Fall Christmas

We had a "Fall Family" Christmas party at my Mom's house. Everyone was there which was great! My kids had a lot of fun playing with my cousin Erica's boys. We took a group photo and even "retook" a photo from 15+ years ago, we all stood in the same spot and that turned out great. I am sure my Grandmother was in Heaven with a tape recorder and loving every minute of it. She would have been so happy to see us all together laughing and eating!!! Of course she would have loved to see the little ones running around with all of their energy. Santa came and of course Riley was scared our of her mind. But she did love the toys Santa brought, she got a couple of dolls a really cute bear and a stroller. Cameron loves all of his toys and spent the entire day today playing with them all!!! What a memorable afternoon!

25 Members of the "greatly extended" Fall Family

9 Grandkids

Riley showing off her Baby

Santa

Riley is not a Santa fan

Santa and Cowboys

The weekend was nice despite me catching a cold. Saturday was spent organizing the house and getting it ready to put on the market the friday after Christmas so get in line folks this one could go fast HA!!!
Sunday morning we got up and went to church to eat breakfast with Santa and Mrs. Claus. The kids loved eating of course, and I think Cameron had a total of four pancakes and Riley had two and a plate full of eggs. Santa was great and spent some time with Cameron talking to him about what he wanted for Christmas although he couldn't garuntee a Cowboys Super Bowl he promised to try. Riley did not take to Santa to well and took one look at him and immediately started screaming. I ended up sitting next to her so we could get a nice picture.





That afternoon Ryan and I headed out to the Cowboys game against the Giants. We bought new sweatshirts for the occasion and were very excited to wear them, unfortunately it was 70 degrees most of the time. The Cowboys won and we had a great time meeting people and tailgating with fans. We sat in front of a guy who very much resembled Tony Romo so of course I had to get a picture with him! By the end of the game we were very happy that we brought our sweatshirts because a cold front hit and it was 40 degrees walking to our car.....talk about a change in weather! I was a little sad being our last game at Texas Stadium but we are looking forward to the new home of the Cowboys!

This past week

The last half of the week was jam packed.......
Thursday morning I was admitted to the hospital because I was unable to keep food down, was dehydrated and having mild contractions. They ended up keeping me for observation, which was tough on Ryan having to work and handle the kids but fortunately for us we have an amazing support group of family and friends, my mom stayed with me the whole time, Ryan's parents took Cameron to school and picked him up and cleaned the house, and Allison managed FIVE kids by herself all day Friday so I could recover!!!!
Saturday was promised to the kids for about a month now and we had plans all day for activities for them, so we kept our commitment. The morning was spent at Uncle Kent's firehouse where Santa and Mrs. Clause landed in a helicopter! The kids did great they both saw santa and of course Cameron told him everything he wanted for christmas.



We headed home and Ryan headed out to the neighborhood we want to live in to take a look at the house we want to make and offer on and we decided that Monday December 9th we are going to start negotiations!!!!! That evening was spent at the North Pole Express where we saw many trains, and got to ride the train which was a blast for the kids....Santa made an appearance there too!!!
Here is Cameron driving the train!

Riley was a dancing machine all night!!


The only pic you will see of me for a while ; )

Eyes of wonderment

My current favorite picture of Riley and Daddy


Everyone was so happy!!!



The kids don't look like themselves here but I love this picture


It snowed that day!!!!

Thanksgiving weekend

OK OK so it has been a while but we have had so much going on so here it goes........

Thanksgiving was wonderful of course, we started the day with a trip to the park with Uncle Kent and Ryan and the kids really enjoyed playing of course.


we had a fun time at Grammie and Yoda's eating, laughing and watching football. Cameron and Riley ate their weight in ham and turkey. Then we headed off to see Grandpa and Doris and the kids were being very cute hanging together on the couch.




That night I went to spend the night at my Mom's to be ready for our "annual shopping trip." We woke up at 2am and headed to Grapevine Mills Mall for some great bargins. We also went to Kohl's and Babies R' Us....we were done shopping by 730am and headed home for a nice nap!!!
We rounded out the weekend by playing some Wii and watching the Sooner beat OSU!!