An attempt...

...at a Christmas photo!

Ahhh...goldfish to stop the crying!

Ellie and Santa

Ellie posed with Santa at the Flea Market on Sunday, December 19th. Bailey was napping and missed all the fun...

You seen Santa?

At the Pink Palace with Mason

With Grandma...

Stomp Rockets on Christmas Day

Santa is Serious Business...

Merry Christmas!

Today, we visited the Enchanted Forest at the Pink Palace. Memaw, Brandon, Stephanie, Mason, and Logan joined in the fun!

And Ellie had a nice little chat with Santa at the end of the exhibit...

Bow Wrapping?

LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION, ELECTRIC BILLS!!!

As many know, Jason teaches computers and networking at Mid-South Community College. To show off his prowess at computer programming skills, he wired the house lights up to our laptop and created a music file. After Jimmy helped him create the display boxes for the instruments (resembling the instruments playing in the song), he set the whole thing in motion.

This is the result after several hours of listening to "I Saw Three Ships" and programming the computer to turn the lights on and off to the beats. Both videos are on YouTube and you will need to turn up your volume as the camera was recording the music coming from the car stereo speakers (yes...he even built an FM transmitter for the music and we broadcast on 87.7 FM).

The whole house... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-lQtcDU038

The horns up close... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83QZ3BMt11c

By the way...Ellie loves to stomp around in the lights and talk to the " 'nomun"--her word for Snowman.

Trying out the new tricycle...

...With a fierce determination to get all of those streamers in her mouth

'Lo

The unveiling...

Hello...more like 'Lo

'Lo...trying out the other side

'Lo...with the pull string :)

Ellie's New Kitchen

So...we thought we were getting a good deal on a kitchen for Ellie. And it was good deal for $20...but the box didn't warn you that there was going to be some sweat equity involved.

All of the pieces out of the box...

About an hour later...finally Jason was all finished

Our "Deer" Little Ellie

Playing in the ball pit

A Visit to the Enchanted Forest...

A picture Jason took before the docent lady swooooooped down on us and told us that we couldn't take flash pictures. Uh oh...

This is me putting Ellie's right shoe back on for the 1st time...eventually I gave up. Later we went to the flea market at the fairgrounds...and she kept removing her right shoe and sock. At least 10 people spoke up to tell us that our kid had lost her shoe.

The picture with Santa...

Jason's favorite tree

The End!

Presents!

She took Logan's present for a test drive...