Christmas (Eve mostly)...Christmas Day pictures were on another camera!

Merry Christmas 2010!!!

 We had our family Christams pictures made and - I have to say - our kids make our pictures so beautiful and precious! Creighton was so cooperative and little Harper did not do any screaming at all...the flash stunned her a bit but she hung in there! Most of all, I'm thankful that Dave is such a happy participant. I know he dreads getting these pictures made but he does it so willingly and happily because he knows how much it means to me. And he's quite helpful with managing the kids while I select the "keeper" photos.

 the girls

 the boys

the babies

the joy!

the wonder!

the tenderness!

Christmas is filled with so many amazing moments!

Like this one! 

Meeting Santa. 

NOT Creightons favorite moment. But a classic one for sure!

and the special moment of waking up Christmas morning! 

(yes, we let Creighton sleep in his Texas Rangers hat. It was Christmas for crying out loud! And yes, our strange, darling little boy wore his hat...all night!)

Now these pictures are from Christmas Eve at Pa and Mimi's house 

(most commonly referred to as "PaMimi")

The Harps sure enjoyed spending time with her Aunt Suzanne

And even though he woke up with a fever - bless his little heart - Creighton enjoyed tearing into his Christmas presents.

 Because of his fever, his reactions to each present were a little subdued,

but he managed a few smiles, like this one, and a few "wow-cool"s

but mostly we had this sweet not-feeling-so-good face. Poor baby.

Thank goodness for some quiet moments reading with Pa

and watching the lights on the disco ball with Aunt Suzanne

and now that the fever reducer medicine has kicked in, some crazy fun with Uncle Ben and toy cars on the tile floor! Maybe this Christmas is gonna be wild fun afterall!!!

So Merry Christmas Y'all

And A Happy New Year!

Okay...go ahead and get into some mischief next year, but not too much...Santa only comes to see the good boys and girls!

Harper 5 months

today is my 5 month birthday

and I'm droolin everywhere cause I might be starting to get a tooth?

I'm trying food for the first time ever. Rice Cereal from my Daddy!

Yummmmm!

Announcing.......

Some incredible news!

I have decided to leave my career at Biomet 3i and become a stay-at-home-mom!

My final day with 3i will be January 3, 2011 and - although it is sad to leave my work family of colleagues and customers whom I just truly love - I'm SUPER delighted to be at home with my little family! 

I am so blessed to have this opportunity to be at home with Creighton and Harper. Thank you, Dave, for working hard with me to make this happen!!!!!

Half Marathon(s)

My Davey Dave loves to run.

So Creighton, Harper & I packed up our gear and followed Dave around as he ran The Dallas Running Club "The Half" marathon in November and then again in December another half marathon at the Dallas "White Rock Marathon".

(the following pictures are out of order but I can't seem to fix it for some reason. These pictures show the December race first, and the November race next. Sorry if this is confusing...)

Early in the morning on a COLD COLD day we dropped Dave off down at Fair Park for the Dallas White Rock Marathon so Dave could run a half-marathon while we (Me, Creighton, Harper and Pa) cheered him on!

Traffic was pretty horrible, so unfortunately we were only able to find him at one spot. But it was a great spot! 

Creighton saw his Daddy first and started yelling "Go Daddy Go!" just like we had practiced!

Lots of people stopped us to tell us how much they liked our poster and the jingle bell wands I had rigged up that made quite a lot of fun noise for all the joggers. But all we cared about was that Daddy saw our sign and loved hearing our jingle bells!

Little Harps was a CHAMP in the cold and loved cheering for her Daddy!

And for Pa, this was his first time ever to observe a marathon/half-marathon. He sure thought it was exciting. And I sure appreciated his help with the kids all morning! 

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Now, back to "The Half" which was held in November under slightly better weather conditions.

Well, I say slightly better conditions. It was a freezy morning but by the afternoon it was predicted to be nice. But I bundled up the kids anyway and off we went.

Uncle Hung rode with us so I snapped a quick "Before" photo of the boys and off they went. 

Then Aunt Heather and I met up at Starbucks for some warm hot cocoa and to establish our game plan! Just by a wild chance Creighton and Ericksen were both decked out in their cool orange vests...should make it easy for their daddies to spot them!

The Harps was all warm and cozy in her leopard zip up she borrowed from her girlfriend Katie.

Speaking of Katie, she and her mama Aunt Cindy met up with me and Aunt Heather at our first watching/cheering spot. We were some SUPER cheerleaders with pom-pons and posters! Check out Katie's cool poster for her daddy Uncle Hung!

Creighton preferred the pom-pons!

And sure enough, at our first stop, we saw all the daddies! 

Here goes Uncle Eric!

Next up, Uncle Hung!

and right behind him was Daddy!

Creighton was really excited to see his daddy and he yelled "Go Daddy Go" but then...

Daddy kept running and Creighton was sad. He wanted his Daddy back.

But no time for tears. We had to quickly pack up or kids and head off in our caravan to the next spot on the other side of the lake. 

We saw Uncle Hung again!

And Uncle Eric too (somehow that picture got deleted. bummer) but we must have just missed Daddy.

Creighton enjoyed stretching his legs for a minute. I thought for a minute there he was going to join the pack and run to the finish line to look for his Daddy. But instead, once again we threw the kids in to the cars and headed off towards the finish line.

Hey - there goes Uncle Eric crossing the finish line!

And Daddy, too!!! (missed Hung - that speed demon!)

Yay Daddy!! 

Strong finish

This is the "After" picture of the boys!

They look great-- not a drop of sweat on them. Studs!

And my Harps did great, too! She's a natural born cheerleader I think.

Creighton couldn't wait to high-five his Daddy. We were REALLY proud of all the runners we cheered for, and the cheerleaders we cheered with!

Team Seghs!

The Appels

The Nguyens

KT and CT look a little tired out...so this picnic turned in to a cuddle moment : )

Dads, you did a great job running. 

Your kids loved watching you!