Christmas Part 2 at Mamaws

We left santa some cookies and a healthy apple...lol...

This is the only family picture I got of us at Christmas. If anyone got a better one please send it to me!

This was an old stroller for one of the kids baby dolls. We put Slayde in it and he started sucking on the baby bottle. It was pretty funny!

Brittney and Slayde watching Mamaw's figures sing

Slayde was happy eating the wrapping!

Sagen got all of the princess barbies...Thanks Aunt Jana and Uncle Joel!

Slayde loves his bouncing penguin

Mamaw and Papaw with their grandkids

All of the "grandboys" Slayde LOVES Jack!

All of the "grandgirls"

We went to Mamaw and Papaw's house on Christmas Eve and had a good time. We went for lunch and then spent the afternoon hanging out. The kids opened up their presents a little after lunch and then we snacked the rest of the day. Sagen and Slayde both got so many toys...its hard to believe they still have santa in the morning. We left mamaw's house about 7:30 and on the way home Sagen was convinced that the flashing red light (off the tower thing) was Rudolph's nose. When we got home we were quickly baking cookies for santa (last minute...ha!) when Sagen heard a car door across the street shut. She went running through the house saying Santa is on the roof! We have to go to bed NOW! I had told her if she got up when Santa was here that the toys he had would disappear. I know...sounds evil now but it was the only way to keep her in bed while santa was putting out toys!

Christmas Part 1 at Nanas

Nana and Opey with all their grandkids. My dad can't take a serious picture! lol

After presents they all got their baths and put on the Christmas PJ's

One of these days he will kill me for the Ho Ho Ho on his hiney...

Slayde loved his barn shape sorter from Aunt Kimmie and Uncle Brucie

Walking Puppies!!!!

All of the big kids got matching robes. Last year it was snuggies...this year robes....next year??lol

Slayde opening his first present

Aunt Kimmie and Sagen

Its hard getting a good picture of 5 kids...i think this one turned out cute

If you know Sagen you know she has an obsession with socks...she got some little miss mismatch socks and loves them!

This year we had Christmas at my mom and dad's on the 23rd. We were a little late getting there because Sagen had been throwing up the night before. We thought we were good to go but she threw up again at lunch that day so we held off to make sure she was ok. She never got sick again and no one else got it so maybe it was something she ate. We had supper at mom's house and then the kids all opened their presents from everyone. Sagen had been wanting a walking puppy from wal mart and when her and Keatyn started opening them they started barking. Sagen's face was priceless! Mom had to keep them out in the shed because the whole time they were wrapped they would bark when you walked by them. After presents all the kids got baths and then played with their toys before we headed home. We all had a great time...makes me sad we can't see them all on Christmas day.

Christmas Program

Sagen's teacher brought them all sugar cookies and their own tubs of icing and sprinkles. They got to decorate them any way they wanted. Yum!

Sagen in the front row doing the motions to one of their songs

On the last day of school our elementary had an adorable Christmas program called "A Bugz Christmas" Props to the teachers for all the hard work they did trying to get 4, 5, 6, and 7 year olds to sing songs and learn their lines. Sagen was a lady bug and was really cute. Here are a few pictures of her during the program and at the Christmas party afterward. The night before we stayed up making chocolate covered pretzel sticks and Christmas ornaments for her classmates. They all turned out super cute!

Happy Birthday Jordan!

This weekend after Monroe's 90th birthday we had Jordan's 15th birthday at Main Event (bowling and games). We ate a wonderful hamburger at fudruckers before we went to Main Event. The kids had a blast and Sagen was excited she won a kitty. Slayde and Jackson really bonded the few days they stayed with Jana. Jackson is great with him! They are going to be big buds one day!

Happy 90th Monroe!

An I-Pad can entertain for hours...

I LOVE this picture! Slayde is named after my granddad. Slayde Elijah and Elijah Monroe (my dad is Ronald Elijah). My grandmother told me that it was my grandfather's grandfather's name (that makes it Slaydes great great great grandfather's name) which goes back almost 150 years!

My granddad in the middle with all of his grandkids, and great grandkids. We joked with him and said..."look at what you started!"

