Homemade Scarf

Check out what I made yesterday - from a t-shirt!

2011 Mother/Daughter Christmas Tea Party

We had our 4th annual Mother Daughter Christmas Tea Party a few weeks ago.

It is always so much fun to get together some of our friends and be girly! We ask everyone to dress in their Sunday best. We provide hot tea and china tea cups so everyone can get the feel of having real tea, but we also offer pink lemonade since some of the girls just don't like the tea!
One of our traditions is taking each mother and daughter's picture in front of the Christmas tree. It has been so much fun watching some of the girls mature over the last several years. I love taking this picture because I know how rare it is for mommies to actually be in the pictures with their kids! (I'm going to try to set up a rolling collage of all the pictures along with this post! Hopefully it works!)
We were very excited that Honey, my mom, was able to join us this year since my parents moved here in the fall! We are hoping that my sister will make it next year!

Merry Christmas to Jessica

Meet Bentley, my sister's new puppy! My parents got him for my sister as a Christmas surprise, and she was definitely surprised! She has been wanting her own puppy. He is 9 months old and absolutely adorable!!

Needless to say, she was thrilled! They even bought him a plane ticket so he could ride back home to Georgia with her!! Isn't he cute?

The Nutcracker Ballet

Honey treated Mary Frances and I to our first ballet at Wortham Theatre in Houston! It was fantastic!

It was the perfect event to dress up and be ladies for the day!
We were so excited to introduce Mary Frances to the theatre - on the other side of the stage! We're all hoping to see Romeo and Juliet this spring!

The girls

It has been so much fun to have my parents in Texas this fall, and I have loved all of the visits Jessica has made, as well! I sure wish she would hurry up and decide to move out here! I miss her!

Cinderella

Mary Frances and I had the pleasure of being in a Cinderella play this fall! It was so much fun to be in it together! Mary Frances was a natural! I was so proud of how focused she was! Mary Frances was the young cinderella and Ray C. played her father! What a memory for her to treasure forever!
We were also market people who got to go to the Prince's ball and more! It was a lot of work, but it was worth the effort! The play was a fundraiser for our church's new organization, Cy-Hope, and we raised several thousand dollars!

SuperBowl Champions...

Chase's flag football team has been playing hard all season...

so hard that we made it to the SuperBowl!!! The boys got to play in the Berry Center which is one of the two football stadiums that our school system's high schools use to play their games each week.

It was a great experience. How many 5 and 6 year olds can say they've played on terf? They got to go in the locker room, have their names announced on the loud speaker, and even got to see themselves on the jumbotron!
The game was a perfect SuperBowl! It was obvious why the two teams made it! We played the other flag team at our own school, and it came down to the very last play! I am proud to say that Chase was one of two boys who pulled the last flag!
They got new trophies (to add to our ever expanding collection)!
And, Ray C., had a blast coaching, too!

We are VIKINGS!!

Snow much fun

Our neighborhood, Bridgeland, is so good to us! They bring in snow every year for the kids to play in! It is so much fun for all of our southern kids who never get to see any accumulation!The kids had a blast making snowmen...
dancing...
having snow ball fights...
drinking hot chocolate, and, of course, hanging out with Papa and Peppy!
Oh what fun it is....

Here it is...well, almost

It's the church property!! They've been leveling it this week -- getting it ready for 18 inches of fill dirt before we start building in just a few months!! We are so excited!
Tonight, we walked around the property talking about what is to come and praying God's blessings on it all! (We also saw a few coyotes while we were out there!:)