Christmas Eve

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!!!

Fun @ the Merry Go Round

Nothing puts ya in the Christmas Spirit like going to the Merry Go Round. Here are a few pictures that we took tonight. This is always a fun Christmas tradition that we look forward to every year. Unfortunately, we didn't get to go to the "manger scene" like we do every year, because it has rained so durn much that it flooded and the sewage backed up where it's set up and you can't go down there.... YUK!!!! I'm surely not walking down there to it this year! Anyway, we will have to just carry on our other traditions.

Ok, well ya'll have a fantabulous night!!!! I love ya'll bunches!!!!

The week of Christmas

I can't believe that it's already the week of Christmas!!! It flies up on me every year. I think that it's because I work right up until Christmas Eve. If I was off the whole week of Christmas, it would probably be better, but I unfortunately never have enough vacation days left @ the end of the year to do that. We had our big family Christmas gathering @ our house last night and that really put me in the Christmas spirit, finally!!! I just couldn't get the Christmas spirit this year for some reason....and I'm not sure why. Maybe that comes with age, I don't know. Anyway, we had a really good time last night. We had a house full. It was alot of fun....it always is. There was about 30 people here. We ate, opened gifts, played dirty santa, sang Christmas Carols, and finished off the night going to the Merry Go Round. I love having our family all together. We will do my side of the family with my Mama, Daddy, sister, brother and their families on Christmas Eve morning and then we will go to Kyle's Mama's and Granny's on Christmas Eve around lunch time or a little after and then we will get ready for Santa to come. I can't wait! I hope ya'll have a good week!!! Merry Christmas!!! I love ya'll.

A little of our Christmas Decor

I'm not sure if I'm satisfied with the fireplace....I still think it's missing something, but I'm not sure what. I've re arranged it a million times trying to get it "right". Kyle told me that if I re arrange it again, he is going to arrange it him self...I figured I had better leave it alone. LOL I did add some more candles in the fireplace just to fill it in a little more, but I still think it needs something else. I just can't put my finger on what it is though. Maybe it'll come to me. I tried to get a close up of a few of the ornaments that are on our tree, but they didn't turn out too good, so there won't be a tour of ornaments this year. Oh and Mama still hasn't decked her halls yet.... she has put some stuff on the mantel, and it's really pretty, but she still hasn't put her tree up yet. Haha!!! Maybe before Christmas Eve, Mama?????? You know I'm just jankin on ya Mama. You deck your halls when you are good and ready.Ok, well ya'll have a wonderful night! I love ya'll bunches!!!

Love,

Auntie Jenn

Just taking it easy tonight....

Today has been busy... me and Mama went to Tiger Town this morning for her to get a couple of gifts bought and I just browsed hobby lobby cause I'm broke! I hate, hate, hate being broke and not being able to get something that I see....not that I do that all the time, but I've been looking for a candelabara to go in my fireplace and I found one today at a store that we went into and couldn't get it. That took alot of restraint on my part....and that's something that I'm not real good at. But I was proud of myself that I didn't buy it. I bet I'll go back on payday though. Hee Hee! I've still been trying to get my Christmas decorations "right".... I'm not having much luck with it this year though....I just can't get satisfied with where I have stuff. I know that sounds stupid, but I'm just not satisfied with everything this year. I'll try to snap some pictures tomorrow and get em on here of my decorations and maybe some suggestions from ya'll will help. Ok, well I'm of to clean up the kitchen. Ya'll have a great night!

I love ya'll loads!
& Merry Christmas!!!

Love,
Auntie Jenn

So Excited About the Holidays

I've been decking the halls the past 2 days and I'm still not finished!! This is my favorite time of year and I love, love, love decorating for Christmas. My husband decided right in the middle of my decorating that he was going to paint the fireplace, which I'm glad of, but I wanted it done 2 months ago...Ha! not right in the middle of my Christmas decorating. LOL I don't care though really...I'm just glad it's getting painted. That's one thing I can say about my Kyle now, he gets it done. Joy calls him Handy Manny. Ha! Hopefully he will be finished with it by tomorrow so that I can get my mantel decorated. Anyway, I hope everyone had a fabulous Thanksgiving! I know we did. It was so good!!! I ate til I couldn't breathe. I always do! I've been trying to figure out facebook, but I guess I'm just dumb or something. I'm going to go on there and fool with it a little more and get it figured out.

Ya'll have a good night.
Love~
Auntie Jenn

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!!!!!

My Sweet Gavin

Is he not the cuteset baby!?!?!?!? I could just eat him up. I love him with all my heart.

He is the absolute sweetest baby on the planet. He is always happy and hardly ever cries. He is so dang smart and takes everything in. He is just absorbs everything like a sponge...he is going to be really smart when he grows up....at least his Auntie Jenn thinks so anyway. We love spending time with him and Abby wants to hold him all the time. She ask a million times...Les,can I hold him, can I hold him, can I hold him, can I hold him....she drives me nuts about it and I know she drives Leslie in sane with it. But Les never shows it. She has always had a special relationship with both my girls. They love their Leslie. Anyway, Gavin loves Abby's Toby dog. You can see part of him in the picture below. He's one of her build a bears and Gavin loves to play with him. He thinks Toby is so funny. He gut laughs at him and then we all start laughin at him, because he is laughing @ Toby. It's so funny. I think I posted a video of him on here not long ago gut laughing at Toby. Gavin definately needs a Toby dog. We will have to tell Santa Claus to see if he can find him one.

Well, I'm off to bed...ya'll have a fantabulous night!

Love~

Auntie Jenn

Yesterday

We went to the Troy game and we had a blast. It was the first time that Rylee and Abby has ever been to a college game and they loved it. Mr. Jimmy is always so kind to get us tickets whenever we say that we want to come to a game...and I must say that they are always awesome seats and club level. They buy season tickets @ club level every year, but he always manages to come up with enough for us too when we come for a game. The clublevel seats always include a free meal, which is really good, and at the beginning of the 3rd quarter they serve ice cream and you get to choose what kind you want. I always get a drumstick. The kids loved that! Joy you have the best father in law in the world. He is so sweet and he always has Dylan a Troy cap everytime we come. Dylan and Connor went down last year and went to a game. The girls usually go during the summer and the boys usually go during football season. Anyway, we had a really good time. It was alot of fun. We took alot of pictures and I've put them into a slide show above.

I can't believe it's already Thanksgiving this week!!! Time really flies by. I will be putting my tree up this week. It would've already been up, but I haven't had the time. I can't wait to get all my decorations out. I'm excited!!!

I'm about to call it...I'm tired. Ya'll have a great night and I love ya'll loads!

Love~
Auntie Jenn

First of All.....

Happy Birthday Camryn Alea from all of Auntie Jenn's crew!!! I hope you had an awesome birthday today. I can't believe you're a whole 8 years old! I love you loads!!

Second of all....just a quick update from last week. I did find the answers I was looking for. And yes I found it mostly in scripture. The rest came from my very wise Mama and my getting wiser by the day sister and my wise Best Friend who keeps me in line and slaps me back when I need it...wink. I honestly don't know what I would do without ya'll. Thanks for all of ya'll's wisdom and very good advice. I love ya'll!

And just a lil side note.... if any of you facebook and have sent me friends request... I never, ever go on there so that's why I haven't added ya'll yet...it's not because I'm ignoring ya'll or anything. I just don't have time to get on there and figure it out. I blog and I barely have time to do that. I will get on there and add ya'll, I just don't know when it will be...somebody told me the other day that it says Jennifer Harris Van Horn's profile is only 50 percent built or something like that~LOL.... I really need to try to get on there and figure out how to at least finish building my profile so my friends will quit raggin me about it.

Ok, well ya'll have fabulous night and a great day tomorrow.

Love,
Auntie Jenn

Seeking

Lately, I find myself seeking answers for things that I absolutely do not understand. I'm trying to find the answers in the Word. That's where my Godly Mama has always directed us if we ever have things in life that we just don't understand. She always told us to seek God for the answers and I'm trying so hard, but I feel like I'm just not getting anywhere. I am seeking and will continue to seek until I find those answers. I'm very discouraged about some things and just can't get past it. My best friend reminded me that I have so, so much to be thankful for and I know without a doubt that God has blessed me far beyond what I deserve and I am very thankful for my family and my life. I just feel kinda like I'm just wandering...and the truth is that I should be overjoyed about life and just let everything else just fall into place. Maybe I just answered my own question. Hmmmm...... I did find scripture today that spoke to me...maybe I just realized what God was trying to tell me. I'm not one that says "God just spoke to me". It takes me a minute or an hour or 10 hours or sometimes more than that to realize it. I don't know...I've just been in a funk lately about "stuff". Just say a prayer for me. I will get past it. I feel like Satan is just coming against me with all he's got lately...well maybe not all he's got this time, but ALOT!!!!!

I hope ya'll have a great rest of the week. I love ya'll!

Love,

Aunt Jenn

Busy Day

Today has been so busy. We got up @ 5 oclock this morning and went to Macon GA to get a smoker...I know....we have enough already. LOL Kyle did sale one of the ones that he already had to get this one, but if he don't stop we are going to have a collection of smokers. LOL I'm just kiddin...I'm just glad that grilling/cooking is his hobby and not hunting or fishing or something that keeps him away from home all the time. His cooking for a hobby is not good for my waist line, but it's better that alot of other things that he could be doing. So after we got back from Macon (2hours over there and 2hours back) we went to Auburn game. It was my first Auburn game and it was alot of fun...except for the lady sitting next to us that I almost had to beat up because she kept saying that I needed to slide over. I finally told her that my butt was on my seat number...and if she hadn't tried to squeeze 4 big people into 3 seats she might not have that problem. I just don't get some people. Kyle was in a wad about it, tore up cause he thought I was about to punch that lady, but I refrained and didn't let the Harris come out in me. LOL We had a good time and I can't wait to go back.
I hope everybody had a good Saturday. I'm going to be going to bed early tonight. I thought about putting up my Christmas tree tonight, but I'm too tired. Ya'll have a good evening and Joy~call me. I know you are exhausted too from all of ya'll's festivities.
Auntie Jenn loves ya'll loads!

