Happy New Year!

The girlies still love watching our "2009 Year in Photos" video (ok, ok, I do too!), so I decided I HAD to make one for 2011. Maybe someday I'll get ambitious and do 2010 since I missed it. :)

For now, here's 2011:

Christmas Part 3 - The Bittles

Another installment of Christmas photos! Brad made another of his now-famous turkeys (the Alton Brown brine can't be beat), and we had all the holiday trimmings at Nonny & Poppy's Christmas Day in the afternoon.





These just make my heart melt. My girl. :)

Christmas Part 2 - The Pulleys

Josh and Carolyn hosted our Pulley Christmas gathering again this year. We always have fun at their place - plenty for the kiddos to do, and they always have new changes in their house for me to admire! :)

The kids had fun ripping into their stockings to find ornaments chosen with care for each of them by Oma as well as gold $1 coins - and candy. Gotta love the candy. :)

Christmas Part 1 - Ohio

We made our annual Ohio Christmas Trek early this year, but that didn't stop anyone from being in the Christmas Spirit! We even were able to go to the big Fanning Christmas party, something that we're never around for. It was lots of fun seeing the Fannings (and Ranks, of course!) and visiting Tom & Janel's gorgeous home. Try as we might, we were not able to get any photos with all of our kiddos smiling - or actually, even just LOOKING at the camera. Such is life. I just had to post this one to show what could have been! ;)



Oh, and at least THESE cuties smiled and looked at me! I'll be getting these to Charlet soon! :)





Opening gifts at Mammy & Pappy's couldn't have been more fun for the kids if Santa himself had been there! :)







My fave! :)

Thanksgiving . . . a little late

So I'm uploading and going through Christmas photos to post, and I realized two things:
1. I haven't uploaded or posted photos from Thanksgiving!
2. I haven't posted anything at all on the blog since August 22!

Bad, bad blogger mama!!!!

Sooooo without further ado, here are Thanksgiving photos - with Christmas ones soon to come!

Gram & Mollie | Kindred Spirits :)

I was uploading these photos and realized that Gram and Mollie share a love of dolls! :)



And here's another sweet one of Gram & Nat


Happy Monday to you!

Mollie's Very Hungry Caterpillar Party

I had so much fun planning Mollie's second birthday party. She probably didn't have as much fun as I did working on it, but she did seem to really enjoy her day. :) It's hard to believe that she's now TWO!

We had ALL of the food that the caterpillar ate! I took photos of each thing, but I'll spare you. Here are some of my favorites.



The cupcake cake. It wasn't quite what I had envisioned because Wal-Mart totally messed up my order (gave me WAY more red ones than I asked for), but it was kinda cute.


Mollie enjoyed it, anyway!


Brad's brilliant idea for the kids to eat - since it's hard to "seat" a dozen kiddos under the age of 4, we let them have a picnic on a Very Hungry Caterpillar made from posterboard.


And some other random party pics. :)

Christmas in Oklahoma

We had a late Christmas with our Oklahoma family this year, but it was still lots of fun! I made Pioneer Woman's Drip Beef (OH.SO.GOOD.) for the gathering at my mom's, and Josh & Carolyn made a yummy spiral ham for a gathering at their house. YUMM.

Here are some photos from both days: