Christmas Day

All 5 kids spent the night Christmas Eve, so we started the morning all doing our stockings together.  The kids’ big gift was a trip to Puerto Rico to visit my brother at some point this coming year.

Richard made me a blanket ladder for the living room that turned out perfect!!

My family arrived just before lunch so we visited, ate, opened gifts and then the kids played with all their new things.  My sister has a patient that designed the statues by the suspension bridge so we ran over there to take a selfie by them.

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve was filled with many stops throughout the day.

Stop #1 was at the McCaig’s house. The weather was great, so we ate and took a walk around their property while the boys played a little football and with some of their toys. We also opened gifts and played the dice switching game, which is always so much fun!

Stop #2 was at church for the Christmas Eve Candlelight Service. It was a nice addition to the day to be able to pause for a moment and worship the reason for everything we do during this month.

Stop #3 was at the Hollingsworth’s home. We ate dinner, opened gifts and scratched off lottery tickets. The kids won quite a bit of cash in the few tickets they scratched off. Then it was outside to play with their toys in the dark. What a fun filled day!!

Christmas parties

This season we have had a ton of Christmas parties to attend.  I love that over the years, we have made more and more friends in our little circle.  When I first moved to Waco, I infiltrated Richard's world, since he grew up here.  My word for that year was community because I wanted to make my own circles of friends, as well as circles of "our" friends.  7 years later I can say we have done that and these pictures remind me of that!  Each one of these parties represent people in our lives that we love and cherish and I am so thankful for each one of these groups!

A few sweet Axtell friends

Woodway friends

Our youth group Christmas Formal

We had a church staff party which included snowball and nerf gun wars!!

And we had a Table Top 24 gathering with great reflection over the semester and also some wild and crazy cup games!

Thanksgiving 2019

We spread Thanksgiving out over two days.  On Thursday we spent time with the Hollingsworths eating and watching football and playing games.

On Friday, we went to see the Pippens.  We ate again and watched Christmas movies and Amber's new kitten, which is entertainment enough!

We had a great break from school and sports and were able to enjoy family time with all the ones we love!

Cowboys Stadium

To end Teague’s football season, they were given the opportunity to play in Cowboys Stadium! I’m not sure who was more excited, Teague or Richard! The boys did a great job and most of all had a blast!  Teague got two touchdowns and even did the wobble in the end zone as his victory dance. It has been so fun watching him grow in his love and confidence of football. This day will be one these boys talk about for years to come!