Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Christmas with the Griswald's...uh...I mean, Henson's

Bryan's parents, brother and niece came to over tonight to celebrate Christmas. As most of you know, I am not fans of his parents, but I was trying my best. After weeks of drawn out crap, they finally decided to come to make it a little easier on us all tomorrow. We will be in Seagraves for Bryan's extended family Christmas then off to Kerrville to be with my family. I know to not to expect much effort on his family's part, but I was hoping things might be different...yeah right.

To start off the evening, his parents were 2 hours late and come to find out, they stopped to do some shopping. What? We had plans people!!! Dinner was on the table, the girls had already eaten, and once I found out they were shopping, I decided not to wait on them. Needless to say, I was a little frustrated by them before they even arrived.
As usual, Bryan's dad was his cheerful self and didn't say a word at the dinner table. It is just akward to sit there with people who you know would rather be somewhere else. We finished dinner and everyone went to the living room. Except Bryan and me...afterall, we cooked all day, ate the cold dinner...why shouldn't we clean it all up by ourselves?

I did however enjoy letting the girls make reindeer food, it was quite messy and I am not sure if I will ever get all the glitter out of my house, but it was worth it! After everyone left, we drove around out neighbor looking at Santa Lights and tossing reindeer food out so that Santa would surely find our house!


Onto opening gifts...
The first packages handed out were not to the girls, but rather to Bryan, Brad and Mike. And can you guess what awesome gifts these were????? helicopters...thats right I said helicopters!! His parents acted like these were the greatest gifts ever and they flew them around my living room like 12 year olds.

So onto Braky Bear....
Braxtyn picked out her first gift to open..."Ooooo, Mommy...potato head, open it!" She had to put Mr. Potato Head together before moving onto her next present. #2 a magnadoodle! Braxtyn has been "eye-ing" Kenadi's since this summer, she is now a happy camper that she can draw like Kenadi. #3 CandyLand...I know we will have hours of fun with this! #4 Cars and Ratattouile from Uncle Brad and Ariah...love it! we watch both of these movies quite often on dvr. #5&6 A Dennis the Menace Christmas and Beethoven's Big Break...can you guess who these were from...thats right...his parents. They are right on target with 2 year olds. #7 a tv/dvd combo for brax's room. This gift was given by Bryan's parents. Why you ask they can suck it up so bad and then pull through with this gift? That's because we had picked it out to get for Braxtyn and they got it. Brax was so excited when she realized that she would be able to watch cowboy woody in her room!


The girls played while the guys flew their stupid helicopters, which by the way, Bryan broke within minutes. Money well spent guys. So here I sit, complaining about these people who I will forever have in my lives. I know I should be nicer, but they make it so hard. I should be packing because we are leaving tomorrow. We are supposed to be in Seagraves by lunch and I haven't packed a damn thing. I think I just might be atleast 2 hours late tomorrow! :)

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Christmas is on it's way!

We are getting ready for Christmas! We have decorated the tree, put lights out on the house, taken pictures with Santa and Braxtyn has even attempted to open presents! Our little baby is becoming a big girl and such a helper. Here are some pictures of our recent adventures.








Sunday, November 1, 2009

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

On Friday night we took a trip out to the corn maize. We didn't go through the maize but they had lots of other fun things to do. We took pictures in the cut outs, rode the cow train, visited some animals, went on a hay ride and picked pumpkins. My highlight was when Braxtyn was looking at the chickens and got a little close. One took her glove off and you would have thought her finger was missing! Thankfully, she wasn't hurt...it was super funny though! :)







Halloween night! I took Braxtyn down our street then we went with Tiffany, James and Kenadi to Wolfarth. The girls had lots of fun (that is, when Braxtyn wasn't screaming bloody murder for no apparent reasons).









Sunday, October 25, 2009

Kenadi came to play

Our neighbors, James and Tiffany, left Kenadi with us Saturday night as they went to watch the sad Tech vs A&M game. Even though the game totally sucked...we had lots of fun with the girls!
Brax and Kenadi watching football, it wasn't Tech but they both kept yelling "GO TECH!"

The colored on the magnetic board for awhile.

They decided to tackle me, for some reason.

I soon decided it was Bryan's turn to join in the fun!

Such silly little girls...

having too much fun!

Relaxing for just a moment.

Working very hard creating the colorful masterpieces.

brush em, brush em

Munching on some popcorn and taking in Toy Story.

Friday, October 23, 2009

The Pumpkin Trail

Lubbock debuted the First Annual Pumpkin Trail this week. There were hundreds of jackolanterns donated to luminate the trail. There were also hundreds of people in line to walk. We had about a 30 minute wait just to get on the trail and then we moved as slow as snails, it was all worth it though! Braxtyn oohhhhed and aawwwed at each one. Tonight just started off our pumpkin filled weekend. We are headed to the Corn Maize tomorrow to do lots of fun things but most importantly to go on the hay ride out to the pumpkin patch to get our very own pumpkins!




Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Fall Festival

Braxtyn's school had their Fall Festival this past weekend...here are a few of the fun things Braxtyn did.


Momma and Braky before


Daddy and Braky before


hummm...which duckie do I choose?


the ring toss...braky style...walk up and put them where you want :)


braky got a double t and a heart painted on her face


braky thought the best part was the candy! she was super proud of face paint and her pink pumpkin full of candy! she was however sad when we got home and the pumpkin ate all her candy! oh no!