December - week 2

As we were driving east towards McKinney, we saw

this awesome looking cloud. It looks like a tornado.

With only 2 weeks of training, Austin swam in his first

swim meet. The morning of his swim meet, Austin said,

"Mom, I'm just warning you, I will come in last."

Right before Austin swam, he came up to me and Terry and told us that he'd be 15-25 seconds behind all the other swimmers. Well, Austin did come in last, but by only 2 seconds. He swam his best time and he and his coach were pleasantly surprised. He did so much better than they had anticipated. Apparently, adrenalin helps! We were so proud of Austin that night.

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Our ward Christmas party.

Unfortunately, Austin couldn't attend because he was at a swim meet, but we took Johnny and we had a fun family night. We love our ward and enjoy so many of the families. It's nice to have such great friends! Here we are, trying to pull together a last minute Christmas photo. Nine o'clock at night.... trying to pose that "we are a happy family" look. LOLOL What a night! :) Thanks Emily for coming over and enduring the Jetton chaos!

Til next week!!

December - week 1

Our first snow of the winter season was December 2nd.

This is what I love about Texas: you get to see snow

just long enough to enjoy it, but it doesn't stick long

enough to get tired of it. It melted 3 hours later, just the

right amount of time to get into the Christmas spirit.

I dread this every year. Hauling box after box out of the

attics and figuring out where to put everything. I love

when everything is finally up!

This year, Johnny joined his school's choir. He had three

performances this week: two at school and one downtown

Frisco at Merry Main Street.

It's so beautiful with all the buildings and trees lit up.

It was a fun evening to spend with the family.

Austin and his football teammates enjoyed the first annual

football banquet at Heritage HS. It's pretty neat to think

that Austin is on the first freshman team of this new high

school and wearing the first #64. I love the approach

of all the coaches: respect, discipline and most importantly,

family.

the RECEPTION

The reception of Lindsey & Bryan.

08-25-09

the wedding dress

the wedding cake

the groom's cake

cutting the cake & making a toast

our family + one

decorations

tossing of the bouquet & garter

the happy couple & friends

the Barbie and Ken cake & candy display

(notice what a couple of the brothers did?)

saying farewell.... and they're off to Hawaii....

GIVIN' THANKS

Our annual Thanksgiving tradition is to spend

the day at our friend's house, the Davis'.

And this year our friends the Opfar's joined us.

Connie - Andrea - me

The kids had a blast upstairs in the game room.

Aliza - Johnny - Austin D

Tyler - Erin - Johnny

Looking forward to next year, friends!