Deer Lease Adventure

Friday we headed up to the ranch at about 6 or so and by 7 we were out having fun :) On sat. Mark went hunting, I made breakfast and the kids played, and played, and played....all day long. We finally headed home about 830 Sat. night, Maelyn slept the whole way home:) Can't wait to go back!

Christmas Morning

Well Christmas morning we woke up Maelyn about 745 and it took us a little while to get her to open stuff she was so sleepy :) But then once she found the suckers she was into it. She loved her new portable art table the best (I guess 2nd best after the suckers :-) ) Anywho- it was a wonderful morning, we you all had a great day too!!!!

Christmas Eve

For Christmas Eve we did the usual...had a great Christmas celebration with the Gildenblatt's. Maelyn had lots of fun and loved her presents!

Maelyn's crazy arm painting

Okay, so the story behind these is: Mark and I were sitting on the couch talking after dinner, and Maelyn was in the kitchen painting...on paper so we thought. She kept laughing and giggling, and we just thought she was having fun, well we turn around and find her like this!! Hahaha hilarious! Thank goodness for washable art supplies!

Making Chirstmas Cookies

We made lots of cookies for Maelyn's class, and for Daddy :) She LOVED rolling out the dough and cut all the cookies by her self! We made a "giant mess" she said...but had tons of floury fun :)

Maelyn's Preschool Christmas Program

We all went to see Maelyn's first program at Lakeland. It was adorable. Her class sang three songs...here are a couple pics and a video of her in action!

New Christmas Tradition

This year we decided to start the tradition of going and picking the family Christmas tree from a farm...Mark even cut it down himself :)

Mae and me by "the one

This is the one Mommy

Christmas trees EVERYWHERE :)

These are pics from Daddy and Maelyn putting up our regular tree the day before Thanksgiving :)

November 2008

Here are a few of our wonderful family pics we had done by my friend with Nikki Nichols Photography. It was a VERY cold morning at the Botanic Gardens in Fort Worth, but we all huddled together and kept warm enough...It was a little hard to keep Maelyn still but I think they turned out great, hope you all enjoy!

Spider-Maelyn

For Halloween this year Maelyn picked a spider... :) We headed out to Aunt Mel, and Uncle Brians house and went around the neighborhood there. Maelyn (and all the kids) wanted to eat each thing after every house, so we only made it around a couple of streets, but they had a great time. They even rode on a hay ride! Here are the pics I got :)

Swimming Lessons and Gymnastics

This fall is going to be SUPER busy :) Maelyn will be doing swimming lessons on Sat. mornings, and Gymnastics on Tues. nights...here are pics of her in her swimsuit, and gymnastics outfit :) I'll post more pics when I get them of her in class

Mae-Mae started preschool!!!

Well Aug. 28th was here first day! She goes to Lakeland Baptist Church on Tues/Thurs from 845 to 1...she pulls in her backpack everyday, and absolutely loves it! Here is a pic from Meet the Teacher, and her first day :)