ICE

This past weekend we got to go to the Gaylord in Grapevine and go through the ICE exhibit! They do it every year but this is our first year to go. We walked through an exhibit with two thousand pounds of ice sculpted in to a life size town of Whoville from Dr Suess' book "How the Grinch stole Christmas"! It was bright and colorful and fun...and COLD!! It is 9 degrees in there!! They give you a big blue parka to wear and we brought hats and scarves and gloves. It is bearable for about 30 minutes and then Trinity started to get too cold so we got out. Fun times! We walked around the mall and then came home and played games...such a great weekend.

The Gaylord is gorgeous during Christmas!

We took a few pics around the hotel before we went into the ICE

There is a two story ice slide about half way through...

You know I had to get a picture of this cool ice cake!

There are a few classic Christmas ice sculptures..

Long December

Well,the end of the year flew by and I totally and completely forgot about the blog. Seems like I just cant keep up with it all. I do pretty well on facebook and Twitter because it is fast and I can send a quick picture or text of what the Bray fam is up to. Most of you are seeing it twice anyway when I post it on here! I am not totally giving up and will hopefully have more time to devote in the next few months to writing on the blog a little more. This year will have many changes, a few in which I am dreading (as we start to collect furniture for Christian's college dorm room in the fall...sob sob) and some that I am looking forward to. But whatever does happen this year I am enormously thankful for friends and family and being surrounded by support and love. I am open to whatever God has planned for us this year and pray his blessings on all of you!

So, here are some of our favorite pics from the past few months while we were busy..I do have to admit that most of them are from my phone. It is always with me and takes decent pictures so I realized that I took a lot of candid ones on it towards the end of the year.

Michael sent me this picture message, I love it!

Mustache Club

Stretching and bonding :)

One of these is a wiener dog and one is just pretending...

Mudding in the Go Cart!

Michael and I on the floor at the Muse/U2 show

Halloween Party 2009

My little sister still lets me put makeup and on her and do her hair and take pictures...just for fun...

Yellow Cake

Landry's Volleyball Banquet

Like Papa, like grandson? (my Dad is a good sport!)

Christmas

Georgia Bulldogs Bowl game