~My Birthday~

I have had the best day today. Thank you to everyone who made my birthday special. I have the best family and friends on the planet. Every one has called or text or emailed me to wish me a happy birthday today. I'm so blessed. My BF Leslie took me to lunch and it was so dang good. I got all these great gifts. Thank you my sweet husband and kids!!

I'm so excited about my new AU shirt, and my new Bible and Selah CD oh my gosh! I love this CD! It's awesome. I've got to figure out how to get the songs from my CD to my playlist.

I'm not sure if that's possible, but if there's any way I can make it happen, I will. And oh my bling that my sister sent me.

It's awesome. I think I'm going to wear it to work tomorrow. And my orange and blue necklaces, Joy, will match my new Auburn Shirt perfectly when we go to the Auburn game this weekend. Oh and my Mama wrote me the sweetest letter...it was so sweet...made me cry.

36 ain't so bad after all. I can't believe I'm 36. Seems like just yesterday I was just a little kid running all over RiverView.
Thanks again to everybody who made my birthday special!

I love ya'll loads!!!

Happy Birthday Jennalee!

We hope you had a fantastic birthday today Jenna~bug. I can't believe you're a whole 4 years old. You are growing up waaaay too fast. Before ya know it, you will be as old as "Wywee", Dywin, and Connor. I hope you and my Jaxen had an awesome time @ Chucky Cheese tonight. You call me tomorrow and tell me about it. I love you and Jaxen to the moon and aaaaaaall the way back!

Love~

Uncle Kyle, Aunt Jenn, Rylee, Dylan, & Abby~Lou

Ready for Thanksgiving & Christmas!

I'm so glad that Halloween is over. I know that the kids love dressing up and going trick or treating, but it's a chore. The kids have fun though so it's worth it. We had a good time. Rylee and Dylan were suppose to go to a haunted cornfield maze or something like that in Auburn with Darby and Payton and 2 of Payton's friends, and Creed but after they drove all the way down there they couldn't find it. They still had fun though. They ended up just going to McDonald's to eat. It's really probably a good thing that they couldn't find it, because Rylee and Payton both are the scard-iest 2 people on the planet and Darby probably would have ended up dragging them through it with their faces buried in his arm. LOL I don't think they could have handeled it. Abby had a good time trick or treating. She got alot of candy...more than she can eat. We've already counted it and sorted out what she didn't like. She got 96 pieces.....waaayyyyy too much. But she had fun and she looked really cute. I'm still tired from it and this time change has me all messed up. I keep thinking it's later than it is. Well, I hope ya'll have a good night. I think we are about to call it. I hope ya'll have a fantabulous week! I love ya'll!!!

Happy Halloween

We're trying to get ready for trick or treating and the fall festival @ Church. Abby is going to be Super Girl. I'm listening to Selah and if anybody is wondering what they can get me for my birthday....... uh that CD would be the perfect gift for me. hint~hint :) That song You Deliver Me makes me cry every single time I hear it. I love that song!! I surely can't listen to Audrey's song...I Will Carry You. I sob when I listen to that one. Ya'll know I'm not a crier, but dang! I can't handle that one. So anyway....My Kyle and Dylan went to the Auburn game and AU is showin out today! War Eagle!!! I know they are having a great time @ the game. I hope Auburn pulls this one out today. They haven't been doing too good lately, but they are doing good so far today.
Ok well we are about to head out. I know it a lil early, but we have alot of stops to make before we have to be @ the Church. I hope everybody has a great time trick or treating. Here's a picture of Super Girl! Happy Halloween!!!!!

~I'm a day late~

Happy Birthday yesterday Jason!!!! I got mixed up and thought today was the 25th, but it turns out yesterday was the 25th. I'm sorry, but would you expect anything else of me? I mean I'm late about everything. Ha!!! I hope you had a great birthday turning 41!! Dang you are getting old!!! But guess what, that means I'm gettin old too, the only difference is that you are 5 years ahead of me! But hey, it's better than the alternative. I want you to know that I'm very proud of the person that you have become and I am very proud that you are my brother. Happy Birthday~I love you.

Ready for the Holidays!

Does that sound retarded or what? I really hate to rush it, but I'm so ready for Thanksgiving and Christmas. These are my favorite holidays and I can't wait for em to get here. I'm soooo ready to decorate my house for Christmas. We always do that either on Thanksgiving Day or the day after Thanksgiving. People say that now everybody just skips right over Thanksgiving and goes right on to Christmas. But to me Thanksgiving kicks off the Christmas Holiday. I'm not sure why I'm on this kick, I think the Christmas bug bit me when I was watching QVC today. They had Christmas Decor on there today and it just got me into the Chirstmas spirit. I need to slow down a little I guess b/c we have a few weeks to go. We had a pretty low key weekend. We just kinda relaxed and cleaned and relaxed some more. I went to bed @ 8:30 Friday night and I slept so good. I felt bad all day on Friday with sinus/allergies or something and I needed that good sleep. We have alot going on this week with Abby's Fall Festival @ school and then on Saturday the Fall Festival @ Church and trick or treating. It'll be fun though, we are looking forward to it. Well, ya'll have a good night. I'm off to bed.

Love,
Auntie Jenn

Our Trip to Babyland General

We had so much fun!!! Mama took me and Joy about 26 years ago when we were kids and below is a picture of us by the original BLG sign just for ole time sake. They have built a new Babyland General Hospital and will be moving in the next few months. There was 11 of us that went...Me Rylee Abby & Rylee's boyfriend Davis, my Mama, Tina, Camryn, Connor and his girlfriend Hailey, Joy & Jennalee. It took us about 3 hours to get there, and it was a tiring trip/day, but the kids had a ball. Rylee decided that she was too old to get a cabbage patch baby and Hailey (Connor's girlfriend) didn't get one either, but Abby, Camryn and Jennalee got one and they love them. Abby hasn't put her's down hardly since she got it. She loves it. She named her's Aubree Brooke. Brooke is after her best friend in the whole wide world, Candace Brooke Goodwin and Aubree is just because she liked it. I think it's cute. We looked online and made a list of a whole bunch of baby names and Aubree is the one she picked for the first name. She already knew she wanted her middle name to be Brooke. She loves her Candace and had to name her baby doll after her. Camryn named her's Alea Nichole, and Jennalee named her's Olivia Hannah. We stopped on the way back, at the Bass Pro Shop for about 2 hours for Connor and Davis (Rylee's boyfriend) and they had a blast in there. They could have stayed in there for hours and hours I think, but I was tired and ready to get home. I think everybody had a good time and we had a safe trip. I've posted a few pictures, but will post more in a slide show later when I have more time. Ya'll have a good night.

I love ya'll!

~Jenn~

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TODAY

May you have many more days of happy wedded bliss!
We Love You!!!!!!!!

All Your family
and yes, we hijacked your blog! :)

Nerd/Tackey Day

Today was Nerd/Tackey Day @ Rylee's school and here Rylee is as a Nerd. LOL She looked too cute and pretty much came up with her "look" on her own. I thought she did a good job. I hope ya'll had a good day today. Below are some pictures of Rylee dressed up. Ya'll have a fantabulous night! All my love!

Bordem

I'm bored outta my mind!!!! I wanna go somewhere and there's nowhere to go! UH! I guess I should be glad that we don't have alot going on this weekend b/c next weekend is our babyland general trip woo hoo!!!! We will be exhausted from that and have to recouperate next Sunday. We went to my Hunter's games last night @ Beulah. He played a good game. I can't believe he is a senior this year. He is a good kid and I'm so proud of him. I love ya Hunter! And Happy Birthday to David! He's 46 today. Dang David!! You Old! LOL I'm just kiddin! You still are young. Ok, well everybody have a fabulous night. I love ya'll bunches Puddin! ~HeeHee~

Love,
Jenny~Lou

~Happy Birthday to my Abby Elisabeth~

I can't believe my baby is 8 years old today! Unreal! I'm just posting a couple of pictures from her little birthday cake cuttin tonight. She chose to go to build a bear workshop instead of having a big party, so we went to Build A Bear yeseterday and tonight we just had cake and Grammy, Papa, Dot, Leslie and Gavin came over to wish Abby a Happy Birthday and have some cake. I have more pictures that I will try to post tomorrow. Time got away from me tonight. Just a couple of quick pictures tonight...Abby's cake was made by my good friend, Heather (Allie's Mom) and she did a fabulous job. It turned out so dang cute! Abby likes monkeys and Kyle and Papa's nickname for Abby is "Monkeyhead" so Heather made her a monkey cake and she LOVED it!!!! Thanks Heather! It was cute AND delicious!!!

Abby~ We love you with all our hearts and I hope you had a wonderful birthday today!
Love,
Mama, Kyle, Rylee and Dylan

Bad Day!

Today was really a bad day for me. I've had ALOT on my mind today and it's just been one of those days where you wonder why you even got up outta the bed. I got stopped on my way to work this morning and that did not help matters. I didn't get a ticket, but still. I hope tomorrow will be better. Mama has always told us that "tomorrow will be a better". So we'll see. Ok, well ya'll have a good night. I love ya'll.

A Not So Busy Saturday

We've kinda just been taking it easy today. We haven't done much of anything. Kyle is cooking of course,and we're going to ride down to Benson's in a little while to watch a little of the Alabama game, and then come back home in time for the Auburn game. I really wanted to go to Tiger Town today, but just didn't have the get up and go, so I think we may ride down there tomorrow...maybe. Please keep my Aunt, Pat Harris, in your prayers. She was in a pretty bad car wreck this past week in LaGrange and has a very long recovery ahead of her, so please add her to your prayer list.

Ok, well ya'll have a great weekend! I love ya'll!

Here Ya Go Auntie Joy.....

The off tha chain sleep porch! This is one of the porches in the lake house that belongs to my Dad's friend that was featured in Southern Living! It is awesome!!! I've never seen one of these before, but I plan on putting it to good use when we go on vacation there. Anywayway, Joy wanted me to take some pictures so she could see it, so here ya go Puddin.

