Christmas 2014

We have had a good time celebrating Griffin's first Christmas.

Christmas Eve we opened presents at home before we went to the Christmas Eve service at church. After the service, we loaded up and headed to Quanah. Since we were not going to be home for Santa, we sent a note with Bubbles with elf letting Santa know he could just leave our stuff and we would get it when we returned home. (I sure hope he got the message!)

Christmas morning Santa brought a few things for Hadley to Mimi's house, and then we opened presents. I think Griffin had more fun with the paper and bows than anything else!

We have had a good break from work and school so far. Tomorrow is my birthday (38!), and then we will celebrate the new year next week. Time is going by so quickly, so we are trying to soak up every moment we can with our precious kiddos!

6 months later...

This might be a record...(for the longest between posts!).

Quick recap:

January: snow
February: more snow and lots of ice; sad time when Mema passed away but nice time spent with family; Eric's birthday
March: warmer weather; Karah's birthday in Quanah
April: playing outside; Easter egg hunt
May: hot; Hadley plants a garden; Mandi forgets how to walk and hurts her foot; wedding dress shopping with Karah
June: even hotter; playing in the water to keep cool; quick trip to the ranch

That about does it.

Oh, and here are some pictures. (The real reason some of you want me to update this!) :-)

Mother's Day 2009

So I'm a little late in posting about Mother's Day, but what's new!

My first Mother's Day as a mommy was wonderful. My boys made sure I felt special all week leading up to Sunday. They sent me some very pretty flowers at work, and then gave me several sweet gifts. They gave me a poster with pictures of Hadley, a Bible cover, a "mommy" book, a necklace with Hadley's picture on it, a day-by-day calendar, and a devotional book that Eric and I are doing together. We spent Saturday and Sunday in Quanah at GiGi and PaPa Max's house. Overall, a very nice Mother's Day. Thanks Eric and Hadley - I love you both very much!

Quanah here we come...

So we have decided to go ahead and go to Quanah this weekend to see Eric's parents. His mom is supposed to be home by lunch time on Sunday so we will get to see her for a little while before we have to come home. I guarantee she will be happy we are coming, and happy she is coming back early enough to see us!



Stay tuned...big announcement coming! (If you haven't already guessed it...)

Disappointment and Dilemma

We were supposed to go to Quanah this weekend to see Eric's parents. This was a pretty important trip (some of you know why). However, when Eric called last night to let them know we were coming his mom informed him that she and a friend of hers are going to Dallas this weekend to shop and to go to Canton. While I am a big fan of Canton, and I wish I was going with her, I really wish there was a way we could get her to cancel the trip. I told Eric he should call the friend and explain to her why we really need to come see them this weekend and have her make up some excuse for needing to reschedule the trip. Or I thought maybe we could call his aunt (who lives in Dallas and will be joining them in their shopping ventures) and try to get her to convince them to cancel and come some other time. But we didn't do either of those things. So now our trip will have to be rescheduled. I guess it's not really that big of a deal, but I know when his mom finds out why we wanted to come this weekend she will wish we would have. I don't know what to do. Any ideas?