Hudson Steven Abraham

A new year.....

Hello all. I haven't worked on my blog since last November. It's been a busy year for us, as everyone knows. I am hoping to eventually be up to date on it, but that will probably take some time- but for now........I'll start here.

To sum things up for now-
We moved to Texas back in May of '10. Nathan graduated and then we moved back home. Nathan had a job lined up with Chase bank and things were looking good. We decided to live with my parents until we knew exactly what city Nathan would be working in. So we camped out at the Carvers for about......9 months. We loved it but we were ready for our own place. We were so happy to find out that Mansfield is where Nathan would be working. We found a house and moved in last January and have been absolutely loving it. If I had one place I could have wished to live in Texas it would be here. It's a wonderful place. We are close to Fort Worth and Arlington. Close to family......but not TOO close ;). There are so many things close by too. Lots of shopping, restaurants and Mansfield has there own nice, BIG water park. Just to name a few things we love. My favorite thing is the ward that we attend. We have been in about 7 different wards in our time in Utah and this one here in Mansfield has been my favorite, hand down.

We love our cute little house. It was quite the journey in finding it, but I will save that story for another post ;) Another highlight that I love is my dad's "Tom Thumb" store is literally down the street. We drive down the street every week to say hello and get a free cookie. The kids have been loving it. Speaking of things down the street.......Nathan's branch is within walking distance. We've actually walked down there a couple of times. We feel so blessed to be where we are. We are so grateful to all of the wonderful people that we have met and who have welcomed us in.

I have taken lots of pictures of our house as we moved and as we've settled in. However I took these months ago. I really need to update them but until I do I will post some pictures so everyone can get an idea.

Like I said earlier I'm trying to re-commit to blogging. Eventually I will get to what we've been up to since moving back to Texas. New Year's resolutions right?? We have had some exciting, fun times since moving back and I want to make sure I get the chance to share them all. Until then: here we are- buying our first home :)

Giving Thanks

Thank goodness for Thanksgiving! We love Thanksgiving in our family, especially now that we are back in Texas to celebrate. We were spoiled with two Thanksgivings......
Keep in mind I wish I would have gotten more pictures of everyone but it was just so busy, time got away from me and the opportunity to catch shots :)

First the Carver Clan=>
Produced by my sister Carrie.
She hosted this years thanksgiving. It was her, Ryan and their 4 kids, mom, dad, Caity, our fam-Nathan, Nikki, Ethan, Shelby & Linky, my bro Chris, Em and their 3 girls and then of course the missionaries from Carrie's ward. It was a FULL HOUSE!!!!!!!!! But so much fun! That's the only way to go on holidays right? The crazier the better!




Here we are to start off......everyone smiling!
The sisters, of course.....



Nana & Papa and their 10 of 11 grandchildren. (Minus little Jackson James)
Here's me and my Shelby, ready to eat!

Nathan & Linky boy




The grand-kids, catching up.

The little kids table ..........

and the big kids table.
Heavy discussion?



Cousins &

Aunts having fun :)


Uncle Chris soothing Ms. Shelby, she got a toy stolen from her :*(


Playing games
Carv, K & E playing games of their own.




We ate good food, had good laughs, played great games and of course got a little football game time in. Thanks to Carrie for putting everything together. The food was great ! Can't wait til' next year!


Now over to the Abrahams for more good times!

(Again I wish I could have gotten more pictures. )

After the celebration with the Carvers we were able to meet Grandma & Grandpa Abraham over at The Gaylord Hotel. Wow what a place. The decorations were incredible. It was like a whole town inside the Hotel. There were some many decorations and themes, what a wonderful experience. Check it out....

http://www.gaylordhotels.com/


So then on the Saturday after Thanksgiving we went out to Azle to have the actual Abraham Thanksgiving feast. Firsts the boys were busy making a new table for Jared & Jamie. The girls were in charge of gathering the supplies.

Here we are loading the wood....







And here are our boys hard at work :)






with a little assistance from E-tom



And the finished product, beautiful, with decorations!



Here are some familiar faces enjoying the gathering.







Here are some other fun pictures I found of the cousins playing a few days earlier I wanted to post. Ms. Shelby playing peek-a-boo


Driving cars...



Behind bars

Chillin




And finally some relaxation.

I didn't get any shots of the fun crafts Jamie and I did with the kids but you can check her blog to see =>


It was a wonderful holiday celebration. It's always crazy and fun when holidays come up to have both families to celebrate with. We are so lucky we are so close to both. We had so much fun, thanks to everyone!