Funny Friday

...and now I'm the mom that gets to do it. Haha!

Happy Friday!

Happy Thanksgiving!

 Turkey Day! 

Noni had a meeting on Tuesday night before Thanksgiving so the girls worked ahead so they could take an extra day off of school, and went with her. Daddy took Wednesday off of work so he could spend the whole day on the computer writing a paper for his current class. :P He finished that up and then he, Peaches, and I headed over.

It was pretty much bedtime for the girls once we got there, but we played Rumikub with Noni and Papa after the girls were in bed. Thanksgiving day was cooking, relaxing, and puzzling. We found a new, fun puzzle on Amazon called Story Time. The girls loved it and had a great time putting together their favorites!

We invited one of the families from church to join us for the day. They are new to us, but not to the church. They used to be members 8 years ago...in fact our first Sunday there was their last. But now they are back and we had a great time getting to know them better! 

Happy Thanksgiving!

We had an amazing dinner with two turkeys and a ham! Plus all the traditional side dishes...yum! I thought Peaches would love the sweet potatoes since she has had them (pureed and in oatmeal), but apparently the chunks were too much for her because she started gagging on them and had a nice 4-part puke up at the Thanksgiving table. :P She was much happier with bits of roll. 

She has been doing a really funny "ooo" face lately.

We are so blessed to have four generations of love!

We found out partway through the day that it was Mr. J's birthday! So we had to sing to him of course! :)

The girls had a great time with the teenagers. :) It was a fun day!

The next morning T and I were planning to sleep and just get a slow start on our black Friday shopping, but Peaches decided to get up at 5:30! She had another bad cold and was coughing pretty hard. After trying to get her to sleep for an hour we finally gave up. I fed her and she fell asleep so I carefully put her back in bed and we headed out to the stores. 

We had the best time! We missed shopping with Auntie Nae, but ended up meeting Grandma and Grandpa for lunch. 

One of the things I love most about T is that he makes me laugh. All. The. Time. Case in point: 

 We counted it up and we hit 15 places in 8.5 hours! And got most of our Christmas shopping done! Everyone was so nice wherever we went. We didn't hear a single cross word the whole day. Both shoppers and employees were happy, friendly, and in the Christmas spirit! It was a wonderful day! 

While we were busy shopping the girls were busy decorating! They were having a blast too...helping Noni put up her tree!

These were the update pictures she sent me while we were out. :)

 

We got back by four and had turkey dinner leftovers before playing lots of card games.  I asked Boo to get a picture of us playing cards...which I guess she technically did. :)

 

"You gonna share that with me, Papa?"

 

 Grandma found a blow-up Te for Peanut when she was shopping and gave it to us to take to her. She was SO excited and insisted on sleeping with it on all night. Haha! 

We played Scrabble after the girls went to bed. T ended up winning...must have been his "puked" that did it. Haha!

 The next morning we finished another puzzle and played a few more rounds of cards before packing up the car and heading home. It was a WONDERFUL thanksgiving full of family, friends, and fun!

 Thanks Noni and Papa!!!

Wordless Wednesday

Happy Birthday Kenzie!

 We got to go to Kenzie's birthday party this year! The girls were so exited! The party was up at the ranch where Kenzi's Uncle, on her Daddy's side, is the ranch manager. This is actually the "horse barn". It has gorgeous stables attached to this great room. It used to have offices in it, but has now been converted to a guest house. There's also a full apartment upstairs. When we finally arrived the girls ran upstairs to play with all the kids. We called them back down to eat some lunch.

The birthday girl and her beautiful Mommy!

Happy Birthday to you...

I missed this part since I was upstairs feeding the baby, but I guess the birthday girl didn't want to blow out her candles. :)

Big brother came to the rescue!

Auntie Nae made an adorable polka dot cake! So cute!

Yummy frosting!

Present time!

It was fun watching her open the presents. She's such a cutie!

Isn't this place amazing!?

Nicest horse barn I've ever been in! Ha!

Peaches liked Clancy the dog. :)

We had to go out and see all the horses before we left.

Such a neat place!

Thanks for letting us share in your birthday fun Kenzie!

Operation Christmas Child

We kicked off the holiday season with one of our favorite things...Operation Christmas Child boxes! One Saturday we went shopping for all our goodies, and then brought them home and dumped them on the floor.

We always have so much fun trying to fit as much as we can into these little boxes!

I'm always amazed at how much can actually fit in there!

Daddy helped Peanut and Peaches pack their boxes. :)

Boo commandeered the camera again.

Future photographer?

Time out for sister snuggles!

We love the Operation Christmas Child program! Not only does it show love to children around the world through these gifts, it also teaches them about the greatest gift of all...salvation through Jesus Christ. After they deliver the boxes to an area they have discipleship classes to teach the children about Jesus and what He has done for them. The stories are so moving of how lives are being changed by Jesus and The Greatest Journey. We watch one video each week in church leading up to this and each one tells another amazing story of the impact. Here is a link if you want to check out a video or two!

We prayed over our boxes and packed them into the car to head to church the next morning. From there they will head to...Africa? Asia? South America? Wherever they end up we pray they will bless the little children who receive them!

P.S. Happy Birthday Aunt Karen!!!

Sherbert