Merry Christmas!

So thankful to have another year to celebrate baby Jesus and the gift God gave us by sending us His only Son...brings tears to my eyes thinking of His sacrifice. God is so good! Merry Christmas everyone!

 

Christmas picture fun!

We met friends today to take some fun pictures and have lunch. It is nice to get a few pictures with my girl!

Claire and Abigail...love the friendship these two young women share!

Of course, I had to get one more picture in front of our Christmas tree!

 

Christmas cookie making time!

Claire and I had a fun afternoon making Christmas cookies. We had to be sure to carry on the tradition that Snugglebunny started of putting flour on our noses while we bake! We also kept his tradition of adding mint extract to the dough to give our cutout cookies a hint of mint flavor! Love honoring Dad and sharing stories while we make his Christmas cut out cookies! I sure do treasure every moment I get to spend with Claire and remembering Dad!

 

Abigail’s 16th birthday party

Claire has so much fun celebrating her best friend turning 16! The girls went to City Center for shopping and dinner

Claire, Abigail, and Maddie

Caroline, Annalee, Abigail, and Claire

Natalie, Claire, Abigail, and Maddie

The whole group! 

 

TISCA High School Swim Meet

 Claire qualified for the High School Invitational swim meet in her 200 free and 500 free. She had some good swims and enjoyed the time spent with her swim friends! 

Claire and Abigail

 Peanut (Sophia) and Claire

Claire and Alyssa

Peanut, Claire, Abigail, and Alyssa…a great group of young women!

10th grade homecoming dinner and dance

Claire chose a red strapless dress this year and also chose to straighten her hair for the big evening! She looked so pretty all dressed up fancy!

Alyssa, Claire, and Peanut

Claire and Alyssa

Riley and Claire (Riley was Claire's "big" last year in high school swim)

Peanut and Claire

Claire and Abigail

Riley, Alyssa, Claire, Sophia, Peanut, and Abigail

 

Homecoming week - 10th grade

Some of the dress up days:

Surfer vs Biker

Wear a club shirt

HOCO parade...wear red, white, and blue

Friday football game

Caroline, Abigail, and Claire

Peanut (nominated for homecoming court), Abigail, and Claire

Abigail, Claire, Alyssa, and Peanut

Natalie, Abigail, Claire, and Maddie

This was the first year Claire wanted a mum. Such a crazy tradition in Texas! She rocked it and had so much fun wearing it all day at school Friday!

 

Homecoming parade

Since Claire was a returning varsity swimmer, she got to participate in the Homecoming parade this year on the aquatics float. She had so much fun!

 

Old folk trying to be kids again!

Jeff and I had Thursday off so we took advantage of the gorgeous day and hit the lake to go water skiing and wake surfing. The lake was like glass so skiing was a blast! We had such a great morning and skied more than we have in years! We both woke up sore the next day, but it was worth every second! Good feeling knowing we still got it at our old age!

Jeff even got up on one ski!