Thanksgiving Day

We started our day off with fitting 6 people in my mom's car! We left around 9:30 AM for Midland ... Dad, Mom and Jill in the front with Bryan, Mema and I in the back!! It sure was a cozy ride!!

We made it to Midland around 11:30AM! We helped around the kitchen, looked at the 'Black Friday' Deals and visited with family ... We had a great time!!

Lunch was great ... My Aunt Joann always finds ideas for Thanksgiving meals out of magazines, so she is always trying new recipes!

My Aunt Joann put candy corn on the tables ... for decoration! Not only were they good to eat ... but we had a little fun of our own!! We were going to get a picture of all the grankids, but we forgot!! Vampire teeth and Buck teeth ... great pictures!!




Doesn't Shanna look great?!

On the way home, we got a little picture crazy!! Here is a picture of us three ... Bryan really does love us, he just wasn't in the modd to take pictures!!

This is our "We are tired of taking family pictures." ... Bryan nailed it!

This is "Are we there yet?" and Bryan's out!! hehe

We got home around 5:30PM and headed straight to Wall to hang out with family there!! James, Letitia and their 4 kids were there ... along with most of our mom's side of the family! We enjoyed a very quick hour long visit with every there, before we headed off to Kerrville!!

Dad and Axel (or Jack Jack from The Incredibles, as I like to call him).

Macqueleigh, Violet and Gunnar.
Jill and Axel.

Violet loving on Macqueleigh.

Mom and Ms. Avia.

Avia really does like me ...

See!

We had a wonderful day! Thanksgiving is definitely one of my favorite holidays ... it leads to my absolute favorite time of year!! Hope everyone's Thanksgivings was as blessed as ours!! :)

Happy Birthday, Mary!!

Happy Birthday to the Best Mimi Ever!! :)

Happy Thanksgiving!!

This Morning, Bryan and I are going with my parents and sister to Midland. My dad's sister is hosting Thanksgiving lunch at her house!! Here's to the first meal of eating good ...

Then after lunch, we will come back to San Angelo ... and go hang out in Wall with some of that family! Around 5PM, the plan is to leave for Kerrville! UT vs. A&M game starts at 7PM ... so I have to have Bryan in K-ville in front of a tv shortly after that!! hehe We will spend the rest of the weekend hanging with family, putting up christmas decorations, spoiling girls and eating good!!

Everyone, Have a WOnderful Thanksgiving!! :)

Twilight ... a New Series to get Hooked on!!

Bryan took the 4 boys that were left on the ranch (all the rest have gone home for Thanksgiving) to go see Twilight last night! I was interested in seeing it ... but in no hurry! So, I decided to join him!

I won't give away any details ....

The movie started very s .... l .... o .... w!! Like I wanted to leave, it was so weird! Then about halfway through, the movie changed for the better!! The 2nd half was incredible! I don't know if I have ever been bored with the first half, then it get so exciting!!

Overall, I liked it, and can't wait for the next movies to come out! Afterwards, Bryn and I went to Hastings to rent the 1st and 2nd audiobooks! I am guessing that is what we will be listening to during all the traveling this week!!

Happy Birthday, Jill!!

Happy Birthday to a girl that I am so happy to call my sister!

We Love you!! :)

Funny Feature

This is what happens if I take a picture, and you don't smile ... my camera has an option to make a person smile!! hehe

I don't know who would ever use the option ... except for a night full of laughter!! Mom and Dad would not let me post their pictures ... and well, Jill never reads this blog, so what she doesn't know, won't hurt her!! hehe

My New Toy / Early Christmas Present

This year for Christmas, I told Bryan that I wanted a very small digital camera that would always stay in my purse!! So we have been looking for months and months! We finally decided that Sony was the right brand for us! They have so many features!

Best Buy has had some really good deals; and even if they don't, they honor competition! AND Bryan has a friend who works there and he has been helping us out! Well last Sunday (11/16), we were checking out cameras to figure out exactly what I wanted! Well they had this camera in black marked down to $179 ... which being regularly $399 is really good! But we were just not ready to buy, and wanted to check Black Friday Deals!!

So on Friday (11/21), we went to Best Buy with some ranch boys! There happen to be one of these cameras left, but it wasn't priced $179 anywhere! So we took it up to the front to see how much it was ... it rang up at $399!! Bryan and I were like NO! That camera was "clearance" to $179 last week ... he said that it was clearance and now it was regular price!! Has anyone ever heard of something being clearanced and then moved back to regular price? Well anywayz, there was no way we were paying $399 for that camera, so we walked away!

