A Boy and his Trains

Sam LOVES his trains. They are his BFFs! We bought him a small wooden train set last year for his 1st bday. But his true love affair with Thomas and all the other trains from the Island of Sodor began at his sitter's house. The boys there play trains every day. Sam can now name every train and tell me what color they are.

When Cole was Sam's age he also loved his wooden train set, and was always enthralled by the large train table they had at Books A -Million in Longview. I always wanted to buy one of those for him but never did. So when another son came along who also loves trains...I decided it was a must. Sam asked Santa to bring him a train table this past Christmas. He can spend forever playing on it. I do believe it is one of the best investments Santa has ever made! Sam recently scored 3 new trains for getting potty trained. Another good investment! :)

See that smile on his face? Love it!

104 Years Young!

Today Jon's grandmother, Edna Bailey, is 104 years old... I think that is utterly amazing! She was 100 years old when Jon and I met and I remember thinking then "WOW!" She is such a sweet lady! And very witty! The pictures below were taken a few years ago on a visit to her home in Oklahoma. When she saw the one of the 3 of us she said "Looks like ol' biggie is taking up all the room"! How cute! We played a game of dominoes while there and she was still very "quick"....whenever it was my turn and I was adding up the dots to figure out if I could play anything, she could tell me exactly which dominoes I needed in order to play! Edna became a member of the LDS church in her 80's...after which she served as the Relief Society President and even went on a full time mission! She accomplishes things at her age that I even now would feel very overwhelmed by! I am very grateful that I have had the privilege of knowing her and seeing her awesome example of a faithful daughter of our Heavenly Father.

Jon has very fond memories of his grandmother playing basketball with he and his brothers well into her 80's!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDMOTHER BAILEY....AND MANY MORE!

Snow in Texas

I love snow!! I always have....especially as a kid! I LOVED hearing my mom early in the morning telling my sisters and I to go look outside. I always knew that meant no school that day because of snow! Wahoo! Too bad those days are very rare these days. So when it does happen, it seems cameras everywhere come out and the pictures start snapping. Here are a few of ours...

The snow was beautiful and we all had a blast in it. In fact, we hate to see it melt. Hopefully it won't be years before we see it in Texas again!