"Christmas through a Child's eye"

Will and I took the kids to see Santa on Saturday to North Park. It became a tradition to go to this one when MB had her first Christmas. After getting a photo made to frame with Santa every year we go to the Hallmark store near the Santa setup to pick out a hallmark ornament. The ornament they pick is one that reminds them of something special that has happened throughout the year. It was funny this year because MB has figured out the routine. She asked after seeing Santa, " okay Mom, where is the store with the ornaments that we look at." I thought that was neat because I had not mentioned anything about the ornaments to the kids yet.

Here is Lane and Daddy racing to see Santa

MB and Lane waiting with excitement to tell Santa all that is on their list. MB had to bring little stuffed Baily for support:)Here are the kids anxiously waiting. It was so cute to here them talking about Santa. I wish I could bottle their innocence and keep it to give back to them when they grow older and learn more of the worldly things.
Here is Santa reading their list. He was having a little trouble because MB wrote hers and helped Lane write his.

Here is Lane and MB posing with their ornaments

"Hot Coco and Charlie Brown"

Last night brought back so many memories of childhood for Will and I. Charlie Brown's Christmas came on and the kids were so excited to watch it. They also had to have hot chocolate with the movie. Will looked at how long Charlie Brown's Christmas has been around- it said since 1965. Can you believe it has been around that long???? I love this time of the year, I even love all of the crazy hectic schedules that comes with it. It is all so much fun to me.

I know I have been a blog slacker these days, but I have been working on our schools Christmas parade float for the most part of the last two weeks. I am pooped:) However, we had a blast and it turned out getting second for best in show---- Yeah!!!!!!.

Here is a picture of Mrs. Ginn (a mermaid) and Mary-Beth (a fish) before we left our church to head downtown.

Here is our entry into the parade. The theme was Christmas around the world. The float committee decided to do "Christmas under the sea". It was glitter everywhere. We had mermaids, jelly fish, crabs, turtles, fish, blow fish, big puffy fish, Octopus, starfish, scuba divers, and etc....
This is Eddie Smith. He drove the truck and let us use his goose neck trailer. Thank you Eddie for all that you did.

This is Me as a Jelly fish (the white Umbrella), Lane and Mason (the turtles) and Mar-Beth (fish).

If you look closely at the picture below you can see the big purple Puffy fish. That is Anna our computer teacher. Mrs. Cole made all of the mermaid costumes and two of these puffy fish. She is amazing.

Last but not least i have to say that everyone worked their tails off on this float. My dad and Alisa dedicated soooooooooo much time on this and i have to say thanks so much, Anna you too, y'all are the best!!!!!!!!!!

Here below is a couple of other floats that Will took pictures of in the parade.

This is Beechwood's float and here is Melissa dressed as a girl from the 70's. Y'all was great too!!!

Here is the float that beat us. It was Danny Hearn's Trucking. It was a steamboat.

I decided to add a couple of pictures of my Christmas decorations that me and the kids put up.

I wanted to post some pictures of Mary-Beth's program at school. The kindergarten worked very hard the past couple of weeks preparing for this production. It was nice. They sang around 7 songs or so and afterwards we had a big thanksgiving feast with turkey, dressing, and even cranberry sauce. (and other sides) Thanks for coming Grandaddy, Daddy, Aunt Tracy and Stella. And Thank you Mrs. Harvey and Mrs. Jones for working so hard on the whole thing.

I promised a few more pictures of our trip. Here is some of MB and Lane making sand angels.

Here is Lane enjoying the cheesy macaroni and cheese at Lulu's.

This is Lane and Addison holding on tight to Colin's legs taking a ride around the condo:)

Here the kids were getting ready to go down to the pool

I know it has been a while since I have posted. Here are a few pictures of our trip to Perdido Keys, FL. We had a really great and relaxing trip. Thanks Sara and Colin. I will post more later. My computer has been acting up these days so it is much more difficult to post. Hopefully I will get the problem fixed soon!!

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Happy Fall

Well I think this Halloween was the time for Mary-Beth to see how many costumes she could actually wear out somewhere. I let her pick what she (Lane also) pick what she wanted to where when we went somewhere to dress up. You saw already the pictures of her at the costume contest in her Minnie mouse ballet suit and at her book fair as the fish and at her school she was a pumpkin girl. Here she is again as the fish at our church fall festival on Thursday night and Lane wore his police suit again.




Here the kids were dressed up for the fall festival at Immanuel Baptist Church on friday night. MB chose Snow White and Lane chose the frog.




Here was a couple of pictures from Mary-Beth's fall party at school. I also added a picture of Mrs. Harvey as one of the 101 Dalmatians (every teacher dresses as one) and Mrs. Ginn as Cruela. It was very cute to see all of the black and white polka-dots everywhere.

This a couple of pictures that Jennifer B. Sent me from our Sunday School bonfire. Thanks Jennifer for the pictures.

This is a few pictures of Greysons Birthday party at Alisa's house. It was a pirate party. The kids went on a treasure's hunt. It was so much fun for the kids, they loved every second of it. Kathy even had a fog machine ther to make it look like they were out of the morning fog on the water. I am even surprized at how much the girls even liked it. Yes this is the last of MB and Lanes dress up weekend!!!