Wrappin it up!

Cutie pie wrapping her brother's Christmas present. She even wrote his name on the tag herself!

I'm always playing catch up....

Once again, we've been busy over the last couple of weeks. We hope your Thanksgiving was as blessed as ours. We spent Thanksgiving day with Jeremy's family, had our fun cousins from Colorado staying with us most of Thanksgiving week, and we've done quite a bit of stuff in between. Here are a few pictures:

We went to the Gaylord to see ICE.

Cassidee was our expert poser for the day!

Hand on the hip.....love it!

A failed attempt at a Christmas card picture.....


Two cute boys in their taboggans!

Playing in the train!

Mr. Conductor

Snow bunny!

Cason reminded me of ET when they gave us that huge coat for him!

Entering ICE...

Our freezing family!

Us with the Grinch!

Cason on the ice slide!

Cassidee coming down the slide!

Me-mommy came with us!

Cassidee said she wished she could eat a bite of this yummy cake!

Merry Christmas from my kiddos!

On Thanksgiving morning, like many in the past, my family got up and ran the Turkey Trot in Ft. Worth. Here are mom and Kelsey at the start of the race. There were so many people that it took us 8 minutes after they started the race just to get to the starting line!

This was Cassidee's preferred method of travel....bundled up in the stroller. She slept the entire time we "trotted!"

Don't judge .....I was tired and it was really early in the morning!

Dorks after the race!

Here, There, & Everywhere!

Cassidee was excited to know that she'd be playing against Gracie in her last soccer game. Gracie's mommy and I went to middle school and high school together, so it was fun to see our girls play together.

Cassidee's last game was her best yet. She actually ran after the ball instead of running off the field crying!
So blurry cause she's running so fast! :)

Cassidee and her buddy Kiya with their trophies!

That same Saturday we got to have a fun night out to celebrate my sister Kelsey's 23rd birthday and my mom's ..... ahem..... 40th?! birthday!!!! :)

Pretty birthday girls at their favorite place..... Mexican Inn!

The whole group of us!

Cason loves, LOVES him some mexican food!

Dad wasn't quite ready for the picture, but here is Me-mommy and Cassidee at Bass Hall.

We went to see the Sound of Music. Some of the VonTrapp children were the singers. Very cool if you like that movie!

Cass and Kels

Pretty girl on the balcony at intermission, showing off her new dress.

She loved being all pretty that night!

Me and my cutie pie!

All the girls.....including baby Blaze/Blayze in Kay-Kay's tummy!

Complete change of subject........

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Now I know what to do if I need a little time at home....

Let them play in the sink!

It killed about 45 minutes.....although Jeremy may not like our water bill this month!

Extreme Concentration!

My Little Man

I just love his sweet face!

Rock-N-Roll

My mom is in the green shirt and my dad is in the blue shirt. This is
as my parents are crossing the finish line at the San Antonio Rock-n-
Roll Marathon. This was their first marathon! So, so proud of them!

Halloween and other Fun-ness!

A few weekends ago I had a FANTASTIC girls night in Fort Worth with some great friends. I have a grand total of two pictures from the night.....both of Amie! Dork! :) But, we had a great time, made TONS of new hairbows, ate, watched a movie, and just enjoyed hanging out and talking! Amie's blog may have a little more detail to the night if you want to read it there.

I can't believe I had to share a bed with her! :-P
Every year we go to the Pumpkin Patch with the Way's. Because it was super, super crowded the day we went I only took two pictures. The first one was of Cassidee almost killing herself on the slide.....
Um, can you see how her bottom is not even remotely close to the slide? The was up on the top, jumped, landed once on her feet, then flew head first down to the bottom. Bradley and I were waiting at the bottom to see if she broke her neck. She looked up and laughed. She's NUTS!

Charlie came down in a more safe manner.

On to Halloween and the Trunk or Treat at MIL/FIL's church.

The petting zoo was a hit!

So were riding the ponies. She did it more than once, I think!

Cason preferred the bounce house over anything else.

I have seen lots of pictures of Jeremy and Sam growing up. I think it'll be fun to see Cason and Beau in a lot of pictures growing up together as well!

My kitty cat and puppy dog!

FYI-the costume that Cason is wearing was Cassidee's very first Halloween costume. She was 8 months old. He is 15 months old. That is why the legs of it come up to the middle of his shin. Oh well.....I feel like I've gotten my money's worth out of it!

