Journaling my Journey

Where has the time gone? I can't believe that Keller turned five years old on Sunday! Talk about the year flying by. It seems like just yesterday we were at a Thunder game with Josh, Heather, and Saylor celebrating his 4th birthday and yet here we are 365 days later. Wow. Usually we try to go somewhere or do something special for Keller's birthday instead of having a traditional party or giving him gifts because Christmas is right around the corner, and I have enough friends who have December birthdays who say their birthdays get overlooked. So, a couple years ago, we decided we would just take Keller on a trip for his birthday or do something fun and unique. Whatever he chooses. That has worked well for the past couple years, but this fall has been crazy with me only working half a day, freak snow storms, and a shorter time frame between Thanksgiving and Christmas this year, so everything kind of just snuck up on us. Keller got to have a birthday party instead of a trip this y...

We recently had a crazy snow storm the first week of December. It was crazy because in Oklahoma we never get snow until January or February. To get it this early in the season...I think uh-oh, we are in for a long winter...Keller had fun playing in it though and on our 5 day mini break from school we even had the neighbor kids, Aiden and Lillian, over to decorate Christmas cookies.

Happy Thanksgiving 2013! Where has the year gone? We had a very busy Thanksgiving holiday, but one of the most enjoyable we have had in a long time. On Thanksgiving Day we went to Pauls Valley to spend the day with Jed's family. We missed Joli, Gene, and Alayna this year, but can't wait to see them for Christmas. Karis and Keller were so excited to see each other and had a great day playing together. Though there are 6 years between the two of them you would never know it because Karis is so patient with him, and never grows tired of playing the little kid games Keller likes to play. Tanner and Jessica were able to come to Meagan's family's Turkey Day celebration this year. It was so nice too, because we haven't seen them since May! They stayed through the whole weekend so we got to spend some nice time with them on Saturday. We all went to downtown OKC and Bricktown to partake in the Downtown in December festivities and then finished with a great dinner at an Ed...

We didn't celebrate Halloween very much this year as Keller came down with the stomach flu (that last for a week!), and so only trick-or-treated for about 20 minutes. I got a couple good pics though.