Happy Birthday Stephanie!

The best part about having an older sister is that she always hits the new age first :)  Happy birthday Stephanie!  We love you!

Greatest Birthday Present Ever!

Mark arranged for Gabie to get a tour and ride at a horse farm for her birthday.  She was so excited!

They all got a chance to ride and we had a fabulous afternoon!  This last picture is of Rachel showing how she can 'paw' the ground like a horse.  :)  Gabie even got a stick pony so she could continue to "ride" after she got home.  It was a perfect day!

Christmas Pictures

Mark was asked to preach at a church in Livingston on Sunday.  We dressed up in our Christmas dresses and took some great pictures after the service. 

Happy (early) Birthday Gabie!

We celebrated Gabie's birthday with cake and presents a little early because of the busy day we had planned for her actual birthday on Sunday with church and her surprise from daddy - horseback riding!  We had both sets of grandparents over, plus Stephanie, Travis and Tom (Travis's dad)

Happy Birthday to our big 7 year old!

Cookies!

Decorating cookies is so much fun!

Early Christmas

We had Christmas early with grandma and grandpa.  The first order of business was to finish decorating - it was Elie's turn to put the star on top of the tree - good thing grandpa was here to hoist her up!

 All lined up ready to open!

 

Thanksgiving Day

We had a houseful for Thanksgiving at my parent's house.  It was wonderful!  The girls played in the backyard, we watched football and had a great meal!  The only one that I didn't get in a group picture was Travis' dad, Tom. 

Grandma and Grandpa are here!

Mark's parents flew in on Tuesday to spend the week, and we had them surprise the girls at school to help pick them up.  Thankfully my dad was able to pick them up at the airport and help with the surprise as Mark and I both had to work that day.  But today, only Mark had to work, so it was a fun (busy!) day with grandma and grandpa for the girls.  I didn't have any pictures from today, but borrowed their camera so we could have some of the memories too.

 I had been given a gift certificate for a massage that I was finally able to use, so I was off for that in the a.m., and the girls got to go to the park.

 

 

 

 Then we went down to The Woodlands to check out build-a-bear.

 

 

 Santa was already at the mall, so we stopped in to see him.

 

 The Disney store!

 Back at home coloring.

 

 Reading with grandma.

 Pile on grandpa!