Texas Thanksgiving Part II

Here are the pictures from Borger. I really thought I had my camera out a whole lot more.

Hey! A picture of us! Thanks, Linds.

Football!

Watch out, Ryan!

He's so cute.

All of 'em.

Do boys need an excuse to tackle? No ball, no problem.

Olivia ventured outside for a moment. But she was getting lots more attention inside.

This is why they love their Aunt Shanna so much. She chases them!

My two grandmothers

Mama (on the left) taught me to love old movies.

Granny (on the right) tried her darnedest to teach me how to sew. I wish I would have paid closer attention!!!!

Silly faces

Liv getting tummy tickles from her Uncle David

My boys with their Mumzie and Aunt Shanna

Olivia wanted to wear that stocking.

Her Aunt Lindsey watched on while her daddy tried to catch up on sleep for the trip back. :)

Zach and my cousin, Johnathan

ATTACK!

Huddle up and plan better attack

I know--gross. Zach never wants to grow up (He's a Toys-R-Us kid) and I like to encourage him.

some of the gals

Look, Papa! I know you are proud. :)

Buff and Siah. I thought that this was the only picture of my dad, but then I found this...

Dad and Bill

(my best friend's dad and also my parents' neighbor)

Lindsey and Addilyn

I thought this was a classy way to close us out.

Texas Thanksgiving

Last Saturday, Jay and I decided that we would make a whirlwind trip back to Texas for Thanksgiving. After Jay got home from church on Sunday night, the kids and I were waiting in the car for our departure. After about 4 hours of driving, I thought that it might not be too late to turn back around. haha But we pushed ahead and I'm so glad that we did.

We stopped in Mobile, AL the first night and then went on to Dallas the next day. We had planned on staying the night in Dallas, but our hotel stay in Mobile was so awful (Olivia has never slept with us.) that we figured it would be much easier to drive on to Amarillo while the kids were sleeping in the car. We made a pleasant, unplanned stop for dinner and a quick visit with our great friends the Krahn's and Katy Nelson and some of her family. We loaded back up into our toy explosion car and set off for Amarillo. We arrived at Jay's parents' house at 1:00 am (central time). We were exhausted and so happy to see family!

Emma, Cynthia, Abi, Joshua, Annalee, Olivia, Josiah, Isaac, Katie, Leah

Me, Sharon, Katy

never serious

I think they married us because we laugh at them.

Jay, me, Sharon, Kris

Trying to calm Josiah down

Olivia goofing off with Uncle Matt

A goodbye picture

These 3 kids love their uncle!

One last tickle

I'll add the other pictures from the weekend later. I'm still trying to recover! :)

Sorry

I've gotten a little BEHIND.

Maybe I'll catch up this weekend.

Historic Festival

We had a busy Saturday. One of the many things we did was go to a town nearby that had a Historic Festival going on. It was very interesting, funny, strange, cute, weird, comical, and a blast all rolled into one.

Olivia met this lady and loved her dress. She wanted to get a closer look and touch it. :)

Isaac searched for treasure after taking the pirate oath of "Argh!"

Josiah was pirated.

Josiah was too busy with his yo-yo treasure to pose. Isaac was ready with his blue lips.

I couldn't understand what she was crying for. "Pop pop!" I finally figured out she was wanting a lollipop. I can't get used to it not being called a sucker.

The kids were listening to a pirate story told by a local librarian.

Jay was very excited to try out this pepper jelly. He bought some and I tried it out with him at home--gag! But to each his own. :)

Josiah is always tying something onto himself.

Isaac-The Piratey Coach Driver

Pirate Josiah really gets into it.

Olivia was given a train whistle at one booth. Her brothers coveted that whistle all day long.

Isaac went to the "general store" to get some candy.

She had to get in on the action.

Christopher and Olivia enjoyed some cookies on Santa's sleigh. (Yes, there was a sleigh pulled by reindeer right across from the horse drawn carriage.)

MaKayla and Josiah delivered presents to all the good little boy and girl pirates.

On Dasher, on Dancer...

They had a fashion show that the boys and I went to. The boys went in the room ahead of me and as I walked in, I heard the lady talking about corsets and how they "just didn't have bras back then." Then she went on to tell how to make your own hoops "if you're interested".

It was only fitting because just a few minutes before, we took a tour through the museum. The museum was more like an antique store. It's a very small place and we toured shoulder to shoulder. In other words, once you went in, there was no backing out. We walked into a room that was set up like an old bedroom. On the rocking chair, a corset was very nicely displayed. :) I walked past and turned around to see Isaac casually checking it out. I barely heard him say, "Hmm, that's a nice bra." He nodded his head as if he were a 50 year old man that just looked at a decent pair of penny loafers. What a kid.

My boys seemed interested. But...the corset in the museum put this one to shame.

So did all of these people. The ladies kept nodding their heads up and down and taking mental notes--future costume models.

This was my favorite dress. The lady was modeling someone in mourning, but I could not stop laughing.

I thought this might be more appropriate.