A weekend getaway…

Our little family took advantage of  a weekend getaway last Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.  Some of our friends were going to our new deer lease in Oklahoma on Saturday.  It is pretty close to Beaver’s Bend, so we decided to make a trip of it.   Jeff and I had not been there since the summer before we got pregnant with Hayden. We were all pretty excited to go camping and fishing!  The scenery was as beautiful as we remembered and the water was as cold as we remembered too.  Ha!  IT IS SO COLD!!

Checking out the main entrance area to the State Park. 

We must get a special coin!

Off to explore a little bit at the power plant area.  They had just released the flood gates so the water was up pretty high.

We came back the next day and it looked a lot different.

Hayden has gotten quite good at casting his fishing rod. 

We found a little dock to fish on.  Even though I look pretty calm and collected, I have to admit I was a nervous wreck thinking Hayden was going to fall in.  Thank you Kristin for letting us borrow this life jacket!!!

After working so hard trying to catch some fish and even doing some swimming, we came back to our cabin for tacos and s’mores!  Yum! 

He took his marshmallows very seriously! 

Oh yeah!

Hayden didn’t really love the S’more.  I think it was more because it was messy.  He just enjoyed everything separately. 

We couldn’t go to Beaver’s Bend and not  take a ride on the train. 

It was pretty fun.  We even saw a couple of deer.

After our train ride we were off to pack up our lunch, so we could go out on the boat we rented.

Hayden was ready to go!

We enjoyed the ride, a picnic lunch, and even a little fishing.  We weren’t brave enough to swim.  BRRRR! 

But, after our boat ride, we found a couple of places to swim and spent the rest of the afternoon doing just that!  We came back for hamburgers and more s’mores.  Then, it was early to bed for us all! 

Saturday morning, we got up and headed to our new deer lease.  We still have the one in West Texas, but decided to get on this one too with several of our friends.  It will definitely be a totally different experience.  Our West Texas lease it full of Mesquite trees, scrub brush cactus, and you can see a really long way.  In OK, our lease is full of huge pine trees and you can’t see very far at all!  See the top of that hill?  That is where our new OK lease is! 

We took a really long and rough ride on our ATV’s to look at the lease and we still didn’t see probably half of it.

 

Hayden hadn’t had a nap in a few days and he couldn’t take it any longer.  The rough ride put him right to sleep.

Our friends Bo, Rhonda, and Jake.

This might be the one thing I am scared of on the new lease…

But I am pretty excited about this…

We had a great little getaway!  I am looking forward to out VACATION to the beach in the next couple of weeks!!!

Christmas Eve 2011

We had a great Christmas! We have one blessed little boy that was SO MUCH FUN!!   

On Christmas Eve we enjoyed our time with Mom, Dad, Robin, her boyfriend Colt, Jen, Jeff Gray, Landree, Hudson, Cindy and Don. 

Mom, Dad, Robin and Colt came over that afternoon and we exchanged presents.  Hayden was so excited! 

 

Hayden and Colt kind of like each other.  Hayden cried when he left on Christmas Eve!

Dad got him a spiffy new hat.  He is always telling Hayden he needed one like his, so he got one!  ;-)  Along with a new Thirty-One Large Utility Tote and aftershave.  Mom got some new outfits, a candle, and a shadowbox picture.  (I didn’t do very good getting pictures).

Their gift from Robin.  LOL!

Hayden got a huge new TONKA fire truck, LEGO’s, puzzles, DVD’s, and various other games.  He was ready to start playing! 

Time to eat!  Pulled Pork Sandwiches, Pulled Pork Tacos and Vegetable/Deer Burger soup were on the menu. Dips and other snacks too!

More presents!

Jeff and I got a little spoiled too!  Mom and Dad got me some new tennis shoes and some Juicy perfume!  Jeff got an Under Armour hoody and some Light Blue cologne.  Thanks so much Mom and Dad!  I even got some suprises from Jen and Cindy!  I LOVE my  Bird of Paradise candle, Nutella snack and new Christmas ornament!  Thanks so much Jen!!  Cindy spoiled me too with another Christmas ornament and a SPA gift certificate!!  Jen got one too!  Thank you so much Cindy!!  I can hardly wait for us to go use them! 

Robin also got us this cross.  We love it!  She knows me well!  I can’t wait to hang it up!

Mia got to play LEGO’s with Hayden while the big kids played a game!

Santa came later that night…