cowboy michael

My favorite gift to give was this little spring horse and Michael loved it! That's a snake in his mouth, all boy, what can i say. For those of you who don't know, I have a dream of having horses one day soon. 

because of winn dixie

Abby had read the book and loved it so we got her the movie and the stuffed animal and to our surprise Dave Matthews is in the movie and he sings and plays guitar in it, too cool! 

mooo!

the farm is a big hit too! 

Michael and his tools

Michael loves his tools, it even had a working tape measure! 

cowgirl amy

 

Ariel's Christmas present

we got her a cool little pink bike that we can push from behind, it even made noise and lit up on the handle bars but it was really annoying after about 5min.! 

my mom and all her grandkids

here's my mom and ronnie with all their grandkids, Ronnie's son Chad (far left) had to hold his son Sam, who is the cutest little boy! 

great grandma and second cousin

my mom, steph and taytum, Krissy lives in Georgia so it was the first time alot of us had seen her and she got passed around pretty good. 

steph and ryan

here's steph and my nephew Ryan, we were glad to get to see him, he's been at a, well a, place where young men who need help, get help, anyway he's doin' good. 

me and my great niece!

 

Steph huggin' Pam

I think Steph and Pam broke a record for the world's longest hug, when she opened the keys to her car. It was real emotional for my aunt because it was her husband's car and he passed away not too long ago, but I think it also made her feel good because she said he had wanted to give it to her. Thank you Russ!  

Kelly and Taytum

 

My sister's a Nona!

Here's my big sis Kelly helping her daughter Krissy with her daughter Taytum, too sweet! 

Michael on the back massager

yay! I got a back massager from Tom and Janet and Michael gave it a test ride!! 

Amy rockin' out

 

little sisters are a pain

Abby got what she wanted, a CD, Mp3 player from Grandma and Grandpa, and Amy got one too, thanks to them, Abby had bought one with her Christmas money from my mom and so Amy got that one. But that doesn't mean she's gonna leave her big sis alone to tune her out! 

Ariel and Taylor, bouncin' buddies

The kids picked out Taylor's gifts and Ariel got one for her too and they had a ball! bouncin' around! 

Superstar Taylor

the next American Idol, look out Simon! here she comes!! 

Stephanie has a license to drive!!

Steph finally got her license Thursday after a very stressful and long day at the DMV. I am soooo glad she passed! and I know she is too, she turned 16 in August but hasn't had a chance to go get her license. My aunt Pam gave her my Uncle Russ' car for Christmas and it is sweet! It's even got a sunroof, super sweet!! I'm so happy for her. 

Abby and Jessie

She is so excited about going to school and showing her friends these pictures tomorrow. I'm glad she likes it so much. 

Abby and her gecko

Abby's still a little "freaked out" by her, but she's doing great taking care of her. We have to feed her live crickets and fruit flavored baby food, so we have to feed the crickets fruit and veggies too. I caught Michael spraying her cage with water the other day, but that's good because you're supposed to keep it humid for her. We are learning alot about reptile care and it's gettin' easier every day. Crested geckos are pretty low maintenance, they don't need heat lamps or rocks, and they love to hide and climb and jump! She loves to jump from one person to the others hands and tonight she jumped from Mike onto Amy. She's lots of fun and we've all fallen totally in love. Stephanie got one too and she named hers Bo, I haven't heard how he/she is doing yet but I hope she's enjoying him as much as we are enjoying ours. 

Our New Baby

Here's Jessie! Ain't she cute? in a weird sort of way. 

Mike and His new buddy Jessie

Here's Mike letting Abby's cool new gecko climb on his shirt. We are all soooo in love with him or her we can't tell yet, he's just a baby. Mike even took him in the bathroom to play with him today.