Mommy cat, baby cat!

(And that's literally what she called us all night!)

(And, she was wearing a cute gymnastics leotard and tights. She asked me why I wasn't wearing my leotard to the party.....um, no one needs to see that, sweetie! Then, her exact words were, "Well, then you're not actually a cat, but oh well." A 3 year old saying "actually" is funny in itself!)







Just two cute pictures of Cassidee and a new dress/hairbow!

More Cruise Pictures....

At the end of September Jeremy and I got to go on a cruise. Partly for our 5 year anniversary and partly to help some travel agent friends of ours, Dave and Julie (Dave is a firefighter with Jeremy too). They had a big group on board with a country music artist who was performing during the cruise. If you are a fan of country music, I highly recommend Sonny Burgess. I hadn't really heard of him before the trip, but we are fans now!

Here we are....tiny little ants up next to the ship!

A lady took our picture on the first night because the sunset was amazing......

Luckily she took two!

I have been on 5 cruises, but I still look forward to the towel animals every night!

On our first day at sea I woke up earlier than Jeremy. I went and parked it in a chair on deck and ate my breakfast! By the end of the trip these legs weren't looking so white anymore!

Like I said, we were "helping" with the group on board and Jeremy became a bouncer at the door of a club when Sonny did a private performance.

Here he is---Sonny Burgess. Such a great guy!

And, oddly enough, Jeremy won a guitar that they raffled off during his concert. Of course we got it autographed.

Sonny and Jeremy and his new guitar!

First port:

Jamaica

(Not my favorite out of all the places we've been....but still beautiful)

We took a tour with Dave and Julie to YS Falls. It was 2 hours from our port, but worth the drive. Very, very pretty!

Guides take you into the water and take your digital camera with them. I kept tripping and falling over. I was just hoping he wasn't going to do that and drop my camera. He didn't, and he got some great pictures of us in the falls.

We jumped off the falls at the end. I'll spare you my jump, but here's Jeremy's!

That night at dinner we looked kinda dorky....

Why didn't we notice we were dressed like that before we left our room???

Port #2:

Grand Cayman

(most beautiful and one of my all-time favorites!)

You've seen the pictures of us swimming with the sting rays.....

We also:

Took dumb pictures of Jeremy and Dave.

Rode the slide at Margaritaville!

And did tequila shots......I only have proof of Jeremy doing it.

Port #3:

Cozumel

(been there a dozen times, but I still love it!)

It's just a great "beachy" place!

Sonny did a concert on the beach. We got a picture with his whole band.

And this is Sonny and his wife with us.

The final song of all of Sonny's concerts is The Doobie Brothers, "Listen to the Music." Billy McCoy called Jeremy up to sing with him during that song. I took about 20 pictures of Jeremy up there with them. It was just a cool moment....

In Cozumel, after the beach concert, we walked around the pier and did some shopping and ate lunch. We ate at Three Amigos since that is one of Jeremy's favorite movies ever.

And here is us all tan (kinda fried) on our last evening on the boat.

Another big "shout out" to my MIL Becky for keeping the kids that whole week. We surely did appreciate it. And, since we are going on that cruise again in April with more friends, thanks in advance, Becky, for keeping our kids then too! :)

What happens when you go to your grandparents house for the night?

Most importantly, you start your night off with a trip to McDonalds! But once you get back to Me-mommy and Grandaddy's house you have to......

.....clean the fish tank (AKA - a horse trough)

.....and feed them.

Or just try to dive right in with them, right Cason!?

......play with the puppies!

Cason's good at "getting them!"

......climb on top of and play on hay bales!



Awww!

.....and ride the horsey!

But Cassidee also got to do one of her "first ever's!" She got to do a fun run with Me-mommy!

My parents do 5K's all the time, but Cassidee got entered into a 1 mile and did the whole thing!

Here she is at the starting line wearing her number!

It must have been chilly!

And she's off!

Blurry pic cause she is running sooooo fast.....she says anyway!

Crossing the finish line!

Mom said she stopped and walked a couple of times, and mom carried her for a minute or two, but she did the 1 mile! I think she'll be ready for our Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving this year!

Thanks again, Mom and Dad, for keeping them while I was on my FANTASTIC girls-night-out! Pictures of that night coming really soon!