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ZOMBIE BRAINS!!!!

Ewww....but, it's yummy!

My scientists at work...

Overflowing brains...

THE Dr. Dreadful. Bwahahahaha

santa was good to jp

Santa came!!
JP got lots of surprises this year. Mainly because he only asked for one or two things. He LOVED his scooter...we cannot wait to take him out and ride it!

Simon FLASH! JP is SO INTO games this year...I am so happy about that. 1, it's something our whole family can enjoy, and 2, it means less TOYS for me to step over!

And here we are (above) staring romantically at the ONE thing we asked Santa for...Dr. Dreadful Zombie Lab! UGH! I disagreed with Santa on this one. You create brains, vomit and bugs and eat them out of the Zombie's skull. Thank you, Nick Toons!

Riding our scooter! We do need to get a helmet...

POWER RANGERS!

I have no caption for this, other than G.R.O.S.S!

Monster House and Spy Kids DVD.

....again, here we are caressing the disgusting.

We had a great time, as always! Santa was so much fun. I hope everyone enjoyed their time Christmas morning. Stay tuned for more pictures from our weekend. (I also have more Gatlinburg pictures..so thankful that I can do this from home again!)

precious faces of christmas

#1- JP opening his gift from Nanny and Papa this morning.

Okay, for whatever reason my computer will not allow me to write a sentence above JP's picture. So, I have to introduce this post from here. Ha! The following pictures (including the above) are the winners of my Precious Faces of Christmas Contest. If you have not heard of this contest, it is because I just made it up. Sad, I know. I will be posting on my Sunshine blog soon how I am ALREADY suffering from the post-Christmas blues, so just humor me...

#2 - Miss Lindi Rose chewing on a carrot, COMPLETELY oblivious to how beautiful her blue eyes are.
#3- Baby Preston admiring Uncle Scottie while opening his gift from us.

#4- Coleman opening his gifts EARLY this morning at Gaga's house. How handsome!

#5- JP & MacKenzie posing for a picture, COMPLETELY aware of how cute they are!

#6- Another picture of Preston sporting his GQ stripes!

Please feel free to cast your vote! I cannot choose...I love them all!

*Please note, there is NO prize for the most votes. This is just a meaningless poll for only myself. In fact, I feel sure this post will be as successful as my "Tell me what you're thankful for" post on my other blog. But, oh well, I was less bored for twenty minutes and I was able to play on my new laptop.*

merry christmas

Merry Christmas, everyone!! I CANNOT believe that Christmas is, (for the most part), over. It has really been a good one for our family. I will admit, I was NOT in the Christmas spirit at all. I don't know why. Maybe because we have been drowning in so many different stresses over the past year. I am tired.

But, thankfully God showed His love once again throughout our entire family this weekend. Everyone had such a nice time together. I have a lot of pictures to share. Between Gatlinburg and Christmas, I will be posting pictures FOREVER! Just stay tuned and be patient with me. However, it will be a lot easier for me now, because Santa brought me a NEW LAPTOP!!!! Thank you, Santa!

I hope you have had a wonderful Christmas!!

a little bit of dollywood...

We have a daredevil on our hands! JP is not afraid of ANYTHING! I cannot wait until he can ride "big people" roller coasters with me!I was so happy with how this picture turned out..I took it while the ride was going FULL speed!

You cannot tell because of my flash, but JP wanted me to take his picture in front of the blue Christmas tree...it's his favorite color!

The little kid DROP ZONE! It actually went up pretty high in the air. JP laughed the entire time...so did everyone watching! It was too cute.

great family week!

We are back from Gatlinburg and we had a great time!! I will have to post the pictures over time..I took almost two hundred! For now, here are a few of us in Dollywood on the "Polar" Express! My boys!

Family picture...

This is what I will be doing next week! Scott, JP and I are leaving for Gatlinburg on Sunday and not coming back until Friday evening. I am so excited!

I will take my camera (of course) and bring back some GREAT pictures. We are going to spend one day in DOLLY WOOD. I cannot wait for that...we have never been at Christmas time.

We have been doing pretty well lately. Scott has not been too sick. He has his moments. He will be having an ultrasound and more blood work done the week after Christmas. For now, we are enjoying the time that we can and doing our best to get through the not-so-good times. We are BOTH looking forward to getting away next week. It will be really good for all three of us. And now is a good time to tell you that I WILL NOT BE TAKING ANY PHONE CALLS WHILE I'M GONE, (except emergencies and immediate family), SO IF YOU CALL OR TEXT ME, I WILL CATCH UP WITH YOU WHEN I RETURN!!

Scott and I really need to focus on us and time with JP. With everything going on, sometimes it's easy to be rushed/frustrated and busy. In Gatlinburg, we are going to BE STILL!

I hope that everyone has an AMAZING Christmas!