Thanksgiving 2008

Here was Houston's first Thanksgiving. And Emma was a pilgrim at school on Wednesday, where she shared a fruit salad with the Indians of Kindergarten. That is Emma's teacher.

First glipse of Christmas

We went to Fantasy of Trees and Dollywood. Both with Christmas already in full bloom.....Yes, Houston's cheeks are bigger than Santa.

Cheetah Girls

I went with Emma and some of her friends to the Cheetah Girls concert. We went to Libby Lu before. Lots of fun....

Buddys Race

This year 200 of us and our friends walked or ran in the Buddy's Cancer Race. The reason that I post this is because Emma lost a precious friend this summer to cancer and we try daily to never forget to live each day to its fullest. We have to remember what Maddie taught us in her five short years here. This has become a big effort in my life to help Chrissy, Maddie's mom, to raise money to fight childhood cancer. They have created a fund in her honor called the Butterfly Fund and you will see more from that in the future. Emma is wearing our team shirts that say "Maddie continues to inspire me everyday." The Maddie team was the largest team in the race.

Halloween

I have some catching up to do. I haven't posted a lot of important pictures, so here goes a lot of updates. Emma was Giselle from the movie Enchanted and Houston was a turtle. We had a great time and got to trick or treat for several days with church friends and then a trunk or treat on Halloween.