Riding the Polar Express! (some of the posts aren't in the right order!)

Alison with Reed (4) and Lucas (2 1/2) in front of the train


The night before the train ride, Alison and I looked everywhere (well only Old Navy, Target, Kohl's and Wal-mart) for Christmas pajamas and had a difficult time finding some for the boys. And then we could not find slippers! At our last stop, Wal-mart, we found these bear christmas slippers in the women's socks! We were really surprised when the boys actually wore them, but they looked adorable and actually quite a few of the moms commented how cute they were!


When we were walking to the train it "appeared" to be snowing!



The conductor passed out souvenier ornaments to everyone



It was exciting to see Sants coming into our train car!

My last day in Longview (the 9th)

My last day in Longview, Julie and I decided to take Kaylee and Cooper to see Santa in the mall. He was the BEST Santa! The beard was even real. Kaylee was not afraid of him this year(like she was last year). Since we bought a sheet of photos I was allowed to shoot as many photos as I wanted. My parents were at the Mall volunteering at the Angel tree so we were able to see them. AFter the mall, we went to my Mom & Dad's house. My lia sophia manager is Angela who flew down to train my sister, Debbie and I on some of the lia sophia guidelines. We all went to Papacita's mexican restaurant for dinner (along with Julie, Bo and the kids). Julie actually lived with Angela and Donna in Angela's house in Dallas after she graduated from high school.