Christmas Pics and misc.

You have to love getting a good Christmas picture for your cards...I think we dressed up at least four or five days before getting one this year.

We went through all kinds of scenarios...horizontal vs. vertical? One photo or two since they weren't cooperating together? Fruit chews for bribery...a promised trip to WalMart- there is not much I'm not willing to consider. But getting two small children to be happy at the same time is not an easy feat!

(Notice the one of Hannah at her breaking point! The last pic was the keeper.)


The next pic is just a sweet one of Caroline right before she got her big haircut for Christmas...can't believe how much it had grown!




The last pic is pure Hannah...she decided that her favorite new accessory is her 'crown'....aka mommy's headband.

Birthdays, Christening and Vacation!!

Wow, November is a busy month! First of all, there are five family birthdays this month (mine, John Clay, Mr. Johnny, Memaw and Papaw)...add into that Webber's christening this year, a trip to Disney and Thanksgiving and we were going all month long! It has been so much fun though.

John Clay had a Cars birthday party at the park in Collierville...it was very windy (and a little cold) but the kids had a blast. They had a really nice playground- and of course the car pinata was great....although Clay finally had to break it. I think those things are made of concrete!
Then the next day we all went to church together for Webber's christening. He looked so sweet...afterwards we attempted pics with all the grandkids. Can't say we were really successful, but it is highly entertaining to watch! John Clay had gotten a wooden playset in their backyard for his birthday so the only thing on their minds really was "When do we get to slide?!"



After coming home for about a week or so, we dropped Hannah off with my parents (and then Chris's parents) and headed to Disney World with Caroline. Her first time- we were all so excited. I was a little nervous about driving, but she is a great traveler. We were kind of shocked though...she normally sleeps in the car for hours on a long trip and I think she only slept maybe one either way! On the way down, we stopped at the Cracker Barrel for dinner and as her dessert she got to pick out one of those enormous lollipops that she has always asked for...and we had always said no. So loaded up on sugar and watching her 'little tv' as she calls it, we were good to go. We spent the night at a Hampton Inn in Lake City, FL...about and hour and a half away from Disney. We got to our resort, All Star Movies, around lunch the next day and after checking in and grabbing a bite to eat, we hit Magic Kingdom.
The first hour really described the theme of our entire trip...we immediately caught a parade which Caroline loved, but freaked out if any character other than a princess came within 50 feet of her...and then we took her to the Barnstormer roller coaster, not really sure what to expect, and she loved it! She rode every ride she was tall enough to ride at every park...but never warmed up to any characters. We went back to Magic Kingdom the next day. Then spent a day at Epcot- we felt really cool there because we got to be VIP at the Spaceship Earth exhibit since it is sponsored by Siemens. We got to go up into a special lounge area where they had a couple of cool things like a picture wall where they uploaded a pic from my camera card that will stay there showing our visit and a floor that would change colors based off of what color you selected off of a laptop...Caroline thought that was really cool.
Then they took us through this door and we got to ride the ride with no wait..we were even in front of the FastPass people. The next day was MGM- not quite as much to do there, but loved the Beauty and the Beast show and I loved the Areosmith roller coaster. Caroline had so much fun and as we were driving home on Sunday she was already asking how much longer before we got to come back?!