Christmas Pictures by Erin Black

It's Party Time!

To say we have been busy is an under statement. We have had Christmas parties galore over the past weeks with some birthday parties and showers too. I think we were just too partied out to make it to our friend Lauren's house on Saturday night and I had to miss Lauren's baby shower on Sunday because I was getting ready for another party.

After all the parties last weekend, we started this Thursday with a really fun adult party at the our friends beautifully decorated home. This was an awesome party and we had a wonderful time hanging out with so many friends. Friday was the annual DOWDCO party. Always very nice and so much fun! The food was fantastic and it is always just a special time for us. This was my 5th DOWDCO party to attend. We even had a limo take us there and back! Our babysitter enjoyed her limo ride home too :)

We have a couple more parties coming up this weeked before we call it a season. I love this time of the year, I love being invited to parties, I love seeing my adult friends, I love the food, drinks, socializing, just every bit of it!

Ear Infections #4

Not too much to blog about here, and I don't have any new pictures to post. Saturday night was our office Christmas party at Dr. N's house. It was a lot of fun and really good food. I am so thankful to work with such wonderful people and seriously feel like I have a dream job!

Sunday, Hannah started running a fever and slept until 11am and then took a 4 hour nap that I had to wake her from. I figured there was something going on and finally convinced Stuart to hold Hannah down so I could check her ears. Sure enough, they didn't look good, so I brought her up to the office yesterday and she has 2 ear infections. This is now our fourth month/set of ear infections. Basically, since she started school she has had an ear infection every month. I saw this one coming a mile away with the snotty nose! I knew it would eventually go to the ears. I had been managing the snot with some office samples for a week and thought it was getting better but Sunday it took a turn for the worse and she is even more congested now. She started on antibiotics and seemed to feel better today although she is super snotty. So we are back on the decongestant to dry her up and on our fourth round of antibiotics!

It's the most wonderful/busy time of the year...

Hannah's two teeth!

Grandma, Jennifer, Aunt Harriet, Rosalind, Susie, Hannah


Relaxing with Uncle Barry

Aunt Susie

Precious!!!

Sleigh Ride

The Yeager Family

Hannie Bananie

Playing with cousin Bryson

Wow! Thanksgiving has come and gone and we are nearly in the middle of December! 19 days until Santa says my Advent Calender in my (new) kitchen! Where did Fall go? Is it really Hannah's birthday month?

We have had an incredibly busy last two weeks. On Wednesday we left for Dallas to spend Thanksgiving with our Grandmothers and cousins. Hannah did great on the drive there, ate Chick-fil-A and used her sippy cup. We arrived at the hotel and had a driver take us in a private car to Wylie where we had Thanksgiving at our cousin Kylie's house. It was so much fun and dinner was great! Hannah was able to meet several different cousins that we had never met. Thursday we had a wonderful lunch at the Gaylord with Stuart's Mema, and Thursday night headed to Plano to have our third Thanksgiving with my grandma and aunt and uncle. On Friday, Lynn, Kylie, Kamber, and I enjoyed a morning at the spa while the husbands watched the kids and went to Bass Pro Shop. We hung out at the hotel all day on Friday. This hotel was amazing! It was beautifully decorated for Christmas with live reindeer, Santa, trains, trees, gingerbread houses, etc. Magical! Our room over looked the reindeer and you could sit out on your balcony and people watch forever. It was very crowded. They have the ICE exhibit there where there are tons of gorgeous ice sculptures. It is -9 degrees in there and you wear these big parkas while you walk through there. We had such a great time hanging out with Kylie, Sean, and their precious boys Brady and Bryson. Brady and Bryson are hilarious and Hannah loves Bryson! She tried to take everything he had and followed him all around. Saturday we packed up and headed to the airport to pick up my sister who had been in Midland with my Dad. Susie was so excited to see Hannah! We ate lunch at Chuy's (One of Stu's favorite places when we were living in Houston) and spent the afternoon shopping at Willowbend. We then headed over to Aunt Harriet and Uncle Barry's house for dinner with Grandma. Sunday we got up early and stopped to eat breakfast with Elicia at Cracker Barrel. I always love getting to see E! And then it was on our way home. I slept most of the trip along with Hannah.

When we got home we had a million things to do because movers would be at our house at 8:30am to move us! And, at 8:30 am sharp, the move began. Mimi helped out with Hannah and Stuart and I went to work moving and unpacking. To tell you all the truth, (and Stuart did a ton of other stuff) I unpacked and put away every single box by my self.

We spent the rest of the week working on getting our house done. I decorated for Christmas and today we are getting our lights on the outside.

Christmas parties have begun and we had two today. We had to miss the one this morning because Erin Black came to do our Christmas card photos! I can't wait to see how they turn out! Lots of stuff going on around here!

Santa Claus is coming to town!

Happy Turkey Day

Happy Thanksgiving! For Hannah's first Thanksgiving, she got to have 3 Thanksgiving meals. We started out Wednesday night at our cousin Kylie's house in Wylie. We had an wonderful meal with the Yeager cousins and Hannah got to meet several cousins she had never met. Thursday we had Thanksgiving with Mema at the Gaylord Resort. It was a huge delicious buffet and we had a champagne brunch. Hannah literally stuffed herself. She ate chicken strips, turkey, stuffing (she loves it!), sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, french toast, croissant, and pudding. I think she ate more than I did! Thursday night we headed over to Aunt Harriet's and Uncle Barry's house for another homemade feast! Everything was wonderful and we got to see Great-Grandma and cousin Rosalind. Friday, Mimi, Kylie, and Kamber and I enjoyed spa treatments at the resort! WONDERFUL! We are spending time enjoying the cousins and relaxing! Enjoy the pictures!

Hannah in one of her new Christmas outfits!

Hannah with her sippy cup!

What a turkey!

Mommy and Hannah

Daddy and Hannah

Great-Grandma and Hannah

Great Mema and Hannah

Cousin Rosalind with Hannah

Huge Gingerbread house!

Beautiful (and delicious) Turkey at Uncle Barry and Aunt Harriet's

Hannah's First Thanksgiving

Hannah "stuffed" herself!

Cousin Brady

Cousin Bryson

Trying to get 3 kids to look at the camera!