Oh and ya'll be sure and check out the video below that I made of Gavin last night "gut laughin". It's just the sweetest thing. He is a good baby. Les you and Bleu are so blessed! Aunt Jenn loves you Gavin!




and this is just a random picture of Abby and Apollo just because I thought it was a funny/cute picture of them. Abby took it her self. The look on Apollo's face is too funny!

Ok, so ya'll have a wonderful night! I love ya'll to the moon and back!

Love Aunt Jenn:)

Love Him!

Aunt Jenn, you are making me miss my time on painting.
Here's the video.
But, seeing this precious baby was worth it!
Love his laughs.
Sweet baby!
-Joy

Our Weekend Getaway

Kyle and Me went to "Helen" with Mama and Daddy. Well, really we went to Clayton which is where Talullah Falls is. We had a really good time. Being off in a cabin 30 minutes away from town or anything really isn't my cup of tea, but we stayed in town most of the time that we were there. The cabin that we stayed in is owned by a buddy of my Daddy's and he let's them go and stay there anytime they want to really for free. It's a really nice place, but it's 30 minutes up the mountain and it's a pig trail dirt road most of the way. I felt like we were in the middle of NOWHERE, but it is nice, really nice and that's where Mama and Daddy and Kyle want to be when they go to the mountains....not me though, I want to be where the action is. It was a really nice place tough and it was nice to relax a little. He has another buddy that has a place up there that's much closer to town and it's on a lake. Nick Sabin(sp) own's the lake house 2 doors down from this one and that's where I plan on stayin the next time that we go up there. This one was featured in an issue of Southern Living last year and it is aboslutely gorgeous! Daddy took us over there and gave us the Grand Tour. It's awesome and I can't wait to go and stay there. Ok so we got there Friday night at around 10ish and just kinda laid around til we went to bed. We got up Saturday morning and drove over to Cleveland GA and went to BabyLand General Hospital where the Cabbage Patch Babies are born. This was one of the highlights of our trip to me. Mama took me and Joy there we I was 10ish and she was 8ish, so it's been a very long time since we've been. Daddy stayed outside with Winnie and Me and Mama and Kyle went in. Oh my gosh! I was like a kid in there and they had a delivery right after we got there and I was so excited!!!! I ran in there to the "deliver room" and I couldn't wait! Kyle and Mama just rolled their eyes at me like "my gosh Jennifer! You're 35 years old and you're acting like an 8 year old!" I didn't care though. I was so excited!!! It was so much fun! I could hardly contain myself when they asked what the baby's name should be. I wanted to scream a name out, and I almost did, but I realized that there were 50 little girls in there and I needed to let them do it. I can't wait to take my girls and my nieces!!! I'm going to plan a trip very soon to take them, like in a few weeks if it's a good weekend for all the chicks in our family! Ok so then after that we went into Dillard and me and Mama shopped and shopped. I wanted to go to the Dillard House, but somebody told us that it cost 30.00 per person to eat there and Daddy and Kyle said HECK No we ain't paying that much to eat lunch. So there was this little place at the shops where we were shopping that had fried green tomatoes and fried okra, country fried steak, Green beans, fried squash, cathead biscuits, cornbread,etc. and good ole peach cobbler and so we decided to eat there and it was off the chain! And guess what the name of it was.?.?.?.? Annette's we didn't even realize it til we had ordered and we were sitting outside under the very nice covered deck/pavillion eating and I looked up and saw the sign. How neat was that? So then after that we took Mama and Winnie back up the mountain and got them all settelled in and then me, Kyle, and Daddy went back down the mountain to this place to watch the Auburn game since we didn't have cable tv in deliverence-ville and my husband can not miss an Auburn game. That was fun and then we went back up the mountain about 3 hours later (did I mention it was 30 mins. one way?) and called it a night. Today we got up and packed up the cars and headed out. We stopped at this place in town called Goats On The Roof, on our way out today to get the kids some shirts. I Loved, Loved, Loved this place! It was the other highlight of my trip! It was so neat. They had live goats that live on the roof. It had these little things where you can buy goat food and put it in this little can and crank the can up to the roof and then it dumps the food in the little trough for them and they eat it. We had a lot of fun there and I can't wait to take the kids there when we go back there on our next vacation trip. I've put a slide show at the top of the page to share our pictures. We had a really good time.

And last but certainly not least Happy Birthday to my Leslie yesterday. I hope you had an awesome day! I love you loads puddin!

Ok well I'm aobut to call it. I'm give slap out. I love ya'll!

.....Continuation from My Earlier Post

Ok,so to finish up my post from below, cause we had to leave, The manequin head was just really freaky lookin, mainly because it looked like a cross dresser person or whatever and that thing was sitting out under the carport and I walked out the door last night and saw that sitting there...it freaked me out a little, but then I realized what it was and got over it. Anyway, Dylan used it as a punching bag today and knocked "her" nose off and so that was the end of that.

Ok, so on to my weekend project - - - my latest purchase which led to a project mainly because my husband, who OCD's about everything has for real rubbed off on me and if I get something like a "project" in my brain, I can't rest until I complete it and it's just how I want it to look, so here is my latest purchase
and then my latest project and...the finished product .....

