Beyond Blessed...

We have been so blessed to have spent Christmas with both sides of our families this year. We started out celebrating with Randall's family down in San Antonio. It was fun being a part of the Big Christmas Tradition with Randall's family. Below is a family picture of the gang...4 Generations...

 And Morgan Loved spending time with her Aunt Natalie!!! Such Sweet Memories!

 Here is the 4th Generation of Great-Grandchildren... 

And on the actual day of Christmas Eve, we took the kids to play putt-putt for the 1st time (before the evening service). The kids pretty much made up their "own rules" as the game played out. They had a Lot of Fun!

After Christmas Eve Service, we had to "rush" home to write Santa a letter...

And of course... Cute P.J.'s for Christmas Eve!!!

Christmas Morning: Micah loved playing swords with his Uncle Brandon!

And the girls played Princess Candy Land... A morning full of memories!

We then drove up to my (Liz's) parent's later that day and arrived to a yard of snow! We had a White Christmas!!! (the kids' first)... having fun with MiMi!

And here we are getting ready for opening the presents!

And then what we waited for all morning... playing in the snow!!! 1st time ever to play in snow....

Morgan had fun chasing Aunt Meghan with snowballs!

And then the Snow Angels started... The kids had a blast making these, soaked their clothes and then went straight into a warm bath!

And to top it off, my Mom, sister and I made a snow-girl... So much fun... So many memories...

So very Blessed. 

More pics to post... coming soon...

Morgan's Christmas Concert

Dear Faithful Blog Readers,

This post is special for several reasons...

1.  This is the 1st Christmas both kids remember spending in America with Family

2.  Morgan has almost completed her 1st semester of Kindergarten

3.  The video posted below is such a sweet memory for Morgan as she sang with her class "Santa Clause is Coming to Town"

We hope you enjoy watching our sweet 5 year old sing in her first Christmas Concert ever!!!

Please leave Morgan a comment letting her know how Proud you are of her! :)

And of course a few Christmas Pics...

Just to catch some of you up... G.Pa and Grammy's (R's parents) dog had 9 puppies (Golden Doodles) 6 weeks ago... Which the kids love and play with daily :)

(Couldn't resist the cute pics with the sweet puppies)

Merry Christmas and a Blessed-Joyful New Year to You! 

Love, The McQueen's

(Stay tuned for MORE Christmas pics)

More Family Time...

We traveled to Dallas to visit Liz's family and Randall's Sister and her Husband during Thanksgiving Week. Thought we'd share pics from some of our time together...

Morgan and her MiMi (Liz's Mom)

Micah loves Uncle Chris!!! (Liz's Brother)

We then went to ICE, held at The Texan Gaylord and this year's theme is Merry Madagascar, taken from Madagascar, the Movie. ICE is a spin off of a place in China, where the temperature gets below 30 degrees in the Winter and they have buildings, villages and other ice sculptures there for tourist attractions. This was brought to Texas about 4 years ago.

Some Real Info about ICE:

Over 2 Million pounds of ice were brought in for the sculptures

Over 12 million Ornaments were used
The temperature was 9 degrees (explains the Perkas!)

                                      

All of the figurines are made of ice!!!!

                                                 

Our Group Picture!

The kids had a blast going down the ice slides!!!

The Madagascar Group was Amazing!!!

Alex the Lion

Melman the Giraffe & Gloria the Hippo

and Marty the Zebra

And afterwards, we had to take advantage of all the Great Christmas decorations and take pics! 

Siblings... together again... Yes, I (Liz) am the oldest :)

My (Liz) Dad and us!!

It was literally impossible getting this family pic because directly behind us was a train (Micah's 1st love). So pulling him away from the trains was difficult. But we got one :)

Will be posting more Christmas pics soon!!! 

So Thankful...

We are so thankful to be spending the holidays in Texas with our family and loved ones. Today, we took advantage of the beautiful weather and Fall colors as we spent the day with Randall's family... Here are a few sample pics from our time at the park...

Our family, Randall's parents, Randall's sister & husband...

For those who watch Duck Dynasty.... you will understand and appreciate this picture!!! 

Love this Man!

Our Sweet Kids!!!

So Blessed!!!

We will be spending more time with my (Liz's family), so keep checking for more pics soon!!!

Trick or Treat!!!

As promised from the last post, here are pics from Halloween! Micah was dressed up as a Cowboy, mainly because he liked wearing his hat, boots and got to play with his pop gun (ALL Boy!!!) and Morgan was a Girl Pirate... for those of you with kids or are familiar with Disney Junior's Jake and the Neverland Pirates, Morgan was Izzy (but I think Morgan added more pink and sparkles to her costume). :)

Here we are at the "Costume Contest"... We went to Randall's Aunt and Uncle's neighborhood the weekend before Halloween and participated in their Trick or Treating there. To our surprise, Micah won 2nd place for his age group!!! Lucky us as parents, he won a Starbuck's Gift Card...I guess his costume is paid for now!! :)

 

It was so neat how the neighborhood had organized the Trick or Treating... we all rode on a hayride to the sections of the neighborhood and as it stopped, the kids went to 3-4 houses for candy and then we got back on the hayride and went to the next section.

This was the first time the kids had ever Trick or Treated and it was so fun watching the kids get excited as their pumpkin buckets filled up with candy!

And this is a great summary of how our night went... Micah in front and Morgan running behind, racing to the next house for more candy!!!