Thanksgiving 10

We spent Thanksgiving in Kerrville with my parents this year.  It is my sister's families first Thanksgiving in their new house so they had everyone over for the big Thanksgiving meal.

Ainslee loved having all of her grandparents, her great-grandparents, and her aunt and uncle all together over at her house. We didn't get a picture of the whole group, but we managed to get one after Jason's parents left.  Pictured are: Memaw and Putt (my mom's parents), my parents, Cara, Jason, Ainslee and Hattie, and Trevor and I.

It was fun to be able to spend some quality time with the nieces, we hadn't seen them in a while and they are both changing so much!  Ainslee is talking in full sentences now, actually run-ons most of the time.  You can't shut the kid up! She is so busy all the time, making up games and trying to convince someone to play them with her.  I love that she is not shy at all around us.  She will just run up and jump on her uncle Trevor or try to climb on his shoulders if he is sitting down.  She also thought it was funny to surprise me with kisses :)  Hattie is not a newborn anymore, she is all baby.  She will smile at anyone that makes eye contact with her.  She is also starting to laugh... but those are reserved for Mommy (although I swear I managed to make her laugh even if I was the only one to hear it!).  She is a very easy going baby, very content.  We only heard her cry a handful of times and each time she was easily made happy with a clean diaper or milk :)

Someone got a little too messy with their Thanksgiving dinner and had to have a bath after we ate.

And another little someone got jealous of all the pictures I was taking of her sister so she decided to strike her own pose for the camera. ha!

After we recovered from our turkey comas we got dressed in our finest maroon and white and went to Jason's parents house to cheer on the Aggies as they beat t.u.!. 

We spent the rest of the weekend pretty much shopping and eating.  My dad was working at Fredricksburg Trade Days all weekend so we went out there to do a little Christmas shopping and see him.  And of course I took more pictures of these cuties :)

We had a fun weekend in Kerrville with the family, and then topped off the weekend by coming home and getting our Christmas tree and decorating the house for Chirstmas! Pictures coming soon!

Charlie is here!

Austin and Kylie welcomed thier little bundle of joy, Charles Austin Adamson, into the world on Nov. 1st!  And he is the cutest little thing ever :)  Definitly the most handsome little man in Corpus!  Trevor and I went up to the hospital to see him when he was just under 24 hrs. old and he was a spitting image of his daddy.

I finally got a chance to take Kylie lunch today and see the little man again.  They are all settled at home now and doing so well.  He is such a good baby and Kylie looks like she never even had a baby!  I brought my camera along hoping to get a few shot of our newest little model.  (He better get used to the camera in his face :) )  He slept most of the time I was there...

but he finally woke up a little right before I left so I got to get a few pictures with his eyes open!

He has little forehead wrinkles just like his daddy :)

Precious little feet

Getting burped

Sitting on Mommy's lap

And he loves his Aunt Lauren and Aunt Johnna, which is good because he is going to be spending a lot of time with us for the next 18 years :)  We think he is pretty cool too :)

 

Desk Makeover

When Trevor and I got married and combined all of our stuff and ended up with a crazy mix of furniture, including two ugly desks.  The desk I brought into the marriage was a particle board beat up desk that my parents picked up for free from someone's garage, but I loved it :)  Trevor quickly made me trash that desk. However, his ikea desk wasn't much better, and it was in storage in Houston.  Our apartment had a built in desk so we didn't have a need for one while we were in Austin.

Once we moved into our house we brought his desk out of storage and set it up in the office.

It has remained there for the past year.  But I have always hated how it it blocks the front window.  We had been talking for a while about getting a new desk and where we would put it.  One day Trevor texted me out of the blue and said that he remembered an old desk his parents had that he thought might be in storage now.   He asked his parents about it and they said it was in storage out at the ranch and that we were welcome to take it!  So on our last trip to the ranch we picked it up and put it in our garage until we could work on it.

It was light wood which wouldn't really work with the rest of our furniture, so I wanted to either paint it white or stain it darker.  We decided to put it in the living room since it is smaller and so I figured we had enough white furniture in there already so we should stain it darker.

Here is the desk before:

We got to work sanding it down, prepping it for the stain.

Then someone came by wanting to help.

So we put her to work.

And here is the final product:

We were high for about a week after we brought it inside from all the fumes, but we love it!