Good Stuff :)

Last night we went to the Christmas Parade......FREEEEEEZING!   Norman did park his truck by the library so we were able to walk to it and sit. The girls loved it though. And in Emma Klaire's own words......"It was AMAZING!"   HA!  She is so big for her britches.

Back to Thanksgiving week. Monday night after getting back from Aunt Janice's we just "hung out" at Memaw's.  I will never forget when Ella Kate was probably four or so she asked a lady if she just wanted to go "hang out" at Memaw's. (I think we were at a shower or something). We all just fell out laughing. LOL!
Anyway on Tuesday we cleaned a little and then left for the airport to get William. They love to go to the airport.....and they love UNCLE WILLIAM.  Yeah....More about Thanksgiving week later.

This was Emma Klaire's attire for the airport!  HA!

Wednesday of Thanksgiving week we visited and played with Uncle William and Nana. Hopefully tomorrow or Thursday I can update on some more of Thanksgiving week.

Tonight I have my Girls' Night out and Ella Kate has cheer. So kind of a crazy night..
We are having a yummy supper. The girls are at Nana's right now while I am making my roasted garlic mashed potatoes.  Hopefully they will turn out yummy!

One last note: This was some of the Christmas pictures from 2008. Priceless!!!!

So until next time...I hope you find much JOY!

A Visit to Uncle Don's and Aunt Janice's

So...it has been awhile...and we have been very busy. I won't be able to recap every day, but I will hit the highlights...and there are plenty of them! Ha!

We did (all but Norman) get our flu vaccinations! Yeah! I waited late enough.

The weekend before Thanksgiving my daddy, the girls, and I went went to visit Uncle Don and Aunt Janice in Farmington, Missouri. We had so much fun and made soooo many memories. I thought I would tell about our trip with pictures.


This is a strawberry rhubarb pie...delicious!!!

Aunt Janice showed the girls a pomegranate. They really thought they tasted yummy.

Isn't that cool! You just eat the seeds.

Then they tried a mango....yummy..

We went and fed the fish in the neighbor's yard.

They got to see popcorn made in an air popper...another first. They got so tickled!

This is Uncle Don and Skittles. Skittles loves to be brushed. Ha!

Skittles was the one of the big highlights of the weekend. He was probably glad to see us go!  LOL

D and the girls

They got to play with homemade play dough.

They had a tea party with Aunt Janice.

                                                    Such fun!!!!!!!!

                                              We played a board game with Aunt Janice.




We got to go visit Uncle Don's niece's horse stables also. WOW! is all I can say :) Such a neat experience.

Uncle Don's niece

Daddy was having a blast! He loves horses.

PRICELESS!

Getting ready to leave.

Daddy, Aunt Janice, and Uncle Don

Thank you so much Uncle Don and Aunt Janice for letting us come and visit. We had so much fun, and we made so many wonderful memories. I love looking at all your pictures. I miss Grandma Ricie so much. I have such fond memories of spending the night with her, getting together with other family members, and of course her wonderful cooking. We so enjoyed all of your cooking also. I ate sooooooo much!  It was all delicious! I have great memories staying with you also...playing cards, painting finger nails, and singing.  Love y'all!

So until next time I hope you find much JOY!

I hopefully will post really soon because this post only gets me through Monday, November 22nd! HA!!!

...and then we watched the forks curl in the fire...

Ha!  More about the title later.

Let's see.. last week was a normal week for us. Monday home early...............Tuesday we saw Nana, went to cheer, and ate with Bec Bec............... Wednesday was church.............Thursday we were home early (Ella Kate went to Nana's and then Nana brought her home and visited with us.) Friday Ella Kate had a party at Elizabeth Grace's. While she was there Norman, Emma Klaire, and I went to Danver's and the mall.............Saturday the girls and I went to Reece's and Rylan's birthday party. So all in all a busy but normal week.........Love it!!

At the birthday party...it was a costume party!

Trying to pop the balloon to get to the candy!

Ella Kate had to get all of that candy with her teeth only!!  UGH!

Back to my title...................... Saturday I marinated some thin steaks for supper. I was going to fix mac/cheese, rolls, and baked potatoes.  ....and I did.... As I was getting supper ready, Norman came in and said the girls were really wanting to eat by the fire outside, and that he had talked them out of hot dogs since he knew I was cooking. SO..............we took our steak and other food items outside and ate by the fire. Now about that title....after we ate the Norman and the girls decided to burn the plastic utensils.  They had a ball watching the forks curl up at both ends.  Now that is a first for me and my family!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  It was lots of fun (different though  HA!)...but we made some precious memories!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Our feast by the fire!!! It was really yummy!

                                              For some reason it looks much brighter than it actually was.

Precious memories........how they linger....

Sunday afternoon we went to see Uncle Sammy and Aunt Sharia for her a surprise birthday party.  Below are some pictures of the party.

Uncle Sammy taking the kids on a ride!

Savannah, Ella Kate, Emma Klaire, Seth, and Will (cousins of Sharia)

The exhaust fumes from the four wheeler were rough! ha!

Emma Klaire and Oscar...this is a first!

Throw that ball sister!

We have made plans to go visit Uncle Don and Aunt Janice before Thanksgiving.........we are very excited.

Also KK, JC, and Uncle William will all be home for Thanksgiving and that is super exciting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So until next time....I hope you find much JOY!