Ho Ho Ho

I just thought this picture of Jim with Kennedy looking at the stuffed doll was so cute.

We spent Christmas Eve at Daddo's. Joseph was sick so Tyler and Landry rode with mom to attend. Here are some photos of Aiden and Mckenzie along with the rest of the family.


















We spent the night at Nanny and Papa's on Christmas Eve so that Santa could come see Kennedy. She woke up to find her presents in the living room with the cookies she left for Santa all gone. She didn't wake up with the anticipation of Santa coming, but I know that next year we will be getting a tap on our shoulder to get out of bed early to see what he left under the tree.

Glover Christmas

Saturday was filled with more family activities at dads house where Aunt Vickie and Uncle Donnie, Mel’s Family, Nanny and Papawa, Dad and Robin, and us all gathered to celebrate the Glover family Christmas. Mel made our great-grandmother’s recipe for a coconut cream pie, which turned out great! However, no one will ever be able to master Granny Olive’s cooking.

We all received so many wonderful gifts from our family, but the best gift is being able to spend time together. One of the presents that Kennedy latched on to the most this day was a baby doll that she received. It cries, sucks on a bottle/pacifier, and says some words. When we got home she wouldn’t let go of the little doll, so they had to sleep together. We have yet to name her, but figure one day Kennedy will call her something besides Baby.

Aucutt Christmas

We celebrated Christmas with mom/Jim and Mel’s family on Friday evening. Jim had cooked one of my favorite foods he makes, cabbage. Yummy! We had other stuff, but that is the thing I loved the most. They had bought Kennedy a play kitchen and a doll that comes with a pack-n-play, stroller, etc..I had difficulty putting the baby stuff items together, but Mel put them together like a Wiz. Fortunately, Mom and Jim put the kitchen together so that Trey and I did not have too. All the kids liked Kennedy’s kitchen and Joseph loved her baby doll size pack-n-play, he actually got in it to try to sleep. Landry got a bike, Joseph some big wheel rider items, and Tyler got some games for his Wii/portable game player.

Dodson's Christmas

Sunday, we celebrated The Dodson’s Christmas at Frank’s. The food was scrumptious and the company superb. We couldn't ever get all the kiddo’s to cooperate to take a good group shot, but we were able to capture some of them running around. Kennedy did get jealous if either of us held John or Kylie. She finally got more comfortable with us holding Kylie when we sat down on the floor. Kennedy would come up to her and laugh and then tickle Kylie. Kennedy was so cute when she opened up her presents, shouting “Wow” as she unwrapped each present. Trey and I looked at one another and said, “Have you ever heard her say that word? Nope!"

I'm looking forward to our other upcoming gatherings when I am able to see the delight and excitement in Kennedy's eyes when she is able to unwrap presents, rip off bows, and tear up tissue paper to unravel a big "WOW". To all who receive gifts from us, no bows are allowed under the tree at our house because she has removed all of them.

Emma poses for the camera....




I just think Kennedy looks so cute in her pig tails. She reminds me of Crissy off of the old show Three's Company.

The mess begins.....
Granny with Kennedy

Frank holds a bottle of Vino De Pancho.....Trey's red wine that he made.

Supposedly, Kenneth used to ride this little truck around his house when he was a child. Looks like Emma has continued the tradition.

Kylie Mae Dodson's Babtism

Saturday, Kennedy and I rode with Sherry to Kylie’s baptism. Kylie did so well when she got dipped in the holy water, only shouting out a couple of times. I had to stand and hold Kennedy the whole ceremony because when Father Carlos started speaking she yelled out “Mimi” and headed down the aisle to see Sherry. Kennedy did fairly well after that outburst. However, holding her and trying to taking photos made for some blurry shots.
















Sherry and I arrived at the church almost forty-five minutes early, which is very rare for me. We ended up walking around the beautiful grounds of the church. These are a couple of pictures of Kennedy outside of the church. I just love the one of her trying to break in through the chain link fence to get to the playground!

Thank you for your help, Katherine Kuckenbaker

A big thanks to Katherine Kuckenbaker for graciously volunteering to put together a Christmas card for us from some of the pictures Trey and I had taken. Katherine, your generosity is greatly appreciated! Here are the selections that weren’t picked, but that I still loved.

Hog hunting

Monica Lawson and I went hog hunting with Neil Moritz and Trey on Saturday evening. We didn't shoot anything, because we didn't see anything,but we still had fun sitting in the deer blind. Trey and I were in one blind when all of a sudden a buck start snorting from his nose and stomping his feet. Trey said, "we aren't going to see anything, they know we are here." I guess I wasn't the quietest of people and didn't move slowly when I needed something. I did see a raccoon that I thought was a pig. The scary part for me was when it was pitch dark and all you could hear were the animals running around outside our little tent roughing up the leaves. I felt like we were being hunted. The only thing hunting us was the cold and an armadillo.

Happy Birthday, Melissa Bond!

First day of Music class

We attended our first day of music class today in Lockhart. I felt so bad for Trey because he was the only male amongst 11 other ladies. He was quite a sport, singing a long, dancing, and playing with the instruments. There were several times that we both smirked at one another with the look of what in the world were we doing there. However, Kennedy loved it. I look forward to the weeks ahead when she is more comfortable and knows more of the movements and words. One of the things I liked was a song about leaves that we sung using scarves to throw up in the air to act like leaves were falling upon us. The singing teacher is from Germany so she sang some songs in German. One of the stories she told about living in Germany was how they celebrate St. Nicholas Day on December 6. The evening of the 5th, I believe, children would clean their shoes and put them outside the door at night. In the moring you would go outside and see what St. Nick left in them. If you were good a toy would be in there, and if you were bad you would have switches. At the end of class Trey and I went up to Petra, the music teacher, to thank her. Well, as it turns out when Trey was a child living in Germany they celebrated St. Nicholas day and Aimee and him both received switches in their shoes. Does that surprise anyone?

Happy 33rd Birthday, Kara Powers!