The Notebook

Greatest movie EVER!!! How wonderful it is....

Enjoy!

BTW- Be sure and pause the music above on my ipod to hear the video.

New Years Day Lunch with Old Friends

Cheese!!!
Jennifer and Eli

Mandy and Fowler



Palmer and Jack


Brad, Scott, John, and Joe

Mommies with little ones...we missed you Claire and Kimbell!




We had a wonderful lunch with our friends today at our house here in Auburn. These are all guys Joe went to high school with and their beautiful wives and children. We've all grown close though the years.

Everyone got together for a New Years day lunch. All together we have 10 kids total! Kimbell was still at the beach and the older boys missed him desperately...they were surrounded by girls! Yuck! Despite that we had a great time getting together for the start of the new year! We've got to do it more guys! Miss yal and take care in 2009!

More hats!!!

Claire Bear

Mally

Just a couple more girlie hat photos taken today with the girls playing outside. Kimbell's at the beach with my mom for New Years...so jealous!! Thought those little balls were so cute flopping around on their little heads while they play outside. Enjoy!(:

My New Boa Hat!

Claire looks real happy doesn't she.
Mally

My mom got Claire and Mally the most precious Boa hats for Christmas. I think she found them in Destin. It reminded me of the 1940's. The way the women wore those cute hats with the big flower on the side....so sweet! I watched The Notebook for the 100th time last night and Allie, one of the main characters, had one on! Who knows...maybe hats are coming back. I lov'em!

The Dyas Family Christmas was tu tu much fun!

Mally
Claire

Thanks, Aunt Laura for all the goodies!

Twinkle toes
Cheers

Bailey in Laura's wedding dress and Mally

Claire

At the Dyas family Christmas this year Aunt Laura went overboard for the girls. She gave them all kinds of girlie goodies that they absolutely loved! I took some pictures with Joe's cell. Excuse the quality of the photos...not the best, but I had to capture these precious moments. Bailey went and put on Laura's wedding dress for fun...I guess us girls never out grow dress-up!

Hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas!

Too Cute Tuesday!

The Housch Family Christmas

The Housch family picture

(Terry...I'm sure you'll make the cut next year.(:)

Dad and Diane with grandchildren

Nanny with great grandchildren

Say cheese Mary Katherine!!

I want MK in my lap!

Now!!

Right Now!!

I'm sorry, MK...love, love.

We had the Housch family Christmas this past weekend in Oneonta, AL. It was great to see everyone and eat bunches!!! MK was there and as you can see the girls had a fit over her....literally!(: Until next year, MK. Claire will be waiting.(:

Cookie Swap 2008!

OK, can you believe I forgot to take pictures last night of my neighborhood cookie swap!? I did..... so I posted my plate after picking from 17 kinds of delicious cookies that my friends/neighbors made. I had a wonderful turnout last night. Thanks again to everyone who came...we may make this a yearly thing so save your tins girls!

Special thanks to Holly for singing(: and rocking my Claire bear to sleep. Thanks to Heather for bringing cookies by the house even though you had a million things going on. That meant a lot.(:

Many more thanks to Brandy and Amanda for coming early to help set up. A big thank you to all of Waldrop Circle for coming.... that made my day!

A HUGE thank you to ALL of my wonderful friends and neighbors for all their HARD BAKNG! It was tons of fun... I will never forget it!

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Christmas parties at Parkway

Mally saying the blessing.

Stirling kissing Claire bear. Lovey, lovey.

I had a gazillion pictures from Mally and Claire's Christmas parties at PKWY, but these two are my favorites. The girls had so much fun at their parties and have the cutest little friends and awesome teachers! Gotta luv the holidays!!

We've got Annie!!

Last night the fam headed to the OPAC to see, Annie. It's a traveling theatre show....I think from NYC, and they were great! The little actress that played Annie was super talented! That girl could dance and sing like nothing I had ever seen before! The orphans were precious, too!

We took Mally and Kimbell. Mally sat at the edge of her seat clapping her little hands at the end of every performance...it was so cute. We had rented the movie this past weekend and she watched it maybe 20 times. It was a great musical. I'm so glad we went.(:

Our visit with Santa

We headed to the mall Friday to see Santa. Kimbell went with us since he had stayed home to go to the doctor about his eye...he had a little incident at school and ended up with an abrasion on it and a patch.

They were all great...with the exception of Claire who wasn't about to sit in his lap! She would wave and flirt, but no way sit in his lap! I highly recommend heading out there. Santa really took some time with them asking what they want and was super sweet. He does need to put on some lbs though!

What was I thinking??

I had to post about this little incident to explain a couple things. First, I have noticed throughout the past couple of weeks that my Christmas cards have been returning to me in the mail. This really has confused me because I put everything on them that should be..... the mailing address, the return address, and the stamp all there. WELL, after finally getting my 10th one back I knew I had to reevaluate the situation.

I'm standing at the mailbox yesterday, dumbfounded about another one being returned when it hit me! I had been putting the stamp ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE ENVELOP INSTEAD OF THE RIGHT!!! How crazy funny is that!!

SOOO if you haven't received a Christmas card yet hold tight. It may be next month, but it's coming your way. Oopsy.(:

Does this make me a TRUE blond??

Jingles the Elf

Jingles the Elf in our little present tree....we have a tree for little presents and a tree for

big presents.
Last year, Jingles came to visit us over the Christmas holiday. He watches over the kids and reports back to Santa. He looks like a stuffed doll during the day, but at night comes alive and gets into all kinds of mischief! Well, this year he didn't return from the NP. We were wondering where he was. It was two weeks into December!!! So....
....Kimbell wrote a letter to Santa and found out he had had an awful accident while returning to Auburn from the NP and broke his leg!! He wouldn't be coming this year.): Kimbell was soooo upset for Jingles...not himself which really surprised me.

Well, Jingles HAS returned...with his leg all wrapped up to prove it! Notice the cast in the first photo.

Kimbell is thrilled and I am thrilled!! He's funnier than ever this year!

I just had to share our precious story with you. I know a lot of moms are dealing with the elves this year and they bring such joy to our lives most of the time don't they??

MC!