I always love this time of year because the weather is turning colder and the holidays are approaching! Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's always it gives us the opportunity to get together with friends and family, when throughout the year, we seem to busy to do so.  We started out this year with my parents coming down for the kids games on Halloween and them staying to help the kids carve pumpkins.






Robert's dad and Karen came down, as they always do in November and we had a great time, as usual.


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I love the holidays because it reminds me of all the good times I had with my family when I was a kid, because of tradition and for all the great times and memories we have made and continue to make with my children.

We start out decorating our home with fall leaves and flowers and pumpkins and move on to overdoing it with Christmas decorations!  (Robert always teases me about have 20 boxes of decorations for Christmas and only one for every other holiday!)

Halloween is only fun because the kids love to dress up and my parents have joined us on Halloween since Reagan was a baby.

Thanksgiving is always special. When I was a kid, it always meant traveling to Stillwater, OK to be with my family there and family, from everywhere, would be there.  We talked, played, road dirt bikes, went to movies and just enjoyed being with each other.  Although we stopped that several years ago, Thanksgiving still means being with family, usually at my parents, aunt and uncles in Granbury, eating too much turkey, drinking too much ;),  playing with ALL the animals out there and watching football.

Christmas was amazing and is still my favorite holiday. My mom made it perfect every year and still does! We always celebrated on Christmas Day and continue to do so with my kids.  Christmas Day is much like Thanksgiving, but with TONS of presents!  We get together, eat too much, drink too much and just have a great time!

I'm looking forward to the holidays and being cozy with my family and seeing my kids' faces light up as they dig into the mounds of presents...priceless!