Christmas 2011

 The kids were checking out all the christmas

decorations and presents!  They were ready

to start opening the gifts and playing with all 

their stuff and each other!

We had Christmas a couple of days early with the family.  We went to Hohenwald to celebrate with the Grandparents and cousin Lilli and Aunt Rachel and Uncle Brent.  We had a lot of fun playing with our cousin and spending time with the rest of the family.  Here are some pictures of our Christmas celebration.

 

 

 

Grant, Lilli and Madison playing at Granddaddy's Desk! Looks like they are having fun!

 

Merry Christmas Lilli!

 Lilli standing with Grandma getting ready to open her Hot Wheel Car!

 Looks like we were making some damage in the living room.

 Rachel helping Lilli open her "Barbie Car"!

 Granddaddy got a new fishing pole from Grant and Madison!

Now he can take us fishing!! Yay!

 Madison and Lilli having a ball with all of 

Lilli's Barbies and clothes!

 

 Grant got an Xbox 360 from mom and dad and the Kinect 

he got from granny and granddaddy for Christmas 

and he is enjoying the Nascar game I got Eric!

Eric was enjoying the Nascar game also!  Merry Christmas Eric!

 Madison got Grant the Electronic Monopoly for Christmas!

Thank you Madison!

 Grant got Madison an Angry Bird game!

Thank you Grant!

 Eric and I got Grant a remote control airplane.

I hope it works!  It looks fun!

Granny and Granddaddy got me this 

Guitar sheet music stand.  Now no one

will have to hold my music when I play!

Thank you!

 Merry Christmas Great Granny!

 Merry Christmas Aunt Wilma!

 Carolyn and Emma Lee!  Thanks for a great 

Christmas and yummy food!

 Thanks Lilli for my "Mommy and Me book"

We have already filled a lot out!

 

Thanks Lilli for my Big Barbie book to help me with 

writing my letters and words and numbers!

Thanks Lilli and Aunt Rachel for my bear sewing kit 

for me and mom!  I can't wait to make them!

Thanks for a great Christmas!

 Merry Christmas!  I opened my purple socks from Carolyn!  

Nice and warm socks with polka dots!  :o)

 I loved my jacket from Eric!  He has

great taste in clothes!  It is what I wanted!

I Love you sweetheart!

 Granny and Granddaddy got Madison an American Girl Doll!

She loves anything American Girl!  Aunt Wilma got the new PJ's that 

the doll have on!  Thanks for all my American Girl stuff!

 Just watching the children open all their things!

They had an awesome Christmas as always!

 Madison was getting ready for an extra special 

present from her daddy!

 What is in this huge garbage bag????

Is it going to get me????

I can't believe Dad got me this bear! I love it daddy!!  I love you too!

 It is just my size!!

Thank you daddy! 

 I think I can sleep on him!

He is so soft!

 Madison got a scooter from mom and dad!

Thank you for my scooter!

Thanks everyone for an awesome Christmas!  We loved 

spending time with the family and eating all the delicious 

food!  We look forward to doing it again next year!

We are truly blessed for having such a great family!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas

& 

Happy New Year!

Grant was riding in the front with Danny.
Carolyn, Madison and Eric rode in the back.
This was the Hohenwald Christmas Parade.
This is going to be another Christmas family tradition!

Lighting of the Green

We went to Lipscomb to listen to  Amy Grant and her friends sing Christmas songs in the Allen Arena.  We also stayed for the lighting of the green and got our family picture made with Santa.  This is one of our Christmas Family Traditions.  It was an awesome concert and the tree was beautiful!  Here are some pictures of our outing.  Just a week late, not too bad!  :-)

Eric taking our picture while we are seating in arena.

Grant was loving the music and didn't want me taking his picture.

Madison being silly!

 Here are some videos from the concert!  

This is Melissa Dolittle and she rocked the house

This is Amy Grant with random kids on the stage singing Christmas songs.

Auto Expo Car Show 2011

 We went to the Auto Expo Car Show at the Convention Center in

Nashville yesterday and Madison got her picture made with Santa!

I asked her if he wanted to know what she wanted for Christmas and she

said all he said was, "Do you want your picture made?"....  she said Yes!

We are hoping she is staying on the nice list......  it is a day by day situation!  :-)

 This was the new Murano Convertible.  

The color was a little crazy!

The kids like the convertible.

 Grant standing by the New Lamborghini.

Notice they wouldn't let you sit in this one!

New Rolls Royce, Grant couldn't sit in this one either!

They got to see lots of new cars and sit in a lot of cars, but there were a few that 

were off limits to everyone!  We had a good time at the Auto Expo Car Show.

Happy Thanksgiving 2011!

We had a great Thanksgiving Break!  We all ate too much and had a lot of fun!  

Here are some pictures of our Thanksgiving festivities!

Our Family Picture.  Happy Thanksgiving!

Granddaddy's Birthday was Wednesday, November 23.  

So we got him a cake and took some pictures with Granddaddy!

Grant and Granddaddy!  Happy Birthday!

Granddaddy loves fishing with the kids!

 

 They wanted to get him a this cake because it 

reminded them of fishing with granddaddy at his pond!

Carolyn and Danny with all 3 Grand kids!  They were ready for some cake!

Here is the new dock that Granddaddy is building on his pond! Grant is ready to fish!

 Here are Lilli, Grant and Madison helping Granddaddy 

put up a new flag, since the other was getting ratty!

 Granddaddy putting it up after the kids

put the new flag on it!  It looks great!

This was us riding around on 4-Wheeler.  Grant was

with Granny and Granddaddy, he missed the family photo opt!

Would have made a cute Christmas card if Grant would have hung around!

Family photo in the Mule.  Cheese!

Thanksgiving was great!

Brownies

Well Madison has decided she wanted to join Brownies....  She has a couple of girls in her class that have joined and she thought it would be fun....  So we have joined and she is loving it. 

Her first meeting was Friday, Nov. 11th and they are working on a cooking badge and they made cookies and decorated them and made a picture with food and then got to eat their creations.  They were talking about different badges they wanted to earn and fun things they want to do this year.

Sunday we drove to Cookeville and went to Tennessee Tech and meet with a sorority that was celebrating National Girls Day for Girl Scouts and they had fun activities planned for the girls.  They played games, sang songs, colored pictures and watched the sorority put on a play for them about how wonderful books are especially when you can't go everywhere, but you can read books about all kinds of places and learn about lots of things.  They had snacks and treats for the girls and was very sweet to all the Girl Scouts!  Here are a few pictures of their day at Tennessee Tech.

They had tables set up with all kinds of activities for the girls!

Madison ready to have some fun!

Some of the activities "Girl Worlds"

 

 They had to name different people in each quadrant for each purpose.

GS - they named people in the Girls Scouts group.

There was a school house and they listed friends in class with them.

They listed family members in one quadrant.

This was all the Girl Scouts that came from all over and the Sorority.

Madison trying to listen to what's going on!

They girls had a great time and on the way home we stopped at Marble Slab for a special treat!

Can you say "Late"!

Wow our life lately has been full speed ahead since Halloween!  I haven't even posted since then!  Here are a couple of pictures of Grant and Madison at their Halloween Parties.

Madison was a 50's girl for Halloween! 
I bought this outfit last year and we are getting our money's worth!

Grant was Iron Man 

They both had a great Halloween!!!