New Years Eve Social

We held our New Years Eve social at the FLC because our class is too big to fit in someone's house. This picture is of our annual Dirty Santa game. It is always a ton's a fun!

This post completes 3 whole years of a picture a day!! Stay tuned for another year!! :)

Blackhorse

Today is Brian and Melissa's 14th anniversary so we went to the Blackhorse with them and the Winn's to celebrate. :)

Surprise for me!!

The Jones Family went up to Michigan and Wisconsin to spend Christmas with their families. Melissa texted me that they were thinking about coming through Clarksville for a few days on their way back to Virginia. She finally said that they weren't coming because they were ready to get home and that their dog sitters couldn't take care of their dogs any longer. I was disappointed but hoped that she was really coming. We got home from my mom's around 7:30 and got unpacked pretty quickly. I wanted to take down the Christmas decorations and Jeremy said, lets wait till tomorrow and I said, I'm ready now and got to work. While we were putting the last of it in the garage, we heard a car pull up in our driveway. Low and Behold, it was the Jones!!! Everybody knew the Jones' were coming but me!! Melissa dropped some cheese dip on the floor and was getting cleaned up when I snapped this picture to show my mom that she was there... my mom already knew too!!

Final Christmas Celebration

We celebrated Christmas with my side of the family today. It was great to have everyone together. Ethan is never too far from my Mamaw... he is crazy about her! I love that my kids get to know some of their great grandparents, mine were all gone before I was born.

The McClain Family

These are our friends, Justin and Rachel McClain and their kids. They moved to Missouri back in the summer and we miss them a bunch! They came through Clarksville today and stopped by to say hello before we hit the road to my moms. It was so good to see them!! They hope to move back to Ft Campbell as soon as they can!

Punk and Tamara came to visit!

I am so glad that I have a relationship with my dad again!! He sent me an email a few weeks ago to see when he and Tamara could come up to see us for Christmas. They got here yesterday afternoon. We've really enjoyed them being here! A trip to Clarksville is not complete to him without a trip to the Catfish House, so that is where we went to dinner tonight.

Santa was here!

The main toy that Ethan has talked about wanting for Christmas was the "Big Hug" Elmo!! If anyone asked him what he wanted, that is what he would tell them. He lit up when he saw it today! The other boys were super excited with what they got too. Caleb got a .22 handgun and can't wait to try it out! See, I need a wider angle lens... I couldn't get all 4 of them in 1 picture!!

Christmas Eve

We always open gifts under the tree on Christmas Eve. Ethan was beyond excited when he opened this playdoh set. He has been watching youtube video's of it for months!! The boy loves playdoh!

Squirrel Hunters

The twins got BB Guns and Ethan got a pretend shotgun from Fred and Janet for Christmas. Caleb and Ethan decided to go squirrel hunting in the backyard with them. Aren't they cute! No squirrels today though.

Frozen

After church today, we all went to see the movie "Frozen." It was a really cute movie and everyone seemed to enjoy it. I loved looking down the row at our family. :)

Christmas at Nana and Granddads

We are in Mt. Juliet for the weekend celebrating Christmas with Jeremy's side of the family. We spend most of our time together playing games because we love games!! This picture is from opening gifts this morning. I need a wider angle lens so I can fit everyone in the picture!

4th PJ Picture

This is my 4th PJ picture to post since I started my blog 3 years ago!! I love that we take this picture each year, it's fun to see how everyone changes. :)

Crazy Flynn!

This morning, Ethan opened his door to a tape barricade that Flynn put up! He talked about it all day!! Jeremy and I's 15th Anniversary is today!!! It's hard to believe we have been married for 15 years because it sure doesn't feel that long. I love him more and more each day and love the life we have together. :)

Putting my friends to work!!

Lisa and her kids came over to hang out while Jeremy and Cliff worked Pennies from Heaven tonight. I have a ton of work to catch up on so her and Gabby asked if they could help me. :)

Pennies from Heaven

Tonight, Jeremy and I volunteered at "Pennies from Heaven." It's a store that our church sets up for needy families to get Christmas gifts for their children for free. I worked the checkout and Jeremy was an encourager.

