Christmas Activities

Christmas is one of my favorite times of the year. I love that our little community does such fun things to get everyone involved. Being from such a small town is truly a blessing. Everything that is done is centered around the REAL reason for the Season. It is so much fun to see Suzy soaking it all up.
This year the Senatobia Christmas Parade was centered around our law enforcement men and women. It was so much fun. Suzy and Bryar soaked up every ounce of it and collected quite a collection of candy!

Santa always ends the parade! He is always a big hit. 

The first Christmas gift of the year came from Kalon's mama and daddy, CinCin and Daddy Jon (my pet names for them). Suzy was pumped to get some new books and I was thrilled with the books that CinCin selected. She sent her "Don't Swallow Baby Jesus", which is written by Whitney White. I went to MSU with her. She is such an amazing girl. So proud to add that book to our collection. Sally also got her very first monogrammed item. CinCin makes checking the mail so exciting. I am so proud that KK shares her parents with us. We love them to death.

Suzy had her Christmas party at FBC, as well. I was definitely the "Mother of the Year" and missed the celebration. My sweet friend, Jessica McAlexander, sent me some pictures of Suzy with Santa and friends.

Suzy and her sweet little friend, Piper Massey.

I have been looking for stuff that Suzy and I can do to pass the time this week. We made a trip to Walgreens and bought an amazing little gingerbread house kit. I begged her to wait on her Daddy to get home before we tried to build it. She didn't want to wait, of course. She talked me into opening the box just to look at all the candy it came with. About 14 seconds after opening the box and examining the candies she talked me into building the house.... Huge mistake. I am a teacher... NOT a gingerbread builder.

It is not looking too shabby here, right? I have followed the directions perfectly....

And Suzy is pretty darn good at placement...

And, that is about as far as she and I got with it. After trying to fix the roof a zillion times I was ready to give up. Scott walked in and saved the day...... or so we thought.....

He disassembled the whole darn thing. He said that we didn't do it right...

Well, he couldn't figure it out either. So, in the trash it went... Of course it was our fault that it was such a disaster. 

We decided that we would go buy a new one and start over. Instead of going to the local Walgreens we decided to spice it up a little bit. We got dressed and headed to Hernando. They have Fins and Grill (AKA- The Bean Store) and Walgreens, so it was a much better option than the fast food in Senatobia. While we were getting dressed, Scott spotted a doe in field behind our house. We watched her for a little bit, but Sue had to get a closer look before heading North. 

My sweet little bulldog loving, deer watching, bow wearing Sue Baby! 

It has been unseasonably warm and rainy this week, so we have had to find some stuff to do besides destroy my kitchen daily.... Suzy loves fingernail polish and Play Doh, so those two activities have passed a great deal of our time. 

See those blasted Picking Pull Ups....?! Geez, I am so ready for Red to take those back to The North Pole! 

Pedi for Mama...

Excuse my disgustingly long fingernails.... They are fun for her to paint, but they are so nasty. Cutting them should be the first thing on  agenda when finishing this blog. 

I am telling y'all...... I should be a Play Doh master by now! This little guy even has pine straw hair and arms! We were sitting outside under the carport in pajamas and flip flops. It was seriously like 75 degrees.