Merry Christmas from the Springers

Wishing you all a wonderful holiday!

Where's Sydnee you ask?

Refusing to cooperate...

But sometimes she's sweet and comforting...

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!

Spa Day

Most years, my best friends from high school get together for a Christmas party. Living out of state, I have been hit and miss. Since this is the year we all turned or are turning 30, we decided to do something extra special. We rented out a spa, had some treatments done, enjoyed the sauna, steam room and just some time visiting. Afterwards, we went out to dinner, and back to a lake house for our gift exchange and fun time!

Amanda Martinez, Me, and Tabatha Coker.

There have always been 9 of us that were best buds, at some point in high school we picked up the name Notorious Nine.

Kristen Fowler and Brandi Martin.

From top left to right: Cassie Willson, Kristen Fowler, Brandi Martin, Cynthia Lopez, me, Kristy Higgenbotham, Amanda Martinez, and Tabatha Coker. (Jamie Cruz had left before this picture.)

Even when its been quite a while since we've been together, every time we get together it feels like the old days. We always have a good time catching up and goofing off. I'm glad to say I still have such good friends.

Dewberry with the Fam

Jaxson and I had so much fun on his field trip to Dewberry Farms, that when our friends invited us to go with them, we were all in!

Paige and Hyrum. They were holding hands and it was so cute. Funny story - For some reason Sydnee cannot say "Hyrum," so she calls him Pirate! We have practiced saying it and breaking it into syllables and sometimes she gets it in pieces, but she decided to call him Pirate, so its official... the baby named Pirate!

We did all the fun activities. This is the hay swing.

The 'big ball swing' we'll call it.

Us parents got to play too.

The zip line.

The bouncy pillows. Really, they are just huge pillows of air that work like trampolines. This is our friend Peyton. He is Jaxson's age.

Even little Paige played.

And got her workout in with some pushups.

The race track.

Our friends, Bart and Brooke Brooks. Brooke is one of my running partners. The really fast, I can never keep up with her, partner!

All of my chickens.

Sleepy Syd

We have really been noticing that Sydnee is getting big lately. It makes me sad that my little toddler is going to be a big girl soon. When Shaye told me she had fallen asleep on the couch watching tv upstairs, I just had to take a picture when I saw how small and sweet she looked. She was just leaning over on her blanket, and finally she looked like a little baby again!

Family Pics

Just some casual pics a friend took while we were at Dewberry Farms...

Warrior Dash Weekend

The weekend before Thanksgiving I went to Austin to spend time with some friends from Bartlesville and do a race called the Warrior Dash! It was so fun!! The whole thing! It was great to see a few of my Oklahoma friends, it felt like I hadn't even left, and the race was a blast too. It's a different kind of race, as you will see...

Before we left

Me and Emilie Vaclaw

Me, Faith Cook, Lauren Murray, and Emilie. Before the race...

There were tons of people in costumes. These had to be some of the most outrageous...

This shoe donation pile was twice this size by the end of the day. My shoes included...

It must run in the family. HAHA!

I wish I had pictures during the race. But they are too expensive to buy, so I'm not going to bother. It was a 3.2 mile race with about 12 obstacles along the way. We did things like jump over a row of cars, run downstream in a small river, climb up a cargo net, jump over a fire pit, crawl over hay bails, and slide through a mud pit under barbed wire.

It took us 34 minutes to finish, but it was strictly for fun. There were people stopping on the course taking pictures and playing in the river and just goofing off. There were very few people that were racing for time.

I didn't realize it was on my face so much. I just knew I had to wash my mouth off before I drank my water at the end.

After showering and getting some of the mud out of our ears, we went to dinner and out a little in Austin. We headed home early Sunday, I had to make it back for church at 11. Will are planning to do it again in the Spring, and I can't wait to see more of my friends next time!