I'm just so dang excited about it because I've been wanting one of these ever since we bought this house. I'm not sure why I wanted one so bad, I just love them. Oh and notice the tiles hanging on my hall tree hooks, that my wonderful sister gave me. That was the perfect place for them. And the quote was just an after thought "project". I had bought the quote a couple of months ago and was going to put it over my bed, but I really, really wanted the "always kiss me goodnight" quote over my bed, but couldn't find it, so I setteled for that one and then Saturday when I was on my "Sperry Mission", I found the Always kiss me goodnight quote and so I decided that the other one that I already had would work perfect above my new (used) Haha.... hall tree and right beside my favorite wedding picture of my Kyle and Me. So that turned out to be my weekend project and I absolutely LOVE the way it turned out. And here is a better picture of my sunflowers on the table so you can see them better Joy....I love them too!

Ok, well I guess that's it. I told ya I had alot to share and this really isn't all of it, I'll have to tell ya the rolling story later because it's too much to type and I'm tired of typing today. It's a hilarious story that will really have you rolling b/c the kids got caught rolling Susie and George Chambley's yard. Anyway, I'll tell ya about that later. Ok well ya'll have a fabulous night and I hope you had an awesome birthday today! Maybe we (girls night out) can go out to eat the next time ya'll come home. Talk to ya tomorrow! We Love Ya'll Loads!!!!!

So much to Share!

I haven't posted in a while so I have alot to share here. It's been a while partly because I just haven't had time and the other part is because I've been sick and My Mama has been sick! But.......
First of all I want to say a big ole HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my little sister! She is 34today! OMG did I say that she is 34 today? You're getting old Sista....and wiser!! and just for old time sake..."a big birthday for a little sister"...I think that's how it went, or something like that. LOL!!! Anyway,I hope you have a great day today! I'm so proud to call you my best friend in the whole wide world. I love you with all my heart! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

We've had a really big weekend. It's been a holiday weekend and we always have alot going on the weekends that the kids are here. It's always alot of fun though. Dylan went to a birthday party Friday night and the girls and Kyle and me when to San Marcos to eat while he was at the party and then we went back and picked him up and came home and just did nothing til time to go to bed. We had a good night with just the 5 of us. Saturday, I was on a mission to get Rylee some new Sperry's cause the ones that she had got to stinkin so durn bad that you couldn't hardly stand beside her when she had em on. Anyway, I first went to the West Point shoe outlet to see if they had any, and of course they didn't, so I went on to WalMart to buy groceries. They all 3 had company and we had a house/yard full of kids, which is a typical Saturday when they are here and by the way is great. So I took the boys to Movie Gallery to rent some Playstation 2 games and then after that, me and all the girls headed to Tiger Town for a short shopping trip, still on a mission to get Rylee a new pair of Sperry's and we were successful! I told Rylee that she is NOT to have these new ones on without socks! Period!!! And if I catch her with them on without sock,she is in MAJOR trouble. So Anyway,I can't go to Tiger Town without going to Hobby Lobby. So while I was in Hobby Lobby, looking around and wishing I could buy everything that I wanted, but couldn't, the girls were off "shopping". They bought a maniquen head,that they thought was a woman one, but ended up being and man one,(blonde moment) and they bought a boa, and paint for make up (remember, when they were buying all this stuff, they thought they had a woman maniquen head) and then we went into party city so they could find a wig and some eyelashes for their "girl". LOL It was hilarious that they were doing all of this, and I really couldn't believe that they were spending money on this, but hey, it was something to keep them occupied and they were spending their own money on it, AND they were having a ton of fun with it, so who was I to tell them that they couldn't do it. So....here's the finished product Is this weird looking or what!?!? Ok, so that's it for right now, I'll finish up later. I love ya'll!

Happy Birthday Daddy!!!!

I hope you had a great birthday! We are so thankful that we are celebrating another birthday with you. We love you very much!

For My Sweet Abby

Just because she wanted me to do a post just for her sweet lil self! She has been such a big girl starting back to school this year. She has an awesome teacher that she loves and we are off to a great start. I love you Abby with all my heart and I am so very proud of you!

For Auntie Joy

Sweet Lil G~Man
I mean.....is he the cutest or what!?!?!?!?!?!? I could just absolutely eat him up! His lil jaws just hang...I have to get me some jaw shuga every time I see him. I had him "gut laughing" at me the other night. It was so funny!!! His lil personality is coming out and he is going to have a great one! He is in the fun stage. Les says he LOVES to watch tv and she says that he loves to watch Yo Gabba Gabba. I've never watched it, but she says that he laughs at it all the time. He is so dang sweet. I just love him to pieces. You will have to call Les and talk to her about how Mommyhood is going for her....don't look like she is eva going to do a new post. LOL!!!

Ok, well ya'll have a fabulous night! I love ya'll!!!!

First Day of 2nd & 7th Grade

All 3 of our sweet chillins had a great first day!!! They all have great teachers and I think we will have a good year....hopefully and prayerfully. Dylan wasn't here this morning, and I hate that he's not in the "first day of school" picture. It's hard to get back into the whole morning groove...really hard...I have to get up a whole hour earlier, but we are doing good so far! LOL
Jaxen, I'm so glad that you had a great day today and Jennalee~you have a fabulous first day @ preschool!!!! & Please Be sweet!!!!!
Connor and Camryn~ I hope ya'll had a fabulous day today! Ok, Well I hope everyone has a wonderful night! I love ya'll!!!!

