Snow in Texas!!

Peyton is doing good. I think he is finally over whatever it was that he had. Thank goodness!! We have been keeping very busy around here also. He continues to love to go to school and play with his friends on Tuesdays. Yesterday we had a great treat.....snow!! I call Andy and had him take Peyton out to play in it while I was at work. They had a blast! Peyton did not want to come inside, he wanted to stay out and play. Here are a few pictures that Andy took of them playing out yesterday morning.

It snowed pretty much all day long yesterday and when I got home from work Peyton and I went out to play again. We had so much fun playing in the snow. He LOVED it!!! We threw snowballs at each other and just laughed.

Peyton was throwing a snowball at me here. I love the look on his face!

After we threw snowballs at each other Peyton plopped himself down in the snow and started making snow angels. He made lots of them.

We then worked together to make Peyton's first snowman. He thought that was great. He said... "That's the biggest snowman I've ever seen!"

Then we tried catching snow in out mouth! What fun.

Still snowing!

This morning this is what we woke up to.....

It is so beautiful outside. It has not done this in I don't know how many years. It was great. School was canceled so Peyton and I went out to play again. We played outside for a very long time. He once again did not want to come inside. We had lots of snow. As you can see it almost came to Peyton's knees.

We had to make more snow angels today. We would walk a few steps and he would plop himself down in the snow and laugh!

The dogs were even out having fun in the backyard.

Sadie

Bear

Peyton played in his little play house some too.

He found one of his sandbox shovels and it made a great snow shovel!

What a great look on his face! He had so much fun.

Peyton then found that he could pull on the branch on the tree and the snow would fall on him. He shook until the snow was all gone from the limb.

What a great day in the snow!!

Long few weeks

These last few weeks have been very long and hard. On January 1 early in the morning my Nannie went to see Jesus. This was such a shock to everyone. She had not been sick. I just have to think about the last time she was over here. That was Christmas day one week before is died. She and Peyton had a great time Christmas morning. They played for hours. He took her all over the house playing. They had the best time. Peyton knows that his nannies has gone to live with Jesus. We will miss her very much!

Playing catch-up on Thanksgiving and Christmas

Sorry about the delay on the updates. We have been very busy here. We had a great Thanksgiving with all of our family. We had Thanksgiving with the Nichols' side on Sunday before Thanksgiving. Most of the family was there. Peyton had a great time with all his little cousins. They all ran and played with balls outside after lunch.

Sitting on the couch like a big boy with cousin Stacy

Thanksgiving day my family came over to the house for lunch. Peyton like to entertain everyone. After lunch we played and of course watched football too.

Once all the Thanksgiving stuff was put up, Peyton and I started decorating for Christmas. Peyton always loves to help me decorate the tree. He gets so excited with all the lights and decorations. He goes around the house saying "It's party time". Crazy boy!

We of course had to go see Santa for the year. Peyton always loves to go see him. This year the first time we took him the mall was very loud so we could not do it. I did not want a picture with his hands over his ears. The second time was much better. He just does not like loud noises or places.

This year our weather had been so strange. One day it will be nice and the next it will be freezing cold. On the 23rd of December we had us a tornado here. It came extremely close to our house. Andy and I were watching the weather alert on TV and he said there was a rotation in the area of our house so we went and looked out the window and saw it form. It was HUGE!!! I went to a safe area and Andy continued to look out the window. I was so scared. It turned just before it got to our house. Thank God Peyton was not at home! He was at my parents house. The house down the road from us was destroyed. There was lots of damage to our area. It was determined that it was an EF2. It was to close for comfort.

Christmas Eve we spent with the Nichols' side of the family. Everyone had a great time. Peyton always has fun playing with cousins at Granddad's. He received lots of nice things.

Christmas morning Peyton slept in. I fear this may be the last time for us to sleep in on Christmas morning. We will just have to wait and see. Santa came and brought lots of things for everyone. My parents and my grandmother came over and we opened our gifts and then had lunch.

Peyton had a great time opening his presents this year. This was really the first Christmas he has had so much fun. He wanted to do it all by himself this year. He would get so excited.

This year all he asked Santa for was an Ipod with music and games on it. Well, guess what Santa bought him...... Your right! It was so much fun watching him open that present. He was so excited. He ran around the living room and had to show everyone. It was great!

After opening all the presents and lunch we all relaxed in the living room and watched Peyton play with all his new things. We had such a great day.

Peyton with his Goggy

Peyton with Nannie

Peyton with his Poppy

I hope that you all had a very Merry Christmas!

Kid Conductor for The Trains at Northpark Mall

Peyton had the privilege of being this years Kid Conductor for The Trains at Northpark Mall. This is a huge train exhibit that benefits the Ronald McDonald House of Dallas. We were very excited to see all the trains. Peyton, Gaga and I drove up last night because we had to be at the mall at 8 this morning. Andy was not able to go with us due to work. When we got to the hotel Peyton had a room full of new goodies.

He had great fun opening all the toys and playing with them. So much so that he woke up at 4:15am this morning and said "I need to get up and play with my toys". He did not understand that the toys were all sleeping and he needed to go back to sleep also. Thank goodness he did finally drift back off to sleep.

This morning we had to get up early to headed over to the mall for all the festivities. Peyton wore his new jacket which has The Trains logo on it. There were lots of people at the mall to see the opening of The Trains.

When we arrived at the exhibit we were allowed to go in before they opened to get a sneak peek! Ban Bywaters, the man that puts the exhibit together each year took us though and showed us all the different areas.

This is the Ronald McDonald House in the exhibit.
About half way through the exhibit Peyton had had enough of the sounds. He does not always do so well with loud sounds. As you can see by the next few pictures. He has his ears covered. Crazy little boy!

Children's Medical Center

Peyton's first home....Baylor Medical Center

The state fair

Around 8:30 was the official opening of the exhibit. We were one of the ones to help cut the ribbon. My camera batteries died of course, so we did not get a picture of the event. This was taken just before the ribbon was cut.

We had a great helper today, Crozier Kimzey! She is the one that did all the shopping for Peyton's new toys and set up our hotel room. She did a great job picking out just the right toys for Peyton. He LOVES them! Peyton had a great time with her at the mall. They went on all kinds of adventures up and down the mall. You know Peyton...always on the go.

There were lots of activities to do other that the exhibit....balloons, face painting, snacks and many more. One thing that Peyton really liked was the magician. He was great! Just how do they do that?

We had a great time today.