Please bear with me while I update my life for you! SO much has taken place since June (my last post – shame on me!) Lets see, we have had lots of birthdays, a new school year, a Branson show, a hurricane, Halloween, opening of deer season and an election! Whoa! Let me just go in order with pictures! They are so much more interesting than words, right?
In September, as you all know already, we had our Branson show! It was so much fun. We spent the majority of the two months prior to the performance practicing once a week. These are some pictures that we used in our performance, and our group was called “Jonestown.” We sang Cherokee Maiden and Seven Bridges Road. Fun, fun times!
Here is the kids all cowboy’ed up for the occasion!(Hannah, Weston and cousin Faith)
In October, Hannah started soccer (which she loves and is doing very good at) and we had Weston’s 5th Birthday! I cannot believe my baby is 5! It seems like I just brought him home! He is my sweet, sweet little boy and I am so proud of him! Here are some of him and his friends - Adalyn, Emma,, Ian, Jacob, Lauren...
Halloween was next and I never knew that you could party so much for this holiday! Forget trick or treating, just go to a party every few nights, and you will get all the candy and sugar you could possibly want. Let’s see, I was Cleopatra, Hannah was Dorothy (in coordination with Uncle Alex’s scarecrow costume) and Weston was Jack Sparrow off of Pirates of the Caribbean. We went to the Brazils on Friday night…(Faith, Luke,Hannah and Weston)
...and then our girl’s bible class from church had a progressive dinner that started at Stephanie Penn’s for appetizers, my house for main course and Sheila’s for desert and movie. What fun!! (Sheila, I need a picture to prove our party!)
November had been just as busy! We started off the month with Hannah losing the her first tooth (and just so happened to be the first tooth she got when she turned one).
Then, wonderful hunting season opened *sarcastically stated* and Chris killed an eight point buck (to add to our doe he killed during bow season.) I shouldn’t complain because he has brought home the meat for the year, and we do eat it very regularly. We usually get hamburger meat and steaks. He likes to get sausage made, but we didn’t get much of that. Weston was with him in the stand when he killed the buck, and so this was Weston’s first time to go. I know that it will be in his blood to love the hunt because of the way he hunted those lizards day in and day out all summer (in a crouched down, attack position I might add).
Chris, his granddad, grandpa, Weston and Chris’s dad on there “hunting extravaganza.”
Last, but not least, we celebrated Chris’ 30th Birthday! (Interesting factoid: I will be able to say in January of 2009 that I have know Chris for half of my life! We were 15 when we met in our English class in January of our tenth grade year. Whoa, time really does fly!)
Well, hope that you all enjoyed such a LONG post. I guess that is why I should do it in intervals, right? Every few days? I'll try to do better at that. Have a good weekend!!!
Wow, what a lot of wonderful things going on!!!! Branson show?!!!! Wooo, how cool is that?!!! Love the Halloween pics. Well, really I loved looking at all of them. Nice deer that Chris got. You will never go hungry. Ah, miss you guys.
You guys always go all out...and look great of course.
I wish you would post more often, but I know you probably have a life! ;)
Glad to hear all is going well. Love the pictures. Oh, and I'm with you on the doctor's office. I hate bringing the kiddos in...if it's for a well visit, somebody is bound to get sick the next week from being around the germs of somebody else.
I love all of the pictures and enjoyed the update, can't wait for the next project pleo post. Hopefully we can all get together at some point during the holidays...love you too and talk to you soon.
Whoa - I think we're all caught up on your life. What great pictures!! Did you not get the party pics I emailed you. I emailed all of those from the party the day after the party. Let me know if they didn't come through. On my post, crazy hair day was for Anson's school. "H" is for hair. It was great!
I was so proud of my sweet little girl. She never cried, not once, the day of surgery. When we got o the hospital they gave her a liquid medicine that they said would make her loopy. Sure enough, she was! She said all sorts of funny things. She was laughing extremely loud and being silly. She told Chris, “Ohhhhhhhhhh, Daddy!!! (laughing the whole time) You have two heads!” She said to me, “Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh Mommy, you have three, no wait, four eyes!!!” Then she said, “Mommy, you have red stuff on your teeth, no wait…it was just there, now it’s gone.” I looked at Chris and said, “Do I have lipstick in my teeth?” He said, “No, Hannah’s just gone crazy!” It was actually a more funny experience than anything. After about 10 or 15 minutes of that, they came and got her, but she says she doesn’t even remember leaving us. When she woke up, she said, “When are they going to take it off my back?” I said, “Hannah, it’s all over! You’re done!” She said, “MOMMY, did you watch?”
