Happy New Year!

Happy New year to the three people that read my blog! Ha Ha.

I am sorry that I have not posted Christmas pictures yet, but I have been working around the house getting organized and doing some new projects. I will post those later, but let me catch up with Christmas first.

We had a whirlwind of a Christmas this year. I really felt like it flew by, and from what I hear, it happened that way for a lot of folks. Here is a recap for you.

Christmas Eve at Pop and Nonna's


MG finally got a pillow pet! I think every little girl got this for Christmas.


Wylie is behind that box of Legos. He had a very LEGO Christmas.


Poor Jeffery only got to open one present before he crashed and burned.


Uh oh, somebody's got a frowny face.


My nanna and her fabulous faux zebra snuggie. It's a faznuggie!


Wylie's Christmas loot.


MG and Jeffery's loot.


Mary Grace also got a doll house from Santa.

This doll house was actually mine as a little girl, but it never got finished. Drew came and got the unfinished doll house out of Mom and Dad's attic without me knowing and began to work on it. This huge thing was in my basement for about a month and I had no idea. Drew just about killed himself trying to get a bunch done on it before Christmas. It was a total surprise for Mary Grace and myself. Especially since the kids got us up at 4:30!!!!!!!!! Not kidding.

The inside. Lot's to do still, but that is the fun part.

This post is getting really long, and I have a toddler to chase. I will post Christmas day photos in the next day or so.

Elf Antics

Besides bringing germs from the North Pole each night, our elf, Fleeble Flabble, has been up to his usual antics.

He's Seven!!!

Yes...you read correctly. My sweet Auburn headed baby is now officially seven years old! Omigosh, where did the time go?

I love these early morning shots, before comb meets hair!



This year, we did the easiest party ever! We had it come to our house!
Behold the Game Truck! (Imagine angel voices singing)



This puppy pulled up to our house and wa-lah, instant party.


There were four t.v.s and just about any game you could want to play. And look, we even had girls at the party.

The adults were so jealous. I wish we could have afforded another hour, just for us to play guitar hero.
Wylie chose a Star Wars theme for his birthday, so I got a cake from Publix. I really would have rather gotten cookies from Hollie, but planning a birthday party right smack dab in the middle of Christmas hub bub is hard to do.

Happy Birthday my sweet boy!

Turkey Day

We had a great Turkey day this year. Although it was a strange 79 degrees outside, it made for a perfect day because it was sunny so the kids could play outside with their cousins. My kids love getting to spend time with their 8 cousins, and to me that is something truly precious. I couldn't imagine any holiday without that.


We are such a large group that we take up three tables! I thought I would show the pictures of the tables because my mom did such a lovely job decorating.


After we had stuffed ourselves, we sent the turkey police out after illegal nappers.

Yep, you guessed it he is headed off to Pop's room.


That's not really my parent's room he is headed toward. Besides, Pop was napping on the couch...silly!

It was a really busy week, but despite all of the preparations, the kids got to spend some quality time with their grandparents.

I hope everyone had a wonderful and special Thanksgiving!

Trick er Treatin'

This is the last post for this year's Halloween. I promise. Plus I am out of pictures.

Once again, I was unable to get a picture will all three kids. Here is what I got after removing the screaming baby. Darth Vader and Alice in Wonderland.

Here is a better shot of my monkey. Notice the light saber in the middle of the shot? Wylie was not running rampant with it like you might think. He is actually helping me to get screaming baby to smile.


Our neighborhood has a fun party on Halloween with a bounce house and bar-b-que. Here is a picture of monkey with light saber, and zoo keeper.


The cast of Star Wars. I think Star Wars was pretty big this year.



Mary Grace at the craft table.

I love this one. Monkey in tree.

We hope you had a wonderful Halloween full of candy!

Pumpkin Carving

Wylie asked every day of October when we were going to carve pumpkins. When the day finally arrived, he was ecstatic! Talk about pumpkin love!

This is me, mid-cheese, scraping out every seed I could find to roast. What a dork!


mmm. I think we got em' all bud.



We even had a special guest carver this year.

Uncle Myles stopped by for some good ole' fashioned pumpkin carving.

I gotta tell you, having a real doctor in the house brings a new perspective into pumpkin carving. I just knew he was going to ask for a scapel stat.

What precision. Very professional. I was so impressed until I saw the final product.

I mean really?

Halloween... A look back.

I am going to try and do several posts about Halloween. We will see how that goes. Here are a couple of shots of MG and Jeffery on the Friday morning before Halloween.


I straightened Mary Grace's hair for her Alice in Wonderland costume. I was very hesitant to do it, because I thought I would upset the natural curl gods. I think I did because once we washed her hair, it was very frizzy!