Lego Tower

I'm not really sure who's enjoying Meghan's gifts more, Meghan or us.  Ryan built this huge tower tonight with her new Lego's.  He was really impressed with his talents.  I'm a big fan of the Tigger that does cartwheels.  It's like being a kid all over again, which is lots of fun!

Another Princess Pic

This is another princess outfit.  She sure does love those beads!

Dressing Up

Aunt Lisa and family knew just how much Meghan loves to dress up with Claire's clothes.  Meghan now has her own clothes, with high heels even!  WOW!  As you can see, she sure is proud of herself being dressed up as a princess.

Jim has a face!

Dean and Diana went to Build a Bear and stuffed new bears for the girls.  This is the softest bear I've ever felt and they even named it Jim for Meghan.  HA! 

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve was at Mom and Dad's this year.  It was a great and as always, I stuffed myself silly with all the good food.  The girls sure enjoyed all the attention!

The Whole Outfit

Here's the pic of the whole outfit, including that pie..... that we are going to give to the baby lamb's soon.

Potty Elf???

So many title ideas for this one:

The Queen Elf on Her Throne

Santa's Little Potty Pooper

On Donner, On Vixen, On....the Toilet????

Posing on the Porcelin God

That's enough...I won't continue with the bad jokes.  Someday this picture may help us to scare away a boyfriend of Meghan's!  HA!  We got these Christmas pj's and they came with the silly hat, like many of them.  Well....Meghan has attached herself to this thing. She's rocking with Ryan right now and is STILL wearing it. I truly think she's going to sleep in it tonight.  She's nuts I tell ya!  She, of course, had to go potty tonight before her bath, while wearing the hat and I just had to capture the moment.  I was able to coax it off of her for bath time, but for a short while I thought she was going to insist on wearing it in the tub.  Ahhhh....I can just picture it now when she's sixteen! 

Papaw's Lil Elves

Here are the girls in their Christmas jammies from Mamaw and Papaw.  A pretty good looking, bunch don't ya think?  Getting a decent picture of all them wasn't too easy.  They are a very busy bunch! 

Meghan and Emily

Just had to post this pic too!  This is "Emmy" as Meghan calls her.  Anytime we see someone who has long hair, MEghan yells out to them and calls them Emmy.  We even find that Emmy hangs out at our house along with Jim....Meghan's other "friend." 

More Halloween

Well...I'm a holiday behind in posting these, but they say better late than never!  I actually didn't get any pictures over Thanksgiving, so I won't have any to post.  Bad Mommy...I know!  These are some pics that Emily and Dean took when we stopped at their house for trick-or-treating.  Keep in mind this is the house that whenever we pull in the drive, she starts yelling, "No, Mommy!" because the only time we ever go there is when I'm going to drop her off.  I find it kind of amusing, just because I know that as soon as I leave she's having a ball.  They always take her to see the kitties and sheep which she just loves!

Speaking of Thanksgiving, we had a nice time.  On Wednesday night we were at Mamaw and Papaw's house to de-bone the turkey.  That's becoming a tradition and every year, it's funnier and funnier.  Some sick humor is definitely involved! HA!  Thursday early morning we ate our first dinner there.  I unfortunately ate so much I made myself ill.  Ugh...maybe it was the entire plate of dessert I ate after the second helping of dressing????  Who knows..anyways, in the late afternoon we went to Papaw Reed's house.  Meghan enjoyed playing with Kamryn, although for some reason Uncle Robby still scares her.  Who knows what goes through her head sometimes!  Saturday we went to get our Christmas tree and had yet another family dinner at Annie and Uncle Rich's house.  Meghan was not herself, but I chalked it up to there being too many people.  Well....I was wrong.  She's been sick all day today with a fever.  (((SIGH)))  Ryan and I are doing half days tomorrow to take care of her.  I'm sure I'll be taking her to see Dr. K. tomorrow, which is always lots of fun on a Monday and even more fun considering the holiday weekend we just had.  Hopefully, we'll get some medicine and back to normal soon. 

Go Colts

I saw this Peyton M. jersey at Wal-Mart and just couldn't pass it up!  She quite a cute little Colts fan, don't ya think?  Her hair is also getting nice and long. It's much easier to put up in pigtails these days, especially when I tell her we're going to do her hair like Claire's.  At this point she'd do ANYTHING Claire does!  It's so cute to watch them together. 

Trying again

I guess when I posted this pic earlier, it didn't show up so here's our lil indian!  We had lots of fun tonight trick or treating, although our indian was kinda grumpy at times.  Bad mommy and daddy forget to take the blankie with us!  Who knew she'd wanna eat fuzz when she had all that candy??????

Fall Break-Great Getaway

Wow!  What a great time we had in Nashville.  We left Thursday morning and came home today.  Our campground was a Jellystone, so Meghan was introduced to Yogi Bear, who as you can see below, she was a little skeptical of at first.  Friday, we toured the Hermitage and spent plenty of time on the playground at our campground.  Papaw even spun Meghan so fast on the merry go round, that he spun her right off!  No worries though, I caught her, she laughed and hopped right back on!  Mom and I had a great time playing tether ball.  Too bad no one was there to video, we were quite amusing, especially when I about broke Mom's glasses!

Ryan came in Friday night and on Saturday we toured Lynchburg...see below for details. When we returned back to the campground, there was a Halloween party for Meghan.  She got to dress up (see her costume pic below), paint a cookie, have some punch, play with baloons, and even take a ride in a wagon.  Saturday night, we went to the Opryland hotel to look around.  They now make you pay $10 to park, but we were not going to pay that!  So.....we decided to park at the mall and make our own path there.  At times like that, I always get this feeling that we were meant to be on some reality tv show....The Hilljacks Take on the Big City!  HA! 

Sunday morning, was a big breakfast and then we headed home.  Our big finale was a visit to Ritter's in Shelbyville (You're jealous, aren't you Marcia?)  Mmmmm....I just love ice cream, so what a way to end a great vacation! 

Papaw and Meghan

This was taken at The Hermitage which we visited on Friday.  It's the home of Andrew Jackson.  I love that educational stuff, and Meghan was somewhat interested.  She kept asking to see "eeeeemos" (animals) and we did see a couple of horses.  She and Papaw also discovered some cotton plants.   She like the cotton, but for those of you who know about her fuzz addiction, we couldn't allow her to keep it.  She'd have eaten the whole thing! 

Off to the Whiskey Factory!

Yeah, yeah, yeah....maybe taking your 18 month old to the Jack Daniels factory isn't what everyone dreams of for family vacation, regardless, we took Meghan and boy was it fun!  First of all, it is located in a "dry" county, so no alcohol can be sold in the county! All we got was a sniff!  We took an hour tour all through the factory, learning the history and process of how the whiskey is made.  It was very interesting and Meghan, of course, was happy as can be being carried around by Papaw.  Our tour ended with a refreshing glass of lemonade (whiskey free) which Meghan enjoyed very much as well.  Oh....one last note....we figured out how to get a great smile out of Meghan for pictures...she says her new word.....WHISKEY!!! Ha, ha, ha!!! 

My Mamaw

Mamaw was lots of fun on the playground too!

And just who are YOU?

Not too sure about Yogi the first day we saw him, but she warmed up a little bit!

Mommy and Me

Mamaw snapped this pic while we were playing on the playground.  Think she'll look as much like me as I do my own mom?????

Our Lil Indian

I guess to be politically correct, I should say Native American!  This is her Halloween costume.  She was fortunate to have a Halloween Party over the weekend while camping so we were glad to get an extra day of use out of it! 

Hail to the Chocolate Hand