Cousins

 The kids always have so much fun hanging out with their cousins!  I hate that we live so far away and don't get to seem them more often.  The kids miss them so much!

  Ray C. had fun teaching the kids one of his favorite pastimes - squirrel hunting!  And with about 800 acres of farmland, there was no shortage of squirrels (or trees for them to climb in)!

 Girls!

This is one of my favorite pictures of Mary Frances!  

The Boyd Farm

It's always fun to visit our family on the farm! 

 The Boyd kids!

 The boys

 picnic at Papa and Peppy's

 Everybody loves Grandpa Duke!

Furby

Mary Frances really wanted a Furby for Christmas - an orange one, to be exact!  So, I am happy to announce that we have added a new pet to our family -- happy because this one requires no food or care when we are gone!

Furby has brought us some great joy over the last few weeks!  She is hilarious!  She talks her own funny language, and you never know what type of mood (mode) she will be in when she wakes up.  It could be pirate mode, where she talks in the third person.  Or, she might be in "girly girl" mode which is really "valley girl".

Christmas Eve

There is definitely something special about celebrating the birth of Jesus in an unfinished church building!  This is an evening we will not forget!

5th Annual Mother/Daughter Tea Party

The tradition continues... 

Mary Frances and I have so much fun putting this together every year!  It is so much fun to be girly and share it with our friends!  Every year we invite new friends that we have met and the friends we have kept all this time!  I know we will treasure these times forever!

 Abby and Chrissy Benton have been to every one of our Houston Tea Parties!

Leahanna Moore is married to one of our worship leaders at Foundry.  Tquan, her husband, also teaches Thomas guitar which has given Mary Frances the chance to make some new friends!  Caty and Cianna have been wonderful friends, and we love getting together with them! 

 We are so happy to have family here with us now!

 This year's group of girls!

Tiffany and Maya Murrietta have been good friends from church, as well!