Holiday's here and gone

Our holiday season has entered and left with a bang!
Starting in early December with our Church hosting the "Town of Bethlehem" at the local Christmas festival. I helped out in the candle shop and the kids were apart of the Jewish dancing. Jacie got to be an angle and just LOVED it.

Of course basketball doesn't take much of a holiday, we were traveling and playing all but one week of December. Both the boy's and girl's teams are doing so good. Were told by many of the parents that the girls haven't done this good in 10 years here at Hill Country. It's so fun to watch them.

The weekend of Christmas was a very busy one for us, we traveled 3 day's straight, us and the 2 doggies, in order to make it to all the family gatherings. It was so great to see everyone. I wish we could have more get togethers throughout the year.

So now it's back to settling in with the new semesters schedule. Never a dull moment in our house :~). I know one day I will look back and miss all this craziness that is my life right now !!

We found some of the lost pictures I mentioned earlier. We put some of them together and made a few movies. One is us hanging out on Christmas day, the other is hanging with friends on New Years Eve.

Love yall.

Oh Christmas Tree..

We are a week behind in getting our tree up but finally made it. Merry Christmas.

Trip to the Mountain

We went to visit Granny & Papa in New Mexico for Thanksgiving. It was a long 10 hour drive. The kids were such troopers; they really did a wonderful job both on the way there and back.

Jacie had been praying for snow for over a month and she got her wish. It didn't snow hard, but it snowed. We went up to the ski resort one afternoon and played in some man-made snow for a bit. We weren't totally prepared and our clothes weren't the best for snow playing. I think we might have lasted for 45 minutes or so before we all piled back in the car to go home. Jordan was the lone trooper who would have been fine for us to leave him up there all day.

The next day we went up to the tube shoots. It's like Schlitterbahn in the snow!! We had to pick out our tube, stand in line forever and then enjoy the 1 minute ride. Everyone had a great time. Cory and I rode double with Jacie and Jax for awhile, then Jacie wanted to brave it on her own. I tried to get a pic of her coming down, but her tube turned at the last second. I did get a great shot of Jordan, he was in the air coming off of a jump.

The last night we went to Granny & Papas church program "A walk through Bethlehem". Granny was a Ladivical dancer, and Papa was one of the priests. The kids were in awe as we walked through a re-enactment of Bethlehem during the days Jesus was born.

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving.

B-Day Fashion Show

Things have been very busy here, but we found some time to celebrate Jacie's birthday with some good friends and family. For the past 3 years Hannah and Hailey haven't been able to make Jacie's parties, however, this year we made it a "Date Party". They had so much fun together. Mema and Dado came down to spend the day with us and we all went to Gatti Town.






As you can see from the slideshow and the movie in this post Jacie had a great time and loved all the beautiful clothes she got. We even put together a fashion show for everyone. Cory and I can't believe our little girl is already 5, she looks so grown up even though she is still so tiny.

Christmas Lists

We have had several family members ask about the Kid's Christmas lists. We tried to put a wish list tool on the Blog, but had no success with it. S,o we decided to put them as a post. I'll keep adding if I remember anything I missed, so keep checking.

Jacie=
Anything that has to do with a Princess
Ariel hair dressing doll. It's Ariel's head and you fix her hair........Target has them.
Pink knee-high boots.....any of the ones from Target
Target Wooden Doll house accessories
Size 7 shoe
Size 4T pants, 5T shirts ( Aggie shirts would be great)
Hair stuff
Books
CD player
Stories on CD
Warm PJ's

Jaxson-
Anything with balls
An A & M (preferably), Cowboys, or Texan football uniform with Helmet and shoulder pads (we must find one of these, let me know if you see one)
CD player
Books
Play House Disney stuff
Size 6 shoe
Size 2T Shirts and pants ( he LOVES shirts with balls on them, and Aggie shirts)
Stories on CD
Warm PJ's

Jordan-
I-Tune Gift cards
Joe Boxer pant PJ's
Men's small Shirts ( hoodies, and longsleeve T-shirts)
Toby Mac & Switch foot CD's
Best Buy /Walmart/Target Gift cards
Of course cash is always a winner