Brunch with Santa

Brunch with Santa was held at the Tupelo Country Club. Will and I went while Doug and Luke stayed at home because Luke was running fever the night before. It was fun and all the cousins showed up dressed in reindeer outfits unplanned of course.

Will and Santa

Bribed him with ice cream to take this picture

Peyton, Tucker, and Anna Grace

Peyton and Anna Grace

John, Tucker, and Mary

Me, Will, and Anna Grace

Poppa Bill is photobombing Will's selfie

After the brunch was over I met Doug at urgent care and swapped kids. I stayed with Luke at the clinic and Doug took Will home. Luke was diagnosed with RSV and a double ear infection. Oh well, Tis the Season! 

AND to top that off, Doug had gallbladder surgery the next day. He was a trooper and did perfect! 

Ready for Surgery

Out of Surgery and the gallbladder is GONE

Christmas with the Penny's

We had Christmas with the Penny's this weekend. Nic and his family came in from Oakland, TN and the kids played well together. We ate and had a delicious meal and then opened presents. It was a fun weekend had by all!

Yes, Will is the only one not smiling

Silly face picture is a must with this crew

Nic, Kim, Ross, Kalyn, and Avre

My sweet family

Opening presents

Uncle Nic and Will opening gifts

More presents

Avre

Dinner

Luke and Avre

The Polar Express

All Aboard the Polar Express!! We rode the Polar Express in Batesville, MS and had the best time. Will and I prepared by watching the movie a few days before we departed and Will fell in love with the movie. We watched it 3 times before we boarded the Polar Express. The train was supposed to leave at 7:30pm but ended up not leaving till 8pm. 

Doug and I went shopping in Southaven at the new Tanger Outlet mall then headed on over to Batesville to meet his parents at Cracker Barrel with the kids. Nana and Papaw went with us on the Polar Express too. Papaw's love of trains has been passed onto Will now and it's so funny to watch these two on a train ride. 

The Polar Express captured all the aspects of the movie. The chefs were dressed in white and served hot chocolate and sugar cookies, we got our Golden Ticket punched, we saw the North Pole, and picked up Santa and the Elves on the way back home. The whole train ride lasted about an hour. It was so much fun! 

Family picture

Doug and Luke

Will was so excited

Luke, not so much

Will got his golden ticket punched

Ready for the ride

Silly face riding to the North Pole

Me and my buddy

Luke was like "Dad can I just go to bed and forget this train...It's past my bedtime."

At the North Pole

Will was so excited to be at the North Pole

Will and one of Santa's elves

Santa came on the train ride back and gave us our Silver Bell

Will telling Santa what he wants for Christmas

Santa and Luke

Such a fun train ride

It's Christmastime

Christmas Time is busy busy around our house. We have had birthday parties, christmas parties, and lots of Christmas shopping to do this year. We have a motorized train under our Christmas tree and Will loves it! We have been doing Elf on the Shelf and Will loves to get up every morning and look for Jingles (he has a new name this year). Jingles has ended up in the cookie jar, hung underwear on the Christmas tree, had a marshmellow bath and even had a bad report back to Santa because Will acted up at school one day. I believe it's only going to get busier as the years go on with these two! As of mother of these sweet boys, I wouldn't have it any other way!

 

 

Matching outfits

Will helping hang ornaments on the tree

Train under the tree

Luke in a high chair for the first time at Chickfila

Will at Chucky Cheese for a birthday party

Happy 7 months Luke

Luke turned 7 months old on December 6th. He is a chunk but so happy. He wears 6-9 months clothes some 9-12 months and eats 4 jars of baby food a day along with three 6oz bottles and one 8oz bottle at night with cereal. He's tried mashed potatoes and dressing as table food. He still has no teeth so we have to mash everything up fine if he eats it. He scoots on his back half way across the house and refuses to roll over at home. He gets on his tummy and swims and its hilarious!

 

He recently found his tongue and loves to stick it out at me and laugh. 

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving! We are thankful for a great day with family. We watched the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade and Will and I looked for the bands and most importantly the cymbals. We had a great day. We ate lunch at my mom's house and all the kids played outside and rode bikes since the weather was in the 60s. It was beautiful. We had a great day!

Thankful all the time for my precious Turkeys. 

Will's Thanksgiving Program

Will had a cute Thanksgiving program at school and we were able to attend. All the kids in the 2s,3s,4s, and kindergarten classes performed a small program then they each had a Thanksgiving Feast. Will was dressed like an Indian and was the cutest of them all.

After Will's program on Friday we left that night for Oxford because the Rebels were playing LSU and we were not going to miss it. It was cold but we had a great time and enjoyed a Rebel victory over LSU. 

Yes, Will went but left at halftime to go sit with Papaw who was watching it in the engineering building lounge. I have to say Will made it to EVERY Ole Miss game this year. He had a blast!!! 

On Sunday we left early from Oxford and headed to Oakland, TN to watch our niece, Kalyn, get baptized. It was a special day for us to watch her get baptized by her dad and we are so thankful she chose to follow Christ at such a young age.