It's Been a While

Oh my goodness, I sure haven't blogged in a while. I have been extremely nauseated and sick and by the time I try to sit down and blog about our life, I'm just too tired. But, we have had lots of happenings this month.

In my previous post before this one, I talked about how Meggy, Dee-deed and I had gone to the Christmas Village. I LOVE the Christmas Village and whenever we get home I am always more in the Christmas spirit. So that Sunday Meggy and I decided to put up the Christmas tree. Yes, I do realize that we haven't even had Thanksgiving yet, but we get to enjoy it a little bit longer than everyone else.

Meggy putting some of the branches on herself.

My Meggy..and please excuse my "red" nose. It's a pregnancy thing...has happened with the other three as well.

Of course, Ittie-Bittie helped too, just in a not so much kind of way.

We got the tree completely put together and I put all of the lights on but that's about as far as we have gotten. I do have the mantle decorated but no pics yet. Soon to come.

If you keep up with my sister's blog then you would know about her cat Skootie-Pootie. When Allison moved out she couldn't take Skootie with her at that time so she left her here with us. Well, Skootie decided to get out of our fence and was gone for three weeks. We had all pretty much decided that Skootie had gone off to die somewhere and we were all very sad because Allison has had Skootie for 17 years. Well all of a sudden the other day, Skootie showed up on our back porch. We have no idea where she had been that whole time. She had lost a lot of weight and her hair was really matted and had something stuck in it. It smelled like oil or something that might be in a garage so we are wondering if maybe she got stuck in someone's garage. Anyway, Allison was so excited that she was back and has since come to get Skootie and take her to her new home.
This was right after she had come back home and she was being sooo loving. NOT typical of Skootie and she was singing...well, some people call it purring.


We also celebrated David's 33rd birthday on the 11th. The kids decided to help me make and decorate his cake this year.



I had to get the oil changed in the van before we left on a trip to see my extended family in Georgia. Thank goodness this dealership has a kiddie area....kept the kids busy the whole time!!




As I said, we took a quick trip to visit my Georgia family. They are the best and we always have so much fun with them whether it's on my dad's side or my mom's. We went over there for a special reason..my dad's mom, Mama at the brown house (what we called her when we were little) was turning 80 and so my aunts and uncles decided to throw her a surprise birthday party. She didn't know that we were coming. She just thought that my dad and Judi were coming to visit.





While we were there celebrating my grandmother's birthday, my aunt Susan decided to surprise David with a cake too. Since David is a BIG Alabama fan and decided to "rub it in a little" when Georgia lost to Bama, she saw it fitting to "rub it in a little too" with his cake.

David wondering "What's going on?"









We had such a fun time and have even contemplated moving over there to be closer to family.

I went to MOPS yesterday and had such a good time, especially when I found out that I won this.