Thanksgiving at Daingerfield State Park

Well now that it is after Christmas and I can't publish our Christmas pictures untill I do our Thanksgiving pictures so here is our Thanksgiving adventure!

For Thanksgiving this year we went to Daingerfield State Park in North East Texas, up by Longview, with 3 other families; the McHann's, Isom's, and Muniz's. It was a great time! We were there for 5 days, 4 nights. Here is a picture of our cabin. It had five bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a Kitchen and a Great room.
We had stairs that led down to the lake. Here is our own little cove that we parked our paddle and peddle boats that we rented for fishing and fun.

A picture of Jared fishing at the marina. We rented a blue peddle boat you can see in the back row of boats. The kids loved it!

Pictures of the lake

Taken on a sunset hike. The colors were beautiful!!!

And here we are in all of our camping glory! We really had a wonderful and relaxing time!!!

Andy's Trip to the Oil Platform

Andy got an opportunity to go out to the oil platform for a two days. He flew to New Orleans and then caught a helicopter to fly 80 miles south of New Orleans into the Gulf of Mexico. The platform is called Ewing Bank 873 and sits in over 800 feet of water. From the platform he could see fish, baracuda's, and even a few sharks in the water. Andy loved the helicopter ride and enjoyed being out on the platform.

The pictures are of the coast of Louisiana from the helicopter. The platform upon leaving, sunrise from the platform, Andy in his hard hat, and the helicopter they flew in.

The Spelling Bee

Mark was in his school spelling bee this week. He first qualified by winning his classroom spelling bee and then went on to participate with the 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders who won their class spelling bees.

Mark took 4th place out of the whole school!!!

We are so proud of him and what he accomplished!


Mark's Spelling Bee medal he got for participating.

Let it Snow!!!

As many of you know it doesn't snow here in Texas. We are lucky if we see it once a year if at all. Last year when it snowed it was the infamous "Steffinie sprained her ankle" day. I know I haven't forgot that day :) Anyway this year we had some real good flakes come down. The perfect ones for catching on your tongue. Here are some pictures of when it was falling. It never stuck where we live but south of Houston they got 2 inches on the ground.