Meet the 41st President of the United States

For the past several years Skip's Grandparents have been providing a Christmas Tree (or several) to the 41st President of The United States, George Bush Sr.

3 yrs ago, when they closed down their tree farm, the honor was handed over to Scotty (Skipper's dad). The first year he went by himself and delivered two trees to the President. Last year Scotty and Cheryl went and were given a wonderful opportunity to meet him and take some picutures with him. I made a wreath for the First Lady, Ms. Barbara Bush. (seen in the picuture above)

THIS year, Scotty took his sons with him to deliver the two trees to the President !! One for his personal office and one for the entry to the offices.
They were such a hit with everyone, that they were invited back to meet the President. SO... today we went back and met President Bush and had some great pictures with him in his office. He is such a personable man, it was truly an honor to meet a man that was voted into office , and ran our great nation !!! And I greeted him with a wreath this year again, he told his staff to have it sent over to his house to be placed on the front door !!!! OH my goodness !!

Thank you to Grandad and Grandmother for planting this seed for us many many years ago, so now we had the opportunity we had today. This will go down as one of the best days in my life !!

Hopefully next year we can bring the kids along too !!

Skipper, Me, Mr. President, Cheryl, Stephen, Thomas and Scotty in front of Christmas tree in his office. (and the wreath I gave to them) heehee

a Barbara Bush angel.. because he said she is the angel on top of his tree !!

a super cool chair right outside of his office.. it looks like it is made from actual American Flags

all of us in front of the 2nd tree in the entry of the Presidents' office

Santa's Wonderland

FCR Christmas Play 12-12-08

A King is coming to town

FCR Christmas Play

2008

Aubrie was in the choir

she is in the back



Daddy gave her flowers for her performance

Camryn, Rheiny, and Alle came to see Aubrie and Jass perform

It SNOWED in Katy... Wed. Dec. 10th, 2008

On Tuesday Dec 9th a cold front came in dropping the temps to the 30's.. on Wed we woke up to the news talking about snow flurries all over the surrouning towns... so all day I kept looking outside for any sign of snow... nothing.....


until............ the sun went down... snow flurries in Katy !!

a picture of the little bitty snow flakes on the hood of my truck

snow flurries in the light outside...

i know the pics aren't that good.. but hey... it snowed in Katy....

the kids were so super excited... they kept going out every two minutes to see if there was any more.

Decorating the Tree

Daddy and Aubrie got the tree inside and in the stand

Payton is getting so big.. his face is really changing

decorating the tree together

Jasmine and Aubrie looking through the ornaments

all done !!

Picking out the perfect Christmas Tree 12-6-08

Ok.. so we pull up at the farm gates and Skipper hops out ... he says something to Payton and then you see Payton jump over into the drivers seat... YES I said drivers seat !!! Skipper opens up the gates to the farm and he leans in to tell Payton something and next thing you know.... Payton is DRIVING into the farm...... he is 10 !!! And I must say , he did an excellent job !! Go Payton !!

here he is driving in to the farm

Daddy, Payton, Aubrie and mommy went out to find the perfect Christmas Tree... got our measuring stick... and saw... we are ready !!

we like this one mom !!

Aubrie wanted to do the cutting and Payton wanted to do the catching

getting lessons on cutting down a tree

Timber !!!!

my sweet family !!

man.. .this tree is SO heavy

here they are putting the tree on the shaker to shake out all of the loose or dead pine needles and any little bugs that were gonna try to sneak into our home with the tree.

pulling the tree through the bailer


off to the truck ...

next time you see this tree it will be all decorated with lights !!