.
Grandpa Floyd loves his new chair. He is 93 and quite young at heart. "I want more pie!" was heard often from Johnny and Meghan.

We had a wonderful visit and loved spending some quality time with everyone. We are looking forward to going back at Christmas. The men were busy working on the new addition to the house so instead of deep fried turkey, I got to try a new brined roasted turkey recipe. Thanks to Martha Stewart it turned out wonderful. We also had an incredible honey glazed spiral ham with every side dish in the world. It was quite a group effort and turned out wonderful.

We missed my family very much and it is always hard to be away from Tarah during the holidays but we take comfort in the fact that everyone was together in Amarillo for Thanksgiving. We are grateful that everyone is doing so well and we know how lucky we all are in these difficult times.

Cake or Death?!?

I wish I could add some Eddie Izzard dialog to this
adorable glitter!!!

Happy Thanksgiving

Trip to Millies to deliver baby stuff......

Johnny and Shaelee played mommy and daddy with their babies all day of our visit to Millies house.

Tarah tried to rest. She had a bad headache that day.

Ashley had a great visit with everyone, and hung out.

Shaelee and Johnny were joined at the hip.

Tarah and Johnny played with Ashley's hamster that lives at Millie's house. Johnny is obsessed with hamsters in balls.

We just got back from taking all my baby stuff to Millies house. Kevin is excited to have an emty space in the garage. I am just so thrilled that I kept it all and that it is still in great shape. Babies never use anything long at that age.