Decorating the Tree

We put up two trees at our house. One of them has all of our "family ornaments." We have moved it between the loft/playroom and our bedroom depending on the year. We decided to put it in our bedroom this year. I thought it would be safer away from the hands of all the little visitors to our home. :-)

My little helpers

Sophie placing an ornament on the tree

Chloe was checking out one of our Santa photo ornaments.

Charlotte got to put the star on top. I'm pretty sure it's because the other girls can't reach, and Jay can still lift her up.

Henry Jay watching all the action

Happy Birthday, Anna!

We celebrated Anna's birthday this year by ordering Papa John's pizza and decorating her house for Christmas. I took a few pictures of her opening her presents, and then my camera battery died. Guess I should've checked that before we left the house!

Happy Birthday!

Country Christmas CD

Sisters necklace

And the Peanuts ornament from Mom. She gets (at least) one every year...  usually it's more than one!

Three Months Old

Henry Jay is three months old today! And we have enjoyed every single day of his little life thus far. He is a very sweet baby. Not particularly fussy and always quick with a smile. Obviously I say this without any bias whatsoever, but I'm pretty sure he's perfect. :-) He doesn't have another well baby visit until next month, so I don't know how long he is or how much he weighs. We did move him into size 6-9 month clothes last week and also size three diapers.

Okay, she's not three months old, but she is oh so pretty! :-)

Last Sunday we were able to go visit some friends (Katie and Josh) who had a baby boy a couple weeks ago. Their little (big) guy is Rigley. I forgot to take my camera, so I used Jay's phone, however, the pictures haven't made it from the phone onto the computer yet. You can see Katie's pictures on her blog. Katie has been one of my closest friends since I was nine-years-old, and God blessed us with husbands who became the best of friends as well. I think the chance of Hank and Rig being best pals is pretty high. :-)

This and That

Just some pictures that have been gathering on my camera for the last few weeks:

This was the night we took Anna and Tom dinner. Papaw is holding Henry Jay and Mamaw has Cooper.

Jay pulling double duty

Ruby and Charlotte are either the best of friends or fighting with one another. This was obviously from one of the moments when they were getting along.

It snowed at our house last Thursday evening, and I quickly took pictures Friday morning before it all melted away.

Mums and pumpkins dusted with snow

I love snow. I realize that not everyone shares this sentiment, but I was grinning from ear to ear and giddy as school girl when it started coming down.

My vinca was actually still in bloom. It survived the frost, but the snow did it in.

Hank and Coop in their monkey pj's...

...and cute little monkey buns!

Tuesdays of Praise

I missed last week! I was still praising God. I just forgot to blog about it.

Today I am praising God for Ecclesiastes 3:11...

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

I just LOVE that!

Trunks of Fun/Harvest Hoedown

As a good friend of mine put it, I am one of "those people" who hate Halloween. (She was saying that about herself, but it applies to me too.) However, I do enjoy costumes and dress-up and candy! This year we took the kids to Trunks of Fun at Jason's parents' church on Saturday and to the Harvest Hoedown at BRCC on Sunday. The family theme this year was super heroes. Chloe was Wonder Woman, Sophie was Batgirl, and Charlotte was Supergirl. Jay wore his Flash t-shirt and I borrowed his Green Lantern t-shirt for Trunks of Fun. And we went as Jonathan, Martha, and Clark Kent to the Harvest Hoedown (plaid shirts, jeans, boots). It was a fun un-Halloween

Our beautiful young crime fighters

Collecting some candy from what looks like a baby tiger

Trunks of Fun

Chloe spent a lot of her time visiting with the dogs that were there. She loves dogs!

First stop at the Harvest Hoedown: spin art

First candy of the night: lollipop

Sleepy Clark Kent

That's me, Martha Kent... after a hard day of work at the Kent Farm.

Batgirl played the game while Wonder Woman watched.

Supergirl in the bounce house

Ummm... Supergirl with a cat face?

And Batgirl with princess face-paint? You can see Chloe in the background getting her face painted, but I guess we didn't get a picture of her after it was finished.