DROP! Moving on............

We finally got our drop on Saturday evening. Assignments were: Hill, Aviano, Germany, Korea, and Japan. Japan was a shock to everyone since it is closing down.
We are so HAPPY to say that were going to HILL Air Force Base in UTAH! Ohhh yea baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We have been in Texas almost 7 years and it's time to get back closer to home.
Now we can spend birthdays, holidays, trips, etc together. Oregon is only an 8 hour drive to visit the Hipple side so we'll be taking many trips that way as well. We are so thrilled!
Time to focus now and knock down 3-4 more months here and graduate................
Can't Wait :)

Santa's Visit

I think 3 little precious girls were visited by Santa this year.

With doll houses, ponys, and dressups galore!!

Meet "lucky" the horse

Since we have no snow here, the razers were a big hit!

Our little ball-a-butter is enjoying her new toy!! She also loved to chew on all the tags to her new clothes and managed to puke on just about everything!! (thankyou mommy)!!!

The new "Belle" dress ups

Merry Christmas EVERYONE!

Christmas Eve.......

Daddy and the girls wrote Santa Clause a letter...............

It goes a little like this.....................

Opening a gift before bedtime! Neena got them "Mortimers Christmas" with the mice (Avery was a little conerned about Brynlee...........)
We did hear back from Santa.......hope you did too!

Reindeer Dust

Madelyn made some Reindeer Dust at school. We put it out on the lawn to lead the Reindeer to our house.............

Early Christmas

Grammy and GrandBob came to visit us for 5 days before Christmas. We had a great time with them. The girls got to have an early Christmas and open up many fun gifts.

Avery LOVED the wrapping paper most!!

We went to the River Walk to see all the lights and take the boat tour. It was really neat.
We made "Rudolph Pupcakes" and pretzel sticks.......Mmmmm!!

Little Miss Avery had MANY blowouts so she found herself here..........alot!!!
We also went to the Rainforest Cafe for dinner. The girls LOVED it! It's nice to have them stay in there seats watching out for the gorilla's!
Here is OUR little Rudolph!

Thanks again for coming to visit us grandma and grandpa!

Papa and Neena Suprise!

My parents came to visit us for a few days. I wanted to suprise the girls~they had no idea that Papa and Neena were coming until the door bell rang.....................

It was such a GREAT suprise!! It took Maddie a minute to realize who was at the door!

Little Miss Avery turned 4 months while they were here so Neena helped give her the first taste of cereal...............

We have lots of practice to do! It was yummy and messy!
One of the days we went to the Zoo. It was a beautiful day to go since there was a slight breeze and temps were around 70. Great day to hang outside!!

The "Ave Babe" hangin in the stroller...............


Maddie's face cracks me up.....lol!

Papa was such a trooper and packed Avery around all day. She had a good time drooling down his arm and baskin in the sun.
Thanks for coming out Papa and Neena! It was a blast!

Trick or Treat

TRICK OR TREAT..............

Anybody want some CANDY, we have lots at the Hipple house.................

"Jersey Girl" holding her little calf.......

They were also Princesses..............
It took until the day before Halloween, but we did carve pumpkins. Madelyn and Bynlee could not stand being so messy (I wonder who they learned that from)? But it was a masterpeice.

She didn't carve, she slept instead..............

Minnie Mouse 1 and 2............I think they are too cute!

It will be nice to not have to dress up for a while....................