Jason's brother, Brady just returned from a 2 year LDS mission in the Indianopolis, Indiana mission. Although he was sad to leave his mission, we were very excited to have him home! Not to mention it was a good excuse to get the whole family together and to bless the new twins into the family.

We had lots of fun with our nieces and nephews and just hanging around. Brady gave an amazing homecoming speech and the baby blessings were beautiful. And we have lots of great family photos to prove it!

 The whole family-reunited!!

 The siblings: Michael, Erin, Jason and Brady

 My cute husband-I had to include him :)

 Michael, Camie and Shay

 The New Babies: Baby Quinn and Baby John with Erin and Chris

 Cute kiddos

It was so fun to have a little photo shoot with all of these cuties. 

 Love this photo. Grandma and grandbaby.

 Uncle Brady and Baby Quinn. So happy to have him home!

Our other sweet niece, Miss Shayla- she is a bundle of fun.

Mini Apron Gal. :)

We had a great trip with family-mainly being entertained by our hilarious nieces and nephew and relaxing. Hopefully sometime soon we are all reunited again!

Thomas Family Christmas

We had such wonderful Christmases with families this year. First we saw the Thomas family in Utah for a mini Christmas and then again for a week after Christmas. 

Here are some pictures from our "mini Christmas":

 Our 14 month old niece, Shayla. Could she be cuter?

 She loved the bow but wasn't so interested in this present.

 She did like her bear that we got her, though!

 And this little apron to keep her clean. From her auntie, The Apron Gal. hehe

 Karen enjoyed opening presents....I think?

 Shay enjoyed climbing on presents for sure! haha

 With Uncle Jason

 Got Jedd and Karen some Texas attire! Represent!

 We love our new Bose already. We listen to music and read books.

We are very sophisticated despite what our awkward thumbs up may display to the contrary! Thanks K and J! [the originals not us]

 Shay enjoying the Christmas aftermath. lol

Reading scriptures with Daddy before bed. precious. 

Then after Christmas we spent a week in Idaho. We went shopping, saw Mission Impossible, visited Idaho Falls and ate some delicious Olive Garden, watched lots of football and basketball and just relaxed. A lot. It was wonderful, so wonderful that we didn't take one picture until our final night with the cousins. 

 Cousins Brit and Addie

Silly boys

Love these ladies! Addie and Aunt Jan

Anyways, I am so lucky to have such a great family of in-laws. I lucked out to not have 2 great families of my own but now a 3rd great one too! 

Next time we will be better at taking pictures I promise!

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving and Texas just go together to me. Lots of good food, family and perfect fall weather. Not to mention smoking the turkey, fall leaves and mule rides. 

Jason and I drove up to Dallas on Tuesday night and after sitting in 5 hours of traffic, arrived safely, albeit tired. 

Wednesday we ate some delicious Mexican food, smoked the turkey and just hung around before prepping for Thanksgiving. 

 This is why I love my brother. And my handsome hubby.

Gorgeous Sunsets and perfect fall weather!

We had a great Thanksgiving meal and it was so fun to catch up with family. 

I only got pictures of half of the attendees but of all the kiddos, hehe.

 Grandpa Wes and Emma

 Grandpa Wes, Emma and Grammy C

 Is this the sweetest picture you have ever seen? MeeMaw and Baby Broxton

 Lawson with Baby Broxton

 Grammy C, Amber and Emma

 Can you see the resemblance???

Jay and Kimmy. They both provide lots of entertainment :)

We even hit up Target on Black Friday and it wasn't too crazy!! 

Lawson had fun in the toy aisle.

 O and Dave let Jason drive the Corvette! Thanks Dave!

It was quite a ride! Jason definitely wants one now...

We had a great Thanksgiving trip and it was so wonderful to see such great friends and family. We are thankful for all of our loved ones at this time of year. 

Happy Thanksgiving!

Cuties

Since we only have 2 days left here in Dallas, I thought I would show one of my favorite things about this summer-getting to get hang with three little cuties!


We went to see Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth! And I think it really was!

 They had 8 tigers!

We had a blast at the circus!

We also had fun making treats!

[don't mind me sans makeup after the pool...]

I think Addy liked the popsicles!

Emma was the best helper for making krispie pops. 

See the recipe at The Apron Gal. 

We had a great summer! We love our nieces and nephew!