Guitar Hero???

One of our new favorite things to do together as a family is this game called Guitar Hero. We borrowed a friends of ours this past weekend and played it ALOT :-) Hope you all enjoy some of the pictures.

4 girls + Food + Dress Up = Many Laughs

We got to watch two of our girls best friends last night and we had so much fun. I fixed the girls pizza complete with Orange Juice and topped off with M & M's for dessert. They moved to dress up, dancing and guitar playing afterwards. And they played like that for pretty much 3 straight hours. Here are just a few pictures of the evening party.

Baby girl was trying to make a funny face by holding up her nose...throw in the ranch she's wearing all over her face and it's pretty good :-)

BIG news...

We officially signed our life away today or so it seems :-) We purchased our very first home!!! Someday I will take the time to write about the 2 year process it has taken us since the very first home we looked at BUT today we are just celebrating. God is SO good! I will post more pictures of our new home later but thought these would be a great teaser.

My hubby signing the 100th piece of paper

Our new home with just over 1800 square feet and a 1/2 acre of land

Doing our K-State peeps proud in Texas and already put out our purple pride

Ok...so these are random from today BUT this is where on most days you will find our sweet ugly loving half chihuahua/rat terrier dog named Sport hanging out. Isn't he cute??? :-) I'm just saying!

Honestly I think he has a girlfriend up the street because he's always trying to get me to let him out front and whines and whines and whines like a lost puppy staring out our front window :-(

Basketball here we come...

We won the game 16 to 2! It was awesome :-)Can you find my baby girl??? She is by far the smallest on the team :-)

Christmas 2009

I know I'm just a little late on posting some of our grand pics from Christmas 2009, BUT better late then NEVER :-) Our last bit of family just left yesterday morning. Family started coming the Sunday before Christmas. My parents were our first family visitors. They came and celebrated Christmas with us and left the Sunday morning after Christmas. It was great to have them here for that long as we didn't waste anytime putting them to work. While mom watched over my babies, Dad and I tackled our first paint job of our new house. I will post pictures of the new house later. I officially have painted four out of the 8 rooms we have to paint. I'm taking a break though because I'm TIRED!!! The girls had a great visit from Santa as he brought us a trampoline. They have not stopped jumping yet. Christmas Eve Austyn took part in a program at our church. It was super cute! Wednesday after Christmas we headed out to Aunt Krissi and Uncle Rody's to meet up with more family coming in from Kansas. Tripp's cousins Mark, Pamma, Nae Nae (Danae) and Danielle arrived Wednesday and his other cousins Mike, Krissi, Derek and Trent came in late New Years Eve. I was shooting a wedding that afternoon and evening so missed a good bit of that day but we had a great time with all of them as well. They left yesterday morning. While we were out at Aunt Krissi and Uncle Rody's my babies got to ride their new go cart which was so much fun for them BUT because we had had so much rain they were a muddy mess. Which Austyn enjoyed until it was time to stop and then she freaked out just a bit because mud was everywhere on her. It was kind of cute! All and all Christmas 2009 was AWESOME and such a huge BLESSING! We have LOTS to share about our new house I mentioned above but another day another time :-) I'll keep y'all in suspense I guess :-)

This is a very long story BUT Daddy fell asleep at 8:30 Christmas Eve. This is how I found him 5 minutes into me trying to wrap gifts. Mema and Papa

Sprinkling or dumping the Reindeer's food

A very dear friend of mine...B Welch as I call her :-)

One of my best friends...Peachy (yes...that's her nickname I gave her)