Merry Christmas 2012

Merry Christmas from the Bading Family!

Had to add this since it had Thurman in it.

December

Our houseReese and the snowmen. My Dad made these a few years ago and we got them this year so I have been plotting hard at upping our decorations to win the award in our neighborhood. Next year we’re adding colored lights.

I have been working out in the mornings and Ryan has been inspired to work out at night. Reese joined him the other night with my smaller weights while Ryan used my bigger weights. It was too cute. Reese also started running with the Moms at Stroller Strides when she comes to class and she’s really pretty fast.

Reese had her Christmas program at school last week. This year she was an angel and she did very well singing all the songs and smiling for all to see.

This past weekend we headed to Geronimo to attend Kyle and Megan’s twin girls’ baptism. Ryan is Nora’s god-father. Reese had a good time seeing her cousins. Brynn, poor baby ran a fever all day, it seems those pesky teeth were bothering her again. She was pretty lazy, just wanting to sit in my lap and drift in and out of sleep. She’s a little better today, but I think her allergies are acting up, that happens when it’s still 80 degrees in December.

We’re getting ready for Christmas and counting down the days until Santa comes.

Savannah, GA

On November 16th we began our trek. I am not sure what I was thinking when I thought that a 10 day road with two kids and a final destination of Savannah, GA was a good idea, but we did it, and survived. I have to say despite four LONG days in the car my kids were really good. Brynn only got mad after she’d been in the car for about 4 hours without a break, but even with a short break both girls got in the car willingly and didn’t complain.

As I said we started the trip on the 16th with a weekend in College Station. It was nice to be back in our old stomping grounds, and show Reese the house she first lived in etc. Reese was all set to attend her first Aggie football game with Ryan and Grampy. About 2 hours before the game she started to feel sick and once she got to the stadium she puked a couple times. Meems was able to swoop in from the tailgate and pick her up from Ryan and then I took her home with me back to the condo. She was only sick for about 24 hours and I was happy she got it out of the way before our longer driving portions of the trip.

We all had a great time in College Station that weekend seeing old friends and we love Meems and Grampy’s new condo.

After College Station we headed to Kingwood for a day and a half to see the Grandma’s do a couple loads of laundry.

Wednesday, we headed off to Mobile, Alabama for our halfway stop between Houston and Savannah. The beauty part was we got to visit with Uncle Bill and Christi and spend Thanksgiving eating some yummy food with our super fun family. We had a blast in Mobile and of course the girls had a great time. Reese got a hold of Christi’s pink flower guitar and preformed ALL day. Brynn LOVED talking to Christi’s dogs through the window and loved petting them even more.

Brynn cruisin’ the driveways of Mobile

Christi’s boyfriend Charlton has a motorcycle and he took Reese for a ride.

She obviously liked it.

Friday we headed off to Savannah, and after a LONG drive of nothing between Mobile and Savannah we arrived. That night we ate at the Pirate House, a old historic building in Savannah. While we were waiting outside I spotted the bride to be, Beth Schminke standing outside the wedding venue which was steps from the restaurant.

Saturday morning, it was chilly but we headed out to check out the sites of Savannah. We probably walked 6 miles or more all over the city. It was awesome. Every aspect of that city is gorgeous. I took a TON of pictures because it was all so pretty. I was sad we only had a few hours to walk around.

Ferry ride

 

This is a picture of the sign pointing to the Walk up Window at McDonalds. How funny is this?

Outside the English Pub

We played for a while at this super amazing park that Savannah has. There were amazing squares all over the city, beautiful parks and it was so clean. It was so nice to see everything so well taken care of. Corpus should take notes.

At the wedding we were treated to fireworks. The cool part was they were not from the wedding. There was a boat parade that night on the river and the fireworks were from the parade. It was awesome because we got to see them from the wedding. Brynn was in LOVE with them.Reese loved them too!She would point to them and when they were done going off she would wave her hands in the air for more.

Brynn wasn’t a happy camper at the wedding. When we got home we realized that it was because she was cutting two teeth and two molars. Poor baby!Reese was a dancing FOOL all night. It was a great wedding with fabulous food. Between the ceremony and the reception all the guests went on a bus tour of Savannah which was awesome, because we learned all about ALL the places we had walked earlier in the day.

On Sunday we loaded back up and headed to Mobile for the night. Monday we drove back to Kingwood and Tuesday we left for Corpus. I could stand to not see the inside of a car for more than an hour for about 4 months…but alas it’s Christmas and traveling is right around the corner…again!

We had a great time on the trip and it was awesome seeing family and friends. We’ll post with some more pics of our happening soon. Sorry this one took so long.

Halloween and more

We had a busy end of October. We hit up the pumpkin patch, which was nice, but I will be honest, it would have been nicer if it wasn’t 90 degrees outside when we went. To say I am over the heat is an understatement. Fall needs to hurry up and come to South Texas soon and stay.

Between Brynn being serious and Reese being more concerned with the surroundings it has become impossible to take pictures lately.

Brynn’s normal reaction when she can’t touch some part of me. You should have heard the screaming last week when our dryer was broken and I went outside to get things off our makeshift illegal clothesline. She’d stand at the back door screaming like someone cut off her arm until I came back in, yet she was inside with Reese and Ryan. She’s a mamma’s baby, but loves to run with Reese outside when Ryan comes home from work!

The last weekend of the month we were greeted by an amazing cold front (it only last two days) but it happened to be the morning of the Run Amuck. I signed up to do a 5K with very muddy obstacles. It was freezing that morning. It was in the low 50’s with a VERY cold and VERY strong wind. The mud was warmer than the outside temp. Ryan and the girls were troopers and came out to watch me and a few of my Stroller Strides Moms run in the cold weather.

Start linesecond trench of mudgirls all bundled upcoming into the home stretch

last LONG mud obstacle. Crawl army style through 100 linear feet of mud under nets

My friend Jana and I…who wants a HUG???  Somehow, despite the cold temps, getting sprayed with ice cold water along the course, monkey bars, zombies and muddy obstacles I had a great finish time, finishing 13th in my age group out of 96 women!

My cheering section!

For Halloween at Reese’s school they had pajama day. Before she left for school she and Brynn were wearing the same pj’s…too cute!

Mary had a little lamb.  Happy Halloween 2012! Reese had a great time, leading the pack of neighborhood friends to all the front doors, and then taking off and running to the next door. Brynn followed with me in the wagon and was so happy watching everything take place.

The little lamb

Mary

Dad with his girls

I was the “Queen Mother”

Reese, who is also longing for cooler weather, chose this outfit to play in outside when it was 88 degrees the other day. I caught her sitting down for 4 seconds and she looked so sweet. After she saw me take the picture she insisted that she pose. God help us when she’s 15!

Making raspberries in her swing

my sweet big girl LOVES her swing, and being outside!