Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving 2009

We have a lot to be thankful for this year! The Lord has blessed us with a beautiful baby girl, Maggie. She was 5 weeks old the day after Thanksgiving. Hunter is also such a wonderful blessing! He is so much fun! Who ever said 2 year old were terrible didn't know Hunter! He is amazing! He makes us laugh everyday! I am so thankful for my loving husband who works so hard at his job and is such a wonderful daddy to our kids. We also have an amazing family! Hunter's grandparents and aunt and uncle are the best! We are truly blessed!

This year the we hosted thanksgiving at our house! It was really nice to not have to travel for a change. Grumpy, Nanna, Nie-Nie and Uncle David came to celebrate with us. We had a great time. We took a few pictures as you can see below with them. They also gave us an early Christmas gift...a new kitchen table! We love it!

Another big blessing is 2 of our dear friends had babies...on the same day!! The Etter's had baby Owen and the Hay's had baby Logan on Tuesday and were able to go home on Thanksgiving. They are both such sweet friends. We are so glad to have them in our lives.

Here is Maggie's boyfriend, Owen Lee Etter, with his Daddy, Mitchell! The Etter's are such sweet friends! We love them and are so excited to finally see Owen!!!

Here is Maggie in her tu-tu!

Hunter and his Nie-Nie

Hunter and Uncle David, sometimes called "Uncle Dabid"

ICE

ICE The Grinch at The Gaylord Texan

Honey took us to the Gaylord on our way back to Abilene to see ICE. It was a lot of fun. Hunter loved it! It was 9 degrees inside, but it really didn't feel that cold. Hunter looked so cute in his XL jacket! :) He wanted to get his hands out but we couldn't even reach them. When we walked in it was snowing! Hunter thought that was awesome! :) We have read him the Grinch and he has seen the movie, so he remembered who he was. He really liked Max the dog. Near the end there was a big ice slide. I didn't know if Hunter would do it or not, but he did! And he loved it! We had such a great time! Maggie slept in my jacket. I think she was warmer than all of us! We had a great time! Afterwards we watched the movie and Hunter got a rice crispy treat and then it was back to the road. Thanks Honey for taking us! We really enjoyed it! We have been reading the Grinch every night since then! :)

All this was ice!!

Here goes Hunter down the ice slide!

Here we all are...Honey, Hunter, Katie & Maggie (in the coat) :)

Hunter driving the train.

Mommy and Maggie

Trip to Honey and Coaches' house

Maggie watching her big brother play in the sand.

Waving Hi! :)

Hunter doing what he loves to do at Honey's throwing rocks!

Playing in the messy sand! He's such a boy!

So cute! :)

This past week Hunter, Maggie and I were in Gainesville with my mom. We had such a great time just relaxing at her house and playing in the sand. Hunter loves being at Coach and Honey's house. He loves playing at his sand table, going to see the goats next door, riding his tricycle, and throwing rocks. He and my Mom hunted bears, dragons and who knows what else outside. He has such a great imagination. Maggie had a good time, too. Thank you Mom for having us all week. And for taking us to get ice cream almost every night! :)

Halloween

I am so sorry this is so late, but I wanted to post a few Halloween pictures of the kids. We had a great day. Normally on Halloween we carve pumpkins and just hang out with friends, but this year since Maggie was only a week old we didn't carve any pumpkins :( We will have to do it next year! :) This was Hunter's first time trick or treating. He really enjoyed getting all the candy, but I think he liked passing out candy even more. He was so cute. He would run to the door and tell all the kids "Today is Halloween!" as we handed out candy. He was so excited! He was a Texas Football player this year. He even had the eye black under his eyes. Maggie wore a little candy corn onesie that was a little big on her and her Texas socks. So cute :) We took him to our friends houses and let him get a little candy. In the car he wouldn't let go of his candy bucket. :) We ended the night watching the Texas game with our great friends, Amanda and Mitchell. Hunter woke up the next morning asking if he got to go trick or treating again.

We are so Blessed!!!

Katie, Ben and Sweet Maggie :)

Here she is waving hi to everyone! Maggie Rose :)

Hunter holding his little sister :)

Hunter saying I want her to sit right here!

Ben right before surgery :)

Maggie Rose Jennings

Ben and Maggie right after she was born!

Maggie is here!! Yay! She was born on Friday, October 23rd at 7:51 a.m. She weighed 7 lbs 5 oz and is 19 inches long. She is beautiful and is tiny! We are so blessed.

Everything went so well with my surgery. It was better than Hunter's delivery. And we love Hendrick!! It is the BEST hospital with the best staff! We had such an awesome experience, just like last time. We are so thankful for my doctor, Maggie's doctor, and all the nurses, especially Julie!

My biggest worry was for Hunter and the Lord has just taken care of him and me. I was just so worried about how he would handle everything. He has done amazing!!! He stayed at home with one of my very best friends, Amanda, while i was in surgery. She, who is also very pregnant, came to keep him at 7 in the morning on her day off! She is so sweet! They had a blast! He came to the hospital shortly after I was out of recovery. He was sooo sweet. He just couldn't wait to see Maggie. He wanted to hold her! He wanted to sit with me in bed. He ran over and kissed her on the head over and over again. He was so sweet!! And he is still so sweet around her. He tells people that she is his sister. He really does love her. Thank you, Lord! He truly is the best big brother!!!

Pumpkin Patch 2009

We made our traditional trip to the Pumpkin Patch on Friday. We all had so much fun! Hunter loved it! He ran and ran and ran! Here are some pictures from Friday! This 1st one is Hunter and Parker sitting on a swing. Parker is Stephanie's son who works with Ben. They had a lot of fun together.

Here is Hunter with this stuffed dog. He kept giving it high fives and a few hugs.

Hunter running...

and running some more. We don't walk anywhere! We run!

Hunter picked a "tiny little pumpkin" for Maggie and a bigger one for him. He also helped us pick out a Daddy and Mommy size pumpkin. After running through the pumpkins for a while we went on a hay ride. What a great afternoon!!!

Coach and Sword Fights

I have the best Daddy in the world, both earthly and heavenly. Yesterday my Dad had to go out to west Texas with his job and check some rigs. He works for an oil company in G-ville and every once in a while he has to take a trip to west tx to check some the rigs out there. I'm not really sure exactly what he does...something with the parts on the rigs and keeping track of which parts are where, anyway he got to stop by yesterday morning and just say hello. It was good to see him, but it was such a short visit. So on his way back through last night he came and spend the night. Hunter was so excited! He has been wanting to sword fight with Coach and he finally got to! It was so funny to watch them play! My Daddy is so much fun! They had a great time. He also took us out to eat and then watched Toy Story until bedtime with Hunter. Unfortunately he left very, very early this morning. He needed to get back to work. :( Hunter's first words this morning were "Where's Coach? I want to go with Coach!" I am so thankful that Hunter gets to play and have fun with my Dad. Thank you Dad for staying with us last night!! We love you! :)