On Saturday (11/22), after hanging out at the mall with the ranch boys, they wanted to go to Best Buy/ Academy! We saw Bryan's friend there ... so Bryan went to tell him what happened! He asked us how much the camera was marked last week ... we said $179! He was like well that's messed up ... We don't clearance stuff and then move the price back up! He asked if we wanted it ... we said for the clearanced price, yes!! So we went to the register ... and he rang it up at $159!!! We were just a little excited!! OK maybe we are overwhelmed with joy!! We got an amazing camera for fraction of the price!!

So Merry Christmas to me!! :)

Happy Birthday Mommy!!

She is truly amazing!!

Goodbye ...

I have tried everything I know to do ... even talked to the "Geek Squad" at Best Buy! It's no use! He said the pictures are no good! I am trying to get the courage to format it! Sad Day!!

What's even worse is that about a month ago, my computer at work crashed! I had put a lot of pics from my camera on it! When the computer guy asked if I had anything on it that I needed, I said NO ... because all the pictures I had on my work computer I had on my camera or at home!!

I lost so many pictures! Luckily, I did take all of the cowboy pictures and put them on my computer at home! And a whole lot of the important pics are on this blog ... I love this blog even more for that reason!!

Learn from my mistake ... don't leave your pictures on your camera's for very long!!

Way to go Lance!!

Jill and I left my parent's house at 6:30am on saturday morning!! We had a blast on the trip ... sang Shania Twains greatest hits cd to make the time go by!! We were there around 10:15AM, which was in the midde of the 1A girls race!

Wall girls team also made it ... so we got to watch them! Their top runner crossed the finish line a split second after the 1st place runner! It was so close, that everyone was looking at each other asking who won! But then again, she is only a sophmore ... so hopefully she will return next year!!

Getting ready to begin their last race of the season ...

Almost done ...
Lance passed that Wall kid right in front of him at the finish line!!
About 30 minutes after their race, we were waiting around for the results (although we were pretty certain they had won it) ... then all of sudden they started yelling! They WON!! I was so excited for Lance!!

They beat the 2nd place team by 42 points!! :) Those positions are after they took out the individual runners ... Lance placed 24th overall!! Pretty Dang Awesome for a Freshman at State!!

The Wall Girls placed 3rd as a team! 2nd place had 72 points ... while Wall got 73 points!! Too close!!

Pretty exciting to have both your boys and girls cross country team make it to state!!

Standing on the podium with his fellow teammates ...

Receiving their Gold Medals ...

Lance is trying to get used to the heavy gold medal around his neck ... I believe this is why I didn't not get a smile out of him in the group pictures!!

Uncle Ronnie, Lance and Aunt Becky

Trey had to pick Heather and Abi up at the airport in Austin later that evening ... so he was able to kill 2 bids with one stone!!
Jill, Lance and I ...

All in all, it was a great trip ... and couldn't have ended better! :)

It's bad ...

I am about ready to throw my camera across the room! Now, everybody knows what I want for Christmas!!

Of course, this is supposed to be the exciting post about how the state cross country meet today ... but no my camera does not want to upload my pictures!!

Yesterday, my camera told me that it wanted to format my xd card ... but then it told me that it would erase EVERYTHING on it!! Of course, I have tons of pics on that xd card! So today I was only able to take 15 pictures ... and now it will not let me upload them!!

UUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

Anybody have advice?

Hopefully my next post will be full of pictures ...

Memories in a Cotton Field.

Bryan and I wanted to take some fall pictures! Bryan had a great idea to do them in a cotton field ... and I thought it would be really neat to have some in front of my Papa's House! Would create some special memories!

To get a cotton field at it's prettiest ... means right before they strip it! We really only had a couple days to work with it ... and I still don't know how we pulled it off, but we did! Mackenzie May did these for us ... and Bryan and I both love them all!

And My Absolute Favorite ...

A Two Year Old!

The Good News: We had a wonderful weekend in Kerrville!

The Bad News: My batteries were dead in my camera, and I forgot to get anymore!!

On Sunday, We went to church ... another amazing service at Impact Fellowship! Then some lunch, football and naps proceeded! Bella's birthday party was at 5PM, so since all the family was down ... we decided to get some family pictures with all new additions!

Bella was blessed with lots of goodies ... including a purple motorcycle, a cool pop-up princess tent and of course, a blanket embroidered with her name on it! Not to mention, a beautiful daisy cake made by her own Mimi!!

Stolen from Kristi ...

Singing, "I Know You ... I walked with you once upon a dream."

We came home sunday night ... exhausted from another great weekend in Kerrville!!