12-31-2010b

The last pic of the year! Sarah & Travis looking happy...

I planned to post 365 pics, one for each day, but this is number 399, got a little crazy along the way...

Its been fun, a lot more difficult than it seems, some days you just don't have anything new to post.. but thanks for all the comments!

who wants to do it for 2011???

12-31-2010

New Years Eve at Fireside Pies.. Great pizza and great fun... Happy 2011 Everyone!

12-30-2010

Sarah, Jude & Dobby all acting crazy together..

12-29-2010

Jude turned 5 months today! Here he is ready to go for yet another car ride..

12-28-2010

Christmas cookies.. a sugar cookie, rolled in coconut, with raspberry filling and vanilla icing.. really good!

12-27-2010

Cousins at Christmas!
Not a good pic, but the best I got...
Don't they look thrilled!

12-26-2010

A really big Christmas tree in Highland Park...

12-25-2010b

Sarah on Christmas morning with her new Tom's shoes!

12-25-2010

Jude's first Christmas! He's wearing his Christmas jammies and playing with the toy car the Yule Goat brought him!

12-24-2010b

Christmas Eve started off with breakfast at La Duni kitchen and bakery who's slogan is "A day without cake is a day without love". We didn't have cake, but they did have good eggs and coffee!

12-24-2010

The candlelight service at the Village Church... it was really awesome to see 1500 candles at the same time.. really great singing and a great message from Matt Chandler!

12-23-2010

The City of Granbury's light display...

12-22-2010

The AT&T Performing Arts Center's Winspear Opera House at night.. a really contemporary "Glass Box" design.

12-21-2010

The sun coming up over the lake (7:05 AM) on the shortest day of the year. Today is the first day of winter and it is currently 82! Go figure..

There was a solar eclipse last night but the picture I took of it is pretty bad so this one will have to do.

12-20-2010

The lights at the Highland Park Village shopping center in Highland Park, every tree is covered.. everyone should go see it!

12-19-2010

Travis with his cake!

12-18-2010

Travis Kelly is 18!
Yikes that makes his momma old!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TRAVIS!!!

12-17-2010

Us at the "Grinch"!

12-16-2010

We went to see The Grinch who Stole Christmas at the new AT&T Performing Arts Center on Sunday night... here is a picture of the cast..

12-15-2010

We went to see the trains at Northpark on Sunday... Really cool and worth going to see!

12-14-2010

Jude's first look at Santa... He didn't seem too impressed.. but at least he didn't cry!

12-13-2010

Sarah and me in front of a really big tree at the Meyerson...

12-12-2010

Grammy and Jude examining the Christmas tree at the Meyerson... Jude really loved the shiny ornaments.

12-11-2010

Sarah, Susan, & Jude at the Meyerson.. Jude loved the music and singing!

12-10-2010

We went to the DSO Christmas concert last night at the Meyerson.. we got free tickets from a KERA give-away and the seats were GREAT.. this was taken from my seat, just 12 rows from the stage right in the center! The concert and singing was great too!

12-09-2010

Meow Cat trying to decide why there is suddenly a tree growing in our living room!

12-08-2010

Jude's 1st pair of tennis shoes!

12-07-2010

Jude can hold his own bottle! Well kinda...

12-06-2010

Our tree is up!

Where are the presents?

12-05-2010

Jude with his new passie that has a fake mustache glued on the front.. Too Cute!

12-04-2010

The special "Texas Rangers" edition of the 2010 Chevy Camaro... Would make a nice Christmas present... hint, hint...

12-03-2010

Sarah and Brett ran the Denton Reindeer Romp 7K... dressed as Reindeers.... or Elves with antlers... or maybe "Wheres Waldo" with antlers...not really sure...

12-02-2010

The brass dedication plaque inside the aircraft carrier USS Midway in San Diego..

12-01-2010

We have 3 different flavors of Egg Nog in our refrigerator... proof of what happens when you take Travis grocery shopping..

11-30-2010

Sarah, Travis & Brett ice skating at the Galleria..

This is picture number 365!!!! Does that mean I can quit?

11-29-2010

Jude is 4 Months old today! Here is a video of Jude talking to Grammy.

11-28-2010

A picture of my mother from 1947, she was 21... we found this and many more great pictures at the "Newsom cousins reunion" yesterday.

11-27-2010

A picture of my grandparents, Thomas and Elizabeth Newsom, along with 5 of my Aunts and Uncles, taken about 1915.. until today I had never seen a picture of them...

11-26-2010

Grandpa & Jude (he's the one sleeping) in front of the giant Christmas tree at the Galleria...

11-25-2010

14 different desserts... 18 people... you would think our family was into dessert.. we missed you Alicia & Eric & Addie... Alas, Sarah won the cranberry sauce throw down using a Tyler Florence recipe.

11-24-2010b

Steve Singleton, Jenny's dad, got a job today!!! Its been a long haul (18 months) but he never lost faith and God has provided, praise God!!!

11-24-2010

Three competitors met in kitchen stadium for Battle Cranberry Sauce! Who is the winner? You decide!

11-23-2010

A pan of dressing and a pan of sweet potato casserole that just came out of the oven... you wouldn't believe how good the house smells right now!

11-22-2010

jude, all ready to meet santa... or perhaps the yule goat!

11-21-2010

Jude, wearing his Snoppy PJs, standing in Grammy's lap!

11-20-2010

Sarah & her crew ran the Hobble Gobble 5K in Richardson today... Sarah is trying to convert the world to running... its working..

11-19-2010

Sarah, Brett, & Alex in their festive hair adornments!

11-18-2010

Our ash tree has turned a beautiful rust color...

11-17-2010

Starbuck's holiday decorations... to think a coffee bean traveled all the way around the world just to meet you and be turned into a Pumpkin Spice Latte!

Momma would have been 84 today... Yikes, we're old!

11-16-2010

Look at me! I'm flying! I'm really flying!...
Oh wait, Grammy's holding me up....

11-15-2010

At the North end of DFW airport is a place called Founders Plaza, where you can sit and watch airplanes take off and land, they have a speaker set up so you can hear the tower talking to the plane too, pretty cool!