Christmas 2011

Christmas 2011 in pictures... Christmas morning:

Christmas afternoon with Grandmamma, Granddaddy, and Uncle Tim:

Christmas with Grammy and Pappy, Uncle Heath and Nana on Facetime:

Isabelle's 6th Birthday

Isabelle celebrated her 6th birthday party with her friends at our house on Friday, December 2. We had all her girlfriends over to make ornaments- a colored sparkly foam shape that they stuck Christmas foam stickers to and decorated with glitter glue. Then we ate pizza and had cake and opened presents. It was a simple and fun party that was easy to do in our house! Isabelle opened up her presents from us on her actual birthday. She was so excited to get more clothes and accessories for her American Girl dolls, as well as Kit's dog, Grace! She also got a bed for her dolls, which Judson is trying out in the picture!

Thanksgiving trip to Florida

This Thanksgiving we drove down to spend the week with Grammy and Pappy. We had a nice time just relaxing and doing some of our favorite Florida activities. One of the fun things we did was go to the new Lego Land theme park. It was pretty packed, but the kids got to go on some fun rides and we saw a waterskiing show, which was neat. They had a section of miniature cities all built with Legos which was fun to look at. We enjoyed getting to spend time with Uncle Heath and Nana, too!

Greenwood

In October we took at trip to Greenwood, MS, for a weekend with Barrett's parents. We stayed in a very rustic cabin that at one time was actually lived in by sharecroppers. It was kind of a neat place, except for a few issues we had. We just decided to rent one cabin because it was supposed to sleep six people and we were trying to all stay together in the same cabin. There was a king size bed, two twin beds, and a pull-out couch. Barrett and I were going to sleep on the pull-out, but when we were pulling it out, rat droppings fell all over the floor from the mattress! That was very late in the evening at that point and the kids were already asleep, so Barrett and I ended up sleeping in the chairs for that night. The next night, the owners apologized and gave us an additional room free of charge that Skipper and Sally Ann moved to for the following night. Other than that and the fact that the places were so dusty that Barrett and Isabelle were sneezing their heads off the entire weekend, it was a quaint little place! We did get to enjoy a campfire late one evening where the kids got to make a smore, so that was fun. We got to see lots of stars since we were out in the country. During the day we drove around and saw where Sally Ann grew up, saw where her parent's grocery store, Carr's Grocery, used to be, and looked at some of the houses of people she knew. We also got to drive by some of the places where they filmed scenes for the movie "The Help". The place where we stayed had a big cotton crop growing in the field for you to pick and see how it grows. That was fun to see the cotton flowers and the different stages of growth. To top off the weekend, Judson and I got the stomach bug. The morning we left, I was feeling so bad as we were driving out of town that we had to pull over for me to throw up-and it happened to be on the really nice street in downtown Greenwood! I just hoped no one noticed me throwing up on their lawn!!

Ole Miss Football Game

We had the opportunity to go to our first Ole Miss football game this fall with our friends, the Watts family. They are season ticket holders and go to every game during the season. They invited us to tail gate with them, and we had a ton of fun. It was a long day- we left early in the morning and got to Oxford by 8:00am. We got all the food and stuff to their spot and then just hung out and snacked and walked around while we waited for the game to start. Judson did surprisingly well, and even took a nap in the stroller as he was being pushed around by Jenny Watts. Caleb especially enjoyed the big stadium football game (even though Ole Miss lost!)