The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year!

It's so hard to believe in a little over a week Santa will be here!! We have been having lots of fun around here getting ready for Christmas. Kamden did most of the tree decorating this year since Austin is just too grown up for us now. I only have a picture of him decorating one tree but he actually did 2. Maybe before we take them down I'll get a picture of the finished product.


Norman came back to visit us again this year and we have an excited little boy every morning to see what he is up to. This is just a few of the things he has done.

Playing a game of Wahoo with friends.

Zip lining from the blinds.

Cheering on the Saints.

Marshmallow bubble bath.

A mirror message to Austin.

Last week the boys were out of school for 3 days because of all the ice and snow we got. They had a good time slippin' and slidin' on the ice. I grabbed one quick picture but it wasn't an action shot. It was TOO cold out there for me!


Today we decorated gingerbread trains. Here is the picture of our finished train. Austin had the engine. I had the box car and Kamden had the caboose.

Happy Thanksgiving

For Thanksgiving this year, we decided to go home to Jena. We got to spend almost a week there and we had lots of fun. The boys did A LOT of hunting. They hunted squirrels and deer almost every day we were there. Kamden got to shoot at his first squirrels. I'm not real sure who killed them. I heard conflicting stories. Someone told me Kamden killed them and someone else told me Paw Paw Rusty killed them. Anyway, here is Kamden's picture with the 2 squirrels from that day's hunt.

On Thursday, we had Thanksgiving at Maw Maw Rat's house. I didn't get any pictures but we had tons to eat and enjoyed getting to visit with everyone. All the great grandkids had a blast. They each took one of Maw Maw's purses (without her knowing) and filled them up with pecans. I'm pretty sure she'll be finding pecans in her purses for months. HA!

After Thanksgiving, Nonnie & Paw Paw took the boys deer hunting while I braved the sale at Wal-Mart. Austin killed his first deer! He was SO excited he could hardly sleep that night. He just kept telling us the story over and over again. Kamden was jealous, of course, and it was all Paw Paw's fault because he was hunting with him.

Austin and his deer and the squirrels he killed that morning.

Here is Austin and his hunting partner, Nonnie.

Friday, Heath roasted a hog at his mom's house and we went to eat with them that night. Everybody was there so we had a great time catching up with everyone and we can't wait til Christmas to do it all over again.

All the grandkids were there. Will and Nicolas were there at separate times so we had to take two different grandkid pictures.

This one has Will in it.

And this one has Nicolas in it.

Heath with all his sisters.

Saturday, Maw Maw Rat came to momma's house to cook all the squirrels and make squirrel gravy for the men . Luckily, she came early enough to cook her famous 'Rat biscuits' for breakfast. Here is her picture of her doing what she does best.

Then the boys 'helped' Nonnie rake her yard. They just wanted to do the fun part of jumping in the pile and then setting it on fire. I did get them to pose for a silly face picture.

That wraps up our Thanksgiving trip to Jena and in less than 2 weeks we'll be heading back!!!