Tornado's in December???

It's awesome to know your neighborhood got hit by a tornado and you weren't there. We just had roof damage and abc's playhouse was torn up. If that's all that we had then we are blessed. This is the 2nd time in 3 months something like this has happened in our neighborhood. We were fortunate both times.

We are in College Station with my parents. It's driving me crazy that I can't see what our neighborhood looks like. All I can rely on are pictures from the Longview News Journal of our neighborhood. Russ has tried to give us a play by play of our neighborhood but it's a little hard to follow. I've almost cried several times looking at pictures of the tornado knowing that next to that big gray circling thing is my house... SCARY!

I'm so glad I wasn't there! I would have been home with Addison and scared to death. Christopher always tells me I'm crazy for being so scared in storms like I am but I think I would have had a panic attack or something if I had been there.

All I can say is Thank you God for protecting our home so much!

The Rest of November...

Here is what we've been up to...

Some days Addison really likes her tutu... This day she was loving it. I was taking pictures of her so she needed to get her camera too!

We've been finger painting. She loves it and loves squishing all the paint in her fingers.

This is her Thanksgiving Feast at school. She was very excited to go...

Not so excited about the food. I can't get mad at her for spitting out her food. I do it to. If I don't like what I'm eating I'll spit it out. At lease now she spits it out in her hand and puts it in her plate!

She likes to help Daddy clean up the leaves.

The true "kid" table at Thanksgiving. Addison and Maggie.

They love playing the piano together. I think this picture is so cute. Telling secrets!!

My little cheese ball when she wants to be!

Love this one too. It looks like ABC is reading music and playing what she is suppose to while Maggie is singing her heart out!!

Just a cute little monster isn't she!!

I look this one night while she was sleeping. Ever since we got back from the horse show in OKC she has to sleep with her Okie. She even takes naps with him!! I just wanted to take this picture as proof for Honey and Pappy.

A few weeks ago we went to the park after I got my new camera. Here are a few of my favorites from that day!

Love the way she's looking at her daddy in this picture!

Total trust...

We of course had swing on the bar.

Not sure what this face is but it's too funny not to put on here!

Pull ups... she always just counts "four" over and over!

She realized she can jump off the stairs. There was another little girl there that was jumping from the 3rd stair and ABC got mad when I told her she could only jump from the bottom one but she got over it.

Ummm... can you tell she didn't want to leave?

Something else with Okie... Christopher helped her set up his water and feed in her bed.

That afternoon after her nap Addison and I made Christmas cookies. She LOVES putting sprinkles on. The only problem is the red sprinkles I have come out WAY to fast. That night when Chris's family game over for pizza the people that got the sprinkle cookies said they were pretty sugary!!

Our finished products! She was so proud and LOVED handing them out to everyone that night!

I realize that I have to get better at blogging again or else this poor little man in my belly will never have anything about him on here! So how's the pregnancy going... less than 11 weeks... HOLY COW. We've done NOTHING for him yet... oh well. It will happen soon. I have to get started on his bedding. My first project is our stockings, I'm almost finished with those. Maybe the matching tree skirt will have to wait until next year!

As for names... I'm pretty sure we are going with Trent Russell Collier. No cool initials like Addison, but it does keep with our naming our kids after towns in Texas theme we have going... This wasn't intentional, just how it worked out really. Hopefully he will have a cool birthday though... March 2, 2010 is my scheduled c-section date. As long as he doesn't come early his birthday will be 3-2-1-0... YAY!

Stay tuned... I cut her hair tonight!

November, Part 1

Has it really been a month since I updated? Oops. Oh well. I've been tired. Our house is on the market so at night I have to make sure that everything is picked up and clean since I don't have time the mornings I work... Yeah, excuses. But I'm doing it now while watching the Biggest Loser Finale.

The 2nd weekend in November my brother, who now lives in Florida, was at a horse show in Oklahoma City. Since he was only 6 hours away instead of 24 we had to go up and see him! My parents went and my sisters went so it was a nice little family time.

Addison loves horses and this only made it more obvious! She'll tell you, "my favorite horse is Okie." (which is a horse at my parents house). The picture below is of her the first day we were there at the show. We were watching the cutting and she just liked to watch the horses chase the cows. She's so intense.

When she started to get restless Honey and Pappy took her to the trade show. She talked Pappy into buying her this pink stick horse (it didn't take much talking!) She now calls this her "big Okie!"

When we went to eat one night my mom taught her the AWESOME trick of blowing into your straw to make bubbles. GREAT! Thanks mom!! She hasn't tried this too many more times, but she does LOVE to watch the video of herself doing this that I recorded on my phone!

This was the 2nd day at the show! We were watching working cow horse that day. (if anyone knows what I'm talking about it's sort of 1/2 reining and 1/2 cutting) She didn't really like the reining portion. When the horse would come out of the gate by itself she would point and say "that horse need cow." Then when it was finally time for the cow to come out (she new when it was time) she would say "horse get now now!" and get so excited! When I show her this picture of herself on my phone and ask her what she is doing she says "I standing, watching Horses chase cut cows."

She is still not too sure about Uncle Mark. She still wouldn't let him hold her but she LOVED it when he would let her pet his horses! At night when I ask her who she wants to pray for it use to just be "Honey, Pappy, Rachel (parents dog), Bessy (Mary Beth), Nonna, Grandad, Christmas and Sadie (Christopher parents dogs). However, since this weekend we spent in OKC she now asks to pray for Uncle Mark. Sometimes that's the only person she wants to pray for. I think it's sweet that she's finally figuring out that he is a good guy and that she wants to pray for him every night!

Seeing Uncle Marks horse with Pappy.

I'll update more later... Sorry all the pictures were just from my iphone. I didn't have a camera, YAY for the good camera on iphones.

I will say CANON is a GREAT company! THEY REPLACED MY CAMERA AND LENS... FREE! Christopher and Russ had been lying to me (I was hoping they were) and I got the new camera for my birthday. The camera that burned was a 20D, and they replaced it with a refurbished 50D!! I can now take good pictures again (even better than before!) and I'm so excited! Canon could not figure out what had happened and even sent the camera to Japan to have their people over there look at it.

That's all for now! I'll try to be better now about updating!!