Christmas with Granny J

We did Christmas with Granny J early this year, because we wanted to do it while Tamra and Paul were in town. It was a fun time getting to visit with everyone.

Mia and Cait

Granny and the fam
Daddy, Ryan and Paul

The kids could not wait to open presents!

Granny opening her gifts.

We always get her a calendar with pictures of the kids!

Granny had gifts for everyone. She is so sweet.

Wallets for the boys and purses for the girls!

Eli with his monster truck!

My sweet Granny J

Tamra and me

(notice my Dad in the background)

My sweet Mom and Dad

All the girls with Granny

All the boys with Granny!

Ryan and Granny

I love this picture! She loves to just watch those Grandbabies!

It was a great Christmas celebration!

Snow, snow, snow!

We had snow here in West Columbia! Wow! So exciting! The kids had a blast playing in it and then when it got too cold they admired it from inside. It snowed all day long! None of it stuck, but it was still fun to see. Thank you God for that sweet gift!

Eli enjoying the snow!

Daddy even came out of his office for awhile to play with us!

Miss Mia

Fun day!

Thanksgiving with the Lintelmans

The day after Thanksgiving we headed to the lake to visit with Ryan's parents and his brother and his 2 kiddos. We all had a great time visiting and playing!

Eli and Luke getting to play in Nonny's huge bathtub!

They play so well together and have so much fun!

We dressed the kids up so we could try to get a picture for Nonny's Christmas cards!

Sweet Shelby and Luke

Crazy kiddos!

The kids favorite part was Nonny and Pop Pop's new toy.

The "Doodlebug"

This is the kids racing. They did this over and over and had a blast.

Poor little Mia was always last, but she tried hard to keep up.

Game time!

Nonny has all kinds of games for the kids to play. Games that were Ryan and Christopher's when they were little. Here are Eli, Mia and Luke playing Bed Bugs! I use to love that game!

This Thanksgiving was wonderful! Thank you God for our wonderful family and our friends! We are so blessed!

Thanksgiving with the Kemps

This Thanksgiving we got to spend time with my parents, Tamra and Paul and the kids. We also got to go to my cousin Michelle's house for Thanksgiving dinner. It was a great holiday! On thanksgiving morning, Mia went out with my Dad to feed the horses. She was so cute in her little p.j.s, trying not to get them dirty.

Mia getting ready to help Poppa feed the horses

She had to do everything just like Poppa!

So sweet!

Later that day the kids all took turns riding the horse.

Here is Benjamin taking his turn

Eli

Mia had no fear. She was so precious on that horse.

Cait

Even Paul took a turn.

Here is Mia on her second time around

Then that night we went to my cousin Michelle's

house to have the "Kemp" Thanksgiving dinner.

Michelle even made crafts for the kids to do.

Here is her baby girl, Miss Riley working hard on her craft!

Here is my cousin Angela's little boy, Allen, working on his craft!

Eli working on his

Miss Mia

Eli stole my camera and took pictures of Tamra and me!

It was a fun day with family! We are so thankful and so blessed!

House Guests

Last month my niece and nephew came to stay with us for a few days. It was so much fun. Eli and Mia were in heaven, having them all to their selves for 3 days.

Here are Cait and Mia swinging.

Yes, Mia is too big for this swing, but we haven't gone

and gotten a big girl swing yet. Soon hopefully!

Eli and Benjamin hangin' out. Make sure to notice the next picture!
Ouch! I love how Eli is just looking at him. No, he wasn't hurt.
He jumped right up and did it again. We caught him
several times up on top of the entire swing set. He literally can climb anything.

It was such a pretty day that we did pretty much

everything outside. Here are the kids drawing.

I had to get a picture of this. Benjamin was teaching

Mia to dance. It was the sweetest thing!

Here is Cait taking a turn on the 4 wheeler. Tamra and Paul, you better watch out for this girl when she turns 16. She ran over and into everything. And I do mean everything. Anytime she started to go, she would run into a bike, a person, the garage, anything that was in the way. But she sure did have fun. And brave little Mia hung on through the whole thing.

Thanks Tamra and Paul for letting them come stay.

We had a blast and look forward to the next time they get to come visit.