Not 30... yet...

My 30th Birthday isn't for a couple of days, but my friends decided to "surprise" me and take me out to dinner.

MJ, Kelly, Janalyn, Beth, Shelley, Steph, Me

Me, Christine, Kate, Anne, Mindy, Em... and not pictured Megan.

Here is our wait staff singing "happy birthday"... Not only did I have an awesome flan goatee, but caramel dripped down my shirt, I'll save that for later. Christine also mentioned that I probably have head lice now from sharing a sombrero.

I kept trying to tell everyone that it was my friend Janalyn's Birthday too (we share a b-day) but they insisted on letting me have all the embarrassment. Thanks!!!... revenge will be sweet!

No, really, I have the most wonderful friends! Thanks, you guys are the best.

Snow

Reasons to be Thankful!

Here are some reasons that I am thankful this year

I am thankful for.....

Reasons to Celebrate

Another Healthy Year

People to Celebrate with
Talents, and yummy food.

Thankful for Uncles!!

Laughing and seeing my kids smile

Playing games

Laughing

a team that forgives my interceptions (sorry)

Funny kids!

Black lipstick

Silly Faces!

Nieces/Cousins

A feast fit for a king or a little girl.

A kitchen to cook in.

Grandpa's/Dads

Bear hugs

Generations getting together.

Grandmas/mom
Nature

Coats (it was a little chilly)

Seashells

My sister
Aunts

the ocean

burring my toes in the sand
someone crazy enough to get in the water with me!

Dads/Husband

A sense of humor!

Clorox wipes

That turkey browning bags come in sets of 2

Family that ate a turkey that was on the floor...
and drove 1000 miles to be with us!



Happy Thanksgiving!

Thankful to be Seven

On Thanksgiving Jason turned seven! He was so excited for his birthday, but even more excited to see his cousin Sophie and Grandparents (More later on that visit). Yeah for turkey dinners, pie and birthday cake.

Link Birthday Cake

Jason Facts

Favorite Toy: DS

Favorite DS game: Zelda

Favorite Food: Pizza

Favorite Song: Knights of Cydonia

Favorite Candy: Candy Corn

Favorite Book: Snails in School

What do you want to be when you grow up? "A Principal"

Tree Quilt

I already posted pictures on my facebook account, but I love my quilt so much I thought that I would put a couple more up on the blog. The finished size is 65x82, it turned out quite large. There are 30 blocks total. I rarely keep quilts for myself, but Matt liked it so much, and my friend Christine told me that I needed to keep this one. I don't even want to think about the $$$ I invested in this one! The boys love the hidden spider that I free motioned hanging by one of the trees. I love the binding (which is kinda hard to see in the pictures) I pieced it together with some scraps that were left over. Everyone that sees it tries to pick out their favorite tree! Which one do you like?

Can you find the spider? See it's bigger then me!

Brazos Animals!

We took so many awesome nature shots at Brazos Bend State Park, we needed to share some of them. Here are my favorites!

A bird eating a frog!

Handsome Gator!

Yeah! One of my most favorite animals! A golden orb weaver. They are so pretty, and they spin yellow silk, just amazing!

We refer to this picture as the standoff, we watched this standoff for a long time to see if there was a winner... But in the end the gator just went off into the water. We did see an alligator attack a huge dragon fly, but that was about all the excitement we saw.

Big birds

Big alligators! We saw 14 alligators total!

Big, blue and beautiful dragon fly!We even saw some savage children!

Grandma Joani and Bapa Visit

We were able to have some visitors a few weeks ago. Grandma Joani and Bapa came to Texas just to pay us a little visit. We had so much fun with them. Since they were here over Halloween they got to celebrate with us. We took them to Kemah to see the Boardwalk and the Ocean, It was fun because we took the kids (and grandparents in costume). Then we went Brazos Bend to see some beautiful sights and always some alligators. We even got to celebrate Jason's birthday early.
Jason showing grandma how to put together his new Lego's- Jason's a master lego builder and I think that Grandma was impressed!

Jason in costume at kemah... This reminded me of that scene in Indiana Jones... "Fly yes... Land No"

Riding the Kemah Railroad... who enjoyed it more, the kids or bapa?

Dressed to perfection! It was so fun to have the kids in their costume, everyone loved them, we got so many complements, and comments. I loved it when people knew who Ian was! We were told that Jason had the best Indy costume ever!

Here we are at Brazos Bend, we had beautiful weather, and the animals were out enjoying it !