We are working our way up to our "official" 2009 Santa pictures. The kids are doing better and better each time!
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Christmas Tree Farm
On Saturday, we headed to the tree farm to get our Christmas tree.
First, we checked out Santa's sleigh.
Then, we took a family photo with St. Nick.First, we checked out Santa's sleigh.
Meet Skippy
Yesterday, we began the Elf on a Shelf tradition! The kids named our elf Skippy and they are loving him! This is the greatest story and the kids immediately start acting right when we threaten to go "tell Skippy"! :-) They tell Skippy bye when we leave the house and they tell him hey when we return. In fact, tonight when we got home from dinner, Makinley ran into the living room and said, "Hey Kippy, I lub you". It was so sweet. But I think she has figured out that good old Skippy has a direct line to Santa so she better play her cards right!
The Horse Farm
Before heading down to McDonough on Thursday, we stopped by a local horse farm to see the horses. My uncle loves horses and likes to go to this particular horse farm when he comes to visit. The kids always enjoy it...except that Tripp doesn't like it when the horses neigh. It scares him!
Mary Grey, Derrick and the kids
Derrick and MakinleyMary Grey, Derrick and the kids
Saturday, November 28, 2009
SO much to blog.....
So little energy. The last few days have gone by in a blur. I'll give a brief recap, without any pictures. Pictures will come when I get them loaded.
Wednesday: Hung out with Joey all day cooking and cleaning. My Wilmington family came into town on Wednesday evening (my Aunt Mary Grey, Uncle Derrick, cousin Matt and his wife Liz). Hung out and the kids had a "turkey sleepover" and slept upstairs with Mae-Mae and Uncle D. Gave me some much needed rest!
Thursday: Headed to McDonough in the morning and had Thanksgiving at Trey and Jenn's. The food was delicious and we had enough to feed an army. Tripp played outside ALL day long...literally. Also got a couple of surprises..one of which was my cousin Mark showing up from Florida!
Thursday evening: Joey headed home with both kids and let me stay in McDonough so that I could go shopping with my mom and Jenn. We actually all went to the movies first and saw Blind Side (Great movie!!). Then, my wonderful sister-in-law decided that she wanted to go to the outlet mall that opened at 12. So, my mom, Jenn, Trey and I pulled an allnighter. We went to the outlets from 12-3. Then I got in line at Target at 3:15 and waited until 5 when they opened. We were back home and I was asleep in my parents bed at 6:30. I slept until 12 and then...
Friday: headed home from McDonough and got here around 2. Just hung out all day.
Saturday: decorated for Christmas. We have a HUGE tree that fell to the ground after we got it fully decorated. It was great (insert sarcasm).
So, as you can see, it has been a very busy few days. The not sleeping for a full night is catching up to me and I'm really tired. Tomorrow will be full of studying for my last test for this semester in grad school. Really looking forward to that (again..insert sarcasm.) I'll do my best to get some pictures up tomorrow!
Wednesday: Hung out with Joey all day cooking and cleaning. My Wilmington family came into town on Wednesday evening (my Aunt Mary Grey, Uncle Derrick, cousin Matt and his wife Liz). Hung out and the kids had a "turkey sleepover" and slept upstairs with Mae-Mae and Uncle D. Gave me some much needed rest!
Thursday: Headed to McDonough in the morning and had Thanksgiving at Trey and Jenn's. The food was delicious and we had enough to feed an army. Tripp played outside ALL day long...literally. Also got a couple of surprises..one of which was my cousin Mark showing up from Florida!
Thursday evening: Joey headed home with both kids and let me stay in McDonough so that I could go shopping with my mom and Jenn. We actually all went to the movies first and saw Blind Side (Great movie!!). Then, my wonderful sister-in-law decided that she wanted to go to the outlet mall that opened at 12. So, my mom, Jenn, Trey and I pulled an allnighter. We went to the outlets from 12-3. Then I got in line at Target at 3:15 and waited until 5 when they opened. We were back home and I was asleep in my parents bed at 6:30. I slept until 12 and then...
Friday: headed home from McDonough and got here around 2. Just hung out all day.
Saturday: decorated for Christmas. We have a HUGE tree that fell to the ground after we got it fully decorated. It was great (insert sarcasm).
So, as you can see, it has been a very busy few days. The not sleeping for a full night is catching up to me and I'm really tired. Tomorrow will be full of studying for my last test for this semester in grad school. Really looking forward to that (again..insert sarcasm.) I'll do my best to get some pictures up tomorrow!
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