January and so forth...

So, I'm five months behind on this little family blog. I guess life got in the way and I got so far behind, I assumed there would never be a chance to catch up. I'm gonna fly through the last few months and try to get back on track. 

Dave and his brother and dad took their annual quail hunting trip in the hill country.

 We celebrated Anna Lou's awesome teacher's birthday!

 sister snugs

HP football banquet

 Graham's grand prix race at preschool.

 Boone first trip to mall indoor play area. Poor third kid.

 The boys at HP Meet the Scots.

 Wendi and I met in Austin for IF:Gathering, a women's conference. It was incredible! Loved running into Audrey Ryon!!

 Saw Jen Hatmaker by that bathroom and snagged a pic.

While in Austin, stopped by to meet baby Wade Brown!

 While I was in Austin, Daddy was manning the fort at home with a freezing cold soccer tournament!

 The was G finally smiling after a long battle of sickness!

December...

whew! just can't seem to stay caught up with the blog! December is always crazy but such a fun time of year! Anna Lou did a little cheer performance on "club night" at her school. 

 We dropped off our Operation Christmas Child boxes at church.

 Got the Christmas decor out and tried to find a new place for everything for our first Christmas in Dallas. 

 We've hung these stockings on three different mantles in three years. Here's to hoping the stay put for a while!!!

 Wendi, Jenise and I have been training for a half marathon. Part of our training was a 15K in Houston. Dave and I made it a little weekend getaway and left the kids with Honey and Papa. We all train on our own, but keep up with each others runs on the Nike App. It was so fun to finally run together! Some other friends joined us in Houston.

 Extremely proud of my sis training for her first real race!

 Sic Em Santa.

After the race in Houston, we hit the road to Waco for the Baylor vs. Kansas State game. My Horned Frog husband was rather impressed with McLane Stadium and was SUCH a great sport with his BU hat!

Up close and personal with the Walk of the Bears! Some of our favorites...Hagar, Coach Briles and Petty!

 Tailgating fun!

 So the Bears won that day and Frogs won that day, which the Big 12 called Co-Champs. We all know who the real champions are;)! 

 Gingerbread house making/eating.

 Honey and Papa took us to the Gift of Christmas at Prestonwood which was amazing!

 I helped at AL's school for some activities about snow. We made snowman snacks, snow play dough and read "Snowman At Christmas."

 We waited in line with the other crazies at North Park to see Santa. 

 Back of the camera pic.

 Graham was the Little Drummer Boy in the preschool nativity. He nailed it!

 Preschool Cuties

 G's fan club

 We finished AL's fall soccer season with a Christmas bowling party.

 School was out and we headed to Houston to see our Houston fam.

 Seven Hall babies,

 MiMi and PawPaw's 14 grandchildren.

 Sunday morning heading to church and we didn't know AL was coming down with the flu. yikes!

 AL bounced back from the flu pretty quick. Daddy took these monkeys to the movie so I could pack for our trip and wrap Christmas presents.

 Visiting Mema on Christmas Eve.

Santa brought plenty of goodies and we had a wonderful Christmas morning together.