Christmas Pictures

This was the picture that we used for our Christmas card. It's quite a job to get a good picture of ALL three kids!! It wasn't perfect but it worked! Especially since it was 9 pm on a Sunday night and the kids were pretty tired. We'd been to church twice and out to eat twice. It's amazing that their clothes were presentable.
I took the next pictures a few weeks ago. I was trying the dress on her and then couldn't resist putting her in front of the tree and taking a few pictures. She's Santa's little helper :)
I wish this picture hadn't turned out blurry. I just love it!

She loved this ball. She rolled it and chased it. If it didn't shed glitter I'd make it a toy. She got really mad when I wouldn't let her LICK the glitter off of it.

"Oooh, I think I hear Daddy and the boys. Gotta go!"

Cookies With Granny

Every year we go make cookies with my Grandma. She is one of the most patient people I know! I know I've posted about this before (probably last year at Christmas!) but she let's them do everything by theirself. They get to mix, measure, pour, cut out, decorate...I'm exhausted just watching them!! I hope that I'm half as patient as her when I'm a grandma! My mom and Jared's mom are also VERY patient so I've got some good examples to follow!

Harrison is teaching Lyddie how to stir. I guess putting on Granny's glasses turned him into the teacher :).

"I LOVE making cookies at Granny's!!!"

She ate bananas and Christmas sprinkles!

Branson

We took the kids to Branson a couple of weeks ago and stayed at our favorite hotel, Chateau on the Lake. We love to go stay at Christmas. Lyddie loves to pretend. She

would act like she was getting lotion and then rub her hands all over her body. She was very serious the whole time like she was really working!! We played games in the hallway while we we waited for Lydia to fall asleep. If anyone needs a stocking stuffer idea the game Blink is SO much fun. It's really fast (less than 2 minutes) and addictive. We went to Silver Dollar City. It was cold but not miserable.

She was so tired after spending the day there. We really had to work at waking her up for dinner. She was like a rag doll!

Thanksgiving

This is the only picture that I got from Jared's Mom and Dad's house!! Zane and my nephew Phillip were eating the turkey right off of the bones. Ok Shell, jump right in there with them :)! These are from my Mom and Dad's house. On the left is my sister-in-law Lynn and my nephew Colin, my aunt Debbie, Granny, and my Mom.
Jared, Zane, and I

Jared and my Mom.

Zane, my nephew Wyatt, and Harrison. They'd been jumping on the trampoline and their hair was wild!!

Go Hogs!!!

We headed to Little Rock after having lunch at my parent's house on Thursday (there will be pics later!) to watch the Hogs play LSU. Lydia stayed with Jared's Mom and Dad. It was nice to get away for a couple of nights with the boys! What a great game!!! Unfortunately, we weren't prepared for the weather. We had thin jackets and no rain gear (I'm usually a weather channel nut so it's a little surprising) so the boys got cold and wet pretty quickly. I took them to the car at halftime and Jared (thankfully) stayed and watched it with a couple of friends. My friend Misty and her little boy Kaleb were with us so we went shopping for a little bit until the game was over. You can imagine how excited the kids were about that!! Oh, and Harrison lost his shoe five minutes into the game so I had to carry him down the bleachers, to the car, into the store...at least my legs got a little workout :). His shoe went under the bleachers and we never found it! These are all taken with my phone so the quality is not great.

This is Zane's shirt.

Harrison watching the LSU players get out of the buses. He didn't yell at them. He just stood there with his thumb down :).


Harrison's shoeless foot.

We had dinner at Purple Cow. H was pretty proud of his picture. He saw that they had them hung on the wall and initially thought he would give it to them to hang up. He changed his mind and folded it up and put it in his pocket. He almost seemed like he was hiding it. I think he thought they might take it from him if they saw it :).