We start'em early

While I hope to soon blog more about Christmas and what is going on with us, this is just a quick peek at Luke today to wet your appetites. Aaron got an ornament that plays the Mississippi State Song and Luke has definately grown attached to it-and learned a new phrase:

Reading Grandpa's Boat Book

The Most Perfect Christmas Picture Ever:

This is Luke reading his "Boat Book" to Santa, wearing his Daddy's Santa hat. It was this morning and even though I need to be packing for our trip (we are leaving in the morning!) I had to put this up here. ENJOY!

See the ticker? Its up there-at the top ^

Only 13 more days until Christmas! That is less than two weeks! How exciting!! I hope you are enjoying this time. The shopping and the cards arriving in the mail make me think of others, the music on the radio reminds me of the Joy of this season, and the bells dinging outside help us return our focus to the giving spirit that is to accompany this time of year. The trees in houses and outside that are evergreens remind of the eternality of our Lord...I could go on and on. I hope that you don't miss it-don't get overwhelmed or stressed.
Have Peace. Isn't that what we are celebrating anyway?

Yet another short post

It snowed here a couple weeks ago, several inches and it sits on the ground looking pretty. The past couple of days though it has sleeted, rained, and melted just a little bit...so now the snow has an odd shiny plastic look to it...it's like Barbie snow...I don't know how to describe it better than that. So it looks odd, but its funny. Thought I'd share.

Good Job!

Today I was playing Luke's miniature piano, in hopes of getting him interested in it (so I could check my email without him in my lap).
Well, instead of Luke running over and taking the wand from me, he smiled and said, "Good Job".
Of course this is what we say all the time to him, but this was more that mimicking-this was in context!
And so very sweet. I have such a sweet kid!

Don't I feel special?

This morning Luke looked at me from across the room ,and then he blew me a kiss. Complete with the smacking sound and everything! It was F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C! He may never do it again though, he didn't seem to think it warranted the response I gave...oh well. Great while it lasted.

This Christmas

We will be spending this Christmas in Mississippi! We are excited. And a little stressed, maybe. Christmas cards should be out Monday, packages Tuesday, and I'm lacking just a little before I can say I'm done shopping. Sad to say, but I'll probably finish up shopping in Mississippi.
We are going to drive down, 12-ish hours. whew. I'm already tired thinking about it. I know some things already-number 1: Aaron is going to play football with the guys one day. Just so you know. ;) Lots of Bonner family to hang out with! (I'll miss you Emily!!) And I hope to visit with some friends and oo and aah about how big little ones are getting. Possibly walk around outside without snow boots (hahaha)...it doesn't take much to excite me. But that's a good thing.
Yesterday I was struck once again by the fact that when we go over to the Sprayberry's house, Mary won't be there. It was so odd and incredibly sad to imagine sitting on a stool in her kitchen and not being about to talk to her... I am overwhelmingly excited about where she is right now-in the presence of our LORD!! But I think maybe not being there where she was, not actually missing her being there, because I'm not there, is making it take a little longer for reality to set in that she is at home, in heaven. Meaning I'll see her when I get there, but not when I am in Mississippi this Christmas.
Our wonderful God who created our emotions and gives us the amazing capacity to be happy, joyful, feeling a loss and sad-all at the same time! Thank you.

Christmas Pictures

Thanks Kelly for coming over and taking these! They are so nice! This is us in our living room with our decorated mantle and tree, taking pictures. Doesn't Luke look so adorable?? We choose this one to send out as Christmas cards:

Here we are reading our "Jesus book" with Luke and trying to get him to pose a little by getting him to pray. lol. We are such manipulators.

If you look closely at the next picture you may can see Luke's cuts and bruises, he had a rough weekend before we took these, poor kid. He's tough though.

Its amazing how much he has grown since the last Christmas pictures we took!

Yeah, I know. I'm odd.

I am wearing my lower retainer for the first time in, well...lets just say a long time. And I'm thinking today isn't going to be very pleasant. I am wearing it because me teeth are shifting, its very uncommon for me, they usually stay put pretty good but my bad habit of gnawing on the inside of my cheek (gross I know) has kind of taken over and I think it is contributing to my teeth shifting and to the headaches I've been getting lately...
all that to say, Keep me accountable please, if you see me chewing my cheek stop me, sometimes I do it without thinking. Bad bad habit.
Probably To Much Information but hey, my blog, I can talk about whatever I want.

I'm BACK!

Oh my goodness, everyone let out a collective sigh...
*sigh*
Finally, I'm back online. We recieved our new Dell in the mail today and I put it together myself! I know, I'm good. Okay, okay-Luke helped. He is now typing on "his" keyboard (the old computer's keyboard).
I don't have anything for you right now, I'm just so excited to be back online! I'll have something up here for you later-thanks for checking on me!
Come back soon!