Little Orphan Annie

Christmas Lights

I got the kids all excited to go and see the "lights" at the Tech heritage center. Well it turned out to be a few lights- not Christmas lights- on a path in the dark that led into some small houses- the houses were actually pretty cool and we did end up getting to the Hot Coa-Coa which Taven couldn't stop talking about after about two hours on a freezing trail with the kids. I guess it was still a memory!

Taven and Brandt

Taven thought that it was pretty cool that he and Brandt had the same shirt!

Smiley

Berkley is full of smiles these days. That is unless she is bundled up in the freezing wind!

Dancer Girl

Aspen has been taking a small community dance class. For her last lesson they performed a small Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer dance, it was really cute! She seems to like dancing and we are planning on putting her in another class this January

THANKSGIVING

This Thanksgiving was a ton of fun. We went to Ry and Heathers house in Temple, TX. Our kids had a blast playing- although we noticed there can be too much time with cousins- they got a little tired out after a couple of days so we went home a day early to keep everything cool!

We visited a town called Salado (I think that is how it is spelled). There was a really cool little stream/river that we all played in. We couldn't believe that it was November 21 and we were barefoot- others were bare naked- swimming in a river. It was a blast!

The next day was Ry's Birthday the big 28, which just happened to fall on the same day as Thanksgiving. We had a great meal early in the afternoon and went outside for a little rumble football "smear the queer" style. The crazy thing is that it was freezing cold! We went from swimming in the river one day and the next day we were as bundled as we could get in our winter gear. CRAZY! The babies didn't like it much so we took them on a short walk- the wind was really strong so they didn't like that either!

Next it was inside for a round of X-Box we laughed, and played games and just had a ton of fun being with family. It is still really crazy to see family and realize just how much you miss being around them all the time. I hope that we will be able to see more of everyone but who knows what life will bring.

TAVEN STRATTON REED

Wow what a big man! Taven has grown up alot since he started Kindergarten. He has become such a big boy, he is reading some small books and loves to show off his new skills. He has a great teacher Mrs. Wood, and does music, P.E., and gets to take a lunch to school sometimes! We just finished soccer, Taven really improved and was one of the better players on his team "The Tornados" We loved to watch him run and get into it. I didn't think that he had a very competitve spirit, boy was I wrong. He wants to win, and when he doesn't win he wants to practice to get better. MMMM I wonder where he gets that from? (DADDY!!!) He is a great big brother and takes good care of his baby sister Berkley. I couldn't ask for a better, sweeter, more loving, with a streak of "leave me alone!" son.