The Franks Family

The Franks Family

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Christmas Part Two (Tulsa)


Let me start off by saying how lucky I am to have such wonderful in-laws. I love my family!! They very graciously invited my mom to come have Christmas with them so she would not be alone while my brother went out of town with his in-laws. My mom was planning on staying in Missouri Christmas day with my brother and then driving the next day to do Christmas with the Franks. I was planning on leaving Missouri on Christmas Eve morning and meeting Matt in Tulsa that afternoon. Boy, plans can change so quickly!!

Christmas Eve morning, my mom and I looked at the weather and saw that it was supposed to snow a lot. I decided that my mom should just drive with me to Tulsa that day because she may not make it a couple of days later. We left and drove in rain the entire time and then as we approached Tulsa, it started to snow. Tulsa literally had a blizzard! My mom and I made it safely with Roman and Captain. We kept waiting to hear if Matt and his brother, Mike, (another pilot) would make it. Bill and Pam, Matt's parents, were hosting the Christmas Eve dinner at their house with all of his aunts and uncles and cousins. Matt's dad left in the blizzard to go pick up Matt at the airport. Matt jump seated on a FedEx flight from Memphis to Tulsa. Sure enough, as they were about to land in Tulsa, the airport closed down and Matt's dad came home without my husband! I was almost in tears. Poor Matt had to go back to Memphis and stay in a crummy hotel room with fast food for dinner by himself on Christmas eve! Brother Mike didn't make it either! He had to fly to Dallas and actually stayed at our house by himself too. So it ended up on Christmas morning with my mom, Roman, me, and Matt's parents all by ourselves. How funny!! I made a breakfast casserole for us and we enjoyed our little family together! Matt had to rent a car from Memphis and drive 6 hours on Christmas day to be with us. He finally got there around 3 in the afternoon. Christmas day, we all went to Grandma's house with the entire family. It ended up being a Christmas to remember. Tulsa got between 9-12 inches of snow!!
Christmas morning with my boys!
Roman was still sleepy
Poor Captain is wondering why his bathroom is now freezing cold and wet!
Mommy and Roman dressed to go to Matt's Grandma's house
He loved this singing Christmas tree
Daddy is finally here!!!!!!!!
Roman playing with his cousin Macy

Matt finally got to eat good food!

Having so much fun with daddy!
The family hanging out

The triplets are here!
Silly uncle Mike!
Mike and Grandma
Reagan and me
Aunts, uncles, and cousins
Opening more gifts!
Whitney, my mom, Grandma, Pam, and Lolly
Whitney and Gracie
Pa and Roman
Just playing around
Roman played so hard that he passed out on uncle Mark!
Ahhh! So sweet!

The day after Christmas, we all celebrated our Franks family Christmas. Bill, Pam, my mom, Mark, Whitney, the triplets, Mike, Matt, Roman, and I all went to dinner and then back to their house to open gifts. There are so many gifts that it lasted forever!! Roman was so excited that he stayed up until 11pm with all of us. We had such a great time!! Roman got so many toys and clothes. The best surprise that Matt and I got was the Nikon camera that I've been wanting for forever! I'm so excited to take better pictures now!! We are so blessed to have such a great family! We had such a wonderful Christmas despite the weather. Thank you Lord for all of your blessings!

Mike and Matt made a snow man family! Isn't Matt so silly?!
The cute snowman family!
Grandma with her grandchildren at Charlestons


Pa, Mark, and Whitney at dinner

All these presents for me?!! Yay!!

The triplets loved their new backpacks that we got them!

Christmas Part One (Springfield)

I was so fortunate to get two full weeks off of work during Christmas time. The week before Christmas, Roman and I got to go to Springfield while Matt worked. Matt drove us to Tulsa Sunday night and then I drove Monday morning to Springfield. It worked great because Roman slept the entire drive. I had such a great time with my mom, brother, and his family. Meema, Caroline, Roman, and I all made cupcakes for Jesus's birthday and decorated them.

Roman, Caroline, and me with our cupcakes!

Aunt Ashley and Caroline
Meema with Roman and Caroline


One of my best friends, Sara Caldwell, came over with her precious little Carter. We got some great pics of Carter and Roman together.

Sara and me with our boys
Roman and his buddy Carter
They're only 4 months apart!

Tuesday night my brother and his family came over and we all celebrated Christmas! Roman got to open gifts for the first time! It was so cute to get the kids together and watch them play!

Cousins playing on the piano!

Catherine and Roman are jammin!
Roman opened his first gift!
An airplane!!

Caroline wore her backpack that we gave her all around the house!

Meema opening her gifts!


Elizabeth and Andy
The next morning we got some cute shots of Roman chillin in his jammies. We love jammies days!
What a sweet face!!

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Jake and Roman...buddies for life!

One of my best friends, Helen, just had a baby boy, Jake Michael Lary, six weeks ago. Helen and I finally got to hang out the other night! We've been trying to get together forever and things just get crazy with babies! She brought sweet little Jake over to meet Roman. We had a great time catching up. I simply can not wait for the two of them to play together one day. It was so cute to watch Roman as he checked out baby Jake. He was very intrigued!

"Can I touch him, mommy?""This is fun!"
Captain loved baby Jake too!

"Wow, mommy, he's cute!!"