Merry Christmas

We came to Kentucky Monday morning with Nana and Poppy and then Joe joined us last night. We have had so much fun being here. Tomorrow we are heading to Paducah to be with Joe's family.

We want to wish all our friends and family a very Merry Christmas!

Anna and Dane opening presents.

Ma and Ella

Anna and Aunt La La

Ma gave Anna a little figurine for her birthday. She was so proud of it!

I have a picture of Anna from last year looking at this music box and she could barely see over the table.

Uncle Cory, Aunt Laura, and Dane. Isn't Dane's hat so cute? Robin, you need to sell these on Etsy.

Ma and her 3 great grandchildren...

Poppy and his beautiful grandchildren.

Uncle Cory and Aunt La La with all the kids.

Aunt Janet and my girls!

Anna in front of Aunt Janet's tree.

Ella and Aunt Janet

Aunt Betty and Uncle Gene came to visit the other night before they headed back to Florida.

Quincy came over to play the other night.

Anna's new towel.

Our Family...

Doing our Christmas early before we headed to Kentucky.

Daddy and his girls!

Anna posing with her new piano.

Anna and Ella ready for church.

Anna and Daddy opening one of Anna's presents.

Christmas Pictures

Rhonda did our Christmas pictures a few weeks ago. It was perfect weather for Christmas card pictures, however, my girls were freezing. We were only able to stay out there for about 15 minutes. Anna kept saying, "Mommy, I'm cold." Thanks for the great pictures Rhonda!

Christmas Party and Our First Snow

We went to Rhonda's on Thursday for a friends Christmas party. Rhonda made a wonderful breakfast for everyone! Thanks Rhonda! Thank goodness we didn't end up going to Cracker Barrel because we made a huge mess with all the presents.

Then Saturday morning we woke up to a beautiful blanket of snow on the ground. We had our family Christmas pictures scheduled for 10:30 that morning. Joe was not excited about taking the girls out in the cold snow, but we ended up getting some good pictures. By the end of the session, Anna kept saying, "I'm cold" and was ready to go home. When we got home, we put Ella down for a nap and we all headed back outside to build Frosty the Snowman. Anna had so much fun with Daddy!

Present time!

Fun paiting project at Rhonda's house!

Ella was 5 days old here. She has really grown alot in a month.

Ella was one month old last week. Hopefully I will remember to take her picture each month in this chair so we can see how much she grows each month.

Josh and Lauren are moving tomorrow, so we went over to help them pack last week. La La made a cool tunnel for the kids to crawl through!

Anna and Joel play so well together now!

Thanks La La for the cool Christmas story stacking blocks! Anna plays with them everyday.



Anna was so proud of her snowman!

One of Anna's Christmas dresses. She has at least 7 dresses. I don't know if we will get to wear them all.

Ella's First Trip to KY

The girls and I went to Kentucky with Nana and Poppy on Saturday. We left Joe here so he could work, but then he got sick and was home alone sick all weekend. We really missed daddy, but had a great time visiting with my family. Ella got to meet her Uncle Cory, Aunt La La, and cousin Dane on Sunday. It was great getting all the cousins together to play. Anna really likes that Dane can sit up and interact with her now. We came back home on Tuesday. Anna talked about seeing Daddy the whole way home.

Anna enjoying her first whole apple!

Is this a proud Poppy or what?

Aunt La La (according to Anna) and Ella

Anna and Dane playing.

Great picture, except we are missing Joe:(

Ma and Ella

Ma and Aunt Janet enjoying Dane and Ella!

Anna loves Uncle Cory!

Anna wanted to help Nana feed Dane.

Anna liked holding Eden.

Eden is about 9 weeks older than Ella.

My friends from college came over to my parents' house Monday night. It was great getting to see everyone again.

Nana cut my head off. I promise, I do not make my child clean. She is going to be just like her Mommy and Nana and LIKE to clean. She always wants to help me when I am cleaning.