Zion's cute Curls!!!

Phoenix has always had great hair, but he got more of my hair texture with big soft curls......I am pretty sure that not only does Zion look just like Byron, he got his hair from him too......

The Zoo

A few weeks ago we went to Waco and spent the day at the zoo. It was the perfect day as far as weather. We had so much fun. Phoenix is still talking about all the animals we saw.

Home Depot Project

The first saturday of every month Home Depot has a kids workshop. It is free and just on a first come first serve basis. We took the boys for the first time this month and the project was a race track. Phoenix thought it was awesome!!! We are looking forward to next month, the project is a birdhouse.

Valentine's Day

I took the boys on valentine's day to eat lunch at Chick-fil-A. We ate some chicken, had some icecream, and then played in the playland for a while. It was a fun lunch with my two handsome valentine's!!!

Sleepover with Cousin

Phoenix invited his cousin Xander over for a sleepover and they had SO much fun.....They decided they would draw lists of all the things they wanted to do during the sleepover....The lists included things like, having a tea party, building a tent, making crowns with Byron, and going for two LONG corvette rides. We managed to do all the things on the list. What a fun time!! ( I could not get the top picture to rotate for some reason, but it gives you an idea of what the "list" looked like)

We believe in Change!!!

Resolution Run

Since Byron had his surgery in August, our family has turned over a new leaf. We all started eating healthier and Byron and I really started excercising. We have been running together and so we signed up to run the 2009 Resolution Run together. It was a 5k, so that is 3.2 miles. We actually both finished together. Here's to a new year.

Happy Birthday Byron

My husband is pretty much amazing.....For HIS 44th birthday instead of spending the day doing whatever he wanted.....he took me to see the Rockettes (yes the radio city Rockettes) he then took me to a delicious Italin lunch and then to RunTex to get fitted for running shoes....

We then went home took the babysitter home and then spent the evening at our friends Scott and Kasey's house for a fun New Year's Eve party.

It was a very fun day for me, I just hope Byron had as much fun!!! I love you Honey!

Christmas Celebrations

Well it was another great christmas for the Morgan family. We started our celebration by taking the boys to a close by nieghborhood to see Santa and make sure he knew what Phoenix wanted for Christmas.

Christmas Evewe spent with our great friends Todd and Katie. We decided it would be nice to do some sort of service for christmas, so we took cookies to the nursing home where Byron's mother's God Mother lives and past them out to the residents. We also sang carols for a while. It seemed to bring some smiles and a little joy to the residents. After our visit to the nursing home we went back to our house and ate some delicious potatoe corn chowder out of bread bowls ( thanks again Katie ) and we drank some wassel......for those of you that have never had wassel....make some, it is amazing!!! We finished off the night with caroling with a couple families and hot cocoa at our bishops house.

Christmas morning we got up and opened presents with the boys...Phoenix got a work bench with all the tools, a fisher price town (zion's too) a new suit,and light up socks from the neighbor that he LOVES!!Phoenix also got thre only thing he had asked Santa for......that right you guessed it folks....a Chia Pet! He was soooo excited.

Zion got a fisher price farm, some clothes and also light up socks. Both boys and byron and I got new Pjs thanks to Aunt Katie and Uncle Todd.

Byron surprised me with season passes to all the broadway cross America shows coming to the Bass Cancert Hall!! I am sooo excited. He also got me some new workout clothes.

I bought Byron a new bag to replace the always talked about "MacGuyver Bag" that he has been carr ying around for years.

Josh, Chrissta and the kids came over late morning with prinut in hand ( Yummy!! Thanks Chriss) we hung out, ate a delicious dinner and played lots of fun games on the Wii. We loved having them here.

Sorry we did not get Christmas cards sent out....we are going to send them out with Byron's graduation annoucements in a month or so.

Talking About Death

I read and article in USA Today is past Monday while I was in Houston which detailed how to make easier one of life's hardest discussions: talking about how you want to die. The site is called Engage With Grace: The One Slide Project (engagewithgrace.org).

As I get older and have gone from no glasses, to bifocals, to multi-focal lens replacement (maybe next year), my family and I have started to prepare for the my transition beyond the veil.

Tara and I have a will, but like most it has not been updated since we have had children.
So as you all are getting ready to make you New Year's Resolutions, please make sure that you have a will in place (especially if you have kids) and, if you are getting ready for surgery, make sure that you have an advance directive in place.

The end is coming we all need to be prepared!