Visiting Santa

We went to visit Santa this morning at the Marietta Square. "Santa"'s sister lives in Montgomery and she is the lady that arranged all the flowers for our wedding . . . it's a small world!


Here's Emily and Joe waiting patiently in line to meet Santa.

Getting ready for Christmas

I got some pictures of Emily tonight hanging out by the presents. I can't wait to see her try to open them for Christmas!!!

Christmas Cheer

If you need a laugh click on the link below. It's a dance that Joe, my brother Robert, my brother-in-law Nathan, and my dad did today. I think they did a great job!

Christmas Dance

Little Helper

I haven't posted a blog in a while because it's been so crazy here. Emily and I had to stay several extra days in Montgomery after Thanksgiving because our heater went out. When the part finally came in and we got it fixed I had a cold and ended up sleeping on the couch for over a week because I coughed all night long . . . so I mainly did what I could just to exist during the day and it took a while to get my life back in order after being gone for a week. I love going to visit people but I feel so "out of sorts" when I get home because everything isn't in order in my life : )

So things are starting to settle down a bit. Emily had her tear duct procedure done on Tuesday, Dec 4th and did great. We have to put eyedrops in her eyes for a week but I could already tell a difference in her eye when she woke up Wednesday morning and her eye wasn't either stuck shut or had a bunch of gunk in it that I had to clean out. Her eyelashes are actually dry now! She did so well that by the time we got home you couldn't even tell she had anesthesia. She played and tried to get into everything just like normal. That afternoon Joe installed some drawer stoppers to keep Emily from opening the cabinets. She of course had to help:
Then this morning I tried to get some pictures of her in a pretty smocked Christmas dress that my mom had made and she got mad at me when I took her comb and brush away from her:
She was much happier when I gave them back to her:
So her picture today is with the comb and brush in her hand:
As you can see in the picture we have a very small Christmas tree this year. With our new furniture there is no room in the living room to put our tree so I went and bought this small one and put some ornaments on it.

Sleeping in the car

Remember the good old days when we were kids when we could lay out in the back seat and take a nap on long car rides? We could sleep in the floorboard or up in the back window if we wanted . . . those days are long gone. Now kids have to fall asleep in weird positions in their car seats (which I know is much safer). I crack up everytime I see this picture my sister took of her kids on their way home from Auburn:
When we were little my dad would take a piece of plywood and place it in the back of our HUGE car and put a small mattress and sheets, blankets, and pillows for us and we would have a regular slumber party in the back seat while he drove the family to Mississippi to see my grandparents!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving

Bible Class

We got some pictures yesterday of Emily and her friends in Sunday School. She was in class yesterday with Amelia, Andrew, and McKenna

Emily and Amelia are exactly 3 weeks apart. Amelia is in the same Life Group with us. Looks like Emily might have taken Amelia's frog away from her: