Christmas Day 2009

Hello friends! Santa came to visit early...6:40 a.m. and we have been playing ever since then. Anderson got some cool toys from Santa! His favorite has to be the Diego ball pit. Hours of fun...hands down. Nothing has ever held Anderson's attention like this toy!
Nunna even gave Anderson a cute bumble bee car. Which he likes, but has no idea how to push it. We tried to teach him to do it Fred Flintstone style...:)

We had breakfast, a sausage,pepper and onion strata. Awesome!Then, we went to play in the snow that had accumulated overnight.
Adam became OBSESSED with building a snowman and then blamed his growing up in south Alabama for his lack of snowperson building skills-ha! ;)
Every time he would get a good base built, Anderson would tear it down! The boys had a ball in the snow!

Anderson thought it looked pretty tasty too!We had a fabulous Christmas lunch at the ole' Waffle House. A little far from my mom's cooking, but what are you gonna do? Steaks tonight...woo hoo!

Merry Christmas!

Snowy Day

Hello friends! Don't have much time for many words...just a few pictures of our beautiful snow fall here in DFW. We got overall 4 inches of snow. Being from south Alabama, this is the MOST I have ever seen.We went to the Christmas Eve at First Methodist. Wonderful service! Anderson sang/talked through the whole thing:)After church, we stopped at our new house that we close on Tuesday! It was beautiful!We couldn't grill out our steaks because it was TOO COLD and we probably couldn't have gotten the grill started anyway. We went to On the Border mexican restaurant. It was delish!Some snow pictures!
I am a sucker for footprints in the snow...I think they are just marvelous!

Gotta go...Santa's comin'!!

Have a wonderful time with your family and have a Merry Christmas! And to my south Alabama friends...stay dry!

Merry Christmas to All

Hello friends! It is SNOWING here in the DFW area of Texas. It's absolutely wonderful and beautiful but is very windy so snow is blowing all around! I've always wanted it to snow for Christmas and I am getting my wish! Just wanted to wish you all a Merry Christmas! Hope you have a wonderful holiday with your family and friends. I've got to get my act together.
Adam's parents are coming the day after Christmas and my house is dirty and a wreck...EEK! Gotta go! Merry Christmas!!!

Silent Night

Hello friends! This is one of my favorite Christmas songs as a child. But, last night was anything BUT silent! I'm not sure what is going on...but Anderson has decided the last two nights that he didn't want to sleep too much. In fact this morning, he was up bright and early at 3:30a.m.! Lovely! I look and feel lovely too! Kinda like a dump truck ran over me. But, he will go through different phases of sleep. This, I know!

We have stayed at home all day and not gotten into the car one time. I took my B-12 vitamin a little early to get a little kick start. We went for a nice long 40 minute walk. I've been bad about not walking like I was this summer. I guess it's because we've been in this apartment and I don't like the scenery that walks around here have to offer. But we all enjoyed it!

My mom gave Anderson some cool bath letters and numbers that when wet, they stick on the bathtub wall.
And, we've been playing with them outside the bathtub mostly though;) He's getting pretty good at naming all the letters. I mostly use them as flashcards.

And look what I spelled, oops...I couldn't find another e!

I got a picture of Anderson by the Christmas tree since Christmas is only 2 days away! We can't wait!I wanted to share with you the comforter set that we got. Click here to view it. We got it from www.overstock.com and it was ONLY $69.99! I LOVE it!

Christmas Ramblings

I have no funny stories to tell or even any pictures. And I'm all about pictures. I'm just really dragging. Guess who woke up at 5:28a.m. saying "hello, hey, bye and thank you", yep you guessed it. So, I kinda feel like a new mom today( you know what I mean...exhausted, short tempered, and wondering around in a fog...or at least that is how I felt when I was a new mom :) The short tempered part only came out on the dogs and my students...and Adam sometimes. Come to think of it, I think I still have pregnancy brain. I lose lots of things and in the middle of something I will stop and say to myself "what am I supposed to be doing"? I half way do everything. Last night, Adam asked me why there was a letter "R" in our room. I forgot to take it back to Anderson's room. I guess that I am just trying to get things together for our house.

Anderson and I went to TJ Maxx and Ross today to try to find a comforter. NOTHING!! I will not pay $300 or more for a comforter set! Any good ideas?

We got some Christmas cards yesterday. Christmas cards make me happy. We got one from my Aunt Kim Drake who I love! I named all the kids to Anderson and then he pointed a few of the kids out and called out their names.

At this age, kiddos are such quick learners. I kinda feel like I should be teaching him about the American Presidents, Economics or quadratic equations(not that I know one thing about quadratic equations-ha!) Which reminds me, our waiter the other night was telling us that his son was 2 and they bought the series "Your Baby Can Read" and he swears it DOES work. He started telling me all about it...blah blah blah... I quickly started teaching Anderson about money and the president on it (who he just calls George) and I started telling him about how money has to be 4 components for it to be considered worth something. Adam quickly started telling me that I was NOT teaching our son Economics...yet! Oh well! Boy...you didn't ask for all that did you?!

After today, only 2 days until Christmas! And after that, 2010 will be here. Where has the year gone?!


