Beginning to look a lot like ... Christmas!!!

Thanksgiving weekend, we put up

our tree and Christmas decorations!!! 

It's so fun that the kids can

actually help now!!!!!

Hadlee and Hudson just had to 

"wrap a present"!  I cracked up

later when I noticed who it was from;)

My Christmas decorations are so 

precious to me.  Most of them have 

a significance or a memory to them...

like this sweet plate that was from RoRo!

Or my "Fun Bunch" ornament that 

was from the girls I taught with 

at Midway Middle School!

Unfortunately I usually end up with 

someone sick when the winter weather hits...

but it's usually not Walker!!!!!!!

Poor Guy ended his two year

perfect attendance roll :(

He was devastated over it, 

but there was nothing he could do. 

He was sick sick :( With the FLU

(even though we all had the shots).

I've never known him to sleep or

lay in bed for that many days straight:(

His fever was so high which scares us

terribly since he had febrile seizures 

when he was little so his sweet daddy

made a pallet in his room!  

(In my credit, I slept in his bed

with him the first night he was sick!)

Walker never complains and I felt

so sorry for him feeling so bad.

Luckily I got to watch some movies with him(:

This was the scene in my house ...

... and in my car!  

Hated seeing my boy like this!!!!!!!!!!

I requested his work from his teachers

because Walker was so concerned

over missing.  He went back to school

on a Friday after being gone all week

and was caught up on everything and took

his tests that very day and came home

with THIS progress report the next week!!!

I LOVE his drive. 

The most technological person I know 

FiNaLLY got a new phone!!!

Yay for my honey!!!!!!!!

Hudson was soooooo excited 

because Baby Bax joined him at 

Mrs. Janice's after Thanksgiving.

Hudson loves this little baby boy (so far!).

It melts my heart that my baby

is so sweet and interested in a baby! 

This particular Sunday at our church is so special

because we take toys and supplies to help

support different organizations. 
I let the kids choose which ones they 

wanted to support. 

Waiting with my girl to hear

what rank Baylor got!!!  ;)

We were acting CRAZY and hoping for #4!

But..........we got #5!  Oh well, it was probably right. 

It was also Christmas card time!!!

We really need to have a professional

picture taken...but I love our candids;)

AND I love the thought of 

"Shining with Joy"...

for Jesus 

~ no matter our circumstances ~

all year long and not just at Christmas.