Merriest of Merry Christmases

...to you!

Mamas and Babies...

go together. I came across this sweet boy playing with the Nativity...I heard Mary "saying", "My babee, my babee." to which baby Jesus answered back, "Aye yav yoo!"



Way. Too. Cute.

According to Abby

Perhaps you haven't met...this is Grampa Rob. His hobbies include sitting on his pink plastic couch and petting his horse that actually whinnies when you push on its head.

This paper sculpture was recently bestowed on me with great pomp and fanfare. After offering the appropriate accolades and "ooo"s, I ventured several guesses as to what it is...nope, wrong, no, nope again---"Moooom, it's a tummy ache!"

The Rest of Thanksgiving

Okee dokee, quick, before it's Christmas, here's the rest of Thanksgiving! :) Playing in the...snow? Hmmm...I thought this was TX? Yup--snow all day! We felt right at home!

The turkey was all snuggly warm in the fryer! (Grampa Rob, manning the fryer, however? Not so snuggly warm.)

Gramp Rob, warm again!

Add a trip to Chuckee Cheese, a little skee ball with Uncle Rick, pizza, shopping, Jeopardy-the-one-you-play-at-home (I'm NOT a trivia game fan at all, but this one--super fun!), and almost a whole week of being in bed before 9:30, and there you have the recipe for a fantastic Thanksgiving Week '07. Thanks so much, Rob and Pat, for your hospitality and everything!

Chip off the ol' block...

Sweet dreams, boys...

Woot!

Woot, lookie here! I found a moment, sitting in front of my computer, with a charging part thingy plugged into the wall and working ok, with nothing else that HAS to be done exactly this moment! Like the new look of the blog? I'm not sure about it-a little...plain or blah or something--I'm sure I'll change it out again before too long.

So, I know I won't have time to do a full run-down right now, so catching up will have to happen in bits and parts over the next little while.

Thanksgiving! Our annual pilgrimage to Abilene usually includes a trip to Abilene Zoo...we say hi to the flamingos...

(Aren't these pics of the fam walking together fun? I'm sure I've got 500 that all look the same...)

Happy Thanksgiving Mr. Bear!

Gotta pay a visit to the stars of the show, the giraffes...SO fun to feed them! Abby's not brave enough, but lucky for her she's got a brother who fears nothing! She handed him the crackers and he poked his little hand through the fence with the offering...out came the loooong black tongue, and the squeals and giggles started. Alex got a giraffe kiss a time or 2...Abby would say, "Here Alex! Do it again, here's another cracker!"

Happy Thanksgiving, Giraffes!

We tried to feed the ducks, but this is what we found:

FISH! Apparently they figured out how the ducks were getting so fat and came looking for their fair share of hook-free food. Gross. I've never seen so many fish in the same place before, and being so weird! There were hundreds of them--these pics aren't even getting them all.

And that was our Abilene Zoo Trip of '07! I'll be back with the rest of the trip and other odds and ends! I hope you're all enjoying your weekend!

What????

December? Really? Oh my cows!

That snuck up! Sorry for the lack-o-post. I've been having issues with my computer charger part thingy. So I'm never sure if I have a charge, or if I can get one, or when the computer will die and stuff. And I'm just plain behind in general, uh, as usual.

The biggest thing I'm behind on (which makes ME a BIG Behind, if you know what I mean) is thanking the Chastains, Sr. for a wonderful, wonderful Thanksgiving week. We enjoyed our time so much, the kidlets are still talking about it, and already looking forward to the next time we can be together. (I've got the pics to prove the goodtime part, but I've got to transfer them to another computer so I can be confident that the computer won't shut down in the middle of uploading them to Blogger.) Thank you, thank you, thank you for the hospitality, food, rest, and general fun-ness--all of it was just exactly what the doctor ordered. Thank you!

And now...back to being behind. Or A behind, whichever...