First Santa Pictures of the Year

We were shopping with the kids at Walmart today and Santa was in the store. We were not dressed for this but there was no line at all so we let the kids take Santa pictures this morning. Hailey went first. She is not scared of anything. Anthony wouldn't take a picture without Hailey and Ashleigh wouldn't get close. So then they took a picture with all three of them. Elena went next and she wasn't scared at all either. We took her picture first and then we added Landon. We tried to then get a picture with all of the kids but that didn't fly with Ashleigh. Krissy and I had to jump in with them just to get her to sit in the picture. They came out cute even though we weren't prepared for them at all.

Black Friday 2008

Today was the official kick off of the holiday shopping season (at least for most of us). We all left this morning at 2:30am for our shopping trip. There were 12 of us this year. There should have been 13 but Aunt Colleen backed out. It was me, moma, Krissy, Aunt Brenda, Katie, Tina, Aunt Linda, Aunt Trina, Aunt Deedee, Meghan, Suzanne & Mrs. Kathy. We all loaded into ours cars and headed for breakfast. We stopped at Waffle House in Covington before we even got going good. After we left breakfast, we headed for Baton Rouge. We got to Walmart about 4:30 am and got ready for that crazy sale. This year it was a little ridiculous. People were everywhere. We are usually in and out of Walmart by 5:30. This year the lines were so bad, we didn't get out until about 6.30. We went to Kohl's after that. They always have great prices on everything! We can't wait until the Kohl's opens up closer to us. After leaving Kohl's we went to the mall, then lunch, then, Target then Toysrus, Target again, and Circuit city before heading home. This was an early year. We got home about 6:30. We had a good day. We filled the van twice. We had to make one load to Katie's apartment just so we could finish our shopping day. Everywhere we went, we got stopped by people asking about our shirts. They were very cute this year. Aunt Deedee did a great job making them. People were taking our pictures and everything. Here are some pictures of us having a good time. We can't wait until next year now!!!

First Weekend Away!!

I let Elena go to the camp with Barrett this weekend. It is the first time I have ever been away from her for more than a day. I dropped her off at school Friday morning and that was it. Barrett picked her up before I even got off of work and they left to go to the camp. They were gone all weekend and came home Sunday afternoon. She had a ball. She talked ninety miles an hour after she got home. She was telling me everything. Jamie and Grayson went with them so she had plenty to talk about. She has scratch marks all over her. She said that her and Grayson were riding in cars and crashed into each other and then they both fell off into the gravel. She didn't care though. She had so much fun. I sure missed her though. It was hard to be away from her like that. I know Barrett takes good care of her(sometimes better than me) but it still worries me to death that she is up there without me. Anyway, I don't have any pics to post because Barrett didn't bring his camera. Maybe next time he will grab one when he goes.