Christmas

Here are a few pictures from our visit with the Richmonds.. always good to see them!!

 

Our next Christmas was with Grandmaw, DziaDzia, Aunt Deb, Uncle Jon & Avery.  We all met at church and then came to our house for so Rudy's BBQ and presents!!

 

 

 

After they left it was time to put out the cookies and get ready for SANTA!!!!  We woke up early to see what he brought us.  Zach was pretty excited about his new bike and all the other things he got.  Brenden I think was excited to get money.. what more would a college kid want.. right.. Macy was excited to play with the wrapping paper.  We all also got new Sam Houston "Sammy" Tervis cups. 

 

 

 

Brenden left after we opened presents and Zach & I went to my aunt's house to celebrate with my dad's family.  We had a great time getting to see all of them.

Macy

Tim and I kept a big secret from Zach for one of his Christmas presents this year.  As you may remember we lost our baby Zoe in August after Zach's birthday, well the vet told us that we would need to wait for at least 3 months before we bring a new puppy home because of what she thought she had.  So we did as we were told and one night after Zach went to bed as I was pinning a beagle picture to my Pinterest board I looked over at Tim and said could we get one of these for Christmas?  He looked at me and said I will call the lady tomorrow.  He called the same lady that we had bought Zoe from and she said she had a set of puppies that were ready then but we wanted to wait to give him a puppy for Christmas so I called her back and talked to her about maybe holding her until then and she said she would but that she had another set of puppies that would be ready about a week before so we decided that might be better so she emailed us a bunch of pictures of all of the litters she had.  We looked through them all and looked at each other and said maroon.. (She takes pictures of all of them behind different backgrounds)

So we emailed her and let her know that we wanted Zoey's tri color that was in the maroon background.  I thought it was only fitting that we got her from a Zoey.  We decided to pick her up on Sunday before Christmas.  It's funny when we decided she was our baby I had saved this picture to my phone and one day Zach looked in my phone and goes.. Ahhh I want her.. and I told him that I was sorry but she was someone else's that they wanted me to see her. and he said but I want a new puppy.. and I told him so did I but we couldn't have her... he goes.. ok.. daddy said we can get one in the Spring.. and I said that's right we will have to wait until then.  Then the day before we go and get her Tim tells Zach that he can open one present the next day.. well Zach was so excited about that and so the next morning we get up and tell him to get dressed and we all get dressed and Tim finds him looking under the tree picking out which gift he was going to get to open.. Tim told him that his present wasn't under the tree.. He wasn't sure what to think about that but he went with it.  So we get in the truck and travel to Dimebox, Texas a little north of Giddings.  When we get there Tim tells the son that we were there to pick up a puppy but I made sure Zach didn't get out at the same time so he didn't here anything.  So we go back to where they keep the puppies and he takes us to the cage where our baby was and pulls her out and gives her to Zach and he looks at us and Tim says she's yours.. this is your present.  I tell you he was in shock.. it was so cute!   We knew he would be excited and he didn't disappoint.

 

As you can see she loved him too.. He made sure to put her in his lap and she feel fast asleep.

 

 

On the way home we talked about names we talked about a few names and ended up going with.. Macy.  I wanted to spell it Macie but Zach wanted to spell it with a y. 

 

We got her home and she seemed to fit in right away. 

 

 

 

 

We are very excited to have her as part of our family.  She is super sweet and loveable.

 

 

 

Christmas at Granny & Paw-Paw's

This year we did things a little different.  Ususally we go to my dad's family and mom's family on Christmas day but since Christmas fell the way it did my Aunt and Uncle wanted to come the weekend before so we all met up at my Granny and Paw-Paw's on Saturday.  We also got lucky enough to have my cousin come in from Georgia which is always good.. I've been trying to convience her to move down here but we haven't gotten lucky yet.. I will keep trying!!  Anyways, it was a great time had by all.. we were missing a few cousins but otherwise we were all there to be with my grandparents.  We had great food and desserts (my favorite part).  Zach also got to take his first Limo ride which he thought was pretty cool especially since his DziaDzia was driving it (my great uncle owns it and thought everyone might want to go for a little ride).  It was great to see everyone since we usually only get to see them once a year. 

