Meeting Miss Emerson

Yesterday, Lyla and I went over to The Lott's house to meet

Miss Emerson. Her and Lyla are 7 weeks apart. Amanda and I have been friends since the 4th grade (20 years!!!!). I enjoyed visiting with Amanda and the girls had their first official playdate, even though they both slept through most of it! Thank you so much for having us over! Miss Emerson is a doll!Who would have thought 20 years ago we would be taking this picture!

Aren't they just too cute?


Miss Lyla Bug!
I think this is the first true smile I have gotten on camera.



I look forward to watching Miss Emerson grow,
hopefully someday they will get to move back to Texas!!! :)

Nana and Papa's House

On Saturday night, we went to eat mexican food and went back to Nana and Papa's house to celebrate Christmas. The kids had fun opening gifts and handing out gifts to everyone there. All the grand kids and great grand kids

Tate, Emmy and Ellie waiting to open some gifts

Listening to Boots read the Christmas Story

Rawlins Party

Last Saturday, we went over to Jackie and Ozzie's house for the annual Rawlins Christmas Party. They have some great trees in the front yard that the kids got to play around and they loved running and jumping in the leaves.Tate, Emmy and Ellie putting on a show

Paw and Lyla

My Two Santa's Favorite

Silly Emmy

Running around having a great time

Miss Emmy

Tater

We don't have leaves like this at our house!

Tubes, again?!?!?!

***Update***

All went well this morning with the surgery. He is such a trouper when it comes to the hospital and all this ear stuff. Thank you for all the prayers and thoughts. He should be back to his old self by tomorrow.

Say a little prayer for our Tater tomorrow morning at 7:30. He will be going back in to put a tube in the right ear. We went last week and he had another ear infection in the right ear (they were unable to put one back in that ear in August because it was too infected). So, we went to the ENT this morning and it just so happened they had a cancellation for tomorrow morning, so here we go again! I will post tomorrow after surgery. Pray for a safe surgery and recovery before Christmas Day and that this will solve our ear problems, at least for a while! :)

Christmas Lights

Last year, we started a tradition with the kids of going to see Christmas lights in the neighborhood in our pajamas. Tonight, we all got early baths and put on our Christmas jammies. The kids enjoyed the lights. Here are some pictures before we left... All ready to go...
Emmy and Lyla

Here is Tate's version of the nativity. He loves to add some extras.

Notice the Air Force plane, the extra animals and don't forget the spare Baby Jesus from another nativity in the house.

On Wednesday night,

the kids learned "Happy Birthday, Jesus" at choir. Here they are this morning singing.

The Mimi's Christmas Party...

Last night, Mimi and two of her sisters hosted a Christmas party for all the kids. We had lots of yummy food and a good time seeing everyone. Thank you to all the Mimi's for the fun party! And thank you to Papaw for the Santa visit...the kids loved that he came to the party. :)The Mimi's
Jeanne, Joanne and Debbie (our Mimi!)

Davis, Kindal, Lauren, Emmy and Audrey watching the train

The kids listening to a story

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All the kids (in birth order)...

Lauren

Audrey

Kindal

Tate

Emmy

Davis

Brody

Maggie

and Lyla

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We decorated sugar cookies! Yummy...

Lyla and Cousin Maggie got to hang out :)

We drank some hot (warm) chocolate

Lyla spending some time with Uncle B

Tate modeling the underwear Santa brought...

Tate, Lyla, Santa and Emmy

Emmy sitting on Santa's lap.

Tate sitting on Santa's lap.

Here is our attempt at a group picture.

Davis was missing for some reason. :)

Church Performance

Tate and Emmy have been going to Children's Choir on Wednesday nights. On Sunday, the kids performed in both services at church. Here are some pictures and video of their big performance!

Perspectives...

Someone has been paying attention...

(Emmy)

And someone not so much! :)

(Tate)

Maybe he has just seen The Wizard of Oz one too many times????

Cha Chi Lessons...

On the Friday after Thanksgiving, we went shopping in Waco with the girls. We stopped for lunch at a Mexican food restaurant and here is how the girls entertained themselves while we waited. Just some girl talk with Cousin Ellie

Emmy getting down doing the Cha-Chi dance

Here is how it's done, Ellie

You got it!

Here they are in their Hunting Santa dresses...

Tate's "Deer"

Brad went hunting last week and showed Tate some of the pictures from the trip. Well, after a few minutes we hear Tate say, "I am going to get my hat and go huntin'" Poor Huckleberry became the "deer" and Tate told Brad to take some pictures of him and his "deer". What a good sport, Huckleberry!! And what is a hunting trip without a sleeping bag? Here he is trying Brad's out...