Santa

Another tradition we have is Santa pictures. For 14 years, we have gone to the Woodlands Mall and to our local fire station for Santa pics. I have warned them that this tradition will continue on for a very long time : )

These pics are from the fire station. The girls wanted to dress all 'festive' for Santa and the boys just wanted to get hot chocolate and cookies. A sweet friend gave the girls these cute, cute, cute skirts!! They look so grown up don't they? and well the boys look like they are ready to hit the snack table!!

Annual Gingerbread Houses

We spent yesterday working on our annual tradition of gingerbread houses with our friend Miss Pat. Each year the crew amazes us with their talent and imagination. This year was no different. As usual, it was a great day!!


This is the final result - WOW!


Alyssa made a church - it looks just like her style.

Amanda made a house that is for sale. (The sign is in front of the snowman)

Adam made a gun range with targets hanging off the candy canes. Targets were eaten by bedtime.

Andrew made an energy efficient house with solar panels.

Raymond made his as a log cabin. The blue icing to the side is a waterfall rolling down rocks. He is very detail oriented.

Girls Who LOVE Pink!

How is it that my girls LOVE pink so much? I never recall ever liking pink. So in keeping with their love of pink they begged for this pink Christmas tree. I agreed only since they paid for half of it. I wish the picture had came out a little better to show how truly pink this tree is. And just to make sure everyone knows that its a girl tree - the ornaments have Princess characters on them. Gotta love those girlie-girls!!

Last Picture at Disney

This is the very last pic that we had made at Disney. We were at Animal Kingdom and there is a really big tree in the background but its kinda hard to see here. It was so great to find a fun photographer and even though we were all so tired - the kids were great sports!!

Still in Recovery

We are all still in recovery mode - who knew Disney could be so exhausting. But we did hit 4 parks in 4 days - woo hoo!! The boys rode all the really cool roller coasters and rides. The girls and I hit all the good shows!!




Mr & Mrs Potato Head were right by our hotel room - they always make me crack up!! (Especially in all the Toy Story movies)

Adventures in Florida

Want to get more comments and stares than you know what to do with - go out-of-state and have all 7 members of your family wear UT colors. We were harassed and cheered all in the same day (in good humor of course).

We have had a busy week - checked in hotel and have ran non-stop. We will need a vacation from our vacation!! We have been to Epcot, Magic Kingdom and Hollywood Studios AND are heading to Animal Kindom tomorrow.

The kids are SO tired of pictures being taken of them - I think we have taken about 400 pictures in the last few days so I was too tired to look thru them all and well... I really like Woody and Jessie!! : )

M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I

Only thing that could make this picture better would have been if we were dressed in burnt orange!!