Thursday, January 1, 2009

New Year's Eve in Kerville

Happy 2009 to all of my friends and family!! I hope this is a fantastic year for everyone!!!!

Paige, Bennett, Anderson, & Montgomery enjoying their New Year's Eve dinner.
Paige, Anderson, and Montgomery watching Toy Story before getting in their own beds for the night. I was so impressed that they slept in the same room. Too Cute!!!

Baby Jack sleeping on Meredith. He is sooooo sweet and so good. I can't believe how big he is getting. He's almost 3 months old.

I love this picture because it is right before midnight and Meredith is caught doing
what we were all doing at this point - yawning!!!!

The Group looking cute - We took this right after midnight.
Don't you also love the two portraits above us?!

The Group being silly - notice where one of the portraits ended up!!!
(That is actually Meredith's mom Andrew is holding!)

The Hughes Family spent our New Year's Eve in Kerville with the Brewers and the Boggess'. Meredith's family has this fantastic ranch there with more deer and land than you can imagine and the house has this amazing sense of family and love that you can just tell has been there for generations. It's awesome! This was our second trip to the ranch and we can't wait for our third - hint, hint Meredith! We really enjoyed being out of San Antonio and up in the hill country. When we arrived the 3 big kids took turns with their dads riding the 4-wheeler that somehow, the moms didn't get one single picture of. The sun very quickly set and we all hunkered down inside it was very cold. The kids ate first - yummy hot dogs and fruit. Then we started the night time drill of getting them down to sleep. The babies were pretty easy - howeve, each one woke up at least once during the night, but tolerable. The big kids slept together in one of the rooms that has three twin beds. It was precious! After the kids were all down, we enjoyed a terrific steak dinner with twice baked potatoes and salad. Then a yummy piece or two of pie!!! By the time that was all done, it was only about 10:30 and we were wore out, but since it was New Year's Eve we played a few rounds of Mexican Train and then stood in the living room until midnight. After a quick celebratory toast, hugs, and a few kisses, the moms were all in bed by 12:10!!! Too funny! This morning was great also. Meredith made her scrumptious migas and then we ran the kids around outside as long as we could to tire them out, they took a few more turns on the 4-wheeler (that we still didn't get pictures of) and then we packed up and headed back to San Antonio. All in all it was a very fun 24 hours. Thanks again to Meredith for being the best hostess!!!!