MLK Monday Morning

I work for the state and with that I got to spend the MLK holiday in my pj's at the house. After Jimmy left for work, around 6:30am, I decided that there was no way I was going to make it without coffee... we were out.

So I put a beanie on Mac...

and we were off to Sonic, the closest fast food/coffee place to the house. And I returned home with this...

$1.61 for some sanity and a large black coffee to which I promptly added hazelnut fat free creamer (I mean I'm grown but not grown enough for black coffee just yet)

Soooo haaapppyyyy... and now I can feed my child. We had left over blueberry muffins, yummy yummy!!

and Scary Spice in the a.m.

HA! Ok so that's all the pictures I took on Monday. I got up and thought I would photo blog my whole day but I didn't make it till the end of breakfast!! But we had so much fun playing and being as lazy as we could be on the last holiday I will be given until the end of session. (We might get Good Friday but you never know in session years)

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Wordless Wednesday

1-11-11

Session starts today. Ugh. My future is bleak at best. It starts slow and quickly spirals downward. But I will manage and it will be fine!

Not that I have been consistantly blogging lately, I don't know what my problem is, but blogging will soon be non-existant... and then in June I will be back!


Session really gets going mid-March and then the nights get later and later until June. So far this session looks like it might not be so bad, but no one really wants to get their hopes up.

But hey on the bright side it's 1-11-11.

HA!


I will leave on a much more positive note, my weekend was lots of fun! We had two birthday parties (of which I had my camera at neither!!) and Saturday was Movie Night Day so I got to hangout with some of my favorite girlfriends! Lindsay is responsible for the pictures of Mac in this post... she was chasing him around with her phone! There was a lot going on but we had a great time and it was fun to change things up a bit. One party was at Chuck E Cheese and we had never been! I think we will have to go back soon!

Here's to more blog posting and a better session attitude! :)

New Year's Eve

Yes I realize this post is seriously late but I am behind, already. I know, it's sad. It's only the seventh day of the new year and I can not seem to keep up or catch up for that matter!

Anyway. New Year's Eve.

During the day Jimmy and I fixed our backyard fence! We broke out my new saw and got to work as soon as Mac layed down for his morning nap. Jimmy got all the materials out, took down the two panels of fencing that were being held up by the posts that were falling down and we were ready. I got my new saw to cut shims so we could brace the fence posts that were set horribly horribly wrong and this is where we ran into the problem.

Side Note:
For Christmas I asked for tools because I want to make stuff. I don't know what kind of stuff just stuff, wood stuff. This really wasn't helpful for the men who were going to purchase said tools but they managed. Jimmy found a combo tool set: saw, drill, and light. It was really cool. It was really basic. A great starter set for someone who doesn't know what she wants to do but just that she wants to do something.

So that said, the basic saw just didn't work well. It wasn't powerful enough to cut a cedar 2x4!? We hacked our way through the first one thinkging it was me, it was my first attempt with a power tool so we went on but Jimmy had to take over midway through the second and quickly met with the same problem I was having. Needless to say we packed up the saw (Black and Decker just so you know) and he was off to Lowes to exchange it. And exchange it he did! I am now the proud owner of a Skil Saw!! It is awesome and I can cut through anything!! (ok not anything but any piece of wood!)



We finished our job pretty quickly after getting the new equipment but since work had been delayed for about an hour and a half the forman had to come out to the job site and observe our work. Don't be fooled, he is a cutie but he is tough as nails!



Our finished fence. I didn't get a picture of it before but that whole section in the picture was leaning into the neighbors yard.


We cleaned up the yard and put everything away while feeling very productive!


Mending fences is hard work and we were ready to eat! We had already agreed that NYE would be a good day to just snack so I made sausage balls and queso... so good!! We almost all of everything! We spent the majority of the day on the couch and it was great!

For NYE festivities, we almost didn't make if off the couch, we went to our new friends Blaire and Brads house. Our kids go to daycare together and like our kids the mom's have become fast friends. There were two other daycare couples in attendance, Jocelyn and Scott and Heather and Durel. We also go to meet a Brain and Daisy, they were lots of fun and have a 7 month old. All the babies were there, just upstairs sleeping in play pins! We. Had. So. Much. FUN! Lots of talking, snacking and a few NYE cocktails.

Originally we were going to stay the night but decided it would be better to go home since we had softball practice the next morning. So around 1:30am, later than Jimmy and I have been up in forever, we packed up Mac and headed back to Manor.

