Chirstmas in GA

We headed to GA after Christmas; we were all very excited to see our family! Here are a few of our favorite moments while there :)

We went to the Warner Robins Air Museum; what a cool place to visit, we will go back!

Had to eat at Firehouse Subs, Greg's all-time fave!

Jordan & Hunter

Jannah & Slylar making buttermilk biscuit with Grandma!

We left Grandma's house and headed to Gamma and Gampa's house. So thankful our families aren't too far from each other, makes it easy on us when we go to visit :)

No better way to go to bed than story time with Gampa!

This picture deserves a post of it's own, and it will get that! You will have to come back for the rest of the story...

the annual moose t-shirt picture :)

We love our families and we love the good times we had in GA!!!!

We gave Thanks

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving! My parents and Jonathan came out! I am not sure who was more excited to have them here, me or the kids!! We had a nice visit, filled with a little bit of going, a lot of laughs, some good eatin' and just hanging out.

At the Arch

Mama makes a moose shirt for the kids every year...here are the 2011 shirts

We all took part in making gingerbread houses...one of the J's favorite thing to do :)

Y'all come back soon. You hear?!

Cousin-Time

This is super delayed, which seems to be my new normal for blogging! When we came back from our GA trip, my niece, Carley came with us! So that turned this 5 ring circus into a 6 ring circus :) There were lots of good times! I had to laugh so much at the dynamics of them all and I also laughed at how much she is like my sister...funny how our children are so much like us!

Crafts, crafts, crafts...

Longacre Park, feeding the geese

I love this picture, they all look so small in front of the tall corn; I like it so, because I really don't want them to grow up anymore!

City Park in St. Louis

Peach pickin'at Eckerts

Now this is quite an army!

Gampa came to pick Carley up and he also dropped some furniture off for me! That will be in a later post...

They are busy making a fort!

I miss you, Carley-poo!

sugar-chicks?

Nice title, huh?

Do you see these donuts? They are the. best. EVER!!! When I was a kid, there wasn't a Krispy Kreme, Dunkin Donuts or Daylight Donuts in Valdosta. Nope. There was something even better, DIXIE CREME! Now, G thinks I am wrong about this; but, I'm not: These donuts are the best in the world. Yes, I always feel like I have had waaaay too much sugar after eating about 4 of them (not kidding), but it's worth it.

Gampa's tradition is donuts for breakfast when we visit. The kids have been able to say donuts for about as long as they have been able to talk, I'm serious! He used to get each of them a bag of donut holes, but they have pretty much graduated to eating the big ones. The best part is cleaning up after them once they have all eaten a sprinkle donut...haha! Actually, the best part is eating that last bite that they left behind :)

This is Jordan with his teacher, Ms. S and one of the chicks that is in his classroom. He has been so excited to go to school to see these cute chicks. I love all of the details he comes home with in regards to the chick. He is paying very close attention to them and what they do and how many are close to hatching. Ms. S has about 20 in an incubator and so far, three have hatched. Jordan thinks they are the so cute and was so excited for me to go see them and hold one. I have to admit, they are cute and sweet. I am thinking about getting a few...not really!

memories from GEORGIA

Georgia, sweet Georgia! We took a trip to see our family over Easter, which was SB for the older two J's. My, oh my...what a wonderful time we had. There was a lot going on and we stayed super busy, no-one wanted to leave...there were a lot of tears this time :(

On a much happier note, let me give a shout-out to Michele!!! She went above and beyond the call of friendship, let me tell you about her sweetness! Just weeks ago, she called me and told me she had a crazy idea. After telling me her idea, I told her she was, indeed, crazy. She flew down here, from WA and drove to and from GA with me! Did ya'll here that? She is a dear and true friend to subject herself to traveling for 15 hours with us!!! Greg is tdy (aka: gone) in Virginia, for a military course. So, it was me, Michele and the three J's. She stayed with us for two weeks and we had so, so, so much FUN! Love ya, my friend!

It's hard to pick from so many pictures. I picked my faves, and tried to give a little caption for most of them. There will be some more posts later...of more fun times; but for tonight, I must go to bed!

Jordy with G and G...how bout' them dawgs?!?! They gave him this new hat...he looks so dag-gum cute!

Ms. Michele giving Jannah and Carley a little pedi and mani!

Look at this good-lookin bunch! Gamma made the dresses and bow ties; she always outdoes herself, thank you Mama! We actually wore our Easter frocks one week early...don't tell anyone!

How cute!

Gampa and his boys

Gamma and her girls

Love me some Mama and Lori!

What would a trip to GA be without a little dirt bike, Georgia Boots and shootin' a gun?

***Thanks Jonathan***

Good times at Grandma's house!

Easter morning...they were so cute and so full of sugar a few minutes after this picture!

Jonathan and Aunt Melinda...Let me just tell you a little something about Jonathan. I was 17 when he was born, and I can promise you that he stole my heart, along with everyone else's! He really doesn't know how much I adore him :)

Jannah with Great Granny

Lori and Aunt Melinda

*they make me smile*

Oh, I almost forgot about Jordan's pet...thanks Aunt Lori for catching the lizard! He brought him back to IL with us, he lasted for a week...oops!

Jamison had been waiting for a while to bite into the bunny- looks like it was rewarding!

Jannah showing off her sugar cookie creation

One word sums up the trip: WONDERFUL!!!