Christmas with Wes' Family

Between Christmas and New Year's, we had great visits with family in Dripping Springs and Utopia.


It was fun to see everyone again.


Rachel and Owen both got lots of fun presents.  Rachel enjoyed her new tutu.


Owen loved playing with Emily.


Owen with GranDave

Rachel and Owen with Mimi, GranDave, Taylor and Ethan

Opening presents with Grammy


Then, opening more presents with Jonathan and Conner at Granny's house


Jonathan is a very good big brother and cousin


So much fun stuff!

Owen loved playing in the leaves

Rachel's favorite is the tire swing

We visited Granny and took Old Blue for a drive in the dreary weather.

Turkeys!

Feeding the fish

Throwing out corn for the deer

Owen wants to learn to drive...he has a little growing to do before he can reach the pedals.

Playing at Grammy's house

Splashing in the puddles with Jonathan at Granny's house

Thanksgiving

We enjoyed a nice Thanksgiving with Wes' family.


First, we stayed at Wes' mom's house and had Thanksgiving dinner with the whole clan at Granny's.


Owen and Rachel love playing with all of their relatives.

Big group picture!

Our little family

Rachel LOVED driving Jonathan's car around the ranch.  Owen enjoyed his time as a passenger.

They also enjoyed playing in the yard with Kathy.

Next, we headed for a Thanksgiving celebration at Wes' Dad's house.  There, the kids got to play with more fun cousins.

More things to drive, too.

Because almost everyone was able to make it, there were enough people for a game of football.

Owen preferred to play with other things.  He is not quite ready for football.

He does love to slide, though.

Uncle Travis is fun!

 

Christmas in Dripping Springs

After Christmas at Granny's, we went to GranDave and Mimi's house to have Christmas with the Sutherland side of the family.


Rachel had a blast playing with her cousin Taylor.

Here they are on top of the mulch pile.

She played with her new bike in the driveway.

After Ethan arrived, she had fun playing with him too.

Swinging is still one of her favorite activities.

We had a great lunch and enjoyed visiting with the Martins and Aunt Mandy.  It was great that almost everyone could be there this year.

This is the preparation for a shot of the whole family.

We tried to take a family photo but got limited cooperation from the youngest two.

This was about the best we could do - maybe we will try to photo shop out the stick Rachel is chewing on.

Wes and his siblings.

GranDave and Mimi with all of their grandkids.

Emily and Kirby

Present time!

Rachel was distracted by her cookie while her gifts piled up around her.

Uncle Travis helped Owen check out his new stuff - including his adorable new A&M cap.

Relaxing after the gift excitement.

Rachel's favorite part of the play set on this visit was the sand box.  She and Emily had a lot of fun.

It was great that Aunt Mandy could come in from Michigan for a visit.

Owen was very happy to meet his Aunt Mandy.

Owen with GranDave

Mandy and Wes