Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Christmas Crossword 2013

Thank you, family and friends, for visiting our blog.  We have grand plans to update it more often in the new year!  If you are stopping by for the answers to our Christmas Crossword, here they are:

Across
5. The Lake Travis Balloon Flight was quite a sight even if it was 0430.
6. Celebrations that PaPa has now had 60 of:  birthdays
7. We experienced freezing temperatures while camping at Inks Lake in March.
10. Our family (and many others) went on this after joining a wonderful, new church very near our house:  retreat which was a real treat!
12. Twelve yards of this stinky stuff was spread over our entire yard, garden, and flowers:  compost
15. The beautiful Park in Colorado where Emily and her dear friends, Laura & Amanda Applegath, ventured to in May:  Estes
16. Emily got back into this setting at work this semester:  clinical

Down
1. The grade that Ethan will be in next year:  Kindergarten
2. What Ethan loves to tube behind:  boat
3. The mode of transportation that Gigi & Emily took when visiting friends in Dallas this Summer:  bus
4. This boy's stats include being 32 lbs & 3’:  Travis
8. This boy's stats include being 46 lbs & 3’8”:  Ethan
9. The last name of Reese Layne, our healthy baby niece, born on April 28th:  Garrison
11. The first University of Texas game that Ethan got to attend with Papa was this sport:  football
13. Halloween at our house included a tiger, an elephant, and 2 zoo keepers.
14. The state that Will & Emily's September rendezvous took them while starting in Boston:  Maine

 

Thank you for staying in touch!  Merry Christmas and may you find much laughter and love in this holiday season! 


Trailblazing T

T has been quite the trailblazer...in more ways than one!  He is a boy who knows what he wants and one of those wants is to be on the hiking trails.  Here are some pictures that capture the fun that he and his daddy recently had on some great trails in our neighborhood.

 Leading the way!
  Hiking the hills.
 Talking it up.
 "'Nack time."

After about a mile, T is ready to be carried in the backpack.
 It is especially fun when the final destination includes a playscape.
 
 What a face!
 "Here I come!"
Fun times outside produce great naps for our boys!  Yahoo!