Whew! What a Holiday Season!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM THE HARVEY'S!!!

Whew! Like I said earlier...What a holiday season!! I am so thankful for my terrific family and all of our wonderful friends! They are what makes this time of year so very special to us.

I don't know about the rest of you, but for our family this time of the year just flew by!! The past 2 months have been extremely busy, and probably like most of you, we were ready for a break!!

I know it's been a while, so just be ready because there are lots of pictures!!

The month of November was pretty much taken up between basketball, One-Act play, and Thanksgiving. Cody also got his 2 pigs that he'll be showing at the county stockshow in January. I don't have pictures of them, but their names are Twinkles and Maniac. There will be pictures, but probably not until the stockshow because I can never remember to take my camera out to the pens. Anyway, they seem to be pretty good pigs, so we're keeping our fingers crossed!!!

Cody had the lead role in the junior high one-act play this year. They performed "Once Upon A Clothesline". He played the part of Pinno, a clothespin who falls off the line to rescue the lady clothespin who has been kidnapped by the terrible spider! CUTE PLAY!! Here are some of the pictures from their play:

Cody, aka Pinno the clothespin.

Pinno and his mighty army out to rescue Pinnette.

Pinno and Pinnette, safely rescued from the wicked spider.

Not only did they all do a FABULOUS job, but they won FIRST PLACE!!!! Cody was named as honorable mention to the All-Star cast. We found out just before the Christmas break that they will get to perform their play again for the the annual Chamber of Commerce banquet in January. Can't wait to see it again!

Then December came and is now almost gone!! We celebrated the end of our first semester in 7th grade!!!! And when I say "we", I mean WE!! It took all 3 of us to get thru this semester, but we did it! Cody did great on his finals, and we were just so excited to have a couple of weeks off from studying! Justin and the kids came to our house for Christmas this year. Angela didn't get to join them because she needed to stay in Lubbock and help take care of her mom, but we missed her. Of course we opened presents and then the best part was getting to play with everything.

Sydney and her babydoll. She also got a stroller and LOTS of beads so we can spend HOURS making necklaces and bracelets.

Jeffrey opening his very big red truck, with a little help from Pops.

All that excitement just wore these guys out!

Then on Friday we left for Abilene to celebrate Christmas with the Roberts family. We all got to spend our first Christmas with Keaton, who is just an absolute doll! I feel sure that by the time they left Granny's for Snyder he was worn out from all the camera flashes, but we just couldn't resist!

Christmas with the cousins! What a very handsome group of boys!

I must say that Jami, Leslye, and I looked very much in the holiday spirit with our matching shirts...wouldn't you?

This is one of Cody's most special gifts he received. He got this from Nana and Pawpaw. It's a baseball t-shirt pendant with the #2 on it. That was Steven's # in baseball, and this has been something Cody has wanted for a while now. He wears it with much love and pride.

He also got a bike from Santa, plus many other gifts. Guess he was a pretty good kid this year. Jeff and I also must have been good because we got everything we asked for! I even got 2 pair of boots: a zebra striped pair of rubber boots and a pair of Justin ropers with pink tops!! Now I'm ready for just about anything!!

I'm not really that great at doing this, so that's why my blog looks a little crazy. Sorry for the craziness of the word placement, but I don't know how to fix that. Just be excited that it's updated!!! Hope eveyone had as wonderful of a holiday as we did!