Better Late Than Never?

Ok, I am going to start uploading some pictures. The first ones are actually from our trip up north for Thanksgiving-- I know, how pitiful am I to now upload them, but I thought they were cute and since it will most likely be the only time we see any snow, I thought I'd share. :) This was actually Thanksgiving Day, it was so cute when Isabella woke up she noticed the snow outside and went running down the stairs yelling "Everyone, its snowing!"

This first one is of Isabella and her cousin Josey, they were both so excited to see each other. They really are only a couple years apart, but Josey is on the tall end of the ruler and you know my Isabella, she's my little shorty.

I love this one, Isabella started to throw a snowball at her and naturally Josey ran away. Isabella said "Hey, stop, I want to throw a snowball at you" Didn't quite understand why she wouldn't just stand still. :-) Amelia and I stayed inside for this one, we would have gone out if it hadn't been Thanksgiving morning and by the next day, of course it was gone.

And you know you are truly southern when you build a snowman from a scuff of snow. What can I say, we take what we can get.

When Isabella saw these pictures of our walk in the woods, she said "That's when Aunt Kathleen gave me a surprise." Oh yes, Isabella got quite spoiled, she now thinks everytime she comes in from being cold that she should get hot chocolate and popcorn. We took a walk back in the woods to a little "house" they have. It was like the Three Bears cottage to Isabella or maybe Snow White's. That's what they are actually looking at in this picture, but we'll just pretend it was some sort of wildlife, sounds cooler. :)


This picture of Isabella just makes me laugh because she was carrying the bag of popcorn around the room in the little house and she said "Hey, where's my popcorn,.....Oh, I have it" and then she laughed, and I just love her little laugh. That's Uncle Dan behind her, it would be a toss up between if she would want the hot cocoa with Aunt Kathleen or stoking the fire with Uncle Dan. She really had so much fun being with family. I more or less rarely saw her the whole time, she wasn't used to being around so many cousins, grandma and grandpa, and aunts and uncles and she took advantage of it. I thought this was a cute picture of my SIL Kathleen and niece Hope -- not sure Hope will like that I posted a picture of her with a "caught her off guard" face, but cute nonetheless.

And in this one, you will have to excuse the "background" -- this was really just a quick picture of Isabella with her Thanksgiving outfit on, her shirt says "Gobble til you Wobble"- she is looking way too grown up for me.

While we were there, Amelia either made some big improvements or just was too tired to be concerned, but as you can see she let Uncle Kevin hold her. Kenny put her up on his lap and she and Teddy snuggled right in with him.

Seth (the one to your right in the picture) was so sweet with Amelia and Amelia really took to him and we think she was trying to say "Sethers" while we were up there, but in this picture I think she was a little concerned why these two silly boys were trying to hug her. :)

This picture absolutely cracks me up. We had tried to go out and do something "Christmasy", see some lights and other things around town, but pretty much found nothing. We did stop at one area where there was a large manger scene and a couple other things -- Seth, Ian, Isabella and Claire, seemed to naturally just jump right up and join this little choir. I took this one quick before anyone noticed them playing with the decorations. :) Lots of fun! Now that I've shown you Thanksgiving, I can post Christmas pics tomorrow and then start the New Year off better.