Christmas Eve

Before we headed to our Christmas Eve church service, this is what was welcoming us - snow!

The kids couldn't resist the urge to stand outside just a little before we left for my sister's house.


After church we headed over to my sister's house in Keller for our White family Christmas.






It was a little crazy traveling to and back from Keller but it was a great Christmas Eve!

Christmas in San Angelo

The weekend before Christmas we spend with my family in San Angelo. Every year my Dad's family comes for Christmas lunch. It is a fun time for all the cousins to come together and laugh and celebrate life. This year it was the year of the DS as both Jason, Jackson, Jenna and Uncle Brad all tried to master different games.


Then before everyone heads home we take family pictures. One year we will find the perfect spot where we don't all have to stare at the sun. Here is my family.


My sister's family


We even tried at church on Sunday to get better pictures. Here are my parents -


The kids and I stayed a little longer in San Angelo and I was able to spend some time with my Mom's side of the family. Here is my cousin Tammy and her twins Presley and Ella - aren't they adorable!

School Christmas Parties

The last week of school Jenna had a Christmas party at school. I was able to squeeze going in between meetings.

Her teacher is pregnant with her first child and is a Tech grad. Jenna was allowed to wear a Santa hat and of course the only one we have is a Texas Santa hat. Their party was a blue and white snow theme. If you are wondering why Jenna's lips are blue it is from the blue snow cones they had as a snack. She also made a cute snowflake ornament for our tree.


Earlier that week the daycare had their Christmas program that ended in a visit from Santa. As you can see from my missing son, he still isn't too keen on talking to Santa.

Big 12 Game

Dean and Jason headed to the Big 12 game on Saturday to watch the Longhorns play Nebraska. Of course they were in the cheap seats but they had a good time. Since they are guys they didn't have pictures with them in it so these will have to do.

The Longhorns won and are headed to the National Championship. It was an exciting game and for once I would appreciate it if they won in a landslide rather than the last second field goal.

Snow!

Jackson had a horrible night that started at 2 am when he crawled into our bed only to throw up in it. So that debate about whether or not I wanted to shell out money for a new comforter was settled. He was up every 30 minutes throwing up. I decided that I would work from home but I needed to run in the office for a couple of things. I pull out of the garage to snow. Now how hard was it to keep a sick 4 year old out of the snow. I compromised for just the walkway only to be met with a marble size snowball while I take a picture. Boys!

Thanksgiving Week

Thanksgiving Week started a little early. We traveled to Houston on Friday, November 20th to have early Thanksgiving with Jason's family. Along the way we were able to pick up some Christmas presents en route to the Texas game. It was the finally home game of the season. It was Senior Day for Colt McCoy and Jordan Shipley.


It was a great night game. It was a little cold but the rain held off. The win made Colt the quarterback with the most wins.

At the end of the game all the Seniors take one last stroll around the stadium. Colt fired Old Smokey, played Big Bertha and all the Seniors created a gigantic dog pile in the middle of the field.

All the other Seniors went back into the locker room but Colt did make it over to our side of the stadium. This is the best picture I could get because I didn't want to prevent the kids from being able to give him high fives.

This is all the press that was following Colt.

By the time we got back to our car, this was the sight from our parking garage.

On Sunday we spent a day with the kids and catching up on everything going on with Jason's family. Here is a picture of the six kids. As you can tell it can be difficult getting them all to look at the camera at the same time.


My parents came into town on Monday to spend Thanksgiving with my sister and me. On Tuesday my parents and I took the four grandkids to visit Santa at Bass Pro. Jackson really didn't want anything to do with Santa. This picture took two tries and this will probably follow him for the rest of his life.



After visiting Santa I joined some of the girls to watch "New Moon". It was nice to just enjoying a night out.

Happy Thanksgiving!


We spent the day at my sister's new house. It was fun and we even got a little shopping in during the Cowboys game.

Well we are officially in the Christmas season now. So I will leave you with a few pictures of my fall.

Finally the End of Soccer

So the weekend of November 14th we finally finished the soccer season. After several make up games due to rain, a couple of wet and muddy games, we finished. Jackson's team had some moral victories. His last game he almost scored a goal and there was no Wolverine in sight.



Jenna's game was a little more difficult. They had only lost one game the whole season and this game proved to be a hard one. The girls were all tired and it was super hot for November. Jenna did a good job and played her heart out but the Pink Dragons weren't able to finish on top. The next day we celebrated with her end of year party.



We did register Jenna for Spring soccer but we are still contemplating if we just wait for next Fall to register Jackson. Maybe he will be more discipline at 5 years.

Team Frog

On November 8th, our church small group went to support the Breast Cancer 3 Day walkers.

Our small group member, Beverly was walking for the 4th time.

We caught them on the last few miles of their 60 plus mile journey. It was exciting for everyone to see the emotional journey these walkers and cheer them on. Our friend Jenny walked the 3 Day last year pregnant with Brenner. This year he was the ladies man as he had so many women taking his picture.

Jenna's Longhorn Game

On November 7th Jenna and I went to the Longhorn football game. It wasn't her first Longhorn game, but it was the first one that she sat the entire way through.

It was a mid-morning game so we were able to make a day of the trip. We arrived in plenty of time before the game, but we had the pleasure of walking from the Co-op to the stadium alongside The Hellraisers. Multiple times I told Jenna to cover her ears.


Since it was right after the Fort Hood shooting and right before Veteran's Day, we had the flyover at the end of the National Anthem.

It was also Alumni Band Day so she had fun watching the band make the different formations.

She thought it was interesting that the TV guy was right in front of us whenever the football was at our goal line.


It was a good game, but a little hotter than we expected. We were wearing jeans when we could of worn shorts.



Not that Jenna would remember, but she did see history at the game. Jordan Shipley set a school record.

Halloween 2009

We were lucky to go to Dean and Julie's neighborhood to trick-or-treat in again this year. Their neighborhood has many more participating houses than our neighborhood does and the kids have a great time together.



Jackson was the Red Power Ranger and Jenna was a girl from the 50's. I made her skirt and it is a little long - but I did that so I wouldn't have to make another anytime soon. It was quite the ordeal. A broken sewing machine needle and having to ask Jason for help with the stupid elastic. I swear I really do know how to sew - it has just been a couple of years. Oh and Jason would want everyone to know that he ironed on the poodle.



This isn't our costumes, but this is how we dressed for our small group Halloween party. We are dueling quarterbacks. Only our Longhorn fans will get it but I am Major Applewhite and Jason is Chris Simms.

Pumpkin Patch with G Mommy

Sunday we headed to the Pumpkin Patch again this time with G Mommy. Our nieces Rylee and Reese were able to come too. Good thing I had my sister's super speedy camera because with four kids, you need it to capture them somewhat smiling at the same time!



Just the cousins!


This one is my favorite! Jenna posing and Reese sticking her tongue out at Aunt Jen.



There were some dads there that helped all the kids on the merry-go-round and you can see that Rylee and Jenna loved it!



This is one of my favorite things to do every year and I was glad we got a semi-dry day to enjoy the patch!