New Year's Day

We had a relaxing New Year's Day which was a great way to start out the year! Camden enjoyed a little Wii Dance first thing in the morning, like at around 6:00. Who wakes up at six on a weekend? He told me to do it too because it would make me "more skinnier." Really?

Then we took off to Granny Sue's for her famous breakfast. She makes the best breakfast in the world and I am second according to Camden. We ate ourselves into a stupor which was bad because that meant New Year's Resolution #1 had already been broken! Yes, this is my child with a whole plate full of grits!

Can you say homemade biscuits?

How about some tomato gravy and eggs?

Some grits that are just right!

Real gravy?!?! Perfect with the biscuits!!

This was the special secret that Camden was working on the phone on New Year's Eve. We had such a great time visiting with friends and eating some awesome food!! Besides I have the rest of the year to diet and Wii Dance! Ha!

Bring Your Child To Work

What do you do when your day care closes on a Friday without much notice? Well, you take your child to work with you because you have such a nice boss and all!

Then you put him to work and make him decorate cupcakes for Amanda's son's birthday party! This is Amanda doing some mad frosting.

Here is Camden showing his mad frosting skills. He may be a Pastry Chef when he grows up?

Miss Amanda gave Camden some cupcakes so that he could "help."  He actually came up with this idea below on his own. He is pretty good! Got his talent from Mommy! Ha!!!

Here is the finished product for the party.

And this was just another hard day at the office! Ha! We really did work hard that day. The cupcake frosting bonanza happened on our break time!

Broken

There are things in this world that we will never understand, but I wanted to remember my family today that has suffered a horrible loss. My nephew, Nathen and his wife, Beth lost a Gift from God before it was ever received. Their baby daughter, Lillian, was born still. She got her angel wings before she ever entered the world. She is in a happy place but I want to lift up the Mom, Dad and brothers and sister that will never know what might have been. Only God knows and understands.  


As I was getting the news from my Mom last night and then passing it on to Tim, I didn't realize that I had little ears listening to me. So Camden's prayer last night was, "Lord thank you for taking baby Lilly up there with you because it was the right thing to do. She might have had a broken body part or something." 


Lord please bring Nathen and Beth peace and comfort as they begin to heal from the enormous pain of their loss.

Happy New Year

This is a list of things Camden said that we needed to do before Daddy comes home! I don't know why he wants us to get a Samsung TV?? Strange! We went to our friends to celebrate the New Year. We had some good food and some good laughs! I didn't take any pictures of the food but my awesome dip was there and some fabulous sugar cookies by Kerry!

This is Camden on the phone asking a special person for a special favor. More on that later....trust me, people will be jealous for years!

Cheers!! Yes, Camden is sweating. He had been outside playing with the dogs. We are going to have to get him some serious deodorant in a few years!!!

I hope that everyone has a very Happy New Year!!

Christmas Wrap Up

We started off Christmas Eve with a little breakfast at my sister's house. This is another of our traditions. There was lots to eat including red velvet pancakes!

 Then it was time to open more presents!

 Camden got Aunt Anga something so special...a Cat that Bentley had actually chewed on. It was special because Camden really wanted her to have it and he wrapped it himself.

 

Then we were off to Uncle Mark's to open even more presents!

"You will shoot your eye out!"

My Mom got a tennis racket or maybe it was a frying pan!

Mark's very beautiful tree!

On Sunday we had my family gathering with more gifts and tons of great food! PaPa got Camden this really nice tractor! He was excited about this, it just doesn't show on his face. Most of his Christmas pictures were a sad face. I think he was just overwhelmed by the whole experience!

PaPa and his Mini Me!

Here are the grandparents with a bus load of grand kids. So thankful for such a large family!

Our final vacation day was spent shopping and obviously Camden couldn't hang. He has never been a good shopper! Ha. He needs more training!! Don't worry, after I snapped the picture we fixed him. He was one tired little boy!

Christmas with Mom

We celebrated with Tim's mom on Saturday. We had some more awesome food and opened some gifts. I don't know why I didn't get any pictures of the food. I guess I was hungry!! After chowing down we got busy opening gifts! Uncle Chris assisted Camden in opening his gifts. He even modeled the underwear for him! Ha!

There is always a relative that has to put a garbage bag over his head! Kids don't try this at home! 

And what is Christmas without a little melt down??

Mom liked all of her gifts. She got some really special things!

 Justin and Camden got creative!

Then it was time for the Domino tournament! It's a tradition!

Do not let Craig fool you! He is a wizard at this game and just loves to play it anytime family is around. 

 We had such a great time and it was so good to see everyone. We missed all of the ones that couldn't be with us!

Santa Came To Town

First we had to get ready. Santa needed some fudge and the Reindeer could use a little celery leaves. We like to try new things each year! Santa was probably tired of the same old cookies and Reindeer  do eat vegetation right?

Does that say Reinbeer? Next we have to see if we are on the Nice list?

Lets play!!

Then it was a mad dash to get ready for church.

 After church we made another mad dash to Uncle Sid's for the traditional Christmas Day lunch. It consists of some awesome Chicken Dumplings, Pinto Beans and homemade slaw. You can't get any better that!

 There was a whole lot of this going on!

 

 There is always the best Christmas movie of all time playing!

 It was such a fun day visiting with lots of family members and going to the special service at church. Also everyone was asking about Tim and my cousin, David, even told me that he put Tim on the prayer list at his church. The visit from the Big Red guy was pretty awesome too for a certain little boy!