Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone.

These were our Christmas Eve pictures with our new Christmas pj's.

This was the note that Caleb wrote to Santa (all by himself). Oh, and we left Santa fudge, because we know that he gets full of cookies.

And here is a Christmas morning pic with the scooters that Santa left for them - Barbie for her and Spiderman for him.

I just wanted to get a few pics out today. Will update more later. Love you all.

I know - it's about time...

No, don't faint, don't adjust your computer screen and no, you are not hallucinating. Yes, I am actually updating the blog after only ummmmm ohhhhhhh 4 months of silence. I have got to find a faster way to load pictures and then maybe I would do this more often. Any suggestions?? Oh, and since I have not blogged in so long I do not remember how to load the pictures in chronological order, so these pictures will be seriously out of order. Alright, now on with the pictures...

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Sarah and Riley came to visit us and while they were here I told her that we would be cleaning out my closet. I figured that since I had helped pack for her during the last 3 summers she could help me clean out. Anyway, these are all the bags that we donated to various causes. And we ended up throwing away about half as much as that. I know, my closet was a serious MESS.

Mr. Riley and Barry's hand. They were chillin' and and watching a game.

Hannah as Hannah you know who.

My cheerleader and superhero.


Hannah, Chiefs Cheerleader, Spiderman

Being goofy. They are so good at that.

So cute!!!




Mom and Sarah - don't you just love the dress. H does.
Their jack-o-lantern. Caleb designed it. Barry carved it.
The rough draft of the face.
These kiddos love to dress up. If you enlarge the pic you will see that Hannah gave herself marker pox. Luckily it was not catching.
My big boy is in the 1st grade. I can't believe it.

First day of school.




So big.
My birthday loot from my honey. He did so good.

When we got back home from TX this is what I found.

And this. No, he had not left the cake out while he was gone. He ran in and set it out while I stretched my legs a bit.


My sweet boy - the Ry guy. Aren't they all so sweet when they are sleeping.

And one of my favorite birthday presents this year - my Cabela's bag. I LOVE, LOVE, L.O.V.E., it. Thanks luke, Katie and Norah. Oh, and notice H primping. She does that a lot.

Poppie, C and H at the CDR gate.
It was 1000 degrees outside and R decides that was a great place to take a nap. Maybe I should try that next summer.

I thought this would make a good growth chart. To bad C was not wanting to cooperate.
H helping prep peaches for camp. She is already looking forward to doing it again next summer.
The cousins.

See, I told you these were in a bad random order. I apologize for the delay. And seriously, if any of you have any suggestions on uploading pictures more quickly I would love to hear them. Hope you guys had a fantastic Turkey and are ramping up for a great Christmas.

Pictures, Pictures and MORE Pictures

HGB in her VBS program.

CDB in his program.
Prepping the millions of peaches for middle Sunday at camp.

CDB talking to Daddy.
Before the haircuts...
Before...
After.

CDB just posing with Mr. Gloworm.

Daddy, take a good look at Hannah's shirt.
Playing in the rain.
My nephew, Riley. Apparently his mom takes a lot of pictures and he gets tired of it.
Typical man.

Aren't the cousins so cute.

Uh oh - he's not happy.
Much better. I think she'll make a good mommy.
Aren't the cute in the TX Rangers garb.
Rangers up to bat. It was a very neat stadium. I hope to see more games there in the future.

HGB after her first day at Pee Wee camp.

CDB after his first day at camp. And no, I did not put that on his mouth - he did it all on his own.
Practicing his lightsaber moves.
You might have to enlarge this to see the afghan I placed in the middle of the bed. They were told not to cross to the other side.
The awesome PeeWee counselors that the kids had their session. Hannah declined to participate in the photo.

Mimi and Papa with us on July 3 waiting for the fireworks spectacular in Gilmer. BTW, we never got to see the fireworks - technical problems. But hey, we got to spend some quality time together.

CDB and a Civil War era cannon.
HGB had chocolate ice cream, can you tell?
Hannah finally posed with the cannon but would not get any closer because it was "stinky". They fired it a time or two so it did smell of whatever they used to fire it.
Just clowning around.

Poppie and HGB getting ready to go for a bike ride.

But, Poppie needed to tie a string on the bike so it wouldn't fall over and crash with Hannah on it. I do believe this was Hannah's brilliant idea.
The cousins in Memphis.
They're so silly.
Caleb got a Sprderman costume in Memphis and fell asleep in the car with the mask on. I wonder what the passing motorists thought when they saw him?

At the Balloon Glow in Longview. Super cool.

Can you tell that he is not in a basket - just a chair. CRAZY!!!!!
Hannah and Poppie trying to keep cool.
Silly face time.


Some WWII era planes participating in the Balloon glow - oh, and the moon.

Some of the neat balloons.
More of the neat balloons.
HGB swimming all by herself, and without a noodle.
CDB under the water.



Whew - I'm tired and I bet you are too. Thanks for hanging tough and getting through all of the pictures. Hopefully I will have more in the next few weeks. Ta Ta For Now.