Thanksgiving 2010

We celebrated Thanksgiving at my aunt and uncle's house again this year. For the past few years, we have started a family tradition of Grammy coming over and making her cornbread dressing and gravy the day before Thankgiving! I always enjoy is so much and we have so much fun in the kitchen cooking together!

Making cornbread dressing


Mom and Grammy

Making Gravy in her iron skillet

Uncle Mark carving the turkey

I love turkey and Uncle Mark's was so good. He smoked and grilled it on the grill this year (something different that he tried) and it was the best I have ever eaten!!

We were not short on food

My cousin Dana's little girl, Alyssa

My cousin's had a pet bunny last year and Alyssa loved it. She showed up this year asking to see the bunny and well, he went to bunny heaven ,so we pretended that the guinea pig was a bunny and she didn't know the difference :)

She loved feeding it carrots and petting it

My cousin Jeff's little boy, Jaxon, throwing the ball

After we ate, everybody enjoyed sitting on the back porch visiting

My cousin Savannah

Me and Mom

Steph and Grammy

I love this picture...the guys were looking at my uncle's guns and getting ready for another family tradition at Thanksgiving...skeet shooting!!!







Ross helping Stephanie


Pretty scary huh? I was proud that I did get 2 out of 3!!

Alyssa playing with toys

Tea party.... So sweet!

I had a great Thanksgiving but we all missed dad and Glenn. They had to work this year and it felt weird without them there. I am thankful we will get to see them at Christmas!

I am so thankful for family, great friends, and most of all that I know Jesus as my personal Lord and Savior! So much to be thankful for!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Dallas Weekend

My friend Heather just had a baby girl on November 14th so I headed to Dallas last weekend to visit with friends and see Heather and the baby. Three of my best friends live in the Dallas area and I only get to see them at most a few times a year so I was so excited to make this trip!

We went to eat at one of my new favorite restaurants, La Hacienda Ranch, once I got there on Saturday. We had such a good time catching up and eating their apple pie dessert..which is by far the best I have ever had!

Britni, Carrie, and Me

The restaurant was a log cabin and it was all decorated for Christmas...I loved it!

About to go see Heather and the baby



Britni and baby Karah

Baby Karah at 7 days old...she is so beautiful and I could have just sat and stared at her all day long!

Mommy and baby

I love this picture...so sweet! She is one blessed little girl to have Heather and Wallace as her parents and two big sisters that just adore her!

Beautiful Mommy!

Heather had Karah at home and she weighed 9 lbs! She deserves the title "Supermom" for sure :)

I feel so blessed to have these amazing, Godly women in my life! I treasure their friendship and am so thankful I got to see them this weekend!

For supper that night we went to the Town Center in Frisco to eat at one of our favorite places. They were having a Christmas tree lighting ceremony at the time we went and there were so many people we didn't know if we would get a parking spot.

We ate at Fish Tales...so good!

It was a great weekend and I look forward to our girls weekend in March!

St. Francisville Weekend

This past weekend my family and I went to Ross and Stephanies to celebrate Ross's ordination at his church. It was truly a miracle that everyone could be there and I loved it! Ross's family also came and it was really good to see them too! over the past few years we have gotten to know his family really well since we have had two hurrications at Ross's mom's house :)

Grammy and Ross's Grandmother, Shirley

Me and Steph

We celebrated Stephanie's b-day on Saturday and I was so glad we were there on her actual b-day!

Riley (Stephanie's friend Joni's little girl) helped her open her presents

After church on Sunday morning all the girls went shopping at the cute little shops downtown










I had to get a picture of Grammy and I in our matching outfits :)

Ross and Steph with the Bunch's.

The Bunch's are like Ross's secondfamily..they lived next door to Ross growing up and they surprised Ross and showed up! Of course, Stephanie knew they were coming and kept it a secret...she said there were many tears when they saw each other. Mr. Bunch has been a very influential person in Ross's life and a BIG part of how he got to be where he is today and it was so special that they got to come to his ordination.

Marsha (Ross's mom), Ross, Steph, and Shirley

We also enjoyed meeting all of Steph and Ross's new friends and church family. This is a picture of them with their friends Joni and Scotty.


Group Pic


Family Pic

It was a great weekend. The ordination service was so special and there wasn't a dry eye in the place. I look forward to going back for "Christmas in the Country." Everybody kept telling us we HAVE to come and experience it...all the shops set up their stuff on the sidewalks, there is a Christmas parade, lots of good food, and you get to look in all of the Plantation Homes.....
they call this the "peep show!" Looking forward to the peep show :) HaHa...I know I am like 12 years old, but it is funny when you read that in the church bulletin :)