Thanksgiving 2012

We spent Thanksgiving cooking in the morning, with the Alford family for lunch, and then to the Lewis home for dinner.  It was the first Thanksgiving that I have ever spent with my Granny.  Now that she is living here, we are having a lot of firsts!  We LOVED watching the Texans win in overtime against the Detroit Lions!  There were screams, yells, and cheers filling the Alford Thanksgiving!  Kiki and John went to Kentucky to see his family so it was pretty quiet at the Lewis home!  The kids were so excited to spend the night with Mimi and Poppi and Curt and I were able to do some Thanksgiving night shopping!  We got a lot bought for the kids for Christmas and Curt even got an outstanding deal on a miter saw!!!
We are so thankful for our family, health, faith, and each other!

Zoo Lights 2012

The Houston Zoo has started something called Zoo Lights!  You can go at night and take a tour of the amazing light displays and even see some of the animals at night!  Cynthia had sneak peek passes, so we got to go before the crowds really hit.  We loved it!  Our time with family was great, listening to the high school choir sing religious carols was amazing, watching Curt and Brooklyn jitterbug to the music was priceless!

Let's Decorate!

I absolutely loved that the kids were waiting for me to get home from my cruise so that we could decorate for Christmas!  Before the suitcases were even unloaded, they were begging to help us decorate!  Curt and I were ready for some fun!  It was nice having Curt home to help us get it all up this year and the kids were more involved than they ever have been!  Each box and tote that were opened were met with huge eyes excited to see the special decorations that they have not seen in so long!  It was awesome!  We turned on Christmas music, a Christmas scentsy scent, and started on it all!  My favorite parts of decorating: getting out our nativity scene and hanging all of our special ornaments.  Our ornaments are made up of places we have traveled, baby's first ornaments, and kid made ornaments!  So awesome!

Daddy always has help with the tree topper...it is getting harder as they get bigger!

Alford Family Trip 2012

Every year we go on a short weekend trip with the Alford family.  This year I did not go.  I was sad to miss it but was going to be leaving 3 days later for my college girlfriend cruise.  I could not do both of them and leave the family ready for me to be gone for 4 days!  They took a short drive to Livingston and stayed in a lake house there.  The kids loved the dock there but especially loved the separate game room!  Brooklyn beat everyone she played at Foosball including her cousins Isa and Robert who are 16 and 22!  They said they didn't even let her win!  Colson loved going out on the water in the boat and pulling people behind in the tube...he thought it was great to watch everyone fall!  I missed going but know they had a blast!

Halloween 2012

Halloween was in the middle of the week this year which is never fun for early school night bedtimes but we did stay up a little late and let the kids enjoy their time!  We rushed home from Colson's costume parade, ate, and got Brooklyn dressed and her hair done in the perfect bridal braid!  We went to the Kuhn home to celebrate as we always do with them.  We went trick or treating in their neighborhood where the kids just had a blast!  We then went to see Poppi, Mimi, and Granny at the Trunk or Treat at our church because they decorated their trunk with festive goodies and candy for trick or treaters.  The kids loved the cake walk and we even got Granny out there for the cake walk!  We loved that Granny got to see the kids for the very first time ever on Halloween!  It is special that she is getting to celebrate all of the fun events with us because she has never been able to living in Memphis!  We came back to our neighborhood and went a few doors down to some very special neighbors to trick or treat...they had made some very cute water bottles for the kids with their names on them...so sweet!
Happy Halloween!

Costume Parade for Colson

We were thrilled to be able to attend the costume parade this year for Colson at his new school Primrose!  We have been so impressed with what we have been seeing at this school and are confident that we made a great change for him!  Colson was with his friends in his class and they paraded in and said a poem that they had memorized as a class...very impressive!  They also sang a great song!  Our little man was a "knock out!"  He said and sang every word!  

Mrs. Rains as the Cat in the Hat

Love that the two assistants in the class dressed as Thing 1 and Thing 2!