The Best of 2008

I had a two hour flight today and forgot to take a movie, so decided to work on organizing my 2008 photos.(over 2000 photos) It was a good year. In January my son (Travis), daughter in-law (Jonda)and I took Hunter and Carissa to the winter carnivel. They played in snow (Carissa was very upset that her snow ball melted); rode a camel, horse, and school bus; and sat at the wheel of a fire truck. Pawpaw and I took Justin and Hunter to the Monster Jam. We had so much fun, it will be a family tradition until the kids outgrow wanting to go. This year we took all of the grandbabies.

February brought Carissa's second and Hunter's third birthday's. Carissa's favorite toy was a toy drum that I think came from her great grandmother. I love to watch my babies with their instruments. Carissa has a keyboard that plays demos as she dances for whoever will sit in the rocker and watch her.

March and April brought a trip to the zoo and playing in the dirt at Grammy's. There are pictures of wagon rides, the merry go-round at the zoo, popping up in the prairie dog domes, and at the Brazosport sea center. There is a picture of a Grouper named Gordon that Carissa was extremely fond of.

In May, Pawpaw and I took a vacation without any grandbabies and had a wonderful time in Colorado. We ended the month at my in-laws in east Texas pulling the kids in a wagon and all of them piled on the 4 wheeler with Pawpaw.

The summer went by in a flurry with Pawpaw working out of state. I would have one or two of the grandbabies every chance I got.

In September I took Hunter to see Pawpaw in Georgia. It was his first plane ride and train ride. As we were taxiing down the runway, he would say are we flying yet? After about the fourth time he asked, the plane lifted off of the ground. His eyes were huge as he looked at me as we were going in the air. WOW, Grammy, we are flying.

October brought Halloween Festivals. Pawpaw and I went to one in Bay City with two small knights (Alex and Hunter) and the dragon (Colton). The next night we went to one in Pearland with a Pumpkin (Carissa) and one knight and dragon.

November and December flew by. Christmas with the grandbabies was as fun as ever, but our house had quite a bit a damage from hurrican Ike. It was the first year EVER that I did not have a Christmas tree. It seemed that Christmas crept up too fast, and as I blinked 2008 was over. I look at the pictures of 2009 to the pictures of 2008 and my beautiful baby Hunter is already starting to look like a little boy, a toddler, no longer a baby. I want to hold onto Carissa for I know that this time next year that baby softness that still clings to her today will start transforming into a little girl.

Earlier this week a subcontractor of mine welcomed his first grandbaby, Jack, into the world. He sent me a picture of a beaming Grandpa holding a very tiny, beautiful baby in his arms. I sent him an email forewarning him that life as he knows it will never be the same.

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