Our Trip

Yeah!! The harddrive for our desktop finally came on Monday and Mark has been getting the computer put together bit by bit. (Bad pun!) :) Anyway, now I can post pictures! So therefore, here is our trip. I am putting a lot of pictures in the albums, so beware! :) (That way family members can get what they want.)

Wednesday was Dustin's thirteenth birthday! Happy Birthday, Dustin!!!! We celebrated with him at their towns new Chick-fil-a. :) So the following are the picture of his party and playing games back at Mark's parent's house.

Dustin's Birthday

Then of course, the next day was Thanksgiving! My father-in-law's brother and family from Idaho (Uncle John and Aunt Shauna) and sister and family (Aunt Teresa and Uncle Buddy) from Tennessee were there. We had a great time seeing everyone!

Thanksgiving Day!

Friday, we went to the Homestead Craft and Children's Fair. This has been a tradition for my family for about ten years, whenever we are in Texas for Thanksgiving. We really enjoy going, seeing the crafts, buying yummy foods and other things, and visiting with the people there. It is so refreshing to be there and enjoy a time of Thanksgiving. Most of Mark's family went on Friday, so we were able to enjoy some more time with them.

Homestead Heritage Craft and Children's Fair

Saturday morning, we visited the Texas Ranger Museum before returning to the fair to finish shopping and see more of their demonstrations.

Texas Ranger Museum

Snowflakes!!!

I found this on Better Homes and Garden's website! It's so much fun and a great stress reliever!! :) Make your own snowflake!!

PS~ When you finish your snowflake, leave the number in the comments so we can see it. Warning: these get addictive! :)

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving! Tomorrow, we are headed up to visit Mark's family, his dad's brother and sister are headed in with their families, one group from Idaho and another from Tennessee! I know we will have a great visit. Then Friday we are headed to Homestead Heritage for their Thanksgiving Fair. We go there almost every year, and enjoy it so much! Wish y'all could come! :)

Fiesta!!

This fall, our church offered Spanish classes. Dr. and Mrs. P. recently moved from Florida and they offered to teach - she taught Spanish and he taught English every Thursday night. The "final" was a fiesta hosted at their home on Saturday. :) We had a fun time, eating all the great food, visiting and hitting the piñata. (I am posting a few of the pictures here, but I will hopefully be posting a Picassa album later - our main computer is sick and waiting for a hard drive to arrive.)

Our hosts: Dr. and Mrs. P in the center, his parents on the left and Bro. Ron on the right.

Some of our classmates enjoying the yummy food!

Faithie really liked whacking that thing!

Gracey trying a hand at it.

Angie

Me (Angie and I wore our "ponchos" to the "fiesta!") :)

The cheering squad!

This picture of Angie is so cute! :)

I love Gracey's pockets... and the twinkle in her eyes!

(She knows that Mommy won't let her have that much candy!)

Faithie has learned to play peek-a-boo! :)

She is soo much fun!

A New Class!

All interested parties welcome!! Come and learn to knit!

We will have great fun and learn something useful! Our current project is dishcloths. Right now we are learning two basic steps, casting on and the knit stitch. The next step will probably be binding off. :) This teacher isn't quite sure yet, but the lesson plans are subject to change according to students' needs. (As all good teachers should be, right?) :)


Because of current space demands, the class is located in my parent's house. I think the "school" needs to add more classrooms. :)