Christmas Day

Santa visited our house early Christmas morning! He laid out all the kid's presents nicely. He brought toys, clothes, and books mostly. However, I misplaced my camera from the night before and didn't get good pictures of all the loot before they tore into it.

It was a Tinkerbell themed Christmas for Lola.
"Look what Santa brought you, Deacon!!!"

"Share those toys with me our you're mine!"

These pictures were taken with the camcorder, so they are a little blurry. She loves this movie.

"Geez mom & dad all this playing is making me tired!"

Deacon loves this table. It lights up and sings, and he dances along with the music.

Later that day we had Christmas with Tim, Kelli, Andrea and Kyle. More toys, clothes, and books for the kids. Lola got a Fancy Nancy doll, which I do not have a picture of, because I misplaced my camera. By this time it had arrived back at our house, and it got stuck under a pile of presents and I found it when we were done opening. I need help. Anyways, Deacon loves his little car. It unfolds and makes into a push toy, so he can learn to walk with it!

Dean's dad made a brisket for dinner and it was sooooo good. Our cousins came over to eat with us. Dean sat at the kid's table.

My new purple fiestaware from Dean's parents. I got six serving pieces, all in purple! Doesn't it look great with the yellow? I also have red.

More fiestaware.

Merry Late Christmas Everyone!

Christmas at Billiemom's

Christmas Eve we spent the day at Billiemom's house. Dean had to work but he took a long lunch to come open presents with us.

This is our cousing Palmer, just chillin with his new toy.

Lola opening with Lauren looking on.
Sweet cousinly love.

Deacon staring at his monkey he got from Aunt Lauri. It makes sounds and he tries to communicate with it. Will post a video of that soon.

Dean, Deacon, and Kellimom. I didn't get a lot of pictures this day. I misplaced my camera several times. It was a great day though, and Billiemom cooked a wonderful brunch and Christmas dinner as usual.

I had to cut out early and go to work. I worked 1/2 a shift on Christmas Eve. When I got home at 1 Dean and I finished wrapping presents and waited for Santa Clause!

Christmas at Mamaw's

I have so many pictures I decided to break these up into seperate posts. They are out of order.

On Friday the 26th we celebrated at Mamaw and Doe-Doe's house. They are such a fun bunch of people and we are usually only all together at Christmas, so it is really fun. The day started off when Dean's mom and dad came to get the kids and take them out to the country with them. I was going to do a little shopping.........but my shopping buddy got sick. So I took a nap instead, and it lasted FIVE hours. It was great!

Here are the kids that morning waiting for Kelli-mom and Sir at the front door.

Lola opening one of her gifts.
Sweet baby Bella. She is our cousin who was born only a couple of weeks after Deacon!

Cute cousin Josh and his tractor.

Lola in her new dress-up outfit from Mamaw!

Deacon was lovin on his daddy while we opened presents.
Lola passed out in the backseat on the way home.
We stayed pretty late that night and all played a rip-roarin' game of Balderdash. It was a very fun day.

Sick!

Sorry for the lack of pictures and delay in Christmas pictures. Deacon has been sick and both kids are keeping me on my toes (feels more like flat on my rear) as usual. Pictures coming soon! Happy New Year's Eve!

Joyeaux Noel

We have had a busy but great Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. I have a lot of pictures to post, but I am going to wait until tomorrow.
Most of you know how I love Christmas music. I would listen to it all year long, but then I wouldn't have any friends. Anyways, the songs I really love the most are the traditional religious Christmas songs. They have so much more meaning than we give them credit for, because we are so used to hearing them! Take the time today to concentrate on the words and what they mean. And here's a sample of one of my favorite songs.
Merry Christmas!

Hail the heav'n-born Prince of Peace
Hail the Son of Righteousness!
Light and life to all He brings
Ris'n with healing in His wings
Mild He lays His glory by
Born that man no more may die
Born to raise the sons of earth
Born to give them second birth
Hark! The herald angels sing"Glory to the newborn King!"

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Let me preface this entry with 2 pictures of what I should be doing.

Cleaning this mess, in my kitchen.

And folding this mountain of laundry. At least it's clean.

Guess what we did this week? We filmed a short Christmas greeting that will air on KCBD sometime in the coming days.

Fortunately, there was no sticking out our tongues or pulling off our hats in the video segment.

These pictures are a different story! And I have 14 chins! Yay!

These are Dean's grandmothers. We made candy with them this week. How cool is it for my kids that they even get to know their great-grandmothers? And, their great-grandmothers are best friends!

These women love me and treat me like I am their own flesh and blood. They would do anything for me. I am so grateful to have grandmothers in my life again.

Lola helped swirl the chocolate into this batch of Tiger Butter. Then she licked the spoon right as I was taking her picture. And yes, she dresses herself. And she was wearing a tank top in the middle of December. You should have seen the rest of the outfit!

Tonight we went to Santa Land. The line to see Santa was already closed, so we walked around for a little while and then went and got hot chocolate.

Aren't my kids freaking adorable?

Here are some cookies I made for Lola's party at school. I messed with the color to make this picture look old-timey. Sugar cookies from 1957, anyone?

I forgot to take my camera to the party. It was cute like a 3-year-old preschool party should be. Except one kid got sick. So I bathed my kids as soon as we got home. I was really grossed out.

Here's Lola finishing her cookies. She used all of my Christmas sprinkles for, like, 7 cookies!

Here's my tree. It fell down last week and I had to re-fluff it and redo the ribbon and everything. I love Christmas trees. I remember sitting under ours when I was a kid and staring up at the lights while listening to Mariah Carey Christmas CD on my discman. If I had time to do that now, I'd probably take a shower instead.

Here's one of my favorite ornaments.

And another.

That's all I have to say. Sorry if any of my faithful readers found this post to be random or unorganized. If you know me, you know that I am random and unorganized, so it should come as no surprise to you. I am also in a constant state of sleep deprivation that I don't see an end to any time soon. Please pray for me to keep my cool and be a good, encouraging, cheerful mom in the midst of the chaos. (Chaos=teething, not sleeping, crawling, pulling up, making giant messes all over the house, changing clothes 18 times a day, mommy and daddy both work, etc...)

I love my family and I am so thankful for our health and how we have been blessed this year. I will try to post again before Christmas.

Good night. Or Good Morning?!!!

~Jessica~

He Loves Me...........and Karaoke!

Saturday night was Dean's compamy Christmas party. Afterwards, we went out with friends to sing karaoke.

Please observe the picture below.

These are the antics that I live with everyday of my life.

I wouldn't have it any other way.

We were both really tired in this pic. It was getting late.

Dean always jokes that he is going to sing "Beth" by Kiss to me, Karaoke style, of course.
"Beth I hear you callin', but I can't come home right now...."

"Just a few more hours, and I'll be right home to you...."

Enjoy the video!!!!