Time flies when you are - getting ready to visit Texas for two and a half weeks!

Ever since Halloween the time has been flying for us. We spent Thanksgiving together, just the three of us. We decided to go to dinner this year and we had dinner at Claim Jumper. It was awesome and the best thing is there was no clean up! We had some friends over that night for desserts. We are very thankful this year for many things. Mosty my Dad's health. He got another clean report from his doctor for this round of Chemo he has been going through. Amazing! We are so thankful to be blessed with our daughter. She is a joy and makes us smile every minute we are with her. It is true when other parents say they can't remember life before children. I don't want to - I prefer it with her in my life.

Sadly, shortly after Thanksgiving my family was hit with some devestating news. My Aunt Kay, my Mom's oldest sister died suddenly the Saturday after Thanksgiving of a heart attack. We are all still very much in shock but we have all kept each other held up as much as we can. She will be dearly missed.

We are headed home is just one short week. Texas watch out because Hurricane Emma is on the way. We are flying into San Antonio and after a quick stop to visit my parents we are off to Marble Falls for a week with the Tupper family. We will drive back to San Antonio on Christmas Eve and spend the remainder of the time with my side. We will also celebrate Emma's 3rd birthday in San Antonio on 1/2/08, two days before her real birthday. This is the first Christmas we have spent in Texas since Emma was born. The last Christmas we spent in Texas was the year I was pregnant - we all know how that trip turned out (Emma was born 5 weeks early and just a week after we returned from Texas). I don't think anything like that will happen this time. She is really looking forward to it. She talked every day about going on an airplane to see her Nana, Papa, Grandma and Grandpa. We count down the days until we leave and she cannot wait to change the number with Jim every day. This is her first time flying in her own seat so as always it will be an adventure.

We also had our family pictures done for the holidays...here they are!!!!!