Happy Holidays

Videos

This is just a little clip of our little singer. He was singing "Go tell it on the mountain" This is one of the songs they are singing at his Mother's Morning Out Christmas program. I should add he is singing in his "funny voice". I couldn't get him to do it normal. In case you don't notice, he never stops moving. This is how he is if he is awake, constantly moving...and talking or singing.

This second video is of Hayden crawling. He has finally mastered crawling on all fours. Jace couldn't stand that I was trying to get Hayden on video and had to keep getting in the way. You may also notice the billions of toys everywhere. Hayden has figured out how to dump his toy bucket and this is usually one of the first things he does every morning.

Adventures with Santa

This past weekend we had a Christmas party with a group from church. The family that hosts every year does a bang up job. The food was wonderful as was the time to visit. The highlight for the kids is that Santa and Mrs. Claus make a guest appearance. When the door bell rang, the kids all ran up stairs screaming "Santa's here, Santa's here!" All but Jace off course. He slowly came up the stairs and then as soon as he saw Santa he ran and climbed into Clint's arms. We went downstairs for the kids to receive their gifts. Jace stayed about as far away as he could be, but still be able to see what was given out. Hayden received a cute teddy bear and Jace got a car from the movie Cars. Here are some pictures.

Mr. and Mrs. ClausHayden getting his first gift from Santa

Jace getting his gift as fast as he could and then running back to the safe zone

Mrs. Claus reading a story

The best picture we could get. It took awhile to get Jace to sit on her lap.
Hayden's first picture with Santa

All the kids

A Daily Conversation with Jace

and I mean daily. At least once in a 24 hour period I have this conversation with him, and many more like this but with a different topic. He has turned in to the gotta know everything kid.

Jace: "Where is my daddy?"

Me: "At work."

Jace: "Why is he at work?"

Me: "To make money."

Jace: "What does he make money for?"

Me: "To pay for our house, and clothes, and car, and food, and stuff."

Jace: "Why does he pay for our house?"

Me: "So we can live in it."

Jace: "What we want to live in it for?"

Me: "So we can be warm and safe."

Jace: "Why we want to be safe?"

Me: "We just do Jace."

Jace: "Oh!"

Gotta love him!

Texas Trip

A few weeks ago we made our trip across Texas. It started out with me and the boys flying to San Antonio to visit my family. Then my mom, the boys, and myself drove to Dallas to see my sister and her family. This is when we had our trade show. Clint flew in that weekend to join us. From there Clint, Jace, Hayden, and I headed to College Station. We got to visit with some friends there. Then we headed to Odessa to see Clint's family. We made a pit stop along the way in Abilene. We ate some great food at Sharon's restaurant and toured campus a little. They have made some great changes since I was there last. While in Odessa we took some family pictures. Here are a few snapshots I took while we were there. They are not the best, but this was pretty much the only time I took pictures.

Jace, Clint, Johnny (Clint's dad), and Hayden

Jace and Hayden
Cousins: Lexie, Jace, Lauren, and Hayden
My family
After my two week trip went to head home and a warning light came on our vehicle. It was Saturday and no one was open to look at it, so we had to switch and take Clint's parents vehicle home with us. It all worked out and we made it back safe and sound to the dirty house and mountain of laundry to awaited me!

9 months

A few weeks ago Hayden turned 9 months old. I can't believe how fast it has gone. He now has 4 teeth. He is not crawling yet, but he gets around with an army crawl/scoot. He has gotten much better with the eating and will eat just about anything now. I have started giving him real food some and he loves it. Here are a few of his pictures. They were so hard to narrow down, but these area some of my favorites. The last one is him sucking his thumb. He always holds his other hand!

The show

For those of you who don't know, my sister and I have an embroidery business. We started it about 5 years ago. Unfortunately my sister is left with the work while am not living in Texas. However, I do get the opportunity to come to Dallas for a weekend to do a trade show. It is called Market in the Meadow. This year was our third, and best year. While it is not near enough to make up for all the work she does the rest of the year, it does give us a chance to work together. I enjoy that most. We get the chance to design and create products, but spending time chatting with Tonya is the best part of it.
The week/weekend was crazy. I got there a few days before the show and it was non-stop work from there. Luckily we enjoy doing it. We are also lucky that our mom comes and watches the kids for us. We couldn't do it with out her.
A little about our business... We mainly have a baby line and a home line. The baby line includes things such as bibs, burp cloths, pantie covers, hooded towels, blankets, and personal blankies. Our home line includes things such as kitchen towels, aprons, guest towels, napkins, place mats, and pillow cases. And like I said before, we started about 5 years ago. It was slow going at first and a lot of learning on our part. But now Tonya stays busy all the time with orders. We have not created a website yet, but have plans to do so after the first of the year. I can't wait to see where it leads us.