Lola, Our Elf

Just a few photos of Lola's silliness this year! :)

























































Which Lola photo is your favorite?

Christmas in Williamston

The whole gang at Nanny and Papas!

Christmas Eve Brunch

Every Christmas Eve my parents host brunch! It sure is yummy!

We always have a cranberry cocktail and shrimp and grits too!

Cookies for Santa

This year we left Saltine Toffee Bars for Santa- he must have liked them!

Pledge...

I apologize that this video is sideways & dark, but I wanted to post it. I'm just getting around to getting some stuff off of my cell phone and this was something I wanted to make sure I kept.



Taken on Nov. 17, 2012
(Grace was 3 years, 6 months, and 9 days old)

Dear Santa

"Hey Mom, how do you write Santa?"

As I called out the letters to her I went and checked her work...

Not to bad!
Just ignore the U and a T that looks sorta of like a Y. :)

The main thing on Grace's Christmas list this year is a set of Dora Rollerskates!

Thanksgiving Prayer

For some reason I tried to blog this on my phone right after it happened and it didn't go through. Due to my lack of blogging, I just noticed it...

Lots of our family gathered at my parents for Thanksgiving supper. Grace is usually iffy about saying the blessing when its just Scott and I sometimes so I knew for sure she wouldn't say it at Gigi and Big Daddy's while we were all there.

Here prayer is usually a song that she learned at school that starts off, "Lord, we thank you..."

She actually did want to say the blessing as we all held hands in a circle, it went a little like this...

(starting to sing) "Lord..." (pause and then...)

"Thank you for our families and for Thanksgiving. Thank you for everything we'll get for Christmas. Thank you that we are all here together. Amen."

It caught us all by a complete surprise and I think it was the sweetest thing I had ever heard. If only I would of had my video camera rolling. :)

Me, Haley, & Grace - Thanksgiving Night