Christmas with the Brashear Family 2008

right after Christmas lunch with the Scott Family, we hopped in the car for a 9 hour drive to Sapulpa, Oklahoma to spend some much over due time with Nick, Angie, and the girls. We made it up there late, but that didn't matter, we were all so happy to see each other. We spent 3 days with them an had a blast just catching up and loving on each other. They took us to see Julie's two horses, Twister and Angel. Twister is 1 year old and still in training, but Angel was ready and willing for a bunch of kids riding her.

Jordan, Uncle Nick, and Aubrie

Payton and Aubrie
riding together on on of the horses

Jordan and Aubrie

Julie and Angel

she is in heaven

Twister is very young and VERY stubborn. If he doesn't want to walk ... He wont !! We told Aubrie to stand her ground and make him do what she wanted him to do... she did !! Aubrie pulled and pulled, walked in circles and got that horse to walk !! go Aubrie *the horse whisperer*

Aubrie and Twister

I just loved how she was standing and taking everything in

Payton and Angel

Twister yawning

I love it !!

Uncle Nick giving Aubrie a ride on Angel

Twister followed everywhere they went

Julie

The Middle Child

Jordan
The Youngest

Jamie

The Oldest

Aubrie

Payton

Christmas 2008

Christmas is here ~~

This year Christmas kinda snuck up on us... with the kids in sports, working out at the tree farm and only 4 weeks in December this year.. we were a little rushed this year, but we pulled it off. The kids got to do their shopping for each other the Friday before Christmas and Skipper and I went after that. Christmas morning was nice, the kids slept until 8am, which is normal, in years past we have had to wake them up because we were tired of waiting !! Poppy, Nina, and Ashley came over to watch the kids open their presents. It was a fast morning. Right after we got done we headed off to Skipper's grandparents house for Christmas lunch with the Scott Family.

checking out what Santa left

Payton was given an Ipod Nano... you guessed it "Poppy" !!

loving on their webkins... Loooook twins!!!


Great Gran with "most" of her Great Grand Kids

(3 are missing)

Pop Pop and the Great Grands

Great Gran and Pop Pop surprised the kiddos with a cool gift.... stilts !! we had them all line up for races... man, the boys are quite competitive !! it was all in good fun and we had a blast watching them.

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 !!