January

This january we were pretty busy. We got invited to a couple of football games, had a few birthday parties, celebrated our 8th wedding anniversary and just enjoyed spending time with each other. I have a few pics from the football game but nothing else, so this post wont have any pics.. :)

January

This year, brannon got tickets to the cotton bowl, too bad AU wasnt playing. We took the girls since it was at the new cowboys stadium, and we had a really good time. here are a few pics

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More Christmas in Alabama

Santa Came

Santa was really good to the girls this year. We got a whole band set, microphone with stand, guitar, and keyboard, lots of clothes and skechers (our favorite) dress up clothes, a cash register... all sorts of things. And to top it off, when we got back to tx... santa had even left the girls bikes here. It was a great christmas...

Christmas in Alabama

This year for the first time in 4 years, we were at "home" for christmas. We went to mom and daddys for christmas eve eve, then spent the evening of christmas eve, at mamaws (after visiting with bees and dot and learning how to play bridge) which is a memory i will always treasure, then we hit the road to Athens, to spend a few nights with Lacy and Jeb. I can tell you, that this was probably my most favorite christmas eve for MANY reasons, but the main one was being with lacy and loni again, together on christmas eve. We had a BLAST, or i know i did. We left there the day after christmas, went to lonis for lunch and it was delicious.... then we headed to Troy and Kaci's house for a visit with brannons family, and that was fun as always. my girls, loved the older girls and didnt want to leave playing with them. Then we got to visit with our friends will and aubry...and matt and ashley. we had a great time bowling and going to dinner..... its always fun to get the kids together. Then i guess we spent one more day in mccalla before heading back to tx. We had a great time and thanks to everyone who made that happen....

Christmas Eve Services (tuesday)

On the tuesday before christmas, we went to church. The girls were very excited because they got to go to "big church". They were blown away with the music and lights and were really excited that they knew some of the songs. Thank you God for sending your son, the real reason for the season.

Here are a few pics of the girls before we left for church

Christmas in Texas

This year, we did christmas in Texas early. The sunday before christmas, Grammy Papoo Stevie and Leslie came over to our house. We all ate dinner and opened gifts. We had a great time. The girls each got "bitty twins" and strollers so they had to take them for a walk after supper, it was really cute. Brannon and Stephen also got photo albums of ALL of their pictures from birth to present. We had a great time looking at those, thanks grammy. All in all, it was a great day. I dont have many pictures from this day, because i actually got a new camera later that night.. and most of the pictures taken, were on brannons work camera.

Ava's School Christmas Program

We had a busy week before christmas... on wednesday night, ava had her class christmas program at school....then on thursday she had her dance christmas program (no pics from that due to a dead camera battery :( ) She had been telling me all along that what they were doing was a secret but she was going to be Mrs Claus. I had to drop her off in her room and they got her in "costume" . I honestly thought i would die laughing when they walked out, but somehow i was able to hold it in. Despite her look, they did a really great job and she was SO excited she got to have "fluff" in her hair and be mrs. claus... i guess thats all that matters....oh and each prek class sang 2 songs... ava's 1st when she was dressed up was a combination of christmas songs and the macarena... (sp?)

The Gaylord Ice

This year we went to the Gaylord Ice with Grammy Papoo Stephen and Leslie. The girls LOVED it and they looked so cute in their big coats.. both of them enjoyed the ice slide, but i think my favorite part was the nativity scene at the end... it was HUGE and so so pretty - what a great way to start December.....

Happy Thanksgiving

I hope everyone has a great thanksgiving. I know that I sure have alot to be thankful for. The list would go on and on and on.... make sure you take the time to realize what you do have and be thankful for it. i am amazed at what God has blessed me with, not just things but the people he has put in my life.

For now i will leave you with two pictures of my pilgrims - ready for bed in pjs....i am especially thankful for them and pics of our "thankful turkeys" we made on tuesday -

Thanks Aunt Lacy

Thanks lacy - for the girls cute AU outfits.... just wanted you to be able to see a picture of them wearing it.....

Halloween 2009

This was probably the best halloween so far. Both girls were really into it, and loved going door to door getting candy. Its obvious in the pictures that Ava was an Auburn cheerleader and Kates was a lady bug. She kept saying my bug my bug everytime she saw her costume laying out.
the neighborhood had a little party at the park (where both girls tried their best at the pinata - yes even kates) then we came home and ate and went out trick or treating with some kids of people that brannon works with. But that wasnt enough for ava - she came home got our bowl of candy to pass out, put her desk chair on the front porch and passed out more candy. She would call to brannon, "i have some more trick or treaters" then she would tell them, 'your welcome, happy halloween. I am not sure which she liked more, getting her own candy or giving the other kids candy. We finally conviced her to close the door and as she was getting a bath she was about to fall asleep and actually did go to sleep while i was drying her hair - We had a great day and i hope everyone else did too... cant believe tomorrow is November. I LOVE FALL and the holidays - oh yeah and WAR EAGLE too - it must have been the new cheerleader....