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Wednesday, 05 January 2011

Christmas Memories 2010

Christmas 2010 began with Olivia and Matt performing in Huntsville's Fantasy Children's Playhouse production of A Christmas Carol. They did a great job as Old Joe and the Little Rich Girl.

Hard to recognize Matt!

Our beautiful Olivia

The star autographs our program.

The grandchildren Christmas trees were decorated at Poppa & Yah-Yah's home.
The girls' gum drop theme tree

The boys' planes, trains, and automobile theme tree

Of course they enjoyed the trees at their own homes...

Caleb & Connor's beautiful tree

Olivia & Felicity's tree

Trips to see Santa were made...

Waiting their turn

Caleb enjoyed Santa, but Connor DID NOT!

Felicity & Connor during days at school...

Connor is the 2nd on the right enjoying Christmas goodies.

Felicity made a gingerbread house!

Christmas cookies were baked and shared.

Connor suffered with RSV and had to make several trips to the hospital emergency room for breathing treatments. He was given a quilt and a wooden toy during one of the visits. How exciting that he was given a toy that had been made by his Poppa's Birmingham Woodworkers Guild!

Shopping trip to Lowe's with Poppa after he felt better

Christmas was celebrated in each of the grandchildren's homes...

Christmas Day at Poppa & Yah-Yah's home was very busy.

Felicity "reads" the Christmas Story to Yah-Yah.

Caleb helped Olivia pass out the gifts.

Gift to Poppa & Yah-Yah from Olivia
She made the gift bag. So cute!!!
Front

Back

The baby on the side of the box looks like Connor!

Matt sat at the kids' table during lunch the following day. Thanks, Matt!!!

The kids had a ball with Uncle Matt. Connor was in the high chair and left out of the picture!

Chillin' the day after Christmas and watching Toy Story 3 - a GREAT movie!

Felicity always enjoys wearing her Dora princess outfit when at Yah-Yah's house.

Beautiful Christmas Photo of the Tidmore's taken at their church

Olivia stayed several days with us. Here she is wearing one of her new shirts from Poppa & Yah-Yah.

I took her to I Jump where she enjoyed the day very much, especially doing...

Then Caleb stayed with us for a few days. We spent a great day at the park when the temperatures warmed up to almost 70 on New Year's Eve. We awoke to a cold and rainy day on New Year's Day so headed to the Galleria for fun on the carrousel and riding the Christmas train as well as eating lunch before returning home.

Monta took the videos on his iPhone, so they are sideways for some reason. Sorry!

Reunited with his best bud when back at Poppa & Yah-Yah's home

Later that night, after bath and ready for bed, play time with Poppa...
wanted to try on Poppa's glasses.

Happy New Year!

Thursday, 02 December 2010

Thanksgiving 2010 In Kentucky!

We enjoyed traveling to Kentucky for Thanksgiving this year with Traci, Matt, Olivia, and Felicity. We were welcomed with open arms and had a wonderful time with Momma and the rest of the family. Traci had not seen Momma in 2 years, and the family had not seen Felicity since she was 3 weeks old. It had been over a year since they had seen Olivia, so this trip was very exciting for everyone.

Together again!

Special girls representing the generations

In her nightgown and eating lots of Yah-Yah's grilled cheese sandwiches. We couldn't get her filled up!

Bright eyed Felicity

The following day, Olivia is looking pretty and ready to go to Aunt Gwen & Uncle Jack's home for Thanksgiving dinner.

A very special photo!

...this one, too!!!

Sweet Dixie welcomes us at Gwen & Jack's home.

Monta immediately begins carving the turkey.

Mary & Felicity pose in front of the Christmas tree. Felicity favors Mary when she was this age.

Emily & Sam

Emily & cousin, Noel

Evan & his girlfriend, Kristin

I regret not getting photos of everyone that was with us on Thanksgiving day! There were 18 of us that gathered together and arrived at various times prior to the meal. Next time I'm putting Monta in charge of this!

The following day the girls gave Momma their Christmas gift to her...

...a beautiful scarf made by their Mommy, Traci.

