A white Christmas!

We made the long 11 hour drive to meet up with my dad, sister and brother to vacation in Red River New Mexico. We saw so much snow and even tried out our skiing skills. For about 2 hours I was better than Sam at something- but he quickly picked up skiing and left me far behind haha.




Carson didn't think the snow would actually be waist deep!
Playing our favorite Shearer family game- Aquire!
Sam needed to teach Carson a lesson
Our Condo was at the top of this hill and we got so much snow on Friday that our cars couldn't make it up so we had to park at the bottom and hike up. We had a wonderful Christmas and hope you did also!

Christmas in Lumberton.

I had a great time in Lumberton visiting my mom and catching up with friends. These are my friends Christi, Courtney, and Jennifer...

And this is the four of us back in 2001 on a trip to Dallas- ha!

It was only a quick trip but its always nice to go back home :)

festivities and fun

Dinner at the Melting Pot with Sam's mom and dad... Yum!
Our not-so-small church group Christmas party.
This is my class- Santa brought us all presents- it was SO fun. He even let me jump in the bounce houses with them!!
Me, Elise and Laurie having dinner at Genghis grill.

on the 12th day of Christmas...

12 days until Christmas

11 little stockings

10 days until vacation- off to New Mexico!

9.... days left for dad to book a place to stay for above mentioned vacation....

8 years with little Carson

7 piers in the process of being installed under our cracking house6 hours of driving to get to Mom's house next Friday :)

5 inches of snow in Lumberton-CRAZY!! It didn't snow once my entire childhood there...

4 people I can't wait to spend time with (Mom, Dad, Melanie, Carson)

3 + 2 days left of school :)

2 years of marriage soon to be celebrated
1 blogger excited about the holidays!

Oh the Joys of...

1. A fresh new haircut. Thanks Kathleen I LOVE it.2. A Christmas home


3. Champagne and cards in the middle of the week
4. Sending cards to far off places. Our Christmas card destinations so far:
South Korea
England
Spain
New York, New York
Georgia
North Carolina
Illinois
Louisiana
ALABAMA (sorry Glasson's your card was the first one I addressed which also made it the first I forgot- don't worry, your Christmas card is coming with extra love inside ha!)

5. Taking 3rd graders on a field trip to literally see MILLIONS of dollars being made at the Ft. Worth mint.

6. Singing Christmas carols at church and celebrating the birth of Jesus

7. Sermons by Matt Chandler www.dwelldeep.net

8. Hanging out with this looney toon all the time. : )

Thanksgiving Vacation

Our Thanksgiving horseback ride. The name of my house was Rowdy. Rowdy pretty much sums up my ride. ha!




We had some good food and good fun during our thanksgiving vacation to north central Arkansas. In fact, we had such a good time that we are still recovering- hence, I am writing this from home- sick day. Don't we have the best looking nieces and nephew?