After our time of celebrating, we made it home to Worland. Santa made an extra special trip on Saturday night to make sure we all got something for being so very good this year!
T.R., John, and Heidi
Benjamin and William
Friday, January 2, 2009
Christmas in Casper
We traveled to Casper Christmas Eve and stayed until Saturday. We opened presents with both sides of the family and stuffed ourselves with yummy food!
Papa and Alyssa
Alyssa- what a cutie!
William, Megan, and Ben pretending to take a nap!
Nana and Papa got the boys cap guns, they were super loud and smoked when you fired them.
William and Emily
Heidi sitting in the baby's high chair, and drinking it's bottle!
The trigger was hard for Benjamin to pull, he was making the most hillarious faces everytime he shot his pistol! What do you get when you cross a Texan with a Wyomingite? One crazy litttle cowboy!
William got his favorite movie RV, he's ready to go RVing all around the country with unlce Rob now!
More funny Gun Faces!
Grandpa telling William about the pictures in the hunting scrapbook John and I made for him.
Papa and Alyssa
Alyssa- what a cutie!
William, Megan, and Ben pretending to take a nap!
Nana and Papa got the boys cap guns, they were super loud and smoked when you fired them.
William and Emily
Heidi sitting in the baby's high chair, and drinking it's bottle!
The trigger was hard for Benjamin to pull, he was making the most hillarious faces everytime he shot his pistol! What do you get when you cross a Texan with a Wyomingite? One crazy litttle cowboy!
William got his favorite movie RV, he's ready to go RVing all around the country with unlce Rob now!
More funny Gun Faces!
Grandpa telling William about the pictures in the hunting scrapbook John and I made for him.Christmas Hangover
Christmas is done, WHEW! The kids are coming down off of a week long sugar high, and mountians of presents, back to the grind!
Heidi
Cousin EmilyThursday, January 1, 2009
A Trip Down South
The kids and I made an unexpected trip to Texas before Christmas. My grandad passed away, and we drove down in two days (19 hours each way, and 6 hours round trip to Monahans). The kids were such troopers, the dvd player broke in Colorado, and Ben got carsick in Amarillo (We littered a car seat, pillow, clothes, and a thousand wipies- "Don't Mess With Texas" doesn't apply to throw up!). It was so worth the extra effort to take them. They got to meet so many special people for the first time and see special places from my childhood. If you were praying for us, we could tell! Nothing had changed much, everyone was a little bit older, but still the same- we had such a wonderful time catching up with everybody.
Uncle Joe, Dad, Uncle Scott, Nanny
L-R Cousins Drew, Katie, Bubba, Megan, Suede, Stetson,Blake, Nanny, Me
Megan, Mom, Dad, Me, Bubba
Nanny and Dad having a wheel chair race with the kids!
Papa, Benjamin, William, and Heidi
Willam playing Christmas carols, this looks just like a picture of Stephen at Sweeetwater when he was a little boy.
William and Papa cut down some mistletoe, he was catching everyone with kisses!William and Katie
Kissing Suede, what a Shirley, kissing his cousins at a family funeral!
Nanny and William under the Mistletoe
When I was a kid, everytime the family got together, everyone played music and sang. It was so much fun to do it again, especially for my own kids to take part. We sang every Christmas carol we could think of!
William wrestling with uncle Joe
Benjamin, Papa, Heidi, and Bubba
Nanny had a litter of kittens hidding in the wood pile, the kids had so much fun playing with them. Heidi was talking to John on the phone, he asked her what she had been doing, all she said was "meow, meow!"
Papa and William got Grandad's tractor started, but it wouldn't roll because it had a flat tire.
Kissing Suede, what a Shirley, kissing his cousins at a family funeral!
Nanny and William under the Mistletoe
When I was a kid, everytime the family got together, everyone played music and sang. It was so much fun to do it again, especially for my own kids to take part. We sang every Christmas carol we could think of!
William wrestling with uncle Joe
Benjamin, Papa, Heidi, and Bubba
Nanny had a litter of kittens hidding in the wood pile, the kids had so much fun playing with them. Heidi was talking to John on the phone, he asked her what she had been doing, all she said was "meow, meow!"
Papa and William got Grandad's tractor started, but it wouldn't roll because it had a flat tire.Beautiful Place, Beautiful Junk
My sister Megan and I took a little trip around Nanny and Paw Paw's house taking pictures of special things that we remembered from our childhood. Each weathered memory felt so fresh and familiar, so much like home.
This road curves past Nanny and Grandad's back to the lake where we would walk to go fishing.
Paw Paw's Tractor
Well House. I love old buildings, this is my favorite one in the world.
Monahans
After our time in Sweetwater, we drove a few hours to my hometown, Monahans Tx. We stayed with my Bubba Stephen, his wife Jaynell, and our only nephew Blain. It's been over a year since we've seen them, we miss them so much! We got to see Aunt Sharon, Jeff, Shaylee, Jenny, Jayden, and McKenzie. We didn't have nearly enough time, I wasn't at all ready to leave, but we had to hurry back to avoid getting stuck in a snow storm.
Blain
Blain, Stephen, and Jaynell at Bubba's Birthday Party (Jeff is in the Mirror!)
Blain
Blain, Stephen, and Jaynell at Bubba's Birthday Party (Jeff is in the Mirror!)
The Trip Down
On the way down, we stopped in at John's Grandparents home in Eads Colorado. It was the BEST pit stop by far! We stayed for three hours, and the kids got to play with their cousins Ross and Lauren.
Heidi, Grandma, Ben, Grandad, William
William, Ross, Benjamin, Lauren, and Heidi infront of Grandma's GORGEOUS Christmas Tree.
Heidi, Grandma, Ben, Grandad, William
William, Ross, Benjamin, Lauren, and Heidi infront of Grandma's GORGEOUS Christmas Tree.
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