Friday, December 23, 2011

Cousins Fun!

We got to have a few days with cousins, Megan and Nathan this week and had so much fun!  The boys had lots of fun playing everything boys play...from football to nerf guns to wii, etc.  And the girls played dolls and house and helped me with cooking and baking and much more.  They were so sweet and we only were able to keep our Gs from being too sad about them leaving by promising them that we will see them again in a few short days!

After picking them up...the boys had to be silly for the pic :)


We spent hours at the new town park the first day.  It was beautiful weather and they had a blast riding scooters and playing on the playground.








Staying to see the sunset :)





Dinnertime...


Megan is such a great helper.  She bathed the girls, set the table, helped with Garner and helped B make waffles for breakfast!


Sweetness...Nathan loving on Garner Bug


Their last night here, we went to see Lights of the South...girls in their headbands, ready to go :)


Some of these are blurry, but still fun.  We had a great time, even with it raining on us!









It continued raining the next day, so we did some crafting.  :)  They all made really cute cards for our visit later this week to the nursing home, had fun painting and making mosaics and enjoyed making a huge fake snow mess with B on the back porch.




Thanks for coming to see us, Meg and Nate!  We love you so much and will see you guys soon!! :)

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Advent: Days 16-20

Day 16: Live Nativity


Day 17: Go out for a Christmas treat, smile and compliment others, buy Starbucks gift cards for people in line behind us.  SO fun (and surprisingly hard to get people to look at you so that you can smile at them)!








(Rocky Road Cake Pop from Starbucks = my new favorite treat :))


Day 18: Notes and treats to the kids' pastors



Day 19: Leave treat for our postman



Day 20: Lights of the South (with Buckalews and cousins, Meg and Nate!)








(And a bonus pic: on the ride home, watching Toy Story 3...love her cracking up! :))

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Advent: Days 11-15

Day 11: Share the Light service




Day 12: FCA Christmas Party



(My favorite of the 12 Days re-enactment this year...swans a-swimming :))



Day 13: Make treats for friends and neighbors





Day 14: Look at lights with the Watsons



(She doesn't love the car still...the candy cane helped at the beginning.)







Day 15: Read the Christmas story and pray by the tree


(Read it out of Gehr's Bible too :))



And there are only 10 left...the days are flying by!