Santa & Christmas Trees

We are so lucky that The Pear Tree and Saw Mill Photography provide this beautiful place, photos and Santa in our small town.  The kids loved telling Santa they wanted a "Real" horse and that Haven wanted a Barbie doll!  

We took our annual trip to Amarillo to get our Christmas Tree.  I say it all the time but this is one of my favorite family traditions we have made.  It's always so fun...

The boys got a real tree too for upstairs! 

The busy weekend wore this sweet girl OUT!!!

He's BACK!!!

Jof returned the day after Thansgiving with matching Jammie's for the kids!  They were so excited and glad for the hide and seek games to begin. 

8 months

These months keep going faster and faster!   Haven was 8 months on Thansgiving day!  

Haven weighs around 22 lbs and continues to wear mostly 18 month clothes and size 4 diaper. 

She is still nursing every three or so hours and hasn't been sleeping that well at night thanks to a couple ear infections and two new teeth!  

That's right we now have two 

bottom teeth!  She is starting to eat more table good and has no interest in baby food!

She is starting to get up on all hours and rocking backwards.  Hoping crawling holds off until after Christmas!  I'm not ready for her to be so big!  

Thanksgiving

We had a wild Thansgiving.  We invited our families and a few extended family to the house for lunch.  We had been watching the weather like a hawk all week and knew that we would need to eat lunch early and get everyone on their way home to dodge the weather and moisture!  

Well, that was a great plan that didn't work out.  About the time everyone was getting to the dirt road it started misting then raining!  We ended up getting several people/food to ride with us in our car, but several wanted their own car. Well we ended up spending the next two hours pulling people out and shuffling people to our house.  We finally ate lunch around 2 then went back for round two to take everyone back to the highway!  

My husband was so Patient and the best host!  He was muddy/soaking wet and frozen the entire Thansgiving day!  I was just sad my well planned Thansgiving didn't turn out!  BUT we did have an amazing lunch and got to visit!  Any future dinners with have a back up plan on pavement! 

Thankful

Cole's teacher sent me this the week of thanksgiving!  I am in awe the love our boys have for eachother. "Even thow your hert me I stil love you." Pray they continue to be close and the best of friends.

Future Helper

I have a feeling I have a future laundry helper, but for now she will just unload the basket for me! 

Big Brother Judson

Judson dressed Haven, from now to shoes! 

Judson wanting to feed Haven!  

There are days Judson wants nothing but to help take care of his little sister!  This was one of them...dressing, feeding and playing with Haven all day. 

Brotherly Love

Oh how this melts my heart...hand in hand walking in to school.  Every Tuesday Judson goes to the elementary school first thing for speech.  We have started dropping them off in the back and letting them walk in.  The first day Cole was really nervous (his personality), and Judson was "the cool calm kid!" Love that I snapped this picture!  

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7 months

How can we already have a 7 month old! 

Haven is weighing around 21 lbs!  

She wears 18 month clothes and size 4 diaper. 

She still nurses every 3 hours and usually sleeps through the night and a great nap taker.

She is eating fruits and veggies and likes them for the most part. 

She is on the move...rolling and inching to what she wants but not crawling. 

Her smile is absolutely infectious...I love how she makes other smile and LOVE her love for her brothers and daddy!  Of course she loved mommy too!  

First fruit

As in everything, Haven has proved to be different that her brothers.  Haven has gone crazy for baby food like her brothers did, she could "take it or leave it," most days!  We started her first fruit with bananas and she wasn't thrilled about them.  

Halloween

Cutest cabbage patch I have ever seen! 

The boys each picked their own costume this year.  It was fun to see what they chose when we didn't give them any ideas. 

Annual Halloween picture. 

We always trick or treat with cousins and had pizza dinner afterwards!  Much fun was had for everyone! 

Carving Fun

The boys picked out there own pumpkin faces and we had a fun Saturday morning carving pumpkins.

We say NO to drugs

When school gives us a week to scream "NO TO DRUGS" And have some

Fun we go with it!  

Tacky tourist 

Crazy everything! 

Career day...A Cattlemab

Looking to the future Dalhart Wolf and Denver Bronco football game 

Pumpkin Fun

Our annual trip to the pumpkin patch was a lot of fun, but we were missing one MAJOR person!  Daddy!  He was gone elk hunting and I was sure glad my mom, dad, Karlee and Garrett and his family came too!  

Haven's first trip to the pumpkin patch! 

We ended up with a handful of pumpkins and a few really happy kids that we made in and out of the maze!  It was a lot of fun!