Christmas 2011

For Christmas, PaPa and NaNa came down to spend the weekend with us. We had a fabulous time. We watched movies, told stories, made cookies, opened presents, and more importantly, we made WONDERFUL memories.




We celebrated Christmas by waking up and opening gifts, eating a delicious homemade breakfast and then playing with our new toys santa brought.

For breakfast, PaPa and NaNa made homemade biscuits and sausage gravy. It was delicious!

Santa brought NaNa a 8x10 picture, he brought PaPa a new magnetic light for his garage, and Zulu a HUGE rawhide.




Brad got a 3-ton jack, a creeper for the garage and new jack stand.




Dani got an iPad. I think Santa spoiled all of us rotten, but especially me. I love my new toy and take it everywhere. In fact, I might even have to start blogging more. Now there is no excuse. :)

Zulu really warmed up to PaPa and NaNa this trip. Especially NaNa because she was here every morning when she woke up. She followed her around everywhere, tried to get in the shower with her and cuddled with her every time NaNa sat down.










Zulu sharing her bone with PaPa!

We had a fantastic holiday and feel very blessed to have shared it with family. How wonderful it was to have PaPa and NaNa want to spend the holiday with us. We enjoyed their company more than they will ever know.

Merry Christmas!



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Thanksgiving 2011

Need I comment on how time has flown?!

Thanksgiving 2011. 

We spent the day with family in Luckenbach, Texas at a charity event for Wounded Warriors. It was wonderful to spend the holidays with the family, but truly honoring to spend it at a function raising money for the men and women who have served this great nation. 

Gathered before the feast

The food was great, but the company was better. We stuffed our faces of every Thanksgiving side dish imaginable. It was a potluck and man, oh man, were there some delicious food. Some things I might have to try out next year! 

Looking forward to Thanksgiving 2012. Batt Family Reunion in Phoenix. Consider yourself forewarned, I am giving you a 10 month heads up. 

This last Sunday PaPa and NaNa came for a quick visit to see our home, meet Zulu and spend some quality time with Brad and I. Since October of 2010, we have seen PaPa and NaNa a couple times, but we have never had one-on-one time with them, so this was extremely special.

P & N are winter birds here in Texas and stay about 3.5 hours north of Corpus Christi for the winter months. This year they will be here until February/March and Brad and I plan on seeing them as much as we can. We are already looking forward to the few days we will see them for Thanksgiving. We are planning on heading up there and spending the day at a charity event that P & N have gone to for the past several years! Uncle Rick, Aunt Christy, and cousins, Courtney, Paul, Jarrod and Lauren will also be there. I am looking forward to Brad meeting MORE family (poor guy!) and he is excited to see Uncle Rick - he just adores him. (:

Then, a couple weeks after Thanksgiving Brad and I will head back up to see P & N for a BBQ that will be held at the VFW. P brought some pigs with him from Idaho and the VFW is going to be smoking them up. This is the same thing we did at Uncle Rick's in Amarillo in March, which we had a great time doing.

We really enjoyed our time with them. P & Brad talked about flying ALL day long. It was great to watch them interact all day. I just love that they love Brad!
 
During their visit we had a chance to visit the flight line and the Navy even let us crawl inside of a plane and hang out for a while. So neat - we would of never been able to do that in Enid! The guys chatted about flying and NaNa and I watched some of the active planes taxi and takeoff.

 Talking about flying!

 

Running checklists

 

 

NaNa! 

 

PaPa!

 

Pilot briefing his crew. (: 

 

T-44's!

 

PaPa and Zulu. She loved them! 

 

NaNa and Zulu

We can't wait to see them at Thanksgiving and to share the holiday with them and other family. It will be great to have them so close for a few months! We love you P & N!