They called her in this strong pain medication, but I never have had to fill it because she has not complained the first time of any pain. I figured it being such a large incision (they said it was 3 inches long and deep into her muscle) that she would be incredibly sore. However, she has been perfectly normal. In fact, after we were done a request was made to go to Starbucks and get chocolate milk, go to Target and use a gift card from her birthday, go to MawMaw’s house for Ashley’s birthday. Then this morning we went to pick blueberries and peaches with The Dillard clan and Chris’ mom. Chick-fil-A and then to see the WALL-E movie (which was very cute by the way). So with all that said, she is doing great! Thank you SO much for all your prayers. God not only helped her through the surgery, but he has comforted her afterwards!
Here are some pictures of Hannah’s Birthday and our blueberry pickin’ experience.
Some major gifts included Alvin and The Chipmunks (from Uncle Alex, a camera, a Snoopy Snow Cone Maker (anyone ever have one of those as a kid? I did!)
Hey Natalie! It's Julie Petry! I am finally on Pleonast! I am trying to find everyone I know. Hopefully some friends will find me too! Your family is gorgeous! I miss you all!
actually, i didn't have to stay in the hall - they pushed me into an empty room until the cable guys were finished. but, it is strange to be laying in a bed with unkempt hair and no makeup, being rolled down the hallway while everyone else is just walking around!
It is a weird feeling when your face is numb. I was trying to put on Chapstick when I couldn't feel my mouth and I started laughing at myself in the mirror.
Alot of you are familiar with DeAnna Vaughan who posts on Pleonast too. She is 27 weeks pregnant and has been on bed rest for several weeks now. Today, she went for a routine check-up and she was dialated to a 4 and had a buldging water sack. The doctor told her that this could easily rupture. I was up at the hospital registering Hannah for outpatient surgery when I saw Eric rush by. I asked him what was going on, and he told me all the above and that DeAnna was being put into Labor and Delivery, but that they were about to transport her to Houston - which she is there by now. I got to visit with her right before she left and as expected, she was not wanting to leave from here. Please keep her and her family in your prayers during this critical time.
I also ask that you keep Hannah in your prayers. We will be having a birthmark removed from her back at 6:00, Monday morning, but it will be done as outpatient surgery. I am concerned about them putting her to sleep and running a breathing tube down her throat. I know that tons of kids have had similar things done for tonsils, tubes in the ears, etc; however, it still scares me for them to do that to her. After all, when it is your own child, it seems so much more traumatic.
I know that Father's Day isn't until next week, but this morning, our Lufkin Mall was having a Father/Son look alike contest. Weston had heard them announce it on the radio while we were all in the car one day. He said, "Daddy, I want to do that! I look just like you!"
Well, our first idea for an outfit was just a shirt that looked the same and slacks. WHen we realized though that it was on a day that Chris worked, we decided for the police officer theme. So I ventured out looking for a collared blue shirt, but was never successful in finding one. When we got home after the search, Weston went to his room and pulled out an old Policeman Halloween costume I had made for him when he was ONE and had managed to pull it all on to his now FOUR year old body! The pants came to his knees, but the shirt , I thought, could potentially work. Since it was a long sleeve (and now because he's four it's a short sleeve - ha!) we did a little touch here and there to the shirt, and voila! It worked! (In order to keep it tucked in, I had to use those strechy clips that keep bedsheets on a bed at each corner. "How is that possible?" you might ask. I clipped one end of the stretchy thing to the front of his shirt, put a pull up on him for comfort reasons, and then pulled the strechy thing behind him and clipped it to the back of his shirt.)
In a furry this morning trying to find Weston's play handcuffs, and no luck finding them, we got dressed (in uniform and all) and made a mad dash into WalMart for a pair of toy handcuffs. (Comments by people were hyterical). One little boy said, "Momma, momma look! It's a little bitty shrunken cop!"
At 10:00, each father and his son had to walk across a stage infront of JCPenneys. Let me back up to say that if you know Chris, this is not his cup of tea (to be infront of anyone, much less in his uniform.) But, oddly enough, he did not complain one time! Well, with it all set and done, Chris and Weston won second place. The military guy and his kid won first. They were pretty good though because they did a coordinating march up the steps, an about face, and an at ease stance. They had really practiced.
Thank you Chris for being such a good sport and daddy!
P.S. Prize that we THOUGHT was the prize when we entered: 4 shilterbaun tickets to Galveston and a stay at the Victorian Hotel. (Hey, was that Chris' motivation for entering???) Ended up we mistakened that prize with another contest 103.3 was having, Oops!)
P.S.S. Prize won - a bag with a play set of binoculars, a pen and small notepad, and free coupons to visit Uncle Alex at the Cookie Co. :o)
You are welcome! Yes, we had a very informative and fun time. Now I have to start going through the material I bought. If I can help on anything sent email or call me. Kim has my information. Your boys are very handsome.
