Christmas 2011

Little late for Christmas post, but o-well...I wanted to share our Christmas with everyone!!

We made homemade ornaments for our family this year. Lily helped me to paint them all.

Christmas Eve
Lily with her 1st American Doll from her Nana and Papa. (my parents)

With everything that happened with Kane the week before and week of Christmas, we did not get to decorate our Gingerbread house till Christmas Eve! Lily had a blast making it:)

All Done. She wore the Santa Hat the entire time:)

Watching her message from Santa Claus...she was thrilled to learn that she was on the "Nice" list!

Making cookies with her daddy.

Cookies and milk for Santa! Carrot strips for the reindeer.

Christmas Morning. Santa brought her a Hello Kitty 4-wheeler!

Opening her presents after church!

It was a great Christmas and I am so glad that Kane got out of the hospital just in time to spend it with us!!

Fourth of July

This fourth of July was very relaxing. Bruce our friend from Beaumont came up to spend the weekend with us. We hung out at the house pretty much all day on Saturday. We had lunch at Which Wich...which is my new favorite sandwich place. We then watched the UFC fight on TV. I don't watch that stuff at all, but Bruce and Kane does. Sunday Bruce went home, we went to Chili's for lunch and then bought some fireworks. He watched the boys across the street pop off their fireworks as we did our sparklers and bottle rockets(I think that is what they were called). I love to look back at Lily's photos over the years. I actually have a picture of every year on the 4th...so here is Lily the past three years....

Lily July 4th 2008

4 months old

July 4th 2009
16 months old

Lily and Kane

July 4th 2010

2 years old

Lily and I

4th of July 2010

She has grown up so much over the past two years. I hope everyone had a wonderful 4th of July.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Well Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!! I haven't been able to get on here in a couple of weeks!!! Well we had a busy busy Christmas. It started on:

Dec 21- with Lily and I going to my parents house in Arlington

Dec 22- We went to the Gaylord Texan Hotel to see the Christmas Ice Exhibit

They give you big blue parka to wear in there because everything is made of ice and its 10below. Well, Lily refused to wear her parka. She did not once complain about being cold!!!

Dec. 23- We went to see Alvin and the Chipmunks and finished up X-mas shopping

Dec. 24 - Christmas at my parents house!!

Lily and Aidan by the Christmas tree before we opened all the presents!!! That night we traveled to Kane's parents house in East Texas. We had a white Christmas Eve and it snowed on Christmas Day. That will probably be the last time in a long time that it snows on Christmas!!!

Dec. 25- Christmas at Kane's parents house...Lily got tons of Elmo stuff from Santa!!!

Dec. 26- We had Christmas dinner at Kane's granny's house. She is not doing to well so she was very happy to see all her grandchildren and great children at her house:)
Dec. 27- Finally we came home after being gone for a week!!! My bed never felt better:):)
Dec. 28- Kane and my parents took me to the Woodlands Surgery Center for my breast reduction!!!

My parents were here till Tuesday and then Kane's sister came down and stayed with us till today. We didn't do much for the new year, we stayed up to watch the ball drop in NYC and then we went to bed!!! I have just been sitting around and relaxing!!! I can't do much till I have to sit down and rest. I so far love love the new size, but don't enjoy the swelling and soreness:( But hey they will look good here shortly!!!

Well today Kane made some pork ribs for the New Year...yum yum!!! We also had mash potatoes and black eye peas!!! We hung out outside for a bit so Lily could ride her new bicycle her Aunt Wendy got her.



Well I hope everyone has a great and blessed New Year!!! I haven't made any new year resolutions yet!!! I will for sure eat healthier and work out more, but everyone says that!!! I do want to be a better mother, wife and friend...so maybe I will stick to those for right now and see what happens:):)

Breakfast with Santa

Our neighborhood that we live in is always doing wonderful things for the kids that live here. During Christmas, they have Breakfast with Santa at the Fire station. Since this is really the first year that Lily is noticing all the Christmas lights, Christmas decorations and that man that sits in the big chair at the mall, we decide to take her to breakfast with Santa, so that way we could avoid the long long line at the mall. When walked in she of course noticed Santa. She automatically started the fingers in the mouth. (that's what she does when she is not sure about the situation) Well, I was very surprised when she shook her head when I asked her if she wanted to sit on his lap. She did, without any tears:) She would not talk to him all she would do is shake her head when he talked to her. She did say "Elmo" when I asked her if she wanted "Elmo" for Christmas!!! Neways, we had a great time and I can't wait till Christmas when she gets to open all the wonderful things Santa is bringing her :P

Lily not too sure what to think???

She did remove her fingers from her mouth to get the Candy Cane.

Eating Candy for breakfast instead of the pancakes, eggs and sausage they had for us!!!

Mommy and Lily!!!

Lily in front of our Christmas Tree!!!

I hope everyone has a great Christmas!!! I have one more week of school and then I am off for two weeks. During that time I am going to go spend a week with my family, then we are going to Kane's parents house on Christmas Eve. We will be back that Sunday after Christmas to get me ready for my surgery on Monday the 28th. For the ones who don't know I am getting a breast reduction ,which I have wanted for many many years!!! I am super excited about it and very very nervous!!! So please pray for me that I get through the surgery and have a fast recovery:) Well Merry Christmas, Be Safe and God Bless!!!

Thanksgiving and First time Bowling

Well I hosted my first Thanksgiving at my house...Let's just say I am not ready to do that again for a long long time!!! I was looking forwarded to my five days off from work, well today was work, trying to prepare a meal for close to 15 people was work:) Don't get me wrong I enjoyed every mintue of it:):) We had sooo much food it was unreal...we had: two turkeys (one fried and one baked), mash potatos, sweet potatos, green beans, stuffing, salad, bread, two pumkin pies, two buttermilk pies and an apple pie...lets just say yum yum:):)


After dinner we went bowling. It was Lily's first time bowling and she had a blast!!! Here a few pictures of her bowling:

Here is Lily bowling...sorry it is sideways, I can't figure out how to turn it around:)