Merry Christmas and Happy Birthday Jay!

We had a wonderful Christmas yesterday and now we are headed down to the beach with my family. Today is Jay's 30th birthday. Happy Birthday Jay! Here are some pics from Christmas Eve at our house, Santa presents at our house and Christmas presents at my parents' house. MK was so cute with her first big Christmas, her favorites were the doll bed and doll cradle that were mine when I was little. My dad repainted them for her and we got her some twin baby dolls for it. She loved them and wouldn't stop kissing and loving them as she sat in the doll bed!

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!!!!!!

Nashville Christmas

Tuesday evening we returned home safe and sound from Nashville. We got to spend time with all Jay's family-parents, sister, cousins, aunts, uncles, nephews, nieces and grandmothers. On Monday we visited Jay's grandmother Ouida in the nursing home and gave her a fleecy sweatsuit and a godiva bar!-she is 92 and still doing great! She talks a lot, loves chocolate and enjoys visiting with MK. On Saturday we had our pictures made at Portrait Innovations with Jay's sister and her husband and kids. They turned out awesome!!! I will post some when I get the disk. We got a really great one of everyone, one of the kids and one of us for our Christmas cards (which will be going out tomorrow). We also had some yummy meals-we went to our favorite Thai place in Nashville called Jasmine with Jay's cousin Travis and his wife Katherine. It is by far the best Thai food we have had. We also did our Christmas exchanging and enjoyed many nights of "Scattergories" and "Would You Rather..." with Jay's parents. I almost forgot-we got to see Jay's first cousin, baby Nathan Thompson Robeson, who was born in November, he is about a month old and just an adorable little peanut. The weather was very cold and wet but we made it back just fine-and were surprised to find it is in the upper sixties here!Katherine, Hill, MK & I

Cheese!


Baby Nathan


Our nephew Caleb opening his play food from us


Our niece Madison opening her stacking cups from us

Mary Katherine kissing her cousin Madison-she just adores her!

Madison in the jumperoo

Oink Oink!

Hill (11 months) & Mary Katherine (14 months)

Tagged!

When I posted my fourth pic, I forgot to tag people to post the fourth picture from their fourth folder. Apparently I am really having trouble with this tagging thing! Hmm...I am "tagging" Karley, Shelby/Tanner, Traci & Kim.
ps-Will post pics from Nashville trip later tonight. We are all safe and sound despite sickness and ice!

Heading to Nashville

I am busy packing suitcases and loading the car today for our trip to Nashville. We are leaving tonight when Jay gets home from work (darn that 4 o'clock meeting he has) and driving in the rain/sleet over the mountains. I am sure I will say "slow down" a million times if I am not driving! We have SO MUCH STUFF to take it isn't even funny-our stuff, cameras, Christmas gifts, MK's outgrown dresses for cousin Madison, a jumperoo for Madison to borrow, diaper bag, stroller, books, toys and DVDs for the car (oh, and MK's food and drinks!!!). You all know how having kids adds so much stuff not to mention the extra stuff b/c it is Christmas. Did I mention Bentley is coming? He had better behaveand not bark and climb all over the car:) Here are some cute pics that Jay took recently with his new camera (he is still learning to use it) and also the "tagged" picture...(I finally get it.... ha ha!). We will be back Tuesday evening next week. Thanks to Justin for watering our Christmas tree and getting our mail/paper!
UPDATE: we will not be leaving till Friday now-Jay's family has a stomach virus and that is the LAST thing we want to get, especially after Thanksgiving in the hospital!!!! Ahh!!!!

4th pic from 4th folder-about 3 months old:

Can you tell she fell off the box by the pictures of me holding her?

"Sew" Exhausted!

Well, I stole Erin's take on the word"sew" because I loved her post over the summer so much. I have been sewing secretly for weeks and have created many wonderful things despite lots of seam ripping and broken sewing machine needles!!! (by the way Jay threads my machine and winds my bobbin for me). First, I had to complete these little memory kits that I was assigned through my sewing placement in the Jr. League of Atlanta-I have four to turn in by tomorrow's deadline and they consist of a little mini blanket, mini hospital gown and a drawstring bag (see photo below). They look simple enough but were tiny and tedious and I am the worst with bias tape so I am very proud they are done!!!! I thought I would be sewing baby blankets again like last year but this year they assigned me these kits and I am not even a good seamstress. Also I have been working on stockings for Mary Katherine and Annalee. I wanted a new and interesting take on the traditional stocking, so as you can see they are pink and green!!!! I thought I might as well do Annalee's because she'll be here next Christmas and I don't feel like tracking down these supplies again. For Christmas we are giving MK my little doll bed that my dad made for me when I was little-I have been repainting it white and my dad is now putting it back together. I have made a little "mattress" and pillow for it out of cute white seersucker with rosebuds. I will post a pic when the bed is all in one piece. And lastly I have been working on repainting and reupholstering a bench for the foot of our bed. It was a nasty cheap looking wood stain and I painted it an antique white and took the dark striped material off and put on a think taupe stripe with little brown pin dots (I love the staple gun) and then hid the staples with some pretty trim. I took way too long on that project and am glad to have it done. I still have to make the tree skirt and then I am done sewing till 2009 when I get my embroidery machine!!!!! (I hope)