Another Year

Gran always comes to see me!

I'm 9 months old and stylin'.

January 2012 - Whow! Another year and another chance to make it right. Whatever right is.
 Harper turns 9 months and Grans turns ?????? It is such an unbelievable experience being a "Gran". I can never see Harper enough.

 I also got to see pictures of my newest Grandson - Hunter to be born in July.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

What a fantastic Christmas! First our Son- in- Love graduated with his Masters Degree in Education.
Christmas with a new child is awesome. The Ladd family came in Christmas Eve. All our family attended church then to our home for Christmas Eve: gift opening and good food. Our newest couple in the family is Jason and Brittany. Our family continues to grow. Traditions are changing too. Mom and Dad always had Christmas Eve at their home, but Mom just wasn't feeling up to it, so I volunteered. It was a lot of fun.
One tradition for our family is for the girls to receive new pajamas Christmas Eve, which are to be worn Christmas morning, and that was accomplished!
After everyone left it was time for Santa to do his job. Santa Zac just didn't understand why everything needed to be set up. All Santa's were in bed about midnight. Christmas morning was on a Sunday and Wayne needed to attend  both churches. We made sure the grown ups were up early. Jason finished his midnight shift for TCPD and arrived with Brittany just in time for the gift giving.

A Singing, Dancing Dog?

Harper got lots of great toys. Most of them made noise. :)
I think everyone was just happy to be together, but they seemed to like the presents too. :)

The Ladd's stayed a week and it was so hard to see them go.

Thanks Uncle Jason and Brittany.

A Piano!!!!! More noise.

These are my Great Grandparents.

G-Pa set up his Choo Choo Train around the Christmas Tree.

Newest member of the CCH Family.

I like to make Brittany laugh.

G-Pa and Harper playing on the IPad.

Love my Uncle PoPo's Strings.

Growing CCH Family. We are missing Chris :(

The New Year brought clothes to wash and a house to clean up. All of that continued New Year's day.
Hope all of you have a wonderful new year.

Thanksgiving Fun!

Thanksgiving at the Ladd's this year. Pulled the trailer and set up at Plantation Campground. Not a recommendation given by us. Clean but boring. On Monday Angela had gum surgery. After some recuperating we took an outing to the Gaylord Texan to experience "Ice". This year the theme was Shrek. We put on Parka's and headed into 9 degree weather. That's right, 9 degrees!!! It was so much fun. Amazing Ice sculptures. Then off to see Santa. Gran made Harper a Christmas outfit so we changed him so he could meet Santa. By the pictures you can see he loved it.
As Angela continued to recuperate I helped prepare Thanksgiving Dinner. Zac was headed to the last A&M - Texas game. Instead of eating without Zac we had our meal on Friday.
To finish our time in Dallas we got the opportunity to keep Harper at the trailer overnight while Mom and Dad had an evening out. It was so much fun. The holiday would of been perfect if Jason and Brittany had been with us and of course we continue to miss Zac's dad.

Boy, it is COLD in here!

 I love my G-Pa!! He likes to put his beard on my face. It tickles.

This is my Aunt Zu-Zu. I love her too. She comes over to keep me when Mom and Dad need to go do something.

Me, G-Pa and Gran having fun.

So this is Santa Claus. He's not so bad looking.
Why do babies cry. I hear he gives presents.

 Just Thanking God for my blessings.

Can we talk? My sweet potatoes were not cooked!

                                           

Relaxing And Fun Weekend

HARPER IS 6 MONTHS OLD!!!!!!!!

Animal made of hay

Gran, Harper & G-Pa

How do you say adorable? "Harper"

Over 40,000 pumpkins

First Pumpkin Patch - Happy Fall

Gran can really make me laugh!

YUCK! Green beans, really? Milk was just fine. HELP

We spent the weekend with Harper and family. Enjoyed some down time with nothing to do but enjoy the kids. Took Harper to the Arboretum to take pictures among the pumpkins.  It was beautiful. Took tons of pictures of Harper of course. Had a wonderful time. He is now 27" long and 16.5lbs. He is sitting pretty good and reaching for you. That makes a grandmother's heart melt.

Happy Fall

The weather is changing and fall is finally here. As I was working in the yard yesterday, I realized just  how much we lost in plants and grass this year. I understand that it will take a year for the results of the drought to effect our trees. :(
Besides the weather changing our coffee drinking has changed too. Time for the "Snickerdoodle" flavor that has such a rich cinnamon taste and "Friendship" bread. Fall decorations and pumpkins everywhere.
This weekend we are going take Harper to the Arboretum to the pumpkin patch and pumpkin houses. I can't wait to take those treasured pictures of him. He will be 6 months this week. I just can't believe that time has gone so fast. It seems like yesterday I could rock him to sleep, feed him a bottle and he would just stare at me. Now he talks "babbles", sits, eats food, goes to bed on his own and has such a great personality.

 We all believe in God, but do we believe Him for everything?
Enjoy the fall!

Another Wedding Brings CCH Together

CCH(Campbell, Clement, Hazzard) Three families that are best friends and have been for over 30 years. Weekend of October 1st the first boy of the CCH family got married. Wayne performed the ceremony. It was a great time to get together to share such a wonderful occasion. Since all the children of these families are grown, weddings are a wonderful opportunity for all of us to get together. Jason was one handsome groomsman. Angela, Zac, Harper and the pups were here too. They attended the rehersal dinner but, Harper got sick and they couldn't attend the wedding. They did get dressed up and were there for the CCH picture--a tradition since Angela's wedding. One more down and two more to go. :)

                                Weddings are so much fun.

Brittany and Jason

 Uncle PoPo and the New Sheriff in town. Now who do you think is cuter!!!

C C H  FAMILY

It was good to see everyone and of course to see Harper and show him off. We are quite proud.

Labor Day with the Family

HAPPY 4TH MONTH BIRTHDAY, HARPER.
Labor Day weekend was a blast. Harper, his mom and dad (Angela & Zac), and the pups came to visit us. My has Harper grown. It has been 6 weeks since I have seen him. He is so different. He looks all around, plays and doesn't need to be rocked to go to sleep. :(  He was so much fun. G-Pa loved playing with him.
I know we ate all weekend, because it seemed like I cooked all day Saturday. Of course we had to try out the newly opened "Tookies". If you haven't eaten there, you are missing a treat. It is one of Angela's favorite places to eat. When she was a little girl they were in Texas City and we ate there with her Granny and Pops a lot.
Sunday, Harper brought his parents to church. Of course Gran (me) was smiling from ear to ear and showing him off.
Angela and Zac have season tickets to the A&M games and they enjoyed the afternoon there. G-Pa and Gran kept Harper. We had a great time. Harper loves to be outside. While we were enjoying ourselves we noticed a baby owl in the corner of our patio cover. It didn't take long for us to start snapping pictures. Needless to say we all came in. G-Pa finally got rid of it. That was a sight to behold. Friends stopped by and brought Harper a bouncy car. It is great. I know we had more fun than Harper, but he did enjoy it.

 G-Pa just has to get in the picture. :)

Bouncing is fun

Get out of my way

Well, the kids left Monday and all was too quiet in the house. Can't wait till they come back. 6 weeks is too long to go with out seeing Harper, so I am going to make it 4. :)