What a way to finish 2008!

I wanted to post some exciting news! What a Happy New Year when you find out your nephew proposed to his girlfriend Leslie on New Year's Eve. We are overjoyed and are excited she's going to be a part of our family! Congratulations Donnie and Leslie!

Annual cookie bake...

Every year my sisters and I along with my mom and my nieces get together and bake cookies. We bake so much that every year we say the same thing..."let's not make so many differnt kinds next year",and ofcourse everyone agrees but we never seem to remember. This year we held our event at my nieces home because we could utilize two ovens and we even got my nephew and his girlfriend involved rolling out sugar cookies. It was a lot of fun! As usual we had cookies overflowing everywhere and I couldn't wait to divide and deliver to ensure I didn't eat to much myself!

Christmas Time in Omaha...

Well this year we stayed in Omaha for Christmas and we were blessed with a white one. That hasn't happened in awhile. Scott and I both agree that we enjoy the snow especially during the holiday season but when the holidays pass so should the snow! Macey has learned to like it and can't wait to play in it and she especially enjoys the hot cocoa afterwards.

When we stay in Omaha for Christmas we put up two trees...one is mine and the other one is Scott's & Macey's. They decided to start that tradition because they believe I won't let them decorate mine...come on, do you really believe that?

Macey sang in the Children's Christmas choir this year and did a fantastic job, we were very proud of her. She got up every Saturday to go to church and practice.

Christmas morning was wonderful, I had told Macey the night before to get a good night sleep and not to wakeup to early. She was so worried about getting coal in her stocking this year, that when she did wake up in the morning (at 8 am) she went and checked her stocking right away...she came running back down the hall to wake us up and said "You guys wake up, wake up Santa was here and he didn't leave me any coal in my stocking and he left me two big presents under the tree! He even ate my cookies and drank my milk and left me a note too!" I wish I would have seen her face when she walked out there to check...it was a blessed Christmas.

Here's a few more good ones...

Casey enjoying his new birthday present!

Let's talk Thanksgiving 2008

We were certainly thankful for the wonderful time we had with family over the Thanksgiving holiday. It's always fun getting together with everyone and ofcourse enjoying all the yummy food!!! Macey and her cousin Tatumn had some extra quality time together at their Meme's...and they had a blast! We had our Turkey day dinner at Scott's sister's house. Karen and Randy provided us lots of family, food and fun entertainment!! I've added some of my favorite memories to share. Did I mention the weather was the BEST. Thanks Karen & Randy it was great!

Let's Play Catch-up!

Yes I know, I'm very very bad at keeping this blog up...and I am truly sorry to my loved ones, you know which ones I'm referring too, yeah you!! I'm going to try and touch on the highlights of the last few months...by the way, there are a lot of them! I've learned a lot about my extended family from playing Apples to Apples...I might just share a little.