Christmas and Ashley

Christmas is my favorite season. This year we had Christmas a little early with Chris' parents and sister. Chris's mom, Joyce, made the best breakfast I have had in a long time. So we had brunch and rested for awhile before we opened presents. Chris and I got Ashley an Easel. It has a chalkboard side and a dry erase side. It also came with magnetic numbers and letters. Joyce and Danny got her a V-tech giraffe thing that she can learn to peddle. It also has other learning things on it. She loved all her gifts. She is just so smart. I love the way she says her name, Ashy. She can't get the "L" out yet, but it wont be long before she does. I asked her whos shoes those where and she said, "Ashys Elmo shoos. She loves her Uncle Chris! She calls him Chis. Everytime Chris went out of the room it was, Chis go potty? Chis go bye bye! One time she pitched a fit and got put in timeout. We really saw her bad side then :( Miranda asked her if she was going to be a good girl for the rest of the day and she said "NO!" (At least she was honest).
Our next Christmas was at my grandmothers house. I had to work half a day so we left as soon as work was over. We played a different game this year. My Uncle Tommy read a story about Mr. and Mrs. Right. Everytime you heard the word right you passed a gift to the right, and everytime you heard the word left you passed the gift to the left. It was a really funny game. I hope we can play it again next year. I got to see Sawyer & Ava Claire. Sawyer looks just like his daddy, Adam. Ava Claire is so sweet. She lets anyone hold her. After we spent the afternoon with my grandmother we went to my parents house. I got to see My Little Man Wilson! I just love him. After a long day we got home at 11:30PM.
Chris does not like to sleep in on Christmas Day. We got up at 7:30AM and exchanged gifts. I got a lot of kitchen things and he got a 4 foot level and some more things that have not arrived yet! (Crazy post office)

Time To Catch Up!

Well its been a long time since I posted something so I will try and catch everyone up. Chris' granny had surgery on October 14th and is doing good.
My cousin Kara is a senior at Clay County High School. She got voted to be on the homecoming court with two other classmates. So Chris and I went down to Ashland that Friday night to be with her and to watch the ballgame. I am glad to say that she won Homecoming Queen!!!! My whole family was excited to see her win. She was really beautiful. Clay County won the ballgame, so it was a good night for all of us.
Thanksgiving was fun, as always! We first went to Grannys and spent Thanksgiving with her on the Sunday before Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving Day we went to Joyce and Dannys. The food was great and we got to play with our niece Ashley. She is so smart and loves the color purple. After Chris and I got home all we did was talk about how well Ashley is doing with learning things. She is only 1 1/2 years old and she knows some of her colors.
After Thanksgiving we started putting our Christmas stuff up. Chris likes to listen to Christmas music while we decorate. I LOVE IT!!! The only thing we didn't get put up was our wreaths on the front windows. We could not find suction cups anywhere, so we just left them down this year. Mom and dad came up for the Alabama-Florida game. ROLL TIDE!!!!! We also got a little bit of snow that morning.
Our next adventure with Bear was a visit from an opossum at 4:30AM. Bear woke us up barking and jumping on his dog house. I looked out the window and saw the opossum on his pin. Chris went outside and shot it and of course it had to act like it was dead, but it wasn't. That was a bad way to start our morning.