Happy Holidays

Wow! it's been a while since our last post. Here are some holiday pictures. I guess everyone was too hungry to take pictures of the Thanksgiving feast, but here are some related pictures.

 

Thanksgiving can be exhausting for a cook!

Doesn't Grandmother have a beautiful Autumn view?

A classic Thanksgiving tradition: football!

Due to the drought in these Southern states, we decided to get a smaller tree this year! It looks like Charlie Brown's tree, doesn't it?

All right, the drought's not that bad! Here we are in front of the real Christmas tree!

We get our Christmas trees at the Old Baker Farm and we usually get there just as they're cleaning up from the fall festival. We found this painted on a hay bale. Isn't it cute?

Okay, maybe this picture makes the tree look a tad bit bigger than it really is, but we all agree that this year's tree is the biggest one we've ever had .

Hauling in a tree that size can make you pretty tired!

Decorating the giant! It may look like Christopher (on the ladder) is in a pretty precarious position, but it's hard to reach the higher branches without some help!

Jesse handed out hooks this year, but he got pretty snobby and refused to give them out until he "inspected" the ornaments first! I told him that I'd pay him back by putting a bad pictures of him on the blog so... ta-da!

How's that for a bad picture?

What's with the hands? Uh, I don't know, really.

Merry Christmas!

Blind football

This is a cute video of the boys playing football with their eyes closed! More importantly, it is a real video on the blog! Hopefully we'll be able to put up many more.

Jack and Christopher's birthday

Jack and Christopher will be turning 12 this Sunday! They chose to have the party on Friday, though, since that meant they would get a day off school!

The birthday boys!!

Nathan is chaperoning, as you can see!

A new Lego set!

Chicago Bears Bernard Berrian jersey.

...And Devin Hester's jersey!

Okay, I'm not quite sure what Jack is doing, but he seems to be blessing his gifts!

Now these were cool monster car cakes! The twins did it all themselves, Jack's cake is green, and Christopher's is red.

  Happy birthday, boys!

(We have a great video of the twins and their cakes, but I'll have to figure out how to use video before I can put it up!)

Cute picture

This is a picture of Zoe, the neighbors' cat. She has learned the trick of twisting her head away whenever she sees a camera, but I (Abigail)caught her off guard the other day and took this picture. Isn't she beautiful?"

Fall Festival

This past Saturday afternoon, we went to a Fall Festival. As you can tell from the pictures it was lots of fun, even though Jesse was at work that day, so he missed it and we missed him! Here are some pictures.

Jack is enjoying the pony rides!

Mama forgot to bring her favorite hat, so she substituted with a gift from the firefighters table!

Jack, Nathan and Chris enjoying Orange Creme sodas.

This is me trying to open my popcorn bag; Jack has already figured it out and looks very happy about it!

Nathan is playing one of the games.

This is Nathan, being cool at a friend's house on Thursday (Yes, I know this has nothing to do with the fair, but it's a cute picture, isn't it?)

Happy Birthday, Sam!

This past Wednesday was Sam's 14th birthday. Happy birthday, Sam!

Waking up the birthday boy!

Nathan certainly is fascinated by Sam's presents. Whose birthday is it anyway?

The kids all got together and ordered Sam a Chicago Bear's jersey, but our order was canceled so we had to order another one. The second one didn't get here in time, so we gave him a picture promising that it was on the way.
We don't have pictures of all the presents, but he also got a pair of football gloves from Mama and Daddy. Nearly all of his presents were football themed!

A football cake (naturally).

Happy birthday!

Alabama Adventure

This Saturday, as part of our before school celebration, we went to a near-by amusement park, Alabama Adventure. We bought the combo tickets, which are tickets to both the amusement park and the water park. We had a wonderful time! Here are some pictures. We didn't get any pictures of the water park for the sake of the camera!

This is Jesse and I (Abby) waiting for the Scrambler to start. We rode it three times!

This was an interesting little roller coaster, it whizzed around in a rather small circle, up and down. It wasn't very big, but the fact that the circle was so small made it thrilling, especially since, when the ride stops and you think it's over, it does the loops again... backward!

Daddy (In the stripped shirt) and the twins enjoy the ride.

Jesse and Sam's first real roller coaster (they were pretty nervous).

The triumphant return! Nice hair, boys!

This is the twins and Nathan on a smaller roller coaster.

This time I rode the big roller coaster, too!

This is a cool picture taken from the top of a sort of conveyor belt. It pulls the rafts up, then releases them into a little, man-made river and you ride through white water to the bottom.

Here we are starting the log flume ride.

The end of a long day!