Christmas Pictures

Thursday night we celebrated Christmas with Perry's family at his Aunt Valerie and Uncle Cleve's house.  This is one of our favorite times during the holidays.   Cleve cooks oysters and steak, and we do a Chinese Gift Exchange which is always a lot of fun!

    

Jay and Uncle Perry building a house.

"Lauran, take a picture of my Harrison Barnes dunk."  

Valerie gets the Uncle Eddie hat.

"What the heck is this?!?!?!"  

Last year Mike went home with a Snuggie...

Cleve, Perry, and Jay 

Perry and I have always exchanged gifts sometime on Christmas Eve.  Partly because I can't wait any longer to give him his gifts, but also because Christmas Day can get sort of busy.  

Rufus got a little tissue paper stuck to his lips!

Perry's new toy!

My beautiful new ring!

Lambie...

Rufus...

Thinking about it....

Attack!

Christmas morning we head over to the Tyndall's to open gifts and have breakfast.  

Perry's new boots and cooker!

Santa brought Vickie and Dorsey a gas grill.  They were really suprised!  

And I got to put it together!  :)

We hope you all had a great time with family and friends during the holidays!  

Merry Christmas and Happy 2011!

Christmas at Aunt Laura's

We got a jump start on the Christmas celebrations this past weekend.  My Aunt Laura always does Christmas on the Sunday before Christmas in hopes that we can all be there; however, I am not usually able to attend.  This year was the first year in many, many years that we were all together.  I was so excited about the day, and it was perfect!  I feel so blessed to have grown closer with my mother's family over the past few years!  They are so wonderful to me! 

Me, Grandma Hazel, and Perry

Grandma and her Granddaughters

Christmas Pictures and Introduction to the Twins!

Back in October, right before my birthday, we almost hit a puppy on Highway 58 on the way to the farm.  He was hiding in a ditch, daring to cross the road.  We decided to turn around and pick him up, filling for sure that we could find him a good home.  Much to our surprise, he had a twin!  They were just the cutest guys ever, and immediately they stole my heart!  So we did find them a good home...in my laundry room!  We named them Press and Breaker.  Couldn't you just eat them up!!!!

 Meet Press!

 Meet Breaker!

So . . . here are a few of the 10000000000 attempts at a Christmas picture.  Crazyness is all I have to say about this!  I can't even imagine how you all with kids do this!  Superwomen!

Merry Christmas to you all! 

Turkey In Yo Belly Time!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

I am getting super excited about Thanksgiving.  I love that it is such no pressure holiday!  Turkey on Wednesday AND the first basketball game of the season, more turkey on Thursday, and another basketball game on Friday!  Hope you all have a great holiday!
 

Made to Crave - Lysa TerKeurst

I feel excited about this study!