Our Christmas Eve...

Christmas was wonderful this year.
We are so thankful to have our little Mia home, and feeling better.
First we started with sugar cookies.

Mia and Mommy.

Mia going to town with her cookie cutters.

We just let her have her own cookie dough.

Which was good news, for Santa, since she chose to lay in the cookie dough.

Daddy posing for a picture.

Loving on Camye's perfect little cookies.

Chloe decorating her cookies.

Isnt she beautiful?

Arent they splendid?

We started the day at my Mamaws in West Virginia.

Sorry these pictures are out of order.
This blog could be called the many faces of Pauly.

So pretty.

She knows she is about to open her Tom's from her Mamaw and Papaw.

Sweet. Sweet. Camye.

LOVE THIS PICTURE.

Paul loving his Mamaw.

Oh and the grand gift of all.

Her precious table and chairs.

Her reaction and Paul's reactions to Christmas this year were priceless.

She loved her table and chairs!!

Oh yes..I believe this was about the time she looked at me and said.

I am so happy, mommy.

Yes.she.did.

Oh my the preciousness that oozes out of this girl.

Merry Christmas Eve.

Hold on for Christmas Day.

~Thanksgiving with my Family~

Thanksgiving was small this year, only 14 people. That's small when you are used to well over 30 people crammed into my Mamaw's house. This also meant less Aunt's to do the dishes....so no more kid table and yes I did all the dishes. But that's okay.

For some reason my pictures uploaded backwards, so we will start with Mia emptying the Oreo Truffle plate. She loves her sweets!!!

Giving Uncle Rob a kiss on the nose. Uncle Rob is my brother, he is single and doesn't have any kiddos of his own. But let me tell you how much he loves my kids, WOWSERS...I mean he takes this uncle business serious!! He can not wait for little Miss Avah to come home too!!!

Chloe, Mia and my Papaw Buck, he joined us at my other Mamaw's. My Mamaw Buck wasnt well enough to join us.:(

Here is the spread...and Camye, my hubby, my mom, my Mamaw and the side of my Papaw.

Notice Chloe and Blake's expression on their faces.....like oh yes Uncle Rob does this all the time....

Mia thinking....lets get this show on the road!!!!

~Trick or Treat~

Happy Halloween!! Last night we went Trick or Treating over at our great friends house. We have trick or treated with these friends for 3 years now. They have 5 kids...we have 5...almost 6 kids....we play well together!:)

Mia, our butterfly, she wanted to be Snow White or any princess actually...but in the rain and the tempature being 40, I was feeling leggings, tights, and turtlenecks.

Blake my glow in the dark stick man...this costume is hard to appreciate in the light. But it was really cute....errr....handsome/manly.

Chloe, my superwoman....oh my...can she wear a costume! She looked gorgeous.

My little bumble bee....its hard to be 10 and pick the perfect costume that you are comfortable in. She was so nervous about finding a costume. She told me she just wanted to be comfortable and look normal. So we bought the tail and antennas and she chose the panda shirt. She looked adorable!

Paul....I mean Mario getting his mustache groomed by daddy!

Mario striking the ...ever famous Mario pose.

AREN'T THEY ADORABLE????

DON'T THEY ACT JUST LIKE ME!!!

Mario..a little high on his highly allergic Red dye...but Mario with his BFF Luigi.

The crew....before.

The crew after...I didnt take my camera outside because of the rain.

Mia and her pal Luigi....her face is already stained.

The haul.

And then the games begin....they come home and dump all the candy together. They sort it all into organized categories...then take turns choosing what they want. They have done since they were little. I love my little trick or treaters!

October Snow...

The weather man missed again...Imagine that! We werent supposed to get anything but rain but we woke up to 2 inches of very heavy and wet snow. And its only October!

I didnt post the pictures but it was so heavy it had our little weeping willow trees on the ground...hope we dont lose them. They just started growing...

Guess who loved the snow and wouldnt keep her hood on!!!

Blake loves to throw snowballs at me and I.despise.snowballs.

He is so adorable! He just made a very wet snowangel.

Camye and her mini snowman!

And my kids couldnt play in the snow with out finishing it up with snow ice cream, of course!

Hayride and Bonfire!!

Today was our annual church Bonfire/Hayride. This year it was at a new location...I wasnt sure I was able to return to the last location so soon, as I was tramatized last year over Blakes injury. THis place was BEAUtIFUL!!!!!!!! Above is Mia and her friend Sydney playing with the bread to feed the ducks....or just playing with it.

Our hayride!!!! 2 wagons fulls!!!

It was a bit of a rough ride...so Mia held on tightly to her big sister Chloe.

Bringing up the rear....

Mia being cute...imagine that.

Camye feeding a calf...I love cows ...they are my favorite animal! I love their eyes!!

Mia and her cow! She loved feeding them!

Me and the love of my life!!:):)