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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~