Trip to Houston

My sister and I thought it would be fun to take all the grandkids to see my parents for a week. Little did we know how much longer a trip would seem with 4 kids asking how much longer?? On the way down to my parents we thought we would stop half way and see our grandmother and aunts. The trip started out well until we got to the Oklahoma City area where Ben decided to throw up EVERYWHERE! He continued to throw up the rest of the way to Dallas...boy was that fun! Ben and I decided to stay in a hotel so we would not make my grandma sick in case he had something contagious. He was fine the next morning so we made a quick stop to see my Grandma and then went on to my parent house.We finally made it to our parent's house and were very glad to be there! We had a great trip and the kids had a great time playing together. I am pretty sure we wore Grandma and Grandpa out! The kids favorite thing was the Houston Zoo. They had a lot of fun seeing all of the animals and the fun things to do there! We will definately have to go back there the next time we go! We managed to make the trip home in about 9 hours and we are really glad to see Daddy!!!

Ben really love his MaMa and really was not to sure about the goats!

Daddy Daughter Fun

John took Bailey to their second Daddy Daughter Dance. This is a very special time for Bailey that she really looks forward too! She loves getting all dressed up and having Daddy take her out to eat and then to the dance. She thinks that she is a real big girl:) This is a great tradition that John has started with Bailey.

Bailey loved her flowers John got her!!

Dancing with some friends from school.

Benny Boy thought it was so funny that big sister was giving him kisses. The last picture captures the true little Miss Bailey:)

Happy Birthday Mama Elaine

Today is Mama Elaine's Birthday! The kids decided to make a card and Bailey wated to make sure that she had a nice birthday with a great party. We got to celebrate her birthday last weekend, but we still miss seeing her today! We hope you had a great birthday!

Ice Storm!

Yesterday the ice started to fall and is still falling today. We have not lost power yet and I am hoping we won't but it looks like we might. We have had a fun day playing around the house, watching movies and feeding the birds cereal on the sidewalk!

All of the white is ice not snow!

Fish Sitting!

Bailey got to babysit Mr. Rhett's fish while he was out of town one week. Bailey thought this was great fun and even renamed his fish Sugar! We ended up keeping Mr. Rhett's fish longer than a week and Mommy did not pay enough attention to how clean the water was and....the fish DIED!! Thankfully Bailey did not see and Mommy bought Mr. Rhett a new fish. I am not sure if Mr. Rhett will let us fish sit again:)

Fun Around the House

As Ben is getting older he is learning how to play more. Bailey loves to play with her brother. They find all kinds of things to get into:) I think Ben thinks he is just as big as Bailey!!

Ben's Bite

Right after Christmas Ben woke up with a small bite on his leg. By lunch time it was huge and we took him to the Dr. and he thought it was a brown recluse spider bite. Only time would tell...thankfully it did not get as bad as we thought it was going too. We are not sure if what kind of spider it really was but it was not pretty.

I know he will love me when he is older for taking this picture!

Holiday Fun

It has been so long since I posted last...sorry:) Things have been busy around here and I have just had no time to blog. We had a wonderful Christmas with both of our families. John's parents came over Christmas Eve and spent the night. After opening presents with them we went to Sand Springs to have lunch with my sister's family and my Mom and Dad. It was alot of fun to watch Bailey and Ben play with their cousins. They all had a blast! Bailey had been counting down the days for Christmas since Thanksgiving. She was alot of fun this year. She had alot of fun making cookies and waiting for Santa to come! She also had fun making a special birthday cake for Jesus and of course... it had to be pink! I hope all of you had a wonderful Christmas too!

Bailey and Daddy making cookies for Santa and PaPa helped her decorate them!