My friend and former co-worker at Prattville High School, Laura, now teaches at a middle school in Montgomery. She wanted me to post this. She teaches this little boy and would like for us to pray for him. Please if you have a second, include him in your prayers!

Laura writes:
Friends,
I am asking for prayer for one of my students, Logan Prickett. Logan is one of the sweetest kids you will ever meet but he had an accident a year ago and is still trying to recover. I REALLY want his Christmas wish to come true. He wished for his sight to come back and speedy recover. PLEASE pray for this sweet ......child. You can follow his story here:
Despite his disability he has a perfect 4.0 GPA.
This is the season of miracles. I KNOW he will recover and regain his sight. IF the children of God will pray, I know this Christmas wish can come true.

Christmas week, books, beds and more!

Hello friends! Christmas week is FINALLY here! I'm excited. I thought I wouldn't be because we don't have anywhere to go or really anything to do. But, I'm really excited, Anderson will know what's going on this Christmas and I can't wait! I can't wait for him to run into the living room after Adam has spent the better part of the night assembling his Diego ball pit from Santa. And I can't wait to see the look on his face as he explores all of his other gifts! I'm simply thrilled and most importantly happy!

We went to church yesterday here. We really liked it. And the preacher too. I think that' s pretty important for you to like your preacher. I have A LOT of questions for somebody who can answer them...I dunno who? Please DO NOT think I am being funny...I'm totally not. My mind just works in a historical capacity. Like: 1. How old was Mary when she got pregnant with Jesus. 2. The wisemen...it seems in the King James version that the wisemen came that night. They didn't did they? We've decided that we are going to church Christmas Eve night...what a better place to spend our night before Christmas!
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Saturday, we bought our bedroom suite at a local place in Arlington. I think that it is beautiful. It is totally our taste. It is a replica 1940's bedroom suite minus the great-grandmother mirror sitting atop the dresser. As you know from an earlier post...I'm all about antiques. We didn't buy the comforter set on the bed, because it was $1,000 dollars!! We ordered our mattress from Samsclub.com. It was a great price for a mattress.Now we'll see if it actually sleeps worth a darn! Ha!

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My mom, brought Anderson this sweet book with hers and Bop's voice recorded telling the story "The Night Before Christmas".
As you can see, Anderson loves the bookAnd I do too! My mom also got these neat-o oranment picture hangers at a book fair. But you can get them at Shutterfly.com for $1 dollar each or from Crate and Barrel. I thought they looked so neat and I would cut up our old Christmas cards of Anderson with Santa and hang them on the tree each year.

Don'tcha Think

Hello friends! Anderson and I have done our usual Friday outing to the mall. He's played until his heart is content and rode the carousel too! We LOVE this playground, especially me. I feel like it gives Anderson a chance to socialize, expend some energy and work on perfecting his motor skills.
This local hospital sponsors this playground along with a grant from our favorite kind of books, Little Golden Books which have been around for around 50 or so years.
My friend, Jennifer, just has a 16 month old and has just had a little boy a couple of days ago. She has told me that she wishes that Dothan had one of these playgrounds in the mall. Seriously, I mean where do children go in Dothan when it rains or is cold? Did you know that Dothan is number 3 on the list in Money Magazine on top places to raise children in Alabama. But, before my momma, stepmother, and MIL start packing our bags for us...Mansfield, where we are moving was rated #23rd out of the WHOLE U.S. in small cities to live in.

I'm "working" on getting my mom, who is a physician recruiter to ask her hospital to sponsor one of these playgrounds. I mean, how hard can it be? Just look at all the fun!
Anderson looks EXHAUSTED!! ha!
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On another note:

We have bought a refrigerator-it wasn't that expensive

We are still looking for a nice bedroom suite. I think we are going to Rooms To Go this weekend, because we've found a sleigh bed that we really like AND won't cost us an arm and a leg-ha!

7 days till Christmas folks! Happy weekend!

Christmas...8 days away!

Hello friends! Anderson and I headed to the Ft. Worth Zoo today! It was clear, cool and was almost empty there. I think this is the best time to go and try to see the animals because it was 50 degrees and everybody was out. I didn't take any pictures, cause you know I'm the queen of taking pictures, but you've seen all my zoo pics before therefore, I won't bore you.

I did however take a picture of Anderson for the grandparents ( I really think my mom would die if she didn't to see the "baby" as she calls him and Gami and Mimi too).See his outfit, mom got it on ebay for $10 used and it's got 2 sides to it, Thanksgiving and Christmas side. Pretty nifty huh? Seriously I just love ebay! I decided that I take an awful lot of pictures of Anderson. I " tried" (ha, key word) to take a picture of Anderson and me. I was the only one interested in taking a picture.

And just look at those wrinkles. Hmmm...botox?
This kiddo is beginning to look a LITTLE like me, just put blue contacts in his eyes and there you go! Oh...why couldn't I have brown eyes...Christmas is only 8 days away...

Which reminds me go read my mom's post on Christmas, she is a FAR better writer than me and funny too!

One more thing before I go. Did you know that historians actually think that Jesus was born not in December, but possibly June! I couldn't imagine spending Christmas in the hot summertime.