Gabby!

We have found out what it is like to have a teenage daughter the last several days... Gabby has been staying with us because her mom is out of town and she has been having problems at her dads house. :(

Chad is the BIG 4-0!!

Tonight we went to the Winn's house for Chad's 40th birthday party!!! I don't see how my friends are turning 40!! 40 used to be OLD!!

Dave and Busters

We met the Harwell's at Dave and Buster's in Opry Mills to celebrate Paxton's birthday today. Here are the boys playing a motorcycle game.

Poor Flynn

Our "Elf on the Shelf," Flynn, has been with us for the past week or so and has been up to his old tricks again. I guess Ethan's little characters got tired of him messing up stuff around the house and tied him up with tape!

My Postal Workers!

Our Christmas cards are here so you know what that means!! Time to put the boys to work! I send out 220 cards and it is so nice having help! Matthew and Ethan maned the printer, Caleb took care of the return address stamp and Andrew did the stuffing. :)

Gingerbread Village

Instead of one big Gingerbread house, I bought a 4 pack "village" so each boy could decorate their own house. They were tiny but they all did a good job with their creativity. They didn't last long enough for a picture.... they ATE them!

Teddy Bears!!!

A friend/customer of mine asked me if I could make 2 teddy bears out of her husbands old uniforms. I said, "I've never made one, but I'm sure I could." She then changed it to "make as many as you can with the fabric." I probably could have gotten 10 or 12 out of it, but after doing these 5, I was DONE! I think they turned out super cute but they take forever!!!

Snow Globe Shirt

I made this cool shirt for a friend today! I put clear vinyl on top of the globe part and filled it with white beads... I think it turned out really neat!! 

In other news... Caleb SHAVED for the first time today! I really wanted it to be my "picture of the day," but he refused to let me in the bathroom because he didn't want it on my blog. :( My baby boy is growing up way too fast!!

Ice Storm

The forecast predicted an Ice Storm and compared it to the one we had back in 1994 (which was awful!). It turned out not to be too bad.

So many kids!!

We went to the Syners to hang out tonight. Our friends the Suttons were there too. Between our 3 families we have 11 kids!! I tried to get them all in 1 picture, but Caleb is missing. :(

Making Ornaments

I decided to have my GA girls make salt dough ornaments in our class this week. Andrew and Matthew somehow sneaked out of RAs and joined us!! I had to bring the ornaments home to bake and will take them back next week for the girls to paint. I don't want Andrew and Matthew skipping RAs again, so we decorated the ones we made tonight.

2 School Projects

Caleb has 2 school projects due tomorrow, so we finished them up tonight. The big one was a group project, the group did it together, Caleb and I just cut out the words and put it on the board. The smaller one was a really neat project. Caleb has to read a book every 9 weeks, the report for it this time was to fill a box with 35 items from the book. It really made him pay attention to detail while he read. It was fun finding stuff around the house that represented different things AND was small enough to fit in the box.

Christmas Card

I'm so proud of myself!! I ordered the Christmas cards today!!! The last few years I have waiting till the last minute to get our picture done and cards ordered. I feel ahead of the game! My friend, Lisa, took the picture for us. We are in front of their barn. :)

New TV!!!

We finally decided to join the 21st century and got a flat screen tv on Black Friday. Don't laugh... we still had a huge tube television! We got a good deal on this one and it's a Smart TV. We hooked it up tonight, I'm looking forward to learning how "smart" it really is. :)

Putting Up the Tree

We store all our Christmas decorations at Jeremy's office and he brings them home a few boxes at a time. Today, he brought home the tree... no lights and no ornaments. We didn't have anything on our schedule so we decided to put it up and add the lights and ornaments later. Everyone pitched in... even little Ethan. :)

Jeremy and Papaw

We left my mom's this morning and drove straight the Mt. Juliet to celebrate Thanksgiving with Jeremy's side of the family. Papaw and Betty even came! We don't get to see them as often as we would like so I knew my picture today had to be of Jeremy and his Papaw. :)