Happy New Year

Let me start by saying Happy New year to everyone. We hope that everyone had a wonderful new year. We went camping over the new year and had a great time. I am behind on my posts, but here is an update to where we currently are. We now have a new roof, one item complete. The insurance company was only willing to pay for a patch, but after thinking about it for awhile and talking it through we decided to put on a new roof. Last week we did a complete demolition of our kitchen. Behind the walls was not as bad as it could have been. We had worried about what it might look like. The cabinets were mildewed, but that is no big deal because we are getting new ones. This weekend sheetrock was put up on our ceiling and all of the insulation was put in. We even did the blown in insulation in the attic. Next up is finishing sheet rocking the walls. We hope that those will be done by the end of this week. Right now we have moved our refrigerator into our living room and are going out to eat every night. Things are going along pretty smoothly so far.

I will keep everyone updated on our progress!

Merry Christmas with Granny

We got together with Granny on December 28th after Tim and Scott came home from the Texans game. Ann had several trees go down during the storm so the evening started with Tim and Jeff Ham planting two trees. We had a nice get together and it was our last one before getting back to work.

Tim and the tree he planted

Jeff and Ann


Jeff, Kayla, Will, Ethan, Collin and Timmy



The Boys Hanging out

Tim liked Ethan's star wars game

Get together with Grandma A and Grandpa Mikey

Kelly, Scott and the three kids drove straight from Dallas to meet us on Dec 26th at Estebans for some Mexican food and then a get together with Ann and Michael. The dinner was a nice change from the regular Christmas food to something a little different. The five kids did great at the restaurant, but were all ready to dive into the presents when we got home. Collin loved his Star Wars Gear and Kalya got a Wii Fit. We have so enjoyed the Wii Fit. We have all tried the hula hooping and have broken a sweat.

Grandma A, Baby Will, Kayla, Ethan, Collin, Timmy and Grandpa Mikey

Yipee Tim got some new Budweiser chairs!

Mikey, Kelly, A and Scott

Ethan, Collin and Timmy enjoy a new race track

Collin and Ethan with the Clone wars helmets

Christmas with Maw-Maw and Paw-Paw

Thank you Maw-Maw and Paw-Paw for a great Christmas dinner. We enjoyed opening all of our presents and our stockings that Santa dropped at your house. We loved it.

Paw-paw and Maw-maw

Kayla, Collin and Maw-maw

The kids with Paw-Paw

Santa came to the Rainey's

And he brought the kids some electric scooters. They are really cool. Kayla's looks like she is riding a moped and Collin's looks like a dirt bike. I road Kayla's for a brief moment and it was really fun. She better watch out, I might sneak it off sometime.

Christmas Eve with the Emery Family

We had a great get together at my Aunt Judy's for Christmas Eve. I think that we probably had about 35 people or maybe even more show up this year. I truly enjoyed this year even more than years past. It seemed like we were able to enjoy each others company more this year. It might be because my kids are getting older and I don't have to worry about them every minute, but non the less, we had a wonderful time. Special thank you to Judy and the clan for the great food.

Heather, Sherry, Jennifer and Me hanging out

Collin opening his present

Little Roy, Roy Suttles, Tim, David, Javier and Daryl

Tiffany, Kayden, and Chris

Collin, Kayla, Zack and Madyson

Uncle Kevin, Samantha and Aunt Carla

Christmas Get Together

We had Roy, Haley, Mom, Buddy, Krista, Darcy, Julia, and Abigail over for a Christmas gift exchange. Everyone enjoyed the food, company and if you ask the kids the presents most of all.

Julia and Abigail

Haley and Roy

Kayla, Krista and Collin

Mom and Buddy

Merry Christmas, everyone!