Friday, January 23, 2015

Weekend Fun

Last weekend was lazy perfection.  For the first time in a really long time, it was just the four of us with no where to go and no where to be!  Friday kicked off our weekend with a Mary Tannler coming to play with Morgan.  These sweet friends.  They played all day!  Saturday was a family day that brought some warm, dry weather.  We finally were able to get outside!  We've all been a little stir crazy with this cold wetness we've been having.  After church on Sunday, all three of my family members fell asleep at the same time.  It was a miracle!  Do you want to know how much I accomplished in those two hours?  It was a great weekend!
Morgan and Mary Tannler
I also had a little laundry helper that day!
Which is just what her big sister did one day too!  Haha!!
Sweet sisters before church
Big girl
Little one

Laid Back Ladies

The very next weekend I hopped back into the car to meet my Chi Omega sisters is Jackson!  I am so thankful that we do this every year.  It is always a much-needed soul refresher.  This year we broke in Anna's beautiful new home!  We never do much of anything and this is exactly how I prefer it.  All I want to do is spend time with them and catch up on our crazy and wonderful lives.  We were sad Stacey couldn't make it this year!  Thankfully Sissy came to Tupelo so I didn't feel as bad to leave the girls at home with her and Jeff.  It allowed me to just be.  What a great weekend!
Holly, Me, Anna and Christina (we missed you Stacey!)

Jackson and Foley and Miami... Oh My!

Per usual we packed up the car and hit the road right after Christmas!  Thankfully, Morgan was back to normal so our first stop was Jackson.  We got to visit with Pop and bring him his presents.  Morgan loved Pop's bed and spent the whole time pushing the buttons to move it up and down!
Gaga, Macie, Morgan and Pop
 
After lunch we got back in the car and continued south to Foley.  Once we got there we had more presents and more food!  It was big fun and a great end to a long day.  The next day Rob, Marie and Erin came to visit!  Don't feel bad that Sara missed it- she was in France!  We spent the next few days getting to spend time with family we don't see often enough.  It was wonderful!  In fact, we had so much fun I really slacked on taking pictures.  Oops!
Bless Erin's heart.  She had two little shadows during her whole trip!
Hands down the best gift of Christmas was the snowball fight GG gave to Morgan.  The big kids had just as much fun as Morgan!
 
On Monday, Jeff and I headed out on our own adventure.  It was just the two of us, our car and the road to Miami!  Mom and Dad kept the girls and that gave me and Jeff four whole days alone!  Jeff and I both love a road trip so we made a pit stop in Orlando.  We were able to spend a whole day at Universal Studios and had a blast!  We were like little kids running around through Harry Potter World and everything else.  Even in the rain!  It was so much fun.  But eventually I had one too many 3-D rides and needed to lie down.  So I walked back to the hotel and Jeff finished some extra rides.  It really was so fun.
Harry Potter World!
Taking Hogwarts Express
Of course we had some Butterbeer
$10 poncho to stay (kinda) dry? Yep!
 
The next day we got dressed in our maroon and drove the rest of the way to Miami to cheer on our Dawgs!  Apparently we didn't cheer loud enough and we lost.  Badly.  But we were there at the Orange Bowl and had fun anyway!  Even when we rang in the New Year standing outside the stadium after the game.  We just pretended that the celebration fireworks for Georgia Tech were meant for us!

Ready to see our Dawgs!
Hail State!
We totally forgot our cowbells.  Thankfully Kathryn let us take hers!
Little Big Town was the halftime entertainment and I sang right along
These smiles are a bit forced at the end of the game
Worried the girls would be bored while we were having fun?  Fat chance!
 Two happy girls (and two happy parents) when we finally got home!


 

Thursday, January 15, 2015

Christmas is Here!


Christmas Eve and morning finally got here!  Morgan had literally been counting down the days all month and was just giddy when it was getting close.  Christmas Eve we went to church and it really got us ready for the next day!  This year we were so glad that GaGa got to spend Christmas with us.  And we missed Pop, who was still recovering in Jackson.  He's getting better each day, but was not quite ready for the craziness that Christmas morning brought this year! 
Ready for church! 
 Happy with GaGa
 The girls looking for Santa before bed
 Morgan got the cookies and milk ready for Santa
 My favorite present of all: Morgan drew a picture for me, put it in a box, wrapped it herself and wrote our names on it.  It was perfect.
Ready to see what Santa brought! 
Macie figured out how to open those presents quickly
Opening up Santa!
 
While we were opening up our stockings and Santa gifts, Morgan seemed a little quiet.  After weeks of begging for Santa to bring her gifts she didn't quite give us the reaction we expected.  Turns out she was running a fever!  After Santa she curled up on the couch and fell back asleep- totally not normal behavior for my girl!  I was so worried she had the flu and our Christmas travel plans would be over before they started.  But thankfully she woke up from her nap and was much better!  Then she was ready to open the rest of the gifts under the tree!
Morgan with her Santa favorites: Frozen Ice Castle and Singing Elsa Doll
Macie with her favorite Santa gift.  She climbed in and out of this all day!