The Saturday before Christmas we woke up really early and drove over to Bastrop, LA to visit Jeremy's grandparents (on his dad's side). I wanted to bring Christmas dinner to them at the nursing home, so I stayed up late the night before cooking a turkey, whipped potatoes, green bean casserole, cornbread dressing and rolls. I am totally like my mom and always make way more food than is needed. We had tons of leftovers! Shelby always loves seeing Mamaw and Papaw, and really enjoyed walking through the nursing home with them and looking at all the Christmas decorations.
We just stayed in Bastrop for the day and drove back that night. The next day we made Christmas cookies. Shelby loves helping out, and she was more than willing to help us bake, decorate, and eat the cookies!
After a busy three days of work, we left on Christmas Eve for Hattiesburg. We were so tired the next morning, but we were excited to see family. We ate, opened presents, and Shelby got to meet her new cousin, Jonah.
We even taught everyone our favorite card game, Golf. We had a McGrath-sized game going, but I don't think things got as rowdy!
We got back late Sunday night and it was 3 more hectic days of work for me. After dealing with a leak and the plumber cutting two large holes in our walls, we headed over to the Majoue's for New Year's Eve. We are such boring people. We ended up leaving about 20 minutes to 12, because Shelby had had it. It turned 12 while we were driving back. We laughed though...it was better than the year we were in Walmart when it turned 12! The next day our friends Andy and Michelle drove up from Austin. Of course we had to Top Golf it with them. I had to take a picture of the scores from the first game we played...
Jeremy said that night was worse than any Christmas Eve when he was little. For Christmas I got him tickets to the Cotton Bowl. He could hardly wait to cheer on Ole Miss as they whooped Texas Tech.
After the guys got back, we all geocached. We thought it might be difficult in the dark, but we found every one we were looking for. It was fun. While out, we stumbled upon this awesomeness:
Shelby was mezmerized. She was hanging out of the window (don't worry, we were parked) and shaking her booty to the music. The next morning we ate breakfast at Ham and Eggs. Why am I telling you about breakfast, you ask? Well, I'll let the pictures speak for themselves.
So much for our resolutions to eat healthier!
On December 28th, Shelby turned 18 months old. We were still in Hattiesburg that Sunday, so today was her first official day of nursery. We didn't get any god pictures before church, because I was running around getting some last minute things ready for Primary, so we just snapped a quick pic before sending her off on her own. The nursery leaders said she did great! I figured she would since she had been in there with me for so long when I was a nursery worker. I looked in on her a couple of times, and even though I was used to seeing her playing with all the other kids, it was still a bit sad for me today, I guess because it was "official"...she is so big!
Well, there you have it. Whew, I am completely caught up. Now off to bed to rest my eyes. They are burning from looking at this screen so long.
6 comments:
Dang gina! Very eventfull! Pictures are so cute!
Thought I would let you know that Shelby is the only child in the nursery who knew all of the motions to song Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes. It was very impressive! Jesse really enjoys playing with her in there. Glad you have a fantastic holidays.
Are you not a nursery worker anymore? That light show was awesome! Is it out someplace away from neighbors or was it right in the middle of town? That would be horrible to be their neighbor during Christmas time.
Nope, now I am the Primary secretary.
Yeah, this was actually a duplex right in the middle of other houses. Both tenants must have agreed to it. And the neighbors must just black out their windows. (The noise isn't bad, because you actually tune in to 102.5, so they don't have music blasting.)
Aidan,
Just stumbled on your blog from Emma's. So cute!!! Loved looking through the pics of Shelby. In all the hectic-ness on Sunday, I totally blanked that Shelby was starting Nursery. I'm so glad she did well. Lena was thrilled to go in there and it's still her favorite place in the world!
What a fun Christmas!! Glad you were able to be with your family.
We need to hang out!!!!
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