The Walker Texas Rangers

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

One girl and all boys...

is what it seems like for Scarlet these days. She's surrounded by her brothers and their friends and...all of her little friends are boys too. She may look very girly but, when she opens her mouth she quite often growls and when it comes to toys she'll pick Star Wars, Nerf bullets, or any other toy that belongs to her brothers before she'll even glance at anything that resembles a girl:)

Truman always has a hand on Scarlet...maybe he's trying to claim her as his or, she's also been known to be used for standing or pulling up support...

Thanks for the photos Taryn:)

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Christmas in Utah 2009

(Note: Especially for family and friends that were apart of our Utah trip...our posts for this trip are three pages long so when you get to the bottom of this page click on older posts)

This past Christmas Break was spent running from party to party with family and friends in Utah. We 'LOVED' every minute of it and will not complain about the chaos even in the slightest because it's not always that we can be apart of these wonderful times with family and friends. I must say that I'm a little emotional writing this simply because I think this may have been the best Christmas I have ever had. The past three years we have spent Christmas in Houston for a number of reasons and though we have grown as a family and have created many wonderful memories with our Texas Friends it has also made me appreciate the times I am able to spend with our families in Utah. I feel very humbled and blessed to be apart of and loved so much by the families we have. I can't imagine life without them and spending this Christmas season with them was pure bliss. Thanks ya'll we love and miss you:-)

Dinner with the Wilson's somewhere down South

Oh man, Ash you're a gem for meeting us under such conditions. This day was crazy for our family. We had family pics. in Pleasant Grove which is 45 minutes south of where we live. The shoot started at 3:00pm and ended somewhere around 5:30pm. By the time we finished I don't know who was more exhausted the kids or us. But, we really wanted to see our good friends the Wilson's that we met while living in Arizona. Brandon and I weren't very familiar with Pleasant Grove but, managed to call Ashli and the kids (Randall was at the BYU game in Vegas...we were really nice and never gave him a hard time) and asked them to meet us at McDonald's in what we thought was Pleasant Grove. Ash drove from Springville and called us to say she was at the McDonald's in Pleasant Grove and we were not. We then turned to the girl next to us and asked without trying to feel too stupid, "Where are we??" It turns out we were in American Fork.

Needless to say Ash finally found us and we spent the evening hanging out and catching up. It's hard to believe that when we first met we only had Ethan and Jace between our two families. Now we have six kids and Ash is about to throw another one into the mix. Thanks for making time for us...we miss and love you:)

SIGMA Christmas Luncheon

Tara set up a Christmas Luncheon for our sorority on December 23rd and this is who was able to show up....Bonnie from Nebraska, me and Miss. Scarlet, and Tara from SLC. It actually was so nice to have it be just the three of us catching up on old times. At one point we were all roommates...oh the trouble we got ourselves into!! I know it was chaos for everyone right before Christmas. Hopefully next time Bonnie and I will be in SLC at the same time and we'll be able to see all the sista's.

Alyssa, Scarlet, Tara, Bonnie

Thomson Christmas Party

waiting for pics.

Tubing at Gorgoza in Park City

On Christmas Eve morning my sister Ashlyn, the boys, and B headed up to Gorgoza to go tubing. The original plan was to go skiing at Snowbird but, our first night in Utah I slipped and fell down my in-laws stairs...no big deal...I was just too sore to do any physical activities and in order to take our boys skiing for the first time we both needed to be there to assist. So, tubing was next on the list.

At one point Ash was talking to an old man and admiring is gloves. He turned to B and said, "She sure is cute...this one's a keeper". Brandon turned to him and said, "um, she's my sister-in-law." He wanted to say, "She sure is a keeper, she's my daughter." Instead the old man said, "well, she's still a keeper."

Ash, the boys had as much fun tubing with you as you did with them. We love you and are going to miss you soo much when you leave in March. Thanks for spending the day with them...you sure are a keeper:-)

Nielsen Christmas Eve Party

I LOVE Christmas Eve at my parents. They go all out by cooking all day. My dad loves to cook as much as my mom if not more. Most years he makes a Turkey, Ham, and Prime Rib (maybe Prime Rib is New Years...I don't know all the meats run together). This year they did Ham and Turkey and many many other yummy dishes. Probably my most favorite part about the evening is being together and how low-key everything is. We just hang out and relax. As for my dad, he probably relaxes once the dinner is done.