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Sunday, July 4, 2010

Santa and Santaland

In the post "Wonderland of Lights," I mentioned that Wesley and Jud have a special relationship with our local Santa. Jud grew up knowing "Santa," but hadn't talked to the man in a long time until the day that Wesley was born. Jud called "Santa" that day to tell him the news. We actually have pictures from the Christmas Parade 2008 with this "Santa." So, here's Wesley and Santa!

And, Jud and Santa.
And, the whole family with Santa.
Then, we took Wesley to Tyler to Santaland! This was lots of fun!! (Don't worry. Wesley stayed in his car seat until we got heading up the drive to Santaland.) Then, he helped Dad drive up to the entrance!

At that point, he sat in my lap going through all of it. Then, after wards, we went to the gift shop and he went back into his car seat for the ride home!!

Love,
Amanda

Attempted Christmas Pictures 2009

Are you loving all this talk about Christmas and snow in this 90 degree weather in July as much as I am?? So, here are our attempts for Christmas pictures! We had waited until the last minute, so we couldn't get an appointment any where around here. So, we brought my Nikon D40 over to my parents house to get my Mom to take some pictures for us. (My mom has this really beautiful tree!) But, Wesley was not interested in any of it!



We decided to give Wesley a break and take a couple of just Jud and I.

Wesley giving Mommy a kiss!Wesley playing with one of Mom's Santa Clause figures!

And, here was the final (and best) picture that we ended up with!!
We had a time fighting with Wes to get a good picture!! We ended up having to stand up with me holding Wes! But, I think this picture turned out pretty good!

Love,
Amanda

Friday, July 2, 2010

Wonderland of Lights!

If I haven't mentioned it before on here, my parents are great!! I don't always get along with them or even agree with them, but they are amazing parents and even better grand-parents. They are two people that I know will always love and back Jud, Wesley and I. We absolutely love them! And, they are always fun to do things with! For one of our numerous holiday outings, they decided that they wanted my younger sister, Jud, Wesley and I to go to Marshall with them for the Wonderland of Lights. This is beautiful (though not properly shown in my pictures) and lots of fun! Here is Wesley all bundled up ready to look at Christmas lights!


Here is the Marshall Courthouse all lit up! Isn't it beautiful with the horse drawn carriage out front?
This is the ice skating rink! I wanted to try it sooo bad, but I haven't been ice skating in years!!
One of the statues outside the courthouse!A fitness group dancing outside the courthouse. They were actually pretty great!


This was lots of fun! But, it was pretty cold! (Though, I'm kind of missing the cold now!) Santa Clause did make a visit out there, but there was such a line to see him that we chose to visit Santa when he came to our town! Plus, Wesley (and Jud) have a special relationship with our local Santa!! But, if you're ever in East Texas near Christmas, you should definitely go to Marshall to see the Wonderland of Lights!

First Snow

Snow......
In Texas?
YAAAAAYYYYYY!!! LOL! I've seen snow quite a few times over the years, but very, very little in Texas! This was Wesley's first time seeing snow. It wasn't much, but it was snow! He actually seemed to enjoy it!!


He enjoyed trying to chase Jud around in it!! (I love watching my husband and son together!)


This was to try to catch a picture of some of the snow flakes. That's my father-in-law's truck.
And, this Jud with Wesley and Jud's twin sister's little girl, Gracie over at my father-in-law's house.
The snow didn't stick, but it was pretty to see for a while!

November 2009

Ok, this is a small mixture of that last bit of November! Just a few pictures that I wanted to show, but didn't like the idea of two posts for just a few pictures!

First off, I crossed another number off of my 101 in 1001!!

16. Get a picture of Wesley on my Great-Grandfather's old porch. (This is around an hour and a half away from us.) I took these on the way back from Jud's uncle's house on Thanksgiving! My great-father passed away a few years ago, but he had been living with my Grand-mother for years now. But, I remember playing on this porch when I was little and, now I have a picture of my son on the same porch!

This is my favorite of the pictures!




And, this is my little sister with her nephew! They really love each other!

I really love these pictures!

Love,
Amanda

November Date Night

Does a sort-of group date count towards date night? Jud actually won tickets to see Zona Jones (Two Hearts, One Love), Earl Thomas Conley (It Should've Been Over By Now), and Tracy Byrd (Watermelon Crawl; Keeper of the Stars). My sister- and brother-in-law were both going and we came across an extra ticket, so my younger sister came with us. The concert was at our local rodeo arena, outside in November. This is my sis-in-law, Jamye, myself, and my little sister, Ashley.



This is Jud and I. It's an awful picture. I didn't wear any make-up!

This is Zona Jones. His song "Two Hearts, One Love" was the song that Jud and I chose for our first dance at our wedding!
Earl Thomas Conley. I had never heard any of his music until that night!

And, the main attraction, TRACY BYRD!! His song "Watermelon Crawl" always makes me think of my grandfather and my little sister together! They loved that song and used to dance around together during that song! Always fun!

This is one of our local deputies escorting Tracy Byrd from the rodeo arena!This was tons of fun!! I loved the music and getting to hang out with my sisters!! Ashley and Jamye aren't just my sisters, they are wonderful friends! And, Jud actually danced with me to "Keeper of the Stars!" Anyone that knows Jud, knows that he doesn't like to dance!!

How did I get so far behind??

So, like always, I'm behind on posting, except this time I've reached an all new description of behind!! I've still got pictures and things to post all the way from November!! Why does it matter to me to get caught up from that far? Because this is my way of remembering things and I want to get it down! There have been so many things that have kept my mind away from my blog, most of which will be explained in these future posts! So, please be patient with all of the catch up posts and with me!! Thanks!