I am Thankful for.............

being able to stay home with my beautiful girls on a daily basis. I realize how lucky I am to be able to do this especially when I watch the news everyday.

my husband, for his sacrifice and hard work. He makes it possible for me to be home.

my Julia, for making me LAUGH everyday sometimes more then once. I swear the stuff she comes up with just cracks me up!!

my Mags and her dimples (they are still there and I hope they NEVER go away)

my friends, who help to keep me sane when I am about to loose it.

my "new" friends that I have made since moving up to Ohio.

my family back "home"(Mississippi and Tennessee) who LOVE my girls as much as I do and help out with the kids so Wyatt and I can have getaways once in a while. It is a big job to keep kids when you are out of practice. I know it is tiring and wearing BUT I am soo Thankful for YOU!!! My girls LOVE you for it!!

my God, for giving me my girls and my family to love and nurture for Him while I am here on Earth.

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Julia's class at the concert last week. The little blond with the red bow is Gracie Julia best friend. The little blond boy 6th from the left is Brock-Julia talks about him alot.

Maggie being thankful for the keyboard and music.


We are headed to Memphis tomorrow until Sunday so until then Happy Holidays!!

Lookout we have Dancing Sisters!!!

Here are some clips I thought I would share this week of the girls breaking it down with their BEST dance moves.

** don't forget to pause the music at the bottom **

G & G visit, Vegas Trip, and an Ole Miss Cheerleader

Well Grandmama and Granddaddy came to visit. Wyatt and I went to Vegas for a (much needed) long weekend away. Now the fun is over and G and G are gone and the girls are REALLY missing them!!! Julia was a pitiful soul on Wed when we dropped them at the airport. She really had a blast with her grandparents. Back to the real world.

Wyatt and I had a great time in Vegas. He had to go for work and I tagged along for fun! Now we are in Thanksgiving mode with school pictures, Thanksgiving Feasts and concerts at preschool next week. It looks like we will be BUSY until we head to Memphis for Thanksgiving. The girls are both suffering from the "crud" and it is not fun!! Especially for Maggie since she is still too young for cold medicine. I am curing her with Vaseline and a vaporizer and so far it is working. I was sent back into "motherhood" soon after coming home from my getaway with a trip to the pediatrician with Mags on Wed (just to have her ears and lungs checked because i worry like that) and she was fine. Then today started off GREAT with a surprise trip to the vet with Lucy--(and Mags and Julia you should have seen me it was quite the adventure). She was not feeling well today and let me just put it this way- it was easier on my carpet and floors just to take her in rather then wait it out.......
She is doing better now that she has been taken off of food and had some shots at the vet. I hope she will be back to her normal self tomorrow. Otherwise I might fly back to Vegas by myself!

Enjoy the pics!!

The girls playing
Maggie getting stuck in a cabinet

Grandmama pulled out the "secret surprises" right before they headed to the airport.

Sweet Sisters

I believe her exact words were "Hottie Tottie"

**blog disclaimer**

Please note that G and G went to Ole Miss. That and the fact that I LOVE THEM SOO MUCH and they are GREAT grandparents is the ONLY reason why Julia and Maggie are allowed to wear and be photographed in "Ole Miss" attire. Now that we are up here in the land of Buckeyes we pretty much just cheer for the SEC in general. Still.....I have to admit the cheerleader get up is pretty darn cute (except for the ole miss lettering ---only kidding)!!

A Happy Halloween was had by all...

Julia decorated herself (you can see the nose injury in this one).
Before the Trick-or-Treating


Danny (elephant) and Maggie

The Morris girls (we sure missed Daddy)

Maggie the cowardly lion




Julia and her friend Alex (a puppy dog)

Heading out

And we are off.

Julia's first stop.



Maggie was the BEST!! She just took it all in stride and enjoyed the wagon.

Looking a little more relaxed as the night wore on

She has had enough (good thing we were back and just at our neighbors house)

Eating a Halloween cookie

Yummy!

A self portrait of me and Mags

Much better at a distance

We went trick-or-treating with our neighbor Susie and her boys Danny (the elephant) and she has a baby too but he was being carried. Julia loved "showing Danny how it's done" at every house that we went to. He was really cute and just learning how to talk so Julia was teaching him as we went. Miss Susie also got in trouble quite a few times for saying "Julia" when she was supposed to be saying "Dorthy". Julia did not let her get away with it once. Also Julia's shyness disappeared about midway through and she began to give candy back saying "I don't like chocolate. Can I have something else?" After doing this 2 times in a row I had to tell her just "Keep the chocolate and Mommy will eat it for you later"(smile). Yeah, at least I will get a sweet reward for all of the hard work that I have put into Halloween 2008. I really was beat after this week. We had a great night altogether. Julia was able to experience both sides of Halloween this year. After we went to about 10 house (plenty for me and she felt like she had "enough" candy) we came home to put Maggie down. This way Julia was able to help me answer the door when the kids came by and she loved it! She loved the costumes and handing out the candy. Only one fully masked, creepy skeleton freaked her out and she would not come near the door. She also started drawing pictures to show the kids who were coming over, it was really cute.

** the nose injury in case you have not heard happened when Julia was bouncing on her bed and hit her nose on the headboard. It was at bed time and it involved bleeding and an ice pack and also a very pitiful call to Daddy (who was out to dinner on his trip and had to leave the restaurant so he could hear and talk to her on the phone).


****Also pumpkin pins on the girl's costumes compliments of Grandmama and Granddaddy! Thanks so much they were so cute on them. We can't wait to see ya'll next week!!!!