Christmas

For Christmas we hosted a sit down dinner for some of Shawn's co-workers. It was a delightful time with lots of yummy, and slightly fancy, food. We even used our china!

For appetizers we had assorted cheeses with pear slices and walnuts, olives, cashews, and french baguette slices with mustard butter, bruschetta, asparagus, and cheese. Delicious!

For dinner we served orange glazed pork tenderloin, scalloped potatoes, steamed broccoli and cauliflower, and dinner rolls. (Sorry- no pics of the dinner.)

For dessert we has assorted christmas cookies (Cinnamon Stars, pecan balls), and trifle desert with chocolate cake and white chocolate pudding with crushed peppermints and topped with whipped cream. Shawn made chocolate covered strawberries and chocolate covered pretzel sticks. Yum Yum!

Sierra & her Turkey Day bib

Shawn's Motorcycle

Here are pics of Shawn's motorcycle that he purchased in the fall. It is a lot of fun!

more family

Ohio is so pretty in the fall. I love the changing of the leaves.

Lara has her military crawl down!

Abby, on the other hand, isn't quite as mobile.

Little Sierra is sleeping soundly - in her favorite position - arms out!

Sierra - I'm an Aunt!

Grandpa Mike & Sierra

Aunt Beth and Sierra

Momma Katie and Sierra

Daddy Brian and Sierra

I'm an Aunt!!! Sierra is about 7 weeks old in these photos... simply adorable!

Babies! & Family

Grandpa and Abby
Grandma and Abby

Melissa and one of her girls, Lara. Abby and Lara are twins.
Kristy, Noland and Aunt Kay
I went to see family in Ohio in October. These are some cute photos of my relatives :)

HOT Fair & Rodeo

The cowboys' ride on the horses and bulls is really fast paced, so we didn't get any good photos of your main rodeo events. But we did get some fun photos.... see below.
There was a huge "city" in the fair grounds. The painting/background was about 80 feet wide.
There is an event called "Mutton Bustin' " which small kids, around ages 4-6, ride on sheep. The kids are placed on the back of the sheep and they hold on as long as they can. The sheep are released and basically run toward the other sheep in the arena. Meanwhile, the kid is holding on, or really - the kid is sliding off the sheep, sometimes sideways! It was cute and the kids were all really excited.

We live in the region fondly referred to as the Heart of Texas. Every year in October Waco hosts the Heart of Texas Fair and Rodeo. This year I went to my very first rodeo!! It was really exciting and fun. Shawn and I went with some of my co-workers, one of whom used to ride in the rodeo so he was able to show us the ropes and explain everything. It was really cool!