bark, the herald angels sing

this past wednesday, we had our christmas program at church. william has been practicing his carols in the car EVERY single time we go anywhere. (yeah...mama is ready for january to roll around!) anyway, he was so excited that he was getting to sing with all of his buddies and that his honey and kakki were coming to watch him perform.

waiting backstage with the warren boys...


william is the one in the middle with the white shirt on. this was in the middle of "bark, the herald angels sing." one of his favorites! he sang his little heart out to every song, and we made it though with only a few yawns and one nose-picking episode.


nashville, here we come!

a mighty fine cookie

i found the following christmas cookie recipe on one of chase's financial blogs that he frequents. i'm not sure why they are posting cookie recipes on financial blogs...maybe he needs to not take money advice from this one!! anyway, i thought somebody might like to try these out...

Jose Cuervo Christmas Cookies

Ingredients:
1 cup of water
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup of sugar
1 tsp salt
1 cup or brown sugar
4 large eggs
1 cup nuts
2 cups of dried fruit
1 bottle Jose Cuervo Tequila

Directions:

Sample the Cuervo to check quality. Take a large bowl,
check the Cuervo again, to be sure it is of the highest quality,
pour one level cup and drink.

Turn on the electric mixer. Beat one cup of butter
in a large fluffy bowl.

Add one peastoon of sugar. Beat again. At this point
it’s best to make sure the Cuervo is still ok, try another
cup just in case.

Turn off the mixerer thingy.

Break 2 leggs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup
of dried fruit.

Pick the frigging fruit off the floor.

Mix on the turner.

If the fried druit gets stuck in the beaters just pry
it loose with a drewscriver.

Sample the Cuervo to check for tonsisticity.

Next, sift two cups of salt, or something. Who geeves
a sheet. Check the Jose Cuervo. Now shift the lemon juice and strain your nuts.

Add one table.

Add a spoon of sugar, or somefink. Whatever you can
find.

Greash the oven.

Turn the cake tin 360 degrees and try not to fall
over.

Don’t forget to beat off the turner.

Finally, throw the bowl through the window, finish the
Cose Juervo and make sure to put the stove in the wishdasher.

Cherry Mistmas!

must be a good hiding spot

william (14 months)


wes (18 months)

33 degrees is a little cold

on saturday morning, we attended the much anticipated christmas parade in downtown. as most of you know, i am not a fan of cold weather. so, when i looked at the temperature that morning and saw that it was 33 degrees, i was not exactly over the top excited about sitting out in that weather watching trucks and marching bands creep by me. but, i donned the long johns, about 4 shirts, and no telling how many pairs of socks and ended up making it through in one piece!!

this is our crew hanging out on the curb waiting on the parade to get started...


do you think my kids actually sat on the curb and quietly watched the parade with the rest of their friends? absolutely not. if you are sitting down, then apparently you are unable to dance to the music of the cars and the bands...


after a while, though, the dancing had to take a break, and daddy made a nice chair...


2 hours later (yes, 2 whole hours) santa FINALLY made his arrival. it had to be the longest parade in the history of the world!!


but the little people loved it, and we are already looking forward to next year's parade. actually, we're looking forward to the end of the parade! sadly, william's favorite part of the entire parade was what followed santa...

i think all the adults there would agree with me...we were glad to see that street sweeper, too!!

who knew bass pro shop was so entertaining?

a few weeks ago, we went to bass pro shop with honey and g. the intent was to "see" santa. neither of my boys gives a flip about santa, so they glanced at him and moved on to better things! what a great place for free fun!!

look at the fish, g!


mama, i want this!


and one of these, too!!


and while wes is off chasing remote control jeeps, my other kid is trying his hand at a red ryder bb gun!


then he finds yet another shooting station!

dad and br, y'all better watch out! get him in the woods, and he may put y'all to shame!

how wrong is this?

ok, i saw this on a few different blogs, and i had to give it a try. you upload the parents' pictures, and then it creates a picture of what your kid will look like.

every blog that i have seen this on has been a blog of a pregnant person. let me just make it known to those preggo people that makemebabies.com doesn't even come close to what god made. thank goodness!!!

i'll take my two cute kids...




over this poor thing anyday!! i mean, what's with the elf ears?

happy 2nd birthday, walt!!

train cake, ice cream and trains all on a rainy, sunday afternoon. does it get any better? happy birthday, little man!!



this picture has nothing to do with the birthday boy, but i have never, ever, ever seen ben and william sit this still...ever. (well, except for the one time that they shared a sucker while sitting in the rocking chairs on the front porch...obviously i wasn't paying enough attention!) anyway, i had to post it as proof that the two of them (while together) can be still for more than a millisecond. it may very well never happen again!!