Parties, Parties and more Parties

December has been a busy one for the Penny household. We have hosted 2 parties at our house this year. The first weekend in December was our Sunday School party and then the next weekend was Doug's work party again at our house. It seems like all we have done this month was cleaned the house, shopped, and entertained. We are having Christmas with Doug's family next weekend (at our house) but are definately looking forward to seeing Ross open all his gifts from the grandparents and uncles/aunts. I will post pics from that event too so stay tuned!

Thanksgiving 2009

I know I'm late posting pictures from Thanksgiving but this Christmas has seem to have gotten the best of me lately. We had Thanksgiving dinner at my mother's house this year. It was very special because my Grandmaw Yagel, who is from Maryland, has moved to a retirement home in Tupelo and got to enjoy Thanksgiving with us. It has been a long time since we all have enjoyed the holidays with her and we are thankful that she is going to get great care here in Tupelo and we will also get to spend many more holidays with her too. Also, another reason why it was so special is because Anna Grace McMath was here to share it with us, even though she was asleep half the time and won't remember anything from Thanksgiving 2009.

Here are a few pictures from our time together at Thanksgiving!

We are all "stuffed" after enjoying a great meal cooked by mom

Anna Grace snoozed while we ate

Grandmaw Yagel, Alecia, mom, and Anna Grace

She is wondering why Aunt Kara is taking so many pictures of me

She decided to give me one smile the entire time I was snapping pictures

Then she fell asleep in my arms. Such a great cuddle time with Aunt Kara

Of course Aunt Mary could not miss out on the cuddle time either!

Slacker

Yes I have been a blog slacker. We have been both traveling and working out of town alot. Its now time to update the blog since the holidays are here. I will post some pics from Thanksgiving soon! Stay Tuned!!!!

Anna Grace McMath

Anna Grace McMath was born on Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 7:09am weighing in at 7lbs 10oz and 20 3/4 inches long at Germantown, TN Methodist Hospital. Proud parents are Alecia (my sister) and Michael McMath and big sister, Anessa. Alecia had a long day with contractions starting on Wednesday at 12noon and Anna Grace, being indecisive like her mother, decided to wait until Thursday morning to grace us with her presence. Alecia and Michael are so happy that she is finally here and very sleep deprived. Aunt Kara got lots of cuddle time in today and can't wait to see her grow and change into a very pretty and sweet girl.

Her Stats

Sweet Anna Grace

Daddy and Anna Grace

Don't you LOVE my chubby cheeks?

I get them from my mommy!

Papa Bill and his grand babies

Aunt Kara and her nieces

Aunt Mary and Anna Grace

Proud Aunt Kara and Anna Grace

Nana Karen and Anna Grace

The beautiful McMath family

Happy belated Birthday Doug!

I'm such a bad wife because I didn't post a "Happy Birthday" message to my husband. Doug turned 29 on Saturday, Sept 19th. We had a great weekend celebrating! He has been traveling alot lately and it was good to have him home this week. We celebrated in the Circle at the Ole Miss game this weekend. We had cake and lots of great food to eat. Ole Miss won this weekend and Mark Martin won the New Hampshire Nascar race this weekend too so it made for a great birthday weekend for Doug. I cooked lunch for him on Sunday to finish off a great birthday weekend. So Happy belated Birthday, Doug!

Labor Day weekend

Labor Day weekend we headed to Arkansas for the Penny family reunion. We had a great time visiting with family we haven't seen in a while. Here are a few family pictures we took that weekend.

The Steve Penny Family

The whole Penny Family of Arkansas

(a few members are missing)

A Great Weekend in August

We had a great weekend! Friday was Steve's birthday and we celebrated all weekend by playing baseball, bowling, eating, and church. We had a great time visiting with Nic, Kim, Ross, and Kalyn who came in on Saturday from Memphis. We are always glad to see them when they are in town. Saturday afternoon we played baseball with Ross's wiffle ball and bat and had birthday dinner. Saturday night we decided to go bowling, so we all went bowling and Doug and his dad both killed us at bowling. Both of them scored over 120 points in bowling but we all had a great time. On Sunday, we all went to church and then laid around the house and watched the Nascar race. Here are a few pictures from the weekend!

Ross and Papaw on the John Deere "tractor"

Ross playing baseball with us

Ross and Papaw in their new Ole Miss shirts. Ross is helping Papaw sing Happy Birthday!

Sweet baby Kalyn

The new family of 4

Kim, Kalyn, Ross, and Nic

The proud Aunt and Uncle

Doug, Ross, me, and Kalyn

Last but not least, Aunt Kara with Kalyn