Merry Christmas
Christmas
We LOVE Ft. Worth!
Once a year we head to Ft. Worth for the NCHA Futurity. This year we had an extra traveler… Tbug got to go with us for the first time. She was given the option of going to Mermet Springs or Ft. Worth and she chose Ft. Worth this year. The plans were to head out first thing Thursday morning.
This one time I won 3rd Place in a Chili Cookoff
Growing up my dad and I made chili all the time for dinner. Now one thing about my dad’s chili is sometimes it got so spicy that I couldn’t stand to take one bite. So I say that I don’t like Chili but I really think it is most people put beans in Chili and I only like green beans and I don’t care for chili so spicy you can’t eat it. You get rid of those 2 things and truthfully I do like chili. I don’t mind a little spice, but so spicy one bite sets your lips on fire, ugh!
This year we attended (and helped with) the 3rd annual Chili Cookoff to raise money for children who might not have a Christmas otherwise. It’s such a worthy cause! The first year Hubby and Tbug entered. Last year Tbug entered and won. This year she asked grandpa (my dad) if he’d help her with chili again. She had to defend her title. At the last minute I decided I wanted to try my chances at making Chili as well.
The day of the Chili cookoff came. Hubby and I went over to help with the last minute things.
One of the exciting things this year was a bounce house. Let’s just say, I had to take my turn at playing in the bounce house :). Hubs and Jared pulled in just as I was going down the slide. I’m pretty sure hubby was proud to call me his wife. ha!
Christmas Day
So I feel like Christmas (Christmas Eve) was a whirlwind this year. Not only did it cyclone in but dang, it went away as fast as it came in :(. That makes me sad. I was a bit of a scrooge this year and I don’t really know why. Anyway we woke up at 7am to start opening presents. So Brittin sent me this picture and said her husband caught Santa making an appearance at their house…
He made an appearance at our house too though. There were 3 cookies on that plate when we went to bed and half a cup of milk. (more…)
Christmas Eve
Okay, so this is going to be photo heavy. I have to break it into Christmas Eve and Christmas Day anyway… I don’t want a week’s worth of posts to get through Christmas, so please just know that I enjoy photos and chalk it up to that :).
The Sunday before Christmas our friend Carlene brought the girls over presents for Christmas. This is not only baby girl’s first Christmas but it was also her first present! How exciting! And her favorite part? The paper :). They got her a light-up sea horse that sings to her and a teething bird toy. Tbug got a KC Chiefs Sweatshirt!! Thank you, Dan & Carlene!!
Then we went to Sunday Night Dinner. Just before we left Earl gave the girls their presents too. Isn’t this how you open presents?