Our Tree

I love the pictures of the christmas trees and the kids next to them.. I did some last year with Zach and decided to do a few more this year.  I love how the lights are so bright.. still need to work on getting better light on Zach but I still like them.

 

 

Merry Christmas!

Ok so this is a few days late.. but I wanted to make sure to tell everyone Merry Christmas!  Zachary drew this and I thought he did a great job!  I scanned, printed and hung up in the house. 

Christmas party at school

I took off to go to Zach's school Christmas party today.  This was the first time they allowed more than 2 parents in the classroom (we have a new Principal).  The PTO had cookies and juice for all of them since we can't bring any homemade things since kids can be allergic and they also provided a crafting activity for them.  His teacher also had a few things for them to do.  She had a worksheet for them to work on with a partner where they used all of their math skills to figure out how to help the gifts from the 12 days of Christmas.  Then she had brought a bag full of trinkets from her house and gave all of them one.  They played the left and right game (where she read a story with left and right and they would move the trinkets as she read).  Zach started out with a lollipop ordainment and ended up with a candy cane.. he was happy.  Finally they did their craft which was a felt design they could color and add a magnet to.  I think all of them had a good time and enjoyed their selfs.

Before we left she took down they Santas that they had did it class.. Here is Zach's.. isn't he cute!

Zachary the Deer Slayer

This year Zach has been practicing hard to get his first deer.  We have taken him to the lease twice already and not seen anything for him to get but that all changed Saturday morning.. Tim decided to let his dad take him to the stand..he had been waiting to go with Zach all season but wanted to wait until after he had gotten his first one but Tim decided maybe it would be neat for him to shoot his first with his Paw-Paw. 

Tim came and woke me up and told me to get dressed and come with him.  He told me he got two!  He got the doe first at 7 then stayed around and got the buck an hour later.  When we got to them Zach had a smile so big and he couldn't wait to tell us how he got his two deer.  First we got the doe on the truck it was close where we could get to it then we drove close to the buck but had to get him out with the 4-wheeler.  I tell you what all 3 of those boys (they were all like little boys) were just smiling. 

 

 

Ok this next picture well I had to put it in Zach on his 4 wheeler bringing in the deer (don't worry his Paw-Paw actually drove it in to camp..)

 

Nanny was so proud!  He was telling her all about it.

 

 

 So proud of my little boy!!  He is growing up too fast! 

 

Christmas Card 2012

Here is our newest Christmas Card.. I think it is cute.. made it in PhotoShop myself with a picture I got off of the app Pocketbooth - it takes photos like a photo booth.. I love it.. these pictures were done before a Sam Houston Game while we were tailgating.

 

 

Zach with Santa

This past week we marked one thing off of our holiday list.. seeing Santa!  Zach was excited to tell him what he wanted this year.. and what did he ask for?  a Drum Set and a skate board (what he really wants is this) So we will see what he gets from Santa...

Texans game for my birthday

I few months back I found out that the Texans were going to have a home game on my birthday so when Tim asked me what I wanted for my birthday I told him tickets to the game.. I never dreamed that that would actually happen but he got them in the bullpin!!  Which is where all of the crazy fans have tickets.  We got there early so we were able to watch them warm up which was fun since we went all the way down to the first row.  It was a great game and we won!! I can't think Tim and Zach enough for a great day!

 

Trick or Treat

Zach had a couple of friends go with him to trick or treat.. this was the third year we had Eric and Erin come over to go trick or treating with him.  We always pick up some Chick fil a so we can all eat a bite and then it is off to see how much candy they can get in their bags. 

 

Gram-maw and Dzia Dzia came to see us too and we got to give Gram-maw a cake, card and gift for her birthday.

 

Happy Halloween!!!!