An Angel and Rudolph

 

I'm so proud of Alec and Kaleigh's school Christmas Programs this year!  Kaleighs class sang a little song about the manger that was super cute and she was the cutest angel ever!!  I really think she had fun doing it!

Addi, Charmie, Kaleigh and Lollie (yes these are their real names! Oh my!)

 

And Alec was the best Rudolph I've ever seen!!  He had to skip and wave back and forth across the stage while the kids sang Rudolph the red nosed reindeer!  He looked like he was having so much fun!  He's definitely not my little performer so I was so proud that he had fun and did exactly what he was supposed to do!!

 

 

 

We LOVE Christmas!!

Christmas is by far my favorite time of the year and it just keeps getting better the older the kids get!  Alec made a little project at school yesterday and had to fill in what he wanted for Christmas.  It said, "I want a 4 welr for Christmas!"  LOVE IT!!  Hopefully he'll stay on Santa's good list!!

We set up the camera stand and did a couple spur of the minute self portraits for our Christmas card, and what do you know, they turned out really cute!!

Sassy Sister!!

 

Please ignore my lovely pink pants, yes, the pink was cropped out for the Christmas Card! ha!

Every little boy needs to learn how to shoot a bb gun!  Dad's was a little large and now he's added a bb gun to the "4 wler" on his Christmas list also!

Sister LOVES the Santa in my kitchen!  It looks just like one my Mamaw had in her kitchen for years!

 

We also had lots of fun at dad's work Christmas party!!  It's always fun to see my soldier in his dress uniform!  So, sister is at the "CHEESE" stage and it's a little hard to get a cute smile...

So sister wasn't into Santa at the Christmas party and would only speak a little to Mrs. Clause!

But, after she opened her "Rio" movie they brought her, she ran back up to say thanks, then SPRINTED back away from them!

Kaleigh's expression when she saw Santa come in the room, she was sooo excited!

Waving uncontrollably to Santa!

There were even three fun balloon animal making clowns at the party!!  Kaleigh was terrified but Alec and Caroline loved them!

Alec, Kara and Kaleigh watching our tree get bagged up.  Take note of the brick cinder blocks holding up these boards, we'll let me tell you, two sweet innocent little GIRLS may have crumbled them to pieces a few minutes after this picture!!    Yes, there was some loud crashing and embarrassed moms!!

We even saw Riley and asked if they wanted to pick out a tree for us to help them carry home too!  I'm sure Anna was thrilled with this offer!! ha!! But now we all have live (dead) trees! We'll have to go back to Thomley's next year, as my tree stopped drinking water they day after we brought it home!!  Hoping it'll last two more weeks without catching fire!!

The traditional figgy pudding after  hanging of the greens at church!  Alec got to help hang the garland and played handbells, but somehow I didn't get pictures of that!

And of course, Jedo is back this year!!  He's been on his best behavior and even brought the kids Christmas pjs yesterday morning!!

Thanksgiving, a Little Late!

I have lots of cute pictures from Christmas things already, BUT, I can't just skip over Thanksgiving, here's the highlights!

Lunch at Aunt Sissie's and then a trip to Elliville for Dinner

Yes, we were feed well for Thanksgiving, with two meals!

The Saturday after Thanksgiving, Mom and Butch headed out with Grandmother and Don on her long awaited riverboat cruise! 

Memories that will last forever!

The rain doesn't slow us down!!

We started Halloween early with Trunk or Treat Sunday evening at church.  Alec and Kaleigh were both excited to wear the costumes they picked out!  I guess my days of picking out costumes are over, as they were both certain on exactly what that wanted to wear this year!

Minnie Mouse and a Blue Ninja with a Light up Sword!

Truck or Treating with Best Friend, Brooke!

Trunk or Treating didn't last long for Kaleigh, she was ready to go back to the truck and help Pop T pass out candy!

Picnic Supper in the church parking lot

We had been planning a big Halloween night at home for a while with LOTS of friends and family so even though, it was a SUPER rainy Halloween, we all made the best of it!

Kaleigh and Addi enjoyed LOTS of candy!

This picture pretty much sums up our halloween, Alec with an ice pack after he'd gotten knocked on the head with a bat, Mia with both hands in her lap, as if she's innocent, and the rest of the happy girls!

Yep, we did indoor trick or treating and the kids FILLED their baskets!

Each kid trick or treated each adult until all the adults were left with NO candy!

Addi was smart and found a buggy to push her candy!

The SOAKING wet Trick or Treat folks!!  Even Kaleigh's mouse ears had flopped down by this point!

Silly wet girls eating the icing off of cupcakes!

Alec thought he'd try scaring the girls, but they weren't afraid!

South MS State Fair 2013

The weather is cooling off and the annual South MS State Fair was in Laurel at the Fairgrounds last week.  Poor Sister was an inch too short to ride ANYTHING, yet again!  This sweet girl let those workers know she was not happy about it!  Thank goodness, she loved the petting zoo and was happy to feed the animals while the boys rode the wild and crazy stuff!

Telling Daddy, "He will HURT you", after the crazy cow charged the fence!

Alec LOVED the rides this year, the faster the better for him!!

He even popped about 20 balloons and won a $20 purple giraffe, that I've since sewn back together several times!  He couldn't understand why we wouldn't fork out $20 for the "BIG" animals! ha!!

Everybody HAD to have their own funnel cakes!

Trying out Christmas gifts!

And no, neither child is getting either one of these for Christmas, although, Alec looks like a natural on this dirt bike! ;)