Happy Birthday Mema

On Saturday we had a surprise 60th birthday party for Steve's Mom in Corpus.  She knew her family was coming in to celebrate but had no idea that some of her friends were going to show up too.  We had lots of fun celebrating her and making memories together! 

Grandpa, Aunt Donna, and Uncle Jerome came in Friday afternoon and stayed with us then we all headed down to Corpus for the party on Saturday.   On the way down, we stopped at the wind farm and were able to pull right up to one of the HUGE windmills.  Grandpa had a lot of fun checking out the windmill.  It was really hard to get a shot of him and the whole windmill together since they are so HUGE!  What a neat experience for all of us!

Sydnee and Grand-Papa cookin up some breakfast!

Aunt Donna, Uncle Jerome, and Grand-Papa with Sydnee



The birthday girl!
(Papa, Mema, Grandpa, Aunt Donna, Uncle Jerome, & Makayla ran in to be in the pic too!)



Grand-Papa with the Grandkids and Great Grandkids
(Josh, Steph, and Makayla, Grandpa, Michelle, Steve, and Sydnee)

Grandpa with wind farm in background

Grandpa had to check it out

Looking up from the bottom

Panoramic shot of wind farm

Panoramic shot of birthday party

Lots of yummy food!

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving!  In Everything Give Thanks!  We are so thankful to God for our precious family, our health, our wonderful friends, Steve's job, our move to San Antonio in a few weeks, and God's constant provisions and blessings for our family. 

We spent Thanksgiving Day in Corpus with Mema, Papa, Stephanie, Josh, and Makayla.  Sydnee and Makayla were so cute playing together.  While we were there, we also celebrated an early Christmas since we won't be together this year.  Here are a few cute pics we got that day.

"Hi Ki-ka" (That's what Sydnee says to Makayla)

Helping Papa open his Christmas present.

Makayla giving Sydnee her present.

Sydnee opening her present.

The girls had a blast playing with these bowls.  They made for fun hats!

Macee's Princess Party

Macee turned 3 and to celebrate she had a princess party!  Sydnee and I traveled to Austin for the day to celebrate with Macee and her friends and family.  All the girls dressed up like princesses and they were so cute together (unfortunately, I did not get a picture of all the girls at her party).  Here are a few pictures that were taken that day. 

Sydnee at home before leaving for Austin. 
She was so excited to go as you can tell by the cheesy smile!

Macee the princess got a new bike for her birthday and she rode it like a champ!

Haylie and Sydnee played so cute together.

Macee helping the guys assemble her new doll house!

Max wanted a ride too!

Trick-or-Treating

Steve was working on Halloween night and instead of sitting at the house while truck-loads (literally) of people (not just kids...teens and adults too) were dropped off in our neighborhood to get FREE candy, the McDaniel's invited Sydnee and me to go to their GATED neighborhood and hang out with them where just the neighborhood kids roam.   So, we did and Dean insisted that we take Sydnee to a few neighbors to get some candy.  (I really think he just wanted to go check it all out and needed a kid to take as an excuse.) There were so many parents that dressed up to hand out candy to the kids...it was really cute.

You would've thought Sydnee had gone trick-or-treating before because she acted like she knew exactly what to do...walk up to peoples houses, take candy, walk away eating it, make a big sticky mess, and grab Mommy's hair while giving her a big hug!

It was hilarious to watch her eat a Tootsie Pop. She didn't let go of that thing till I took it away when it was just a soggy stick. Here are a few pictures of her that night.

Digging for her favorite candy!

Walking down the street while sucking on her tootsie pop!

Trick-or-Treat!

Big leaves=Big fall fun!