Our Christmas Card

First of all, let me say that our Christmas cards were not distributed completely this year because our computer crashed and died just before I did address labels. So, the only people who received cards are those who are in my "old-fashioned" address book or whose card to us happened to arrive while I still had our extra cards, stamps, etc. out so that I was promptly able to send off a card to you using what you had sent to us. So if you know us and did not receive a card from us, unfortunately you (or at least your most current address) is not in my address book. (Hint- you should send it to me)

Anyway, whether you received a card or not, below are pictures included in our card (a little bit bigger and in color) for better viewing. Enjoy!

A tree of favorites . . . favorite shoes that is--



Some of our favorite ornaments from our actual Christmas tree--

Merry Christmas

from us to you!



We woke up this morning with no tree, no snow, and without the comfort of our home, but we enjoyed Christmas morning together which is better than all of the rest of that combined. The kids each had presents for each other and did an amazing job of finding just the right thing - no exchanges necessary here, thank you.

Heading South for the Winter

. . . at least for a week.

We are in San Antonio, TX for the Alamo Bowl. We arrived yesterday after a van, plane, and bus ride to our hotel -the Marriot, Rivercenter- and have been having a good time ever since. The kids have played in our hotel room, played in the player/kid hospitality room, eaten in the staff/family hospitality room, taken a walk on the river walk, slept, and visited the training room that is set up in our hotel. I got to tag along for all of it, and they also tagged along with me to walk to Walgreen's to buy some food.

Today is Christmas Eve, and we are supposed to be heading to Sea World. It is supposed to rain today, so we will see if how that turns out. Drizzle- no worries. Down pour- doesn't sound like much fun. I will try to report back in.

We are looking forward to enjoying our family vacation - OSU Football style.

Don't Give Up

Seeing as I sent Christmas cards out and invited people to check out out blog, I guess I should write something, eh? I have not been very good about updating the blog although I really enjoy doing it when I make the time. Our computer is sick right now, so it makes it difficult to keep up. I hope you won't give up on us though and continue to check when you have a free moment.

Surely we will have some fun news to chare from our journey to San Antonio this coming week as we head south with our Cowboys to experience all that the Alamo Bowl has to offer. We will be there for 7 nights. The kids are looking forward to the trip. Rachel and Cole are especially excited about the airplane ride. They have flown three times before, but the most recent time was two years ago so they don't really remember.

Two and a half more days of school, packing, and time for fun before we get on that plane Thursday morning!

Merry Christmas, Everyone!

Naughty List

Seeing how bad I am at following through on things lately, I think I should definitely end up on Santa's naughty list. I promised a picture a day back in August and got MAYBE three days' worth in. Pretty, pretty sad! As I am working on Christmas cards and have reminded people they can check us out on our blogs, I figured I should at least check in. There is so much to cover, I am not even going to try to start; however I will share two things with you here today:

1) This past week I was looking for something I had posted on our blog a couple of years ago. In the process, I was mesmerized by the photos and stories I shared. I remembered all of them as happening, but most were not memories that I think of often. I absolutely LOVED it! Rachel and Cole were sitting with me for a while and had great fun seeing pics of them so little and hearing the stories that went along with them. Totally worth the time of doing . . . maybe even the boost I need to blog more regularly.

2) As most of the world who cares probably already knows, our OK State Cowboys are heading to the Alamo Bowl this year. We look forward to a fun time, new opportunities, and win #11!

Buddies

An era in the Hunt house ended this May. I no longer have a day baby in my care. Our little friend is now a big brother, and his mom will be staying home with both kids at least for the next year. Although in many ways this is a positive change for all involved, I think there may be some friends missing each other.



PS: I am making two photo installments today since everyone was nice enough not to mention I missed yesterday even though it was only day 2 of my new plan. It was a busy day with a workout in the morning, followed by a few errands, and then preparaing our house for hosting a "back to school" cook-out for Rob's staff. Excuses, excuses, I know, but I really would have rather been sitting at the computer rather than running around crazy all day!

Alexa, the Gymnast

Alexa has participated in gymnastics off and on since she was two years old. She seems to enjoy it, and works hard to follow directions and do her best. She is fun to watch and is always excited to accomplish a new skill. She has commented, however, that bridges hurt her wrists and she doesn't really like those.

These photos are from one of their "show off" days at the end of a session. I didn't get to stay the whole time as I had to leave to get Robbie to baseball practice, but I got a few shots from warm ups.





By the way, Alexa has been a soccer and basketball player too. She is also looking forward to trying her hand at softball this coming spring.

Two for One Deal

Four years ago I found out that I was pregnant with twins. After going to the training room to tell Rob and making a few phone calls to family, I sent an email that I titled "Two for One Deal" in which I shared the news with other friends and extended family.

People often ask what I thought when I heard I was having twins, and I always tell them that I laughed. I wasn't shocked or nervous or scared; somehow I think I knew there were two in there and God had already prepared my mind and heart for that. I was comfortable enough with the thought that had the first ultrasound shown just one baby, I am sure I would have been a little sad. I know that sounds crazy, but it is true. I had not voiced my guess to anyone other than one friend I had written a letter to about a week or so before I found out.

It was an amazing and fun day- one I will remember always.

The hardest part of the last four years was the sleepless nights during the pregnancy, but even those have been totally worth it.

I know all kids have friends or siblings whom they are especially close to (I see it a lot between Robbie and Alexa), but I feel there is definitely something special between twins.

Maybe these next few pictures will show a bit of what I have enjoyed the last four years with our twins. They were taken on Easter morning this year.

Baseball: Father-Son Bonding

Robbie played baseball in an 8 and under machine pitch league this year. His team was the Stillwater Patriots. He had fun, learned a lot, improved his skills, and made some great friends.

A couple of weeks ago he tried out for a team for next year (9 and under kid pitch). They were looking for players to play on their AA and AAA team. He was selected for the AAA team (which is supposed to be the better team), so we will see what it brings for him and all of us this coming year. It will involve some fall practices and tournaments which might be more than what we are looking for, but he is really excited and we are definitely proud of him!

Photo-a-Day

Sooo . . . I have been really horrible with updating this blog.

So horrible in fact, that no one probably even checks it anymore.

So . . . my goal for August (and, yes, I know we are already 3 days into August) is to add a picture each day to share some of what we have had going on in the last 6 months. Very little commentary will go along with it as I don't want to overwhelm myself, you know. Hopefully I will be able to catch you all up tho and be able to keep up with the pics.