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Christmas Day

January 6, 2016

After Santa toys were played with and pancakes were eaten, we all got dressed and headed down to Montgomery to spend the day with Robert’s family. The weather was warm and muggy with plenty of rain – not great driving weather but we made it there and back with few issues, thank goodness. There were some tornado warnings for Birmingham that day so we’re thankful we didn’t get caught in any of it!

christmas day

christmas day

The cousins loved playing together…

cousins

and didn’t love posing for our pictures but did it anyway!  🙂

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Samantha loved getting to check out baby Margaret…

margaret

She also loved getting plenty of attention from the grandparents…

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And she especially loved eating anything she could get her hands on including crackers, pancakes, and cake!

samantha

In fact, all the kids enjoyed some cake (and not much else for lunch!) I think!

cake

The adults had a delicious lunch prepared by LuLu…and some cake too…and some pie!  🙂 Robert and Ronnie obviously texted each other that morning about wearing their dark red checked shirts.

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Granddaddy got the memo too. Twinkies!

xmas day

It was a lovely day all around with plenty of fun and hugs!

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Merry Christmas from Montgomery!

mgm

See you tomorrow!

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Christmas Morning

January 5, 2016

After a fun Christmas Eve dinner, we set out cookies and got snuggled up in our Christmas pjs!

xmas eve

When we woke up the next day it sure was fun to see that Santa came!

xmas eve

xmas eve

xmas eve

xmas eve

The boys were excited to see what all he brought!

xmas morning

xmas morning

xmas morning

xmas morning

Samantha checked out all of her fun stuff on her first ever Christmas morning…

xmas morning

but was honestly more interested in playing with whatever the boys got!

xmas morning

Dad helped the boys figure out how to make the Power Ranger Megazord and Imaginext T-Rex shoot darts and move and light up and they were having battles before breakfast!

xmas morning

xmas morning

xmas morning

xmas morning

Samantha tried on one of her new bows and attempted to open all the other presents under the tree!  🙂

xmas morning

Then we went outside to see that Santa’s reindeer had left some reindeer dust and candy on our porch! (please note that Santa has NO idea which reindeer did that?!)

santa

We then had pancakes (all of us) and Pez candy (some of us) and enjoyed being home to celebrate Christmas morning!

xmas morning

xmas morning

Christmas sure is fun when you’re a kid!! and a parent!!

xmas morning

Merry Christmas!

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Elf on the Shelf

December 21, 2015

So, this year we had an elf come visit us for the Christmas season. I didn’t think we were going to get an elf but then Maxwell went to Lila’s house and learned all about her elf and kept asking why we didn’t have one. Wouldn’t you know it, an elf came to visit just a few days later! Funny how that works. Everyone, meet Gingerbread Elf…

elf

elf

This silly elf has been having some fun in our house.

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elf

elf

elf

gingerbread

I have to say, I’ve really loved having Gingerbread around because Maxwell gets SO excited about him. Each morning he has rushed downstairs to see where Gingerbread is and has usually come running back to me to say “Momma, you are NOT going to believe this!”  🙂

elf

Maxwell loved the morning Gingerbread was being chased by some of his animals.

elf

By the time we left for school, the boys had added a few more animals to the herd!

elf

elf

I think this day was Spencer’s favorite – throughout the morning he managed to eat all those marshmallows off the table!

elf

elf

This morning was my personal favorite!

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I mean…have you ever seen 3 cuter elves?!

elves

The boys have been really good to follow the rules and not touch Gingerbread so he won’t lose his magic.

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Of course, Gingerbread has been good to them too and even brought presents one morning!

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Gingerbread has been a welcome addition to the Christmas traditions!

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Can’t wait to see where this crazy elf is tomorrow!

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Happenings

November 20, 2015

Robert was out of town for part of this week and we sure are glad to have him back! While he was gone, lots happened…

Brownies as a reward for good teacher reports!

brownies

brownies

A trip to our old friend, the tot lot! Complete with tiger mask!

tot lot

tot lot

New toys were explored by the little miss now that she can pull herself up to standing!

pulling up

A playdate with ninja Lila!

ninjas

Most importantly, someone got her first tooth!! It busted through on Monday and she’s been rubbing her tongue over it all week.

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Hasn’t bothered her one bit! My happy baby girl!

baby

Have a great weekend!

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check mate

October 1, 2015

Maxwell is taking chess up at school on Monday mornings this year. He’s only had a few classes but is already loving it! He even got his own chess set and t-shirt to wear to every class. Our last two nights around here have looked like this…

chess

and this…

chess

Smarty pants! I’m so glad Robert knows how to play because I have no idea. Checkers is more my speed!  You gotta watch out for Spence though…last night we found the two extra queens stuck in his garbage truck.  😉

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