TEXAS!!

Every time we go to Texas I forget to take any pictures, so this time I took a TON!! That only makes it harder to blog, because I want to post all of them. lol. Oh well. This year for Thanksgiving we were at the Dalton's. It's so fun to go to Texas because we get to see everyone. Ryan's parents and my parents live about 10 min. (if that) from each other. My mom was Ryan's sister's visiting teacher (until she moved into her new house!) and our brothers Jace and Shawn hang out every weekend anyways. So we get to see everyone the whole time, it's great. We got to hang out at Julia's new house, Mindy's new house (with EVERYONE!! Thanks Mindy for letting my family invade!), at my Mother in laws (where we had Kaitlyn's 3rd birthday party) and at my moms. It was a crazy week, but VERY fun. I'm not even sure what all we did. We were up early and down late every night and missed most of our naps. The girls were in HEAVEN (me included) with all the friends and family time. So we were supposed to leave here Wednesday night and drive ALL night to get there Thursday morning, but luckily for us Ryan's day "magically" opened up on Wednesday so we left Tuesday afternoon instead. I came home from a meeting to Ryan standing in the kitchen saying you ready to go? I jumped and danced and skipped for a few minutes. Then I turned into a tornado running through the house getting things packed! I got everyone packed and we got the kids ready and out the door in 2 hours. That's AMAZING for me. It usually takes me 5 hours. Seriously. I HATE to pack, I agonize over every decision, plan way to many outfits, and stress that I forgot something. So we drove all night Tuesday night and surprised the Dalton's Wednesday morning. We got there around 8am, and talked for an hour or so then went to bed! Grandpa and Grandma took the kids and went to Mindy's so we could get some sleep! (THANKYOU!!) The girls had fun playing with their cousins and by the time they got back I was up and ready for some more family time. We hung out there for a while then we to Julia's to surprise my family who still didn't know we were in town. We hung out with Julia, Cooper, my mom and dad, and Tiara for a while, then Cody got home from work and joined us. By the time we got back to the Dalton's we were all so tired! The next day was Thanksgiving! I couldn't believe it was already Thursday! Traveling all night really throws me off schedule. Well that morning there was some free time so I convinced Katrina and Grandma Buzzy (Ryan's dad's mom) and Shawn to run to Wal-Mart with me. I saw some REALLY cute Thanksgiving shirts online and I wanted to try to make it. I was so glad that I had some help, because I never would have found the cute colors Katrina and Buz found! Here are the shirts!:


(the only one that I got both girls looking at me, Kaitlyn was flashing her panties)

the girls were outside in grandpa's sand box playing with their cousins when I took these pictures, so of coarse the boys wanted their pictures taken too! These are Mindy's 2 youngest boys:
Austin (about 5-6 months older than Em)



And Cameron (I love his cheesy grin!)



Since the kids were posing so cute, I decided to get a picture of everyone!
Grandma Dalton and Logan



Grandma Buz



Grandpa Dalton (giving me "the look")



Shawn and Ryan THRILLED that I was taking pictures!




Collin, Mindy's oldest



Aaron (with the gun) Katrina's husband and Chris-Mindy's husband



and my GEORGEOUS sister in laws
Mindy



Katrina



They were taking pictures of Logan. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, this was the first time for everyone except our moms to meet Logan. He NEVER got put down, even when he was sleeping, and he LOVED every minute of it!

We had a YUMMY Thanksgiving FEAST, but I didn't get any pictures. After we stuffed ourselves we went to a park near mom's house and took family pictures. They turned out really cute, but I don't have a copy of the one with everyone. This is Mindy's family:



Kaitlyn was loving on her Uncle Shawn and I got this cute shot:



My 2 handsome men! Oh I love those cheeks!



My kids



All the Dalton grandkids (aren't they so cute!)



I love that Cameron has his arm around Kaitlyn!

Em playing at the park




Kaitlyn at the park



Cameron and Austin




A little after that we went over to my family's house and hung out for a few hours. This time we got to see Kurtis, Jace, and Jessica who we missed the day before. I don't think Kaitlyn stopped moving the entire time she was there (or anywhere for that matter) she ran from one aunt to another to an uncle to another to Grandpa to Grammy. She had a blast and did NOT want to leave (she thought we were going home every time we left someone's house) until we explained that we were going to her OTHER grandma's house. Then she was ok with it. This trip was the first time she understood that there are 2 grandmas and you go back and forth it was really cute to see her connect the dots!
Anyway that was just Wednesday and Thursday (which I don't think I mentioned, was Kaitlyn's birthday, but we didn't celebrate it then) and we were there until Monday morning! More to come...