Girls Night Out!

Ok, with all the Holiday craziness, mommas have to fit in a break at some point! LOL!!  Several of us did a fun painting with a twist last night to celebrate Patti’s birthday!!  We had lots of fun and our Christmas Paintings really did turn out great!!

Christmas Cookies

One of my favorite Christmas Traditions is making Christmas Cookies from scratch!  This year, we invited Mandi and Kara to come join in the mess making fun!  We all had fun, made a mess and ended up with some pretty yummy and great looking cookies for Santa!

And last but not least, my favorite picture of Kaleigh at her school party after her Christmas program, I forgot to include it in the last post.  Sweet sister’s praying hard!

River of Life Christmas Program

Kaleigh’s school Christmas program was last Friday and each class sang a special Christmas song.

Sister let me roll her hair again for this special day!

Special grands that came to see sister’s performance!

Kaleigh and Addison at the Happy Birthday Jesus Party!

Away in a manger!

Sweet cousin Will was sad because he couldn’t see us!

Beautiful Little Country Girl

This sweet girl LOVES going to her Nanas and had a fun weekend in Ellisville helping everyone out!

Riding the tractor with her Paps!

Covering their strawberries with straw!

And posing for a few pictures!!

Christmas is Finally HERE!

I’m so excited that we are full swing into the Christmas season after getting a later than normal start with our Thanksgiving Vacation.

This is a letter to Santa that Alec typed up at school.  “Dear Santa, How are you Santa.  Tell Dancer and Rudolf that there was stealers that would steal your sled.  I would like Tom and Jerry Movies.  Alec”

Apparently, he took the comedy at the Dixie Stampede very seriously and really thinks the guy from the show is after Santa’s reindeer!  LOL!!

 

My little helpers delivering a couple of Christmas Cards around the neighborhood! They LOVED this “chore”!

And finally visiting Santa at Dustin’s work Christmas Party!  It was great but ended with a bang!  Someone STOLE Alec’s Christmas gift from under the tree, so after he saw Santa, there was no gift with his name under the tree!  Yes, it was indeed a tragedy with real tears, while Sister’s bragging about what she got!  Thankfully someone saw where the Elves hid some extra toys and all was better once Alec opened a new nerf gun!  WHEW!  What an experience, poor guy literally thought Santa forgot him!  Bless it!

Little Ballerina

Last week was the first parents day at Kaleigh’s dance class!  I was so proud of this little Ballerina and can’t wait to see her dance in the recital in May!  Such little cuties!!

Curley Sue

Curley Sue…  Well not so much for Kaleigh Marie!  Somehow, she didn’t inherit this crazy curly hair of mine and Mimi’s!!  So we decided to see what a little curl would look like!  I may have had to convince her to do this and sleep in these by promising a visit to Mimi’s work after school the next day! 

Curley Sue dressed up like a Mamaw in her rollers!

The boys were away and the girls were playing!  Me, Kaleigh and Belle getting ready for bed!

And the after pic then next morning! Beautiful curls!  And by the time I picked her up from school, the curls were gone!  LOL!

Thanksgiving Dinner

OK, now back up a few days and here are some pictures of Thanksgiving Dinner!

Kaleigh with Mimi’s foster dog, Buddy!

Grandmother attempting to split a log for the fire! OH MY!

Kaleigh and Alec with their Great Grands!!

2014 Family Thanksgiving Picture!

Thanksgiving Smokey Mountain Vacation 2014!

I think I’m getting ahead of myself, I see I haven’t posted Thanksgiving Dinner photos yet but now I’ve already started so here goes! LOL!  Dustin and I hosted an early Thanksgiving Dinner at our house this year and head to the Mountains with the Evans for Thanksgiving Week.

Dustin and I headed up with the kids a day early and stopped in Chattanooga for the night.  We did this last time we went to the mountains and we really enjoy sightseeing around Chattanooga.

We ate at a little restaurant close to the Choo Choo, so of course we headed next door to explore after dinner.  It’s always strange to me how deserted this place is! 

Alec thought this fortune machine was super cool, Kaleigh was TERRIFIED of the talking man!! LOL!

The next morning, we got up for a tour of Ruby Falls!

After that, ROCK CITY!  This is our favorite thing to do in Chattanooga, so much cool stuff to look at and explore!

You can see 7 different states from the top of Lookout Mountain inside Rock City!

The swinging bridge!

It was SOOOO Cold, we spent lots of time playing games in the cabin, here’s Alec and his first game of checkers with mom!

It was nearly too cold for a fire!  Kaleigh refused to wear these snowpants so you know it’s COLD if she has these on!  Alec and I wore our snow gear nearly everywhere we went!

We had fun visiting horses just down the street from our cabin!

And the played a little dominos!

We spent a COLD day at Dollywood and had a blast!  This corndog was part of a $50 lunch that consisted of 3 corndog meals and 2 drinks!  Needless to say, that was our only meal at Dollywood!

Kaleigh on her FIRST kinda real rollercoaster!  She LOVES it!

Oh my!!  YEP, those are my two guys WAY up in the sky flying around!  Alec is such a daredevil too and wanted to ride EVERYTHING he was tall enough to ride!

And no trip to anywhere is complete with out some cotton candy!

Family pic in front of the steam engine!  Alec rode this last year with Nana and said it was LONG and COLD, so we opted for just a family pic and no riding on the train!

We were waiting in line for a pic with Rudolph, thankfully no tears were shed by the time we made it to the front and Clarice came out while Rudolph went for a snack!  LOL!

Finally the electrical parade in Dollywood, You can tell it’s getting colder because Kaleigh has broken out her ski jacket!

We rode this old timey car driving/riding ride several times and left in tears because mom and dad wouldn’t ride again, Alec was so proud to be tall enough to be able to drive with out mom or dad in the car with him.  So mom rode by herself most of the time while Kaleigh took Dad on some crazy rides!

Alec BEGGED to play one of these carnival games at Dollywood, he was pretty disappointed when his horse didn’t win!  LOL!!

Dad snuggled up with the big kids!

Everyone had to get moms quarters and go for a practice ride before the real thing!

Snow bottoms on now!  She’s looking like a natural!

Daffy was a wonderful horse for Alec and he LOVED his ride!

And this horse was “Dum, Dum” but it was fun for Kaleigh and Dad too!

So happy to be only 5 miles from Hattiesburg, MAN that was a LONG ride!!

Threw up five minutes later and made the last 20 minutes of the trip home naked! LOL!

Somehow I have ZERO pictures from the Dixie Stampede which was one of our most favorite things we did in Gatlinburg!  It was a special Christmas show with a live nativity!  Kaleigh is still talking about the girls doing tricks on all the horses!  We had so much fun on this trip and can’t wait to visit the mountains again soon!!