Jocelyn and Heather

Me and Jocelyn


Jocelyn, Blaire, Me and Heather: The Daycare Mommas!

Me and Jimmy!

I know this is a bad picture, I tried to lighten up so you could actually see the people and the awesome chiminea... Blaire, Jimmy, chiminea, Scott and Durel


New Years Day started with batting practice that lasted for 3 hours! And then Subway and then home!

We had a great weekend, definitely a good way to start a brand new year!

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Christmas 2010: Part 3

Christmas Eve! On Christmas Eve we usually start snacking early evening, have supper, and then continue snacking until we just can't move! Mom only makes sausage balls and pinwheels twice a year, Christmas Eve and New Years Eve so you have to eat a lot to get your fill for the year. I did. On top of that we had queso and southwestern dip and some sweets. Mom made taco soup for supper, tasty tasty stuff!

We, my Mom and I with much resistance from my brother and Dad, managed to get our annual Christmas Eve family picture taken. You should have heard the whining!! I do have to brag that my two men were perfectly flexible to the pictures and promptly did as instructed :) hehe.



I had a special outfit picked out for Mac to wear Christmas Eve... so adorable. Here are some pictures!




Sitting next to his stocking. (The one he came home from the hospital in...)


Cookies for Santa!!
Waiting on Santa...



And then... Finally... After a whole, long year of being extra special good... It happened...

CHRISTMAS MORNING IS HERE!!! AND SANTA CAME!!!!!

It was worth the wait and the effort of being good! This was Mac's haul from Santa...


And if you ever doubted him, you shouldn't because Santa knows what's up. The stocking full of tissue paper was an especially big hit! Tissue paper action shot...


And let the present giving and receiving begin!

Jimmy got his very first pair of cowboy boots from my parents.
Remember the box Mac was sitting on... it was this super cool race track!
Randall with his new wallet.
Mac's gift to his Dad. Rudolph!



Our traditional Christmas morning breakfast is breakfast pizza. It is soooo good, we almost the entire two whole pizzas! We only get breakfast pizza once a year and it's a shame but it makes it even better! I didn't think of taking a picture of it until just now so maybe I will remember to get one next year... ha!

After we opened our gifts and ate our yummy breakfast we went to my Mama's house to exchange gifts with my Dad's side of the family. This year we were having Christmas lunch with them so we went back to the house (just down the old country road) and started cooking. We went back to Mama's for lunch around noon, I say we it was actually just Mom, Dad, Jimmy and Randall as Mac feel asleep. Mac and I went later though and got to visit. After lunch some of the guys went out to play with my cousin TJ's modified potato gun...

This is TJ shooting the tennis ball up into the air...


Randall, Van and Jimmy waiting...

And then running to catch the tennis ball that was shot up in the air: Van's comment "you know it's a redneck Christmas when someone comes in and says 'Ok if anything happens, this is what we were trying to do...'".



Mac met his cousins, Katie and Carly for the first time.


We left there, went by the house and unloaded food, loaded presents for my Mom's side of the family and headed to town to Mamaw's house. We opened presents and chatted for a while.


Despite this look he REALLY likes his new John Deere wheeler.

Mac developed a new gift opening technique...


And the traditional Christmas group pictures:
The McAlister Women

Mom and Aunt Sheryl

Me and Lydia


We made the guys take a group picture... mainly because we knew how much they would hate it! hehehe


Then we ate supper. I was not hungry but you couldn't tell that from my plate because it was loaded with Mamaw's dressing, mashed potatoes with giblet gravy smothering both and green beans and a roll. My Mamaw's dressing is the best. I know you may think your family members dressing is the best, you are wrong. Mamaw wins. Of course I couldn't eat that and then hurt Aunt Sheryl's feelings by not eating some of her Dump Cake and chocolate pie, so I did. I mean it is Christmas and all. :)

After we finished eating and cleaning up the kitchen, loading our new gifts into the car (and talking some more cuz that's what we looooove to do) we headed back out to the house. Jimmy and I loaded up the Expedition, I wish I had taken a picture, until the entire back was full and part of the middle seat. We wanted everything loaded before we went to bed since we were trying to leave early to beat traffic.

And we did. We were on the road by 7am and ran into practically no traffic! It was great! When we got home and had the car unloaded I managed to get everything put into the room it belonged in... I am still working on getting things put away. Mac took a nap and we relaxed but later we watched Rudolph together! A new tradition we will keep as a new family! :)

Christmas was perfect. I hope yours was too!