Rylee's New Hobby

Rylee had her first Tennis Lesson tonight and I think she really likes it. She did good for her first lesson (even though she hit me in the head when she hit the ball over the fence...I thought she knocked me out for a minute LOL) and the girl that's teaching her how to play tennis is so sweet. Thanks for the pictures, finally, Aunt Joy. Jenna's room is looking so dang cute! You will have to post some more when you're done with it.
Aunt Joy~ Rylee wanted to tell ya something~

Hey Aunt Joy! I had my first tennis lesson tonight and I LOVED it!!! I was scared at first but then I got the hang of it. I'll have to teach you what I've learned so far the next time I come down there.
I love ya'll!!
~Rylee Bug~(your favorite....just kidding!)

Ok, well ya'll have a wonderful night. I told Les to post you a picture of Gavin. She said that she would try...something happened to her computer.
I Love ya'll Big! Call me tomorrow! Give my sweet neice and nephew a big ole kiss and hug from Auntie Jenn and the crew.

Birthday Wishes

Happy Birthday Aunt Tina!!!! We hope you had a great Birthday! We love you!!!!!

The Usual

We've been busy lately, but hey, what's new? We had an awesome Bible School!!!! I think it would be safe to say that this was the best one that we've ever had. Crockodile Dock was so much Fun!!!! The kids absolutely loved it!!! I don't have any pictures from it to share, but I think my sister has a few on her page, so slide on over and check out her pictures of Crockodile Dock. Speaking of my sister, she came up for the weekend to get a set of box springs from us for Jennalee's new big girl bed, and Joy, Mama and Me had a great weekend together. We went to the Jr. Variety Club's annual luncheon and it was alot of fun and really neat, and then we hit Tiger Town and shopped and shopped, and shopped!!!! I think we stayed in Hobby Lobby for literallly 3 hours!!!! I mean I love me some Hobby Lobby now, but dang!!! 1 hour is plenty too much for me!! 3 was ridiculous!!! I was ready to get out of there for real!!! We were on a mission to find Jennalee some wall letters for her room and Joy was bound and determined to get them, there, that day!!!! Good Gosh!!!! I think we looked @ every shape, size, and font of every single letter that they had there!!! and I do mean every single one!!!! We were finally successful and we finally found a J and an E and an N and another N and a A and a L and a E and another E....all the same size, shape, and font!! WoooHooo!!! Who knew it would be that dadgum hard to find all the letters to spell Jennalee in one store that has about at least 8 different styles of letters. Anyhow, we finally got the letters that we needed, then we had to look at everything else in the store, and I do mean everything else in the store. Now I like to shop, but I look @ the stuff I like and then I'm out...... not Joy though....she looks at EVERYTHING!!!! OMG!!! It was fun though and me and her and Mama had a really, really good time. We don't get to spend time like that very often. We usually are chasing kids(mainly Jennalee...Auntie Jenn loves you Jennalee!) all over the store. Anyway, it was fun and I cherish the quality time that I spend with my Mama and my Sister. I love ya'll!
On another note, why do kids have to be so mean??? I'm not going to go into anything here or anywhere else for that matter, but there's NO reason for the mean-ness, and it just really bothers me so much. I guess my kids are reaping what I sewed in the mean-ness department.?.? Who knows, but it hurts my heart so much when my kids hurt. And a very good friend of mine has always told me to "not get in the middle of it" and she told me that it would be so hard to stay out of it, but she said Jennifer, you have to, it will work itself out and they will work it out. She's been there and done that with both of her girls and she is a smart woman, so I'm tring to heed her advice, but she was so right...it's hard. Both her girls are grown now, well one of them will be a senior this year and the other one is a brand new school teacher (woohoo) and so I know she knows what she's talking about, but dang it's hard!! Anyway, I'm not going to go off on the mean-ness tangeant, but can I just say that I dread this school year so much. I hope it goes better than I'm anticipating. All I can do is put all 3 of my kids, in God's hands and fully rely on Him to sheild them from the mean-ness and everything else that's out there. Those words are from another very smart woman I know...my Mama :)

Ok, well ya'll have a fabulous night and I hope everybody has a great week! We have back to school shopping to finish up this week and the kids are looking forward to that. Sleep tight, I love ya'll!

Accomplishments

Abby's best friend in the whole entire world, and my adopted sister, Candace Brooke Goodwin, graduated from Auburn University this past Spring, majoring in Early Childhood Education. What an accomplishment! We are so proud of her and so excited that she has landed a job teaching @ Abby's school this year! Wooo-Hoooo!!!!! Abby is over the moon excited that "her Candace" is going to be @ her school this year! Candace~aka Miss Goodwin~ we are so very proud of you and we wish you the best!!! We love you very much!!!!

