Thanksgiving Weekend

I kind of took an unintentional blogging break over Thanksgiving because we were so so busy! I am so behind on reading everyone's blogs, but hopefully I'll get caught up in the next few days!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and I hope ya'll did too! It was wonderful to spend time with family and friends. This year I've come to realize even more how fragile life is and how much we need to take advantage of the time we have with our loved ones.

Ok, so on to our Thanksgiving weekend festivities...

On Thursday morning, Jacob and I headed out to my parent's farm (only about 10 minutes from our house). I helped Mom with some cooking and Jacob, my brothers and brother-in-law, and several other guys from church went to the back of the farm to shoot skeets.

Jacob was excited, that's all. Ha!

The barn my Granddaddy built...I have so many childhood memories on this farm!

My parent's Great Pyrenees puppy.

We ate Thanksgiving dinner at our church fellowship hall. There was so much yummy food!

I'm so glad my 94 year old Memaw was able to be with us!

After dinner, we all headed back to the farm. My sister and I had a little photo shoot.

Love her!

Then we took pictures of each other's families.

Jacob, me and Lily Grace

I love this picture!

After our photo shoot, Jacob and I headed home to prepare food to take to his family's Thanksgiving supper. We ate at Nanny & Papaw's house so everyone could be together (some eating and some sitting at Nanny's bedside). It was a special time. Before the meal Papaw read some Bible verses on giving thanks, then he prayed the most precious prayer. He is at peace with Nanny going to Heaven, and he prayed that the Lord would give that special peace to each family member.

On Friday we got up really early so Jacob could smoke my sister & brother-in-law's turkey and so we could keep our sweet nephew so his mommy and daddy could go Black Friday shopping!

He was so happy even early in the morning!

Jacob and I cleaned our house, and believe me, that took all morning! The Alabama/Auburn football game came on at 1:30pm and we had invited bunches of people over to watch it...but our house was a disaster. Thankfully we got it all cleaned by 12:30ish! ha. Oh, and it's still clean (amazingly!) so ya'll are welcome to stop by for a visit anytime!!

There were about 20 guys packed in this room watching the game! It was quite intense!

After the game, Myra and I headed to our favorite store...Hobby Lobby to get stuff to make Christmas wreaths. It was so fun! When you get the two of us together, you never know what will happen!

On Friday night Jacob's siblings and my three brothers came over to watch UP. It's such a sweet movie and I think everyone enjoyed it.

Well, that's our Thanksgiving weekend wrap-up! It was busy but so fun, with lots of memory making! I am so thankful for my Heavenly Father, my husband, my family and my friends (that includes all of ya'll wonderful bloggy friends!)

Pregnancy Update: 34 weeks

Lily Grace weighs about 4.75 lbs! 

Today we are setting up the nursery!!

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Partners in Crime

Thank ya'll so much for your prayers for Nanny and our family. It means so much! It's really hard to say how Nanny is doing. At times she seems to be doing better, like when she sang "A Cowboy's Sweetheart" complete with the yodel's on Sunday. But then there are times where she seems to be right at the point of death. The Hospice nurse said that all of Nanny's vitals seem to be declining. This is so hard on Papaw. Please keep Nanny and Papaw in your prayers, as well as all the family.
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I love this picture with my little nephew and my youngest brother, Joshua! They are so cute! I have a funny story to tell about them.

Yesterday, I kept these two boys while my Mom and Myra worked out. We went to feed some friend's dogs and then came back to Curves so I could feed Ridley. I got into the backseat of my car and was feeding him some very yummy smelling baby food. ha! Joshua is a little skittish (as most kids are) about somebody coming up to the car, hopping in the driver's seat and driving off with us, so he locked the driver's door.

Well, when Mom and Myra got finished working out and came out to the car, Joshua got out, locked the car door, and Myra got Ridley out and I locked that car door. We stood there talking for a few minutes and then I realized that all my car doors were locked and my purse, phone, and keys were all inside! I have never locked my keys in the car before! Myra and I have the same kind of car, so she tried to use her keys to unlock mine, but of course that didn't work. So I used Mom's phone to call Jacob who was thankfully only about 10 minutes away.

When I called him, I said, "Baby, please come rescue your pregnant wife...I locked my keys in the car!" He just laughed. Oh the adventures pregnant girls get themselves into! ha.

Nanny's Heart

I wanted to ask you again to please pray for Jacob's Nanny. She had another heart attack (the 2nd in 3 months) yesterday and is not doing well at all. She is at home under the care of Hospice. Like I've mentioned before, Nanny is very frail and weak.

Please pray that she would not be in pain and if this is her time to go to Jesus, that He would take her peacefully. The hardest thing for me was to see dear Papaw sitting at Nanny's bedside crying and praying for her. They have been married 67 years and love each other more than any other couple I know. Jacob played Nanny's favorite hymns on his violin today. It was a tremendous comfort to be reminded of God's love, His grace, and His faithfulness.

Thank you all for your love and prayers! The picture above was taken at our wedding in June 2008.

just for the JOY of it - A Little Girl and Puppies

This little girl brought me so much joy yesterday! I got to keep her all day. We played a lot, then we went to the grocery store, several actually, and she behaved so well. When we got home, she wanted to play outside with the puppies even though it was freezing cold!

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Pregnancy Update: 33 weeks

Lily weighs about 4lbs like a cantaloupe (at least according to all the baby websites! ha.)

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Have a happy day!!

Not Me! Monday

On Saturday I did not have so much energy that I...

• went grocery shopping (alone) and did not lug a 20lb bag and a 40lb bag of dog food onto the buggy, around the store, and into my car. No, 8-months-pregnant me would never do that! But I'm sure it'd be a pretty funny sight if I did!
• washed, dried, folded and put away 4 loads of laundry
• finished marking all the hand-me-down baby clothes that have not been piled in my living room for at least 2 months 
• swept the kitchen floor, and since I definitely sweep it everyday (ha!), I did not sweep up 2 dust-pans full of grossness! I'm a way better housewife than that.
• pulled everything out of the hall closet and organized it, including my big stash of diapers and wipes! Nope, I would never have that much energy! 

Also on Saturday, I did not decide on a whim to make pumpkin waffles to add to my after-baby-stash in the freezer. All was going great until I realized that I had forgotten to add the butter...no wonder the waffles were rubbery and not crispy! I never do silly things like forgetting to add ingredients. Nope, not me!

I planned all weekend to make a Banana Pudding for the church fellowship on Sunday night. As I was gathering the ingredients together late Saturday night, I did not frantically search my cabinets for the vanilla wafers and realize that Pregnancy Brain struck once again! Nope, not me! Instead of running out to 24-hour Walmart to buy some, I did not substitute stale graham crackers. Haha, that's a great idea, but I would never do it...especially for a church fellowship!

My dear sweet husband has not been so busy the last few weeks that he hasn't had time for a haircut. No no no, he is always clean cut and non-hippy looking.

Oh, and I forgot to mention that we would never ever put ponytails or water spouts in his hair. No, we just don't do that kind of thing!

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Happy Monday, Ya'll!