Sesame Street Live!!

Elmo's Green Thumb!
Last Saturday we went to see Sesame Street Live with Sailor's good friend Eli Owings and his mom and dad! Sailor and Eli were fixed on the show. Sailor was a little more reserved through the whole thing but Eli boogied the whole time! Sailor loosened up a little towards the end as she and Eli shared a chair and where both swaying to the music with hands in the air! Sailor even got pop corn or "pop torn" as she calls it for breakfast with sprite of course! We had a great time!

Christmas with Nana, Pop, Heather, Bruce, Peyton and Colton!

Christmas night we ended at Nana and Pop's! It's funny Heather does not want Sailor to be a cheerleader at all cost but she got her two girly dress up outfits complete with too-toos! Tinkerbell and Gigi, God's princess! She also got Gigi movies and Colton got her a Tinkerbell doll that matches her outfit!

Sailor loves her Play dough table, thanks Nana! Sailor and I also got matching North face Jackets. I will have to post that picture later because mine was a little too small!

Too much excitement for Brighton! He's not too sure about all these new toys. A blow up penguin, lots of new clothes, a bag full of stuffed animals and all kinds of light up chew toys!!

All kicked back!

Sailor taking her new baby for a ride on her pink plasma car!

Is that Tony Hawk???

"It's what I always wanted" Pop said...a one cup coffee maker!!

Sailor and Peyton comparing gifts!

Christmas with GrannyWanda, Jamie and Paula

Christmas afternoon we went over to GrannyWanda's. Jamie and Paula were there too! I decided Jamie does not take good directions. I gave him a few gift ideas for Sailor and said one or the other but absolutely not both and of course he got both. A megablock table and a little people doll house. She loves both by the way!! Brighton got a cute but very annoying dog. I think all toys for his age group are annoying! Brighton loves to hang out in his new car from GrannyWanda and Sailor is loving to learn to play all of her new games. Sailor also got her very own DVD with a library of movies.

Christmas morning!

Finally!!! Christmas morning was very special this year. We left cookies, milk and orange juice for Santa on Christmas eve, blew Goonie the elf a kiss before bed knowing we would not see him again for a whole year and went to bed so excited that we would celebrate Jesus's birthday in the morning! Sailor woke up a little confused but remembered that today is Jesus's birthday and that Santa was supposed to come last night. After pottying she ventured into the living room to see what he brought and stood there a little more confused for at least 2 or 3 minutes just looking around. She finally decided it was o.k. to touch the new toys and began to check everything out. She was so excited about her stuff but it was so cute to see her show Brighton everything Santa had left for him too! We had so much fun just relaxing and playing all morning!



Sailor decided after such and exciting and exhausting morning that she would try out her new doll bed. She fits in it like a key. I am not sure how she got in there or how she got back out!

Christmas with Papaw, Jamie and Paula

Christmas eve night we celebrated with Papaw, Jamie and Paula. Papaw brought Sailor and Brighton stockings full of cookies and candy. Sailor got a talking baby doll and Brighton a singing sea horse!

Christmas with GrannyFran and Granddaddy!

Christmas Eve afternoon we visited with Granny Fran and Granddaddy! We had a great lunch and as always a great time with the family. Colton got to play Santa this year and hand out all the presents! Brighton loves to pat a cake with Granny Fran and Sailor said her favorite present of all was the stuffed animal Granny Fran picked out for her.

Christmas with the Barker's

The Sunday before Christmas we traveled to South Pittsburg to visit my Uncle Joey and his family. We had an added bonus that our Aunt Patsy was there to visit too! We had a great time as always catching up and hearing some of those "same old stories" of mom and Joey's childhood as well...just kidding, those stories never get old!!!

Joey demonstrating his hi-tech hand vac!

Nana, Joey, and Patsy

Hillary, Caitlin and Brighton

Aunt Patsy and Brighton

Sailor giving Aunt Cathy a big hug!

Christmas party at the Daugherty's!

The Saturday before Christmas was our annual Christmas party at the Daugherty's house. The night was complete with a, not so good Tennessee game, Christmas games, wild kids running everywhere and of course the Dirty Santa gift swap! I have to brag just a little!!! I got lucky #1 for the second year in a row for the gift swap. This means I got to watch everyone open all the gifts pick and choose from each other but then I got to pick the best gift at the end!

Christmas with the Boles

We started our Christmas festivities this year with our good friend's Buddy, Lisa and Audrey Boles! They came over for some chili the week before Christmas. Sailor and Audrey had fun chasing balls all over the place and Brighton of course was just hanging out watching all the fun!

Fall pictures!

This post is a little out of order but we saved the pictures for a surprise for Christmas gifts. We took advantage of a couple of warm Mondays back in the fall to play outside and take some funny pictures. I thought some of them turned out pretty good so we didn't show them to the Grandparents before Christmas. They had pretty much seen all the other pictures we have had made so we used some of these for our calendar present!