Monthly Archives: December 2007

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Mat & Beth Photo shoot

December 30, 2007 – 8:07 pm
Yesterday I went out to the Hallows, near Lago Vista to take some pictures of the big Hames family. They were big like Rick’s family. 10 adults & 8 kids. That’s 8 kids 3 yrs old and YOUNGER. ha! I will post each family on the blog individually because there are so many good ones, and I don’t want to leave anyone out. This is Mat & Beth’s family, I just picked 5 of my personal favorites, but there are many many more. I had to limit myself. :) If you would like to see them all here is their link, just make sure to turn your volume on its pretty cute.








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The New "Tacky"

December 29, 2007 – 8:27 pm
Today I chose Carson to come along and run errands with me. He says the most funniest things out of the 4 kids. We were in a store looking at Christmas lights for the house for next year. Carson came across the solid green ones. He said “Oh Mommy, lets get Green!!” I said no I only want white on the house. He replied “But Mommy Green is the New Tacky”. Where did he get that? We don’t even use that word tacky.
Yes I believe so, maybe if we did green it would look a little tacky.
Later on he and I were having lunch together and I said “We’ve had a great day together” His response was “Yes, so when we go home we don’t have to spend any more time with each other”
It was so funny I had to call Rick and tell him.
I guess we reached our quality time quota for the day!

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Baby Its Cold Outside…

December 28, 2007 – 5:40 am
So I took down all of Christmas last night. I know, I know, its pretty early to do that, but really I was sick of seeing it all. And I bought some new stuff to decorate the house yesterday and so it was time to put it all up. Rick hung up new curtains for me & we rearranged the living room & it looks great! Now I just need to take some pictures to post for you all.
Tomorrow the kids and I are going up to Waco to spend the day with my cousin from FL who will be visiting Dallas for the long weekend. We are meeting halfway in Waco for lunch. It was going to be all of us, but Rick got the times mixed up and he has too many patients to reschedule. So it will be just me and the kids. Should be an interesting 2 hours. Especially since after our Houston trip on Sunday, Griffin has been saying “Mommy no more trips”. But lets just say thank you to the person who invented the DVD player for the car. Whoever that is, is a rock star. We just bought Charlotte’s Web yesterday, perfect timing. The boys and I just finished that chapter book a month or so ago and I really wanted them to see the movie. Its very cute by the way, we watched it this morning.
Here are some winter shots of Cooper by the window with frost on it. It was a whopping 21 degrees this morning in Austin. Burr to us!!


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Brown Family

December 27, 2007 – 2:32 am
These are our sweet friends that used to live a few houses down from us in The Woodlands. We became friends when we just had puppies (Maggie and their Ruby) and were pregnant with our first babies. I went back to the Woodlands this past weekend and did a photo shoot of their family. Here are a few of my favorites. If you want to watch the slide show of all their pictures here is the link, just make sure your volume is on. http://cozyimpressionsphotography.com/BrownFamily/



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Christmas Morning at our House

December 25, 2007 – 8:58 pm

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Twas The Night Before Christmas…

December 25, 2007 – 8:14 pm
This is what our house looked like after everyone went to bed.
The stockings were hung, all homemade of course! :)
The tree with all the loot…
Parker’s new bike from Buck’s Bike Shop, a little Della Cruz
Pink with Hawaiian flowers, its a mini beach cruiser. Its just precious!!

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Read Between The Mats

December 21, 2007 – 10:11 pm
On my Mom’s side of the family we draw names and give a gift to the person or couple that you choose. This year we had my cousin Doug & his wife Carla. Since they are newly married, they have all the kitchen goodies etc.. so I wanted to give them something really special. I went out and took pictures of letters in nature and spelled out their last name FRENCH and framed them. It turned out to be a beautiful creation. They will open it on Sunday at a family gathering in FL, I hope they like it! (they don’t read the blog so no worries on spoiling the gift for them)
This is also the same gift I made for the all girls gift exchange party back in early December. I spelled out LOVE. I just forgot to get a picture of it! ha!

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Leftovers

December 21, 2007 – 1:37 am

The other night Griffin said the prayer at dinner. We were having a leftover pasta casserole that night, they loved it the night before but this is how his prayer went.

“Dear God, Thank you for me, thank you for everybody. Please help us to get along, please help us to no talk during the prayer. Please help mommy not to make this meal again. Amen”

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Cooper turns 16 Months Old!

December 19, 2007 – 8:54 pm
Our baby turned 16 months old today….
16 things to know about Cooper
1.Cooper weighs 21 lbs 10 oz, and is in the 15% for his weight, he is tiny!!
2. He is 30 3/4 inches tall placing him in the 50% for height
3. Word count~ Cooper says 17 words!!
4. He has learned to make the noise of a truck, “brum brum”
5. Favorite thins to do: Eating, taking a bath and going “Bye Bye”
6. He thinks that any car that passes our house after nap time in the afternoon is “Dada”
7. Calls all food “More” when he is hungry he says “More” when he is thirsty he says “More”
8. Loves to “wrestle” Griffin onto the floor.
9. Has an obsession with opening doors, book pages & cabinets over and over again.
10. His attention span is longer than any other baby I know
11. He will stand at the table rolling a train around for at least 30 minutes
12. Loves to take a bath and has been known to sneak in & get back in the tub full of water with his pajamas on, yes this has happened more than once.
13. Cooper looks the most like Rick than any of our kids
14. Cooper’s personality is the most like Griffin’s
15. Says “night night” when he is tired and wants to go to bed, this is true, he is so easy!
16. Cooper is definitely a mama’s boy & if I am in the room, no one else can be holding him but his mama.





All photos were taken at the Anderson Mill park today

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Park Walking

December 19, 2007 – 8:08 pm
We took Cooper to the park and he walked and walked around. Here is a video of him, its much easier to see than the last one. He had a great time with his new found freedom.
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