Snow and Sick Days

Audrey and I have been home all week because she has been sick. We took her to the Dr. Monday and she has RSV and an ear infection. But you couldn't tell from these pictures. She sure does put on a show for the camera :) And the past couple of days we have been snow/iced in. Well, not D. He thinks he can drive in anything since he is from Nebraska. But the girls and all the dogs have been housebound. It's been fun.

Audrey at 8 months

Here are some recent pictures of Audrey. 8 months old - can you believe it? She is teething if you can't tell from the poor little rash on her face. She got one cute little tooth on New Year's Day. I wish they would come in all at once but the others are taking their sweet little time.

We dressed up in purple for the LSU game.

Here is Audrey all bundled up for her first snow day

And here she is exploring a new world from a standing up position

My Friend Mandy

Kelly's Korner is a fun blog I read and she is having a little "blog party" to introduce all her single friends. She is asking everyone to post about their single friends in hopes that some of them can meet up. It made me think of my single friend Mandy and while I normally don't do stuff like this I thought Mandy would be worth it.

So here is a little bit about Mandy...I met Mandy in college and to know her is to love her. Seriously. She is just the kind of laid back, fun, kind person that everyone loves. She moved to the DFW area to teach but she is a small town girl at heart. She is currently working on her Masters degree in education.
Mandy has a great family that she is very close to and is the beloved aunt to two neices. Mandy likes to travel all over with her friends, loves country music and goes to all the good concerts in the area, likes the Texas Rangers to name a few of her interests. This all sounds so cliche and corny but she is such a loyal and amazing friend and really has the sweetest heart. So there you go....that's my wonderful friend Mandy who I love so much!

Christmas 2010

Our Christmas was filled with so much family fun. We spent it with the fam in BR.
Audrey and her Uncle Johnny

Aunt Dana and cousin Kate

Sleeping with Gramps

Sweet cousins Cole and Kate

all the cousins and Uncle Jonathan

Aunt Julie and Redneck Uncle Mikey

Christmas morning before all the craziness began

Grandma and Grandpa and all their grandkids

Thanksgiving 2010

So long overdue but here is my Thanksgiving post. Audrey was about 7 months old at Thanksgiving and it was a perfect age to travel with her. We flew to Omaha and then drove about an hour to Lincoln to D's sister's house. I was so nervous about flying with Audrey but on the flight up there she slept pretty much the whole time.

Here is a picture of Audrey on her first plane ride.

Here is Audrey having fun with her cousins Hayden and Samantha.

Audrey and D's sister Angie - the hostess for the weekend

Audrey was constantly entertained by her cousins. She had so much fun.

Here is the whole crew of cousins: Alex, Eric, Samantha, Hayden, Audrey, Nick and David

Audrey loved this puppet duck that quacked out a song. Anytime she would start to cry one of the cousins would run over with the duck and start playing it for her and she would stop fussing. Thanks to Aunt Angie, Audrey got one for Christmas :)

All the boy cousins went to the Nebraska football game the day after Thanksgiving. It has become a tradition in the family and the boys love it. Some years the girls have gone but this year we decided to stay in the warm house and watch the game on TV.

Since we flew out of Omaha we made time on our trip back to stop in and see the Landrum's and their new house in Omaha. This was the first time that any of us had met Claire and she was so precious. Claire is about 6 months older than Audrey so it is fun to see where Audrey will be in a few short months.

Tough Guy Blake

And I didn't get a good picture of Andrew but I can't leave him out.

So thankful for our family and friends!

Halloween 2010

For Audrey's 1st Halloween she dressed as a giraffe. She had fun walking around outside in her costume with her neighbor friend Emily and then she handed out candy to all the trick or treaters who came around. She is really into wrappers now a days. There was a little bag of reeses pieces that kept her entertained for 30 minutes. Here she is in her cute little giraffe costume that her mom forgot to button at the bottom :)

And here is Audrey at her daycare Halloween party. All the kids in the infant room were dressed like this and it was hilarious!

Renaissance Wedding

We took a little road trip down to Houston for my dad's cousin's wedding. They got married at the Renaisssance Fair outside of Houston and it was a fun weekend to meet up with all my family. Here are some pictures from the weekend...

audrey loves being outside so it was fun to stroll her around on a beautiful day

julie and mike

fun cousins

julie and audrey

the fam

more sweet fam