Momma, Felicity, & the baby that Felicity played with while we were there. It was Emily's doll when she was little!

Family Game Night at Mike & Mary's home
Emily, Olivia, and Kristin are ready to take on the guys!

Olivia & Noel
Olivia LOVED hanging out with the college "kids."

The Tidmores

Matt & Traci
Matt has grown a nice, full beard for the play that he & Olivia will be in soon in Huntsville - A Christmas Carol.

Jack & Gwen

Phyl & Monta

Mary & Mike

The Grand Girlies

The Wells Sisters

...with their wonderful Momma

Evan & Kristin

Christmas gifts for us from the Kentucky Family

Snuggles from Aunt Gwen

New dress for Olivia from Aunt Mary

Worn out even before the games began!
Looks like she couldn't wait up for Santa, after all!

Telling Mamaw "Good-bye" the following morning & giving her art work they had made for her refrigerator

Wonderful Thanksgiving with such special people!
Olivia in Ferdinand the Bull

I traveled to Huntsville recently to see Olivia, along with the two first grade classes from her school, perform as Flowers in a high school production of Ferdinand the Bull. Monta was unable to go due to a Woodworker's Guild commitment and hated to miss the play. It was an adorable musical, and the Flowers did a marvelous job, especially our Olivia!

Olivia with the star of the play - he did a marvelous job.

Felicity is excitedly waiting after the performance to give Olivia a flower.

Matching flowers and sweet sister

Cuteness!!!

Olivia with her girlfriends who were also in the play

Another cute classmate

Following the play, I spent the night with the Tidmore family. Here are the girls in front of their Christmas tree. They are holding their newest family ornaments - dragonflies to remind them of their trip to the beach in October.

This year's ornaments from Poppa and Yah-Yah were a princess theme.
Olivia's Ornaments - the Princess and little pink purse

Felicity's ornaments - the Princess crown & matching purse

Their tree is decorated with many ornaments that bring back great memories from year's past.

Wednesday, 01 December 2010

Connor's 1st Birthday!

I've been neglecting my xanga site lately, and it's past time that it be updated!
We celebrated Connor's 1st birthday on November 6th with a wonderful party at his Nana's home. Amber planned a great celebration of our little guy's 1st year.

He has gone from this....

to this...!!!

This is ALL for me???

Yah-Yah with her youngest grand

Caleb with Aunt Kim & close family friend, Anna

Poppa, Daddy, and cousin, Daniel, get the hamburgers & hotdogs ready

Cousin Ellie Marie & brother, Caleb, are ready to eat

Ellie Marie, Caleb, and Jaylee

Time for Birthday Cake

The "Smash Cake"

Stripped down and ready for the smash cake to be served

Digging right in

Getting serious with it!

Loved his cake

So did his big brother

Giving Poppa a taste

Returning the favor

Play time outside
Caleb gets his lawn mower ready that Nana provided

Mommy adds bubbles
Wouldn't it be wonderful if all lawn mowers blew bubbles!

Off he goes
See the tiny bubble?

Cousin, Daniel, and Connor watch

Then they join the action.

Time to open gifts!

Wow! My own phone!

Daddy, this call is for you.

Matching brother outfits from Aunt Gwen

Caleb discovers a gift he thinks little brother ought to share.

End of the party
All of the wonderful guests have gone home. Nana & Yah-Yah get the dynamic duo ready for bed and to travel home. They run and chase a ball and balloon while Mommy & Daddy load the birthday gifts into the car.

Birthday hugs from Nana

Connor exclaims to his Nana, "I loved my party this MUCH!"

Just look at that tummy full of cake!

Tuesday, 26 October 2010

Pumpkin Patch 2010 with the Grand-boys

Jeremy & Amber invited Caleb & Connor's Nana & Yah-Yah to join them on an outing to Clanton & the Great Pumpkin Patch this past weekend. (Poppa had a Woodworker's Guild festival & couldn't go with us.) It was a gloriously beautiful fall day - just perfect for our time together.

We plan to attend next year and enjoy even more that was offered when the boys are older. We may even return home with some pumpkins!