Absolutely love this time of year. Time with family, time to reflect on our abundant lives, and time spent anticipating Christmas. It is even better experiencing it all with your children!
As a family, we are truly blessed. For reasons not to be mentioned on this-here-blog, last year was a hard year. In fact, this time last year we were living a nightmare. It really never sunk it what we were going through, and maybe that is why I am not ready to blog about it. But, nevertheless, it is a year later, and we are SO VERY THANKFUL for all we have!
We loaded up the boys and headed out early Thursday morning for West Texas. By early, I mean "pajamas and breakfast in the car, and they were coloring before 8:00" early! We left at 6:30 :-)
Overall, they did great and napped (thank goodness) on our way, and we arrived before noon!
Gotta love the plains of west Texas...miles and miles of cotton fields. And the pertiest sunsets!
Brett's cousin, Brittany, and her family hosted about 25 of the Winters' crew!
We ate around 1, so Blake was ready! Ha! The little kids' table...
Miss Aubrey and Mister Wyatt later joined him :-)
The next day, Brett and I and the boys headed out to Christoval to visit a friend of his from Austin. They live on a ranch in a beautiful log cabin home. The boys had a field day feeding the animals and checking in on the baby sheep!
Oh, and Jameston loved "driving" the jeep!
The cousins sure had a grand time together! Here is Miss Aubrey, 2, who LOVED the playset!
And Blakester was obsessed with the slide
These four boys played (and fought) like boys :-) Jameston has said he already misses them!
Until next Thanksgiving!
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