Merry Christmas

May your Christmas holiday be filled with the LOVE and JOY of the season……FAMILY, FRIENDS and your FAITH……

It’s really what matters.

I’ll be back in 2012!!! 

Words for a Wednesday

Bubba:  Momma can you fix me a “little Neil”. 

Me:  WHAATTTT are you talking about?

Bubba:  Like Pootie (he actually said his real name, first and middle, of course)…I want a “little Neil”.

Pootie walks into den and sits down with a bowl of SOMETHING, of which I can only guess is the “little Neil”.

Me:  Pootie – what the heck are you eating?

Pootie:  Oatmeal…..why?

Bubba:  See mom?  I want some too.

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Hubby went for his favorite work day of the year this morning.  The Salvation Army toy distribution center.  The last couple of years Pootie has gone with him – and they’ve worked in the bike department.  Pootie couldn’t go this year.  He’s had a head cold…so he was still in bed…(have to get him healthy before Monday)  this year hubby was a “car packer”.  He got to see each and every family that left, with toys, and help them get the stuff in their cars.  He said that there were several that looked like the actually LIVED in their cars. 

Makes me sad. 

Makes me not stress over the “did I do enough” that I do each year.

Makes me thankful for myour home, that is always needing something cleaned, repainted or fixed….

Makes me thankful for my husband, who is an awesome, husband, father and provider for our family.

Makes me thankful for my kids – who are all healthy and happy (well except when I ask them to do chores )

Puts everything in perspective.

Not the Christmas Card….Take Two

So, I’m STILL waiting on the dang cards to show up…but that’s a post for another day.

I got a wild hair and NEEDED the kids pictures done the other day…no comments from you PHOTO GIRL.   

I am not a super everyone smile and look right at the camera type of girl….most of the pictures in my house are more candid, more “my kids” and not so perfectly posed.  I am trying, ONCE a year to get them all together and do a couple of shots, just “them” still being them – but looking at the camera so I can see their beautiful faces that I love so much.   

The young lady that took the pictures deserves a gold medal – because it was at the end of a long day for Bubba and he warned her….he didn’t want to have his picture “tooken”…and he did his best to make her work! 

So here are a couple of my favorites..

I threatened to take away his Monsters Inc DVD. I did!  I promise!  Bubba was being WRETCHED!  All the props were sending him into a goldilocks type fit – running from little chair to little chair…..drove me nuts!

This is from Summer 2010……standard kid shot number one for our family….

and December 2011…

 

I love these – again – 2010 and now……

 

 

This is our “standard shot” two….here it is from Summer 2010..

And here they are December 2011…

I just love this – because this is a picture of MY kids….it was their idea last year…..the baby was always on top of Pootie’s shoulders, Crash always does the arms cross pose and Lola – well, if you know me, she’s the same….hip-cocked-out-hands-planted-perfectly-on-the-hips kinda girl….

So, none of these are the card picture.  At the rate the company I ordered from is going, ya’ll might be getti’n the card sometime in the New Year. 

So for now….Merry Christmas to all of ya!