my poor neglected blog!

I have been unfaithful to my poor blog.... I became a facebook junkie! But I am committing myself to make a comeback! I really want this blog to be made into a book someday since I do not have the time to scrapbook.... so I plan to take a big ol trip down memory lane and get this thing "caught up" This is, if anyone out there is still reading my blog since my last post was APRIL!!!

Plus, I had a new cute family pic to put on my header, so that gave me an excuse to come back to faithful ol' blogger! :o)

I know, I know....

It is FEBRUARY and I am uploading some Christmas pictures on my blog... I have gotten the emails and the comments.... we ARE alive.... we are just busy, busy. And the further and further behind I fell, the more daunting the task of playing "catch-up" seemed.... but I plan to stay in my PJs for a while because I dont have to work today, so I am going to attempt to catch up our friends and family on the month of January for the Best Gang!

And since I am Type-A and the posts have to be in date order, scroll on down, my friends!! :o)

WARNING: long update ahead!!!

I have started a post about 5 times, but it becomes too overwhelming, so I havent finished one in a long time... so I am overdue for a huge update. I want to begin with one of my favorite new pictures... I just love how it captures how much these boys love eachother.

Things are so crazy-busy in the best household these days with all the Christmas events, parites, pagaents, etc going on... I am volunteering in way too many ways and this is kinda how I feel at the end of the day:

This is actually how we found Coby one afternoon when he was supposed to be doing his homework at the kitchen table. This is the view from under the table!

Here is Cason Pajama Day at school!

The big boys had "Favorite Book Character Day" and Coby was Arthur and Micah was a spider in Charlotte's Web... although he refused to be called "Charlotte" :o)

We got to see both sides of the family for Thanksgiving, so there was lots of family time! We headed to Jacksboro first and the came back here to celebrate with the Fowlers. We definately have so much to be thankful for!

Micah got to help Gigi make cupcakes for his birthday celebration!

Coby decided he needed to "help out" too!!

Oh, my cuteness!!! Thanksgiving led to lots of snuggle-time with the Best nephew
Cason was so sweet with little Jarrell...

Coby LOVES baby Jarrell!!

Micah told me that Dustin was his "best cousin" They had a blast in the new treehouse that PawPaw built for them... but I never got a picture of them in it! We will take one when they are here for Christmas. Micah is already counting the days!

Here are nine out of the ten grandkids with MiMi... was Dylan under the table?
Micah loved decorating everything. Every time I pulled something else out of the box, his face lit up with excitement!!

Coby wanted to hear the story behind each ornament... he is so thoughtful!

Cason loved decorating the tree.

The cutest little Santa of all!

Here is how Bry really felt about the fuzzy, hot hat!

Mr and Mrs Claus

Clint had lots of helpers while hanging the lights on the house!!

Here is the finished product... it looks awesome, babe!

Last Saturday was Breakfast with Santa. The boys each got to go see Santa and tell him what they wanted for Christmas. Cason actually kinda hollered across the way to him. He wanted nothing to do with the man and he actually sent a message to him via Coby. "Could you just tell him that I want a gameboy, too?" Here is how Bryson felt about him:

We did, however manage to coax everyone into posing for one quick family picture...
Here's the Fam with the Claus

REWIND

I have been a abad blogger lately, I know.... life has been totally crazy here! But this blog will someday be where I get all my info to make all my scrapbooks (in all my spare time, ha!) so I need to keep it all in order.... SO... I have backtracked and caught up a bit... just thought I would let you all know to scroll down to see our pics from our beach trip and from Coby's graduation and water day.