Vacation Time....

Well at the end of '08 Bryan still had over 3 weeks vacation that we needed to burn. So he took a week off for Thanksgiving, and over 2 weeks for Christmas. We had some beautiful weather the whole time he was on vacation, and spent some great time as a family. Here are a some pics from a few of the things we did!


We decided to take the girls sledding Texas style! They LOVED it! It was a little unplanned so obviously Payton wasn't dressed for it, but she was right there with Daddy and Madie and was fearless! We sled down that hill on cardboard for hours, and only left because we all needed a potty break! LOL!

All by herself, Mommy was nervous!

Daddy and his girls!

Before their first run.

The same day we took the girls "sledding" we went on a miniature train ride. Payton loves choo choo trains, and both Madie and Bryan were upset they couldn't go with Payton and I last time we went.

Madie loved using her camcorder/digital camera to record as we were passing everything

KING TUT!! We took Madie to the King Tut exhibit at the Dallas Museum of Art. We all really enjoyed it. They had so many artifacts, most never seen before, and will never be on display again. I never realized how many items fit into their tombs. They had the canister that they stored his liver in, his baby's casket, items he ate with, and tons of other things. I highly recommend this exhibit, and recommend paying the little extra for the audio tour. It is leaving soon and won't ever be on display again, so check it out!!

Madie thought this was way cool.

Family Pics 2008

Here are our family pictures that we had done. We used an AWESOME photographer, Holly Stover with Mom and Me Photography. We chose to do our shoot at the canal in Las Colinas, and they turned out wonderful. We had something like 235 pictures to choose from, so I just chose a few to post here. The morning we actually had them scheduled it was like 32 degrees outside, and Payton wasn't thrilled, but I think Holly was still able to get some amazing pics. I can't wait to do them again in the spring. I am going to do one sitting with the whole family, one for Payton for her birthday in all her tutu's, of course all girly. With Madie for her birthday I told her she could pick out what she wanted to wear, within reason, and do what she wanted to do for hers. So we should have lots of pics posted in the near future since the girls birthdays are only a week apart. I hope you enjoy!

A Night At The Races....

I can't believe I forgot to post about the world finals. Well, in October we took Madie to the world finals in Ennis. Madie hadn't been to Ennis since Bryan and her went to top fuel a while back, so she was SUPER excited. We were able to go down through the pit and take a look at all the cars. Of course once we got to the junior dragster she begged for an hour for me to let her start racing now. For some reason I don't think she is going to accept no forever, ugh! Bryan's friend Scott was there so he made Madie a "tar ball". Basically he got under a car and wiped the tread off from them doing burn outs, and he made it into a ball for her. She thought it was super cool, and that thing sat on our bar for weeks. It was a very long night, I think it wrapped up around 2am, but we all had a blast.

This was Madie and Bryan's favorite car. The "ball"

My attempt at getting a pic of the jet car, I knew there was no chance.