My Tribute To Nanny

Nanny passed away last Thursday, July 2nd. I really can't believe she's gone. She was an amazing woman and everybody who knew her loved her. She may have had an "old" body, but she was full of spunk and young at heart. She was a hoot and so much fun! We all could go on and on with hilarious stories about Nanny. My cousin Tiffany wrote 5or 6 amazing pages about Nanny...her life and our childhood memories of her. It was incredible and soooo Nanny. My cousin Carla read it at her funeral, and she did a great job. Tiffany made us all a copy of it and I will cherish it always. Nanny's funeral was perfect and I know she loved it. The Church was packed with all her family and friends. We cried and we laughed. We (all her children and grandchildren) sang a song that she taught us all when we were little. The title of it is "The Burgler Man" and she sang it to us our entire lives. She taught it to our children and I hope they teach it to their children and their children will teach it to their children and carry on Nanny's tradition. Alot of people that attended the funeral told me that it was great...if you can call a funeral great. One person even commented that it was the best funeral they had ever been to. Nanny was a fun person and her funeral truly was a celebration of her life. I've said this a million times and I will say it a million more...Nanny was the strongest woman I know and I hope that when I'm 88 I have half the spunk and strength that she had.

Nanny~I miss you so much and I love you with all my heart!
Love,
Your "Jenny"

A Very Long Over Due Post

OMG! I have neglected this blog to the extreme lately! I have tons of pictures to share and can't because our air tore up on Saturday and we've had to stay with Mama and Daddy since then. I mean it just quit! It was old and we knew that it had to be replaced, but dang! Why did it have to tare up the day after Nanny passed away AND on a holiday weekend!?!?!?!?! That's the way things usually go for us. Hopefully they will be able to get the new unit in today and we will be ready to rock and roll and get back to normal. I have to go back to work tomorrow and I would like to be able to get back to normal before then so that I can get ready at my house and not have all my stuff strowed (i know that's not a word) from here to yonder.
I'm definately going to do a post about Nanny I just want to wait til I get home so that I can post some pictures with it. We miss her like crazy!! There will never be another Nanny like our's. I want to go to the cemetary and spend some time, just me and the kids sometime today. Well, I hope everyone has a great day today! We have a ton to get done, so I better get with it. I love ya'll loads!!!

AllStars-just a quick update

I have to say that these games are so exciting!!! I mean I just get so into the game (not just me,but the other Moms do too) that I just kind of forget where I am for a minute and just yell and holler for these girls like it's just me and then I kinda just go Oh wait, there are other people here too...I need to sit down. It's so much fun though and just so exciting!! We lost last night to Beulah, and we won tonight...we beat Smith Station, which means we play again Monday night and we will play the loser of the game that was right after our's tonight. Beulah who beat us last night and Beauregard, who beat Smith Station last night, played tonight and we play the loser of that game on Monday. This is so confusing, I just wait for the coaches to tell me where to be and when to be there. It's hard to follow the bracket. Anyway, did I mention that it's so much fun and so exciting? And..............
......this would be Abby's biggest cheerleader/fan. Rylee cheers for Abby and her whole team the entire time we are there.... I don't even see how she has any voice left. It's so sweet though that she is there cheering her little sister on. We are all so very proud of Abby and all of her hard work. We love you Abby-Lou!!!!!
Love,
Mama

I'm tired!

I have done nothing but run all weekend. I'm pooped, so I'm going to make this post a kind of short one. We had a house full of kids yesterday and I do mean a house/yard full and they had a blast. They played softball with a big fat whiffle ball bat, and a tennis ball lol, out in the front yard for a long time. I think there was about 12 or 13here at one time yesterday and they played and played for a long time. It was fun. I bought a Wii Fit yesterday, hence the persuasion of my sister, and I love it!!! Well, I haven't had a chance to play on it really. Between all the kids taking turns on it, I really didn't get a turn. Kyle just got a turn on it late this afternoon, but couldn't stay on it that long b/c we had to get to Church for Youth. We (me and kyle) took all the kids from Church to CC's pizza tonight. Are we brave or what!?!? It was alot of fun and they all had a good time, I think. Did I mention that we have been busy all weekend? OMG! And this week will be more of the same. Abby's all star games start this week, so we will be running all this week too. I'm excited about it though. This will be fun. Oh and by the way Joy~ her first game is Friday night @ 8:30 EST. and then the other games will be determined by whether they win or not. Ok, well I'm off to bed. I love ya'll!!!

All Stars

It's been a while since my last post, but we have been extra busy as usual. As most of you know, Abby is my softball player and she made all stars!! Woooo Hoooo!!!!! We are so proud of her. This is her first year playing "real" softball with all the softball rules and she is having a blast and doing great! Her first game will be next Thursday, June 18th so they are practicing every day. They have a really good all star team and they have alot of potential.
The kids are having a great summer so far. They have alot going on this summer and I hope they really have a good one. Hopefully we will be able to go to Joy and Jim's some time in the near future for a visit. The kids went to Jaxen's graduation a couple of weeks ago and they had a blast, but Kyle and I haven't been in a while, so hopefully, we will be able to go soon. I have plenty more stuff on my mind and could probably sit here all night posting, but as usual, we have alot to do before bedtime, so ya'll have a great night and I'll talk to ya'll sometime tomorrow. I love ya'll bunches!