New Year's Eve!!!

This New Year's Eve we drove from St. Louis to Marion to bring in the new year with Jackson!!!! Nana, Pop, Landon, Brittany, Andy, Jackson, and myself all went to eat in Memphis and then came back and played ALL NIGHT!!! Our favorite new toy is Dad's new little boat he got for duck hunting while we were in St. Louis. Jackson loves it!!! We played hard and had a nice relaxing night!!!! Perfect way to end 2011 and bring in 2012!!!! Hoping everyone has a blessed new year!!! We are looking forward to a wonderful year!

Running fast!

Nana had to get in the boat!

Guess you made it to midnight?!? At 11:30 pm we were building with blocks at Nana's...perfect way to bring in the new year!!! Love playing with my baby boy more than anything in the world!!!

Go Blues!!!!!

Friday night I experienced my first ever hockey game!!! Andy got tickets to the St. Louis Blues game for his birthday! We had great seats!!! It was really a lot of fun, and we both thoroughly enjoyed it!!! Go Blues!!!!

Not the best picture but we were being our own photographer:)

Words can't describe...

How much I love these two boys and how much I have enjoyed being home with them!!!!!!! Our house may be a mess and all our Christmas decorations are still out, but we sure have had fun and enjoyed our days off together!!!!! I will surely get everything put away....one day! :)

Jackson thinks the duck needs to wash with Elmo soap!

"Mom, Mom! Daddy duck in bath!!" Jackson was beyond excited when daddy put his mojo duck in the bathtub to try it out!!!!

So sweet!!

My favorite little boy in the world!!!

Snuggling on his Elmo couch with his football pillow!

This is what holidays do....

to little boys!!! This is the first day really all break we haven't had somewhere to go or something to do so Jackson is taking advantage of it!!! It is 10:22 am and he is still snoozing hard!!!!

Happy Birthday Andy!!!!

Happy 28th Birthday to the most wonderful husband and Daddy!!! We are so blessed to have him!! We celebrated his birthday with lunch with the three of us, then had birthday supper at our house with family!! We also enjoyed birthday cake ( which was professionally made, I know the writing would lead you to believe that Jackson wrote it!, by the talented people at Kroger!) Andy had a great birthday and we are so thankful everyone came to celebrate with him!!!

Enjoying a snack...

In his new Elmo desk watching cartoons!

Our final Christmas of 2011!

We had our last Christmas of this year on the 26th at Nana and Pops!! We enjoyed a Christmas breakfast, opened gifts until nap time, took a nap, finished opening gifts, played all afternoon, then had a traditional Christmas dinner!!! We hated to see this wonderful time of year come to an end!

Jackson showing Uncle Landon where to sit at his Elmo table!

My sweet surprise gift from Landon and Brittany!!! I love it!!!! I hear it was quite a task to get even one print....Jackson did not like the paint on him!!!!

He loved his Elmo tent with tunnel and ball pit!!! He liked it even better when Nana, Brittany, or Mommy would get in it with him!

Nana's living as Jackson plays with new toys!

Santa Came!!!!

What a wonderful and blessed Christmas day!!!!! We began our day with Santa and gifts with Mommy, Daddy, and Jackson! Then we had Christmas breakfast at our house with Nana, Gram, Pa, Nanaw, and Papa! Pops was working, and we surely missed him!! After breakfast we attended a wonderful Christmas church service at Success Baptist, followed by Christmas at Gram and Pa's!! We had so much fun hearing the Christmas story, opening gifts, and enjoying Christmas dinner with family! Tonight we are headed back to Marion for Christmas tomorrow with Nana, Pop, Landon, and Brittany!!! Merry CHRISTmas!!

And the stockings were hung....

One of Jackson's favorite gifts this year has been his Elmo drum set!! He was so excited to see them and loves playing!

Like father, like son!! His Elmo couch is perfect!

Elmo desk!

Relaxin in his bean bag!

The after picture of Santa stuff:)

Christmas can wear little boys out!

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!!!! I love my sweet family!!

Jackson is ready for presents at Pa and Grams!

Merry Christmas Eve!!!

Today we spent Christmas Eve surrounded by wonderful family and friends!!! We started off the morning at Bumps house and ended the day at Jeanne's house!!! We are so blessed to have such a large, loving family to share the holidays with!!!

What is it??

Home Depot tool bench set with tools from Bumps

Jackson's spinning Elmo chair!!

Jackson loves his Elmo stuff from Ashton!!!

He got an Elmo chair!!!!

All smiles at Christmas!

Jackson and Harrison

He had to get a drink before moving on!

Christmas at Nanaw and Papa's!

Friday we had Christmas at Nanaw and Papa's! I have no idea how I managed to not take a single picture with my phone to upload, I guess I was busy with the big camera and the video camera that I just forgot!!! I will load some pictures from my camera in the next few days!!! We had a wonderful Christmas there as always!!! Jackson had a big time! We had a delicious dinner and lots of fun playing board games!!!! I LOVE this time of year!!!!! Next stops are Bumps and Jeanne's!

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Christmas is here!!!

Jackson is so excited that Christmas came to Nana's house!! Although we don't do Christmas at Nana and Pop's house until the 26th, we came down tonight to cook and go see Christmas lights before Bump's Christmas in the morning!! Jackson ran in the house and hollered Christmas!!!!! He ran to an Elmo present that he is most certain is his:) He is already having so much fun this year!!!!!!! Hope you all have a wonderful and blessed Christmas Eve!!! Santa comes tonight! YAY!!!

First Day of Christmas Break!

Jackson and Mommy spent the day shopping with Christy, Sarah, and Beth! We had sooooo much fun! It was a wonderful day with awesome company:) it was also Christy's birthday....Happy Birthday to our wonderful friend Christy!!! Tonight we ate supper at Gram and Pa's to celebrate Pa's birthday!! It's always great when we all get together! Supper was great and Pa got some good new goodies:) Happy Birthday Pa!!!!

BayBay and Jackson with Santa!

Jackson and Beth cheesing!!!