These are all of my first cousins. Its been a long time since we have all gotten together!

My dad, uncle, and grandparents.

Slayde showing off his chompers!

My grandparents! Aren't they the cutest couple...

This past weekend was my grandfather's 90th birthday. I can't imagine living that long. He is in incredible health and gets around as good as I do! We had a party in Idalou at their church and about 100 people attended. We even had family from the Houston area drive down just for his birthday. Most of my family had never seen Slayde so they all ate him up!

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

Sagen's tree in her room...can you say girly??

Slayde's cowboy tree in his room

Sagen's handprint from when she was a baby

My Christmas plates my grandmother gave me along with "Elfie" peeking from behind

My all time favorite Christmas decoration. A man in Alabama made these santa's for all of us. The neclace and pin on his bag were my grandmother and great grandmother's jewelery. The white underlay under his coat was from one of my grandmother's aprons. The jacket is made from one of my grandmother's jackets.

Our "charley brown tree" sagen can hang whatever she wants on this tree!

My Christmas village

Sagen's "additions" to our village

Well Christmas is definately my favorite time of the year! I love getting the house decorated. I decorate almost every room which drives Rusty crazy. He asked me exactly how many trees I thought our house needed (Hey we only have 4!) Sagen was such a big help this year. When we put out our Christmas village she thought she needed to accessorize it with her little people barn animals. It was pretty funny. Christmas would be perfect if I could see all my family in Georgia...can't wait for summer!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Grandma and Big Daddy with Maryetta, Rusty, and the kids. Four generations!

Opey with all his grandkids. on Thanksgiving Wish mom was here!

Well it has been a while since I was able to post last. We had a great Thanksgiving and I hope everyone else did too! It was a sad Thanksgiving because it was the first one I have ever spent without my mom. She went to Georgia to spend Thanksgiving with my grandmother (which is where she needed to be), but it wasn't the same without her. We had Thanksgiving at my house and my sister and I cooked the Thanksgiving lunch. We didn't do the traditional turkey and dressing, but it was still really good. We had ham, rice dressing, corn, hashbrown casserole, macaroni pie, and lots of sweets and desserts. After that we went to Rusty's grandparents house to spend Thanksgiving evening with his family. That night I was really bummed because I didn't think I was going to get to go black Friday shopping since my shopping buddy was 1200 miles away....but....



I had this wonderful idea to call "aunt" Debbie to see if she wanted to embark on the Black Friday madness with me. It is a family tradition that we shop on black Friday...and I do mean shop! Its usually me, my mom, sister, friend Kassadie, and Debbie. Debbie was game to go shopping with me and we got an early start! I actually started on Thursday night about 10 oclock. I went to Wal Mart and got a game plan then went back at midnight to snag the toy deals that started at 12:01. Then I went home (about 1:30 due to the crowd) and headed back out at 4 am to Brownfield Wal Mart with Debbie and my dad. After we hit up the electronic sales we headed to Lubbock to go to Toys R Us and the Mall. We had a great time and I got almost all of my shopping done! Keep in mind that I have to shop for Christmas and birthday! (Sagen's birthday is 10 days after Christmas!)



Rusty had a young lady qualify for state FFA creed speaking which takes place in Huntsville, TX (about 10 hours away). He had to take a female sponsor so I volunteered to go along. We were planning on just hauling the kids with us, but Aunt Jana stepped up and offered to keep them! (Thanks Aunt Jana!) We kidded her that her house would be like the Brady Bunch with 3 girls and 3 boys. Sagen and Slayde had so much fun over there. They said that Slayde never cried and slept all night in Jett's baby bed (he doesn't use it!) and Sagen and Jack really bonded. Jessica told me that she was watching them one afternoon and they were playing football. Jack had taken off his shirt (that's the cool thing...) so of course Sagen thought...why not, I'll take mine off too. Jessica said they were both playing football without their shirts on. Haha! Just wait until she gets older....she would die! When we got home from Huntsville we were so glad to see both kids. Slayde was attached to me like a magnet. He wouldn't go to ANYONE else and even cried when Rusty took him from me. He's definitely a momma's boy, but I love it! Well I know this has been a LONG post. Here are a few pictures!