Christmas in San Antonio!

We packed up all of the presents and made the drive down to San Antonio to spend Christmas with the Nash's and the Brown's. The kids did so well on the drive out. Rose slept almost the entire way and Sean and Kaylee watched movies and colored. We arrived at Uncle Blakes and Aunt Megans at around 10:30 a.m. Christmas Eve. The kids immediatly started playing together. Sean, Kaylee, Carter, and Addison were running all over the house and played together all afternoon. We all enjoyed the Christmas Party at Blake and Megan's on Christmas Eve and the kids had fun ripping open a few of their presents. We stayed at the Nash's beautiful home during our stay in S.A. Christmas morning could not have been better. Carson, Sean, Kaylee, and Rose played with their new toys all morning. Paulette made a fantastic lunch for Heather, Chris, Amy, Charles, Clint,Diane, me, and all the kids. It was so nice to be able to spend so much time with Blake, Megan, and the kids as well as the Nash's and Chris's sister Amy.

Visit with Santa

We went to visit Santa at the Bass Pro Shop with the kids.... the pictures pretty much say it all!

Company/Family Christmas Party

Today we went to Uncle James's company Christmas Party at Salt Grass. Almost the entire family was there. The kids had so much fun with NaNa and PaPa, Uncle James, cousin Britton (Kaylee's favorite) and everyone else. It was a great night with good food, good atmosphere, and good company.

Surgery and Thanksgiving!

November 20th was a weird day for all of us. Clint took off from work after I complained all morning of severe pain, aches, vomiting, and passing out on the bathroom floor. I made an appointment with the doctor and went to see him assuming that I had somehow picked up the swine flu. After several test including a CAT scan, and two doctor's later I was shortly admitted to the hospital to have emergency surgery. I needed an emergency appendectomy, a fischerectomy, and a hemroidectomy all in one. This could not have come at a worse time. My surgery was scheduled for 6:30 which was 30 minutes before Clint's second playoff game. Everything ended up okay and we were able to go home two days later. Thanksgiving was pretty much a blur for me because I was recovering and slept through the entire day. Clint and I also spent our first wedding anniversary in the hospital. :(

Halloween

Halloween with the kids seemed to last for weeks. Kaylee and Sean both had fall parties at their school's which somehow I was nominated to coordinate. Kaylee's fall party started with a spooky story in the chapel, then all of the kids got to pick a baby pumpkin from the pumpkin patch, and afterwards they all learned about the composition of a pumpkin. Then all of the kids went back to the classroom and frosted their own Halloween cupcakes. Sean's fall party was a blast.... the kids made foam ball pumpkins and frost their own Halloween cupcakes. On Halloween night we went to Uncle Kenny's house to trick or treat and bust a huge Halloween pinata. Sean was a jailbird zombie, Kaylee was a pretty witch, and Rose was her sweet little self dressed in orange and black. Clint and I dressed up as hippies!