Our Crazy Christmas

As I promised you girlies (and guys if I have any that read my blog.. dont think so though) here are some of my fav. pics from this past week. Everything was so busy but so magical.

Emma learned very quickly how to open presents. She learned that there usually was something fun and noisy behind the pretty paper. She loved it so much in fact that she was unwrapping presents before it was time! I guess we all love a gift ;)

We ate lots and lots of food. Laughed hysterically with each other. Shed some tears from the shock still setting in a daddy's sickness. Made lots of memories. Had a wonderful christmas.

Check it out for yourself. Hope you enjoy some of our pics... I will try not to bore you with adding to many ;)

Somebody was a little excited!

Terrible pic of me and Derek but ya know its one of like two we took that day

Grammy, my sister Lauren, me,Mom

Loving the tree

Loving on my girl

Emma was enjoying playing in the pantry

Papa was dancing to the music as he helped Derek with the Santa projects

They even set the table for her ;)

Emma and Derek playing kitchen (you can tell it was early for both of them ;)

My sweet daddy

Please excuse the runny nose here.. just a sweet pic I thought of my girl

I told you she was the best open mouth kisser in town!

Well as you can see we took lots of pics with our new camera. Need to work on not using the flash as much and get some natural light going on. As well as some other things photography wise.. bear with me...I am a work in progress ;)

Hope your christmas was as wonderful as ours!

My fav. Christmas Present.

I hope to get a christmas recap up and at it tonight! In the meant time I am going to play along with Keely over at Mannland5 and do "Getting to Know YOU" The question this week is "What was your fav. christmas present you recieved" This one is easy for me!! My fav gift this year was...

a Canon Rebel. I am super excited about it. You should be too... now you wont have to see those grainy yuck pics on my blog anymore!! WOO HOO! There is a small problem though. I have no idea how to fully work it yet! Also my photography skills are really lacking. So dont expect any Mckmama style photos just be happy they arent grainy ;)

Now that christmas is over... I am ready to get back into the swing of blogging and chatting it up with my @imaginaryfriends.

I will be back later on tonight to fill you in on all of our christmas craziness and show you some of my fav. pics!!

Cant wait to hear about how your christmas was and what your fav. present was!

Tyler

Merry Christmas

While Santa is delivering the toys and putting things together I thought I would pause for just a short minute to wish all my wonderful bloggy buddies a very merry christmas!! I hope each and every one of you enjoy your time with family and friends. Laugh alot. Make lots of wonderful memories. Take lots of pics (to post on your blog of course ;)

Christmas has been so magical so far.. I can only imagine what the morning will hold!!

Thank you all for your wonderful friendship. You girls are so special to me!

Merry Christmas!! Talk to you all after the craziness comes to a hault

Much love
Tyler

For me?!!?

I got an early Christmas present! Nope it wasnt my camera that is sitting under the tree perfectly wrapped just waiting for me to tear into it! It was a bloggy award from my buddy Beth over at Laught Until You Cry!  Here check it out for yourself.. its super cute

I love it... Thanks again Beth!

Now this award comes with rules.. but pretty easy rules! (Thank goodness ;)

 Rule *1 List 10 things that make you happy

1. My precious baby girl Emma

2. The sweetest husband ever (well most of the time anyways)

3. Shopping

4. Sweets...anything sweet!

5. woship music at church

6. Football (Go Panthers)

7. Comments on my  blog

8.Twitter with my @imaginary friends

9. My family (not just Derek and Emma... but being with everyone this time of year!)

10. Did I mention sweets?!? ;)

Rule *2 List ten fellow bloggers to pass this award on to

1.Backwoods Fern
2.Emersyn Grace... Our Bigest Little Blessing
3.Our Daze in the Desert
4.The Bignell Family
5.The Nuthouse
6. Cop Mama
* I am giving myself another early present and having to stop at 6 because someone decided they wanted to cut there nap time a smidge short *ahem* so girls feel free to scoop up your award whenver you get the chance!!

Rule *3 Link up to the person who gave you this award!

Alright well I have abided by all the rules (well almost) so now I must go and get miss priss dressed and ready to go. We have a par-tay tonite!!

Merry Christmas

Tyler

Hot and Healthy week 8?!

Its that time again......

Time to check in and see how we did this past week. So sorry I didnt check in last week...I got carried away and by the time I remembered it was to late.. I know excuses excuses.. but I am here checking in now! So all is well.. right?!

These past few weeks have been tough and I am sure this next one will be as well. Its just so hard to resist all the scumptious sweets and great food around. Not to mention all the fast food you eat while you shop!! Its terrible. What is even more terrible is that I am not strong enough to control the urge and just walk past the sweets instead I dive in like cookie monster and dont look up until they are all gone! ;)

This week the questions are.....

How'd your week go?

As I said earlier... it was pretty crumby!

Did you consume any empty calories.?
Yes I did... and way to many at that.. I know I know that was the whole point of this challenge :(

Did you get your cardio in?
I got a couple days in but nowhere close to the goal...

Pilates? Did ya do it? Huh, huh..didja?
That would be a negative...

Are y'all ready to be done with the Hot and Healthy gig or could ya go for more?
welll... Kind of! I am ready because I feel terrible when I check in and I have had a week like this past week.. but come new years its on like donkey kong in this house... because as many of you have noticed bathing suits are already starting to hit the store shelves and this momma IS going to feel better this summer than I did last year!

It was a tough week last week so I am going to go out in style this week and have a calorie binge because its all over come January.

If I dont get around to posting again before Christmas I hope that each and every one of you has a fantastic Christmas. Cant wait to see all of your pictures and hear all about it!

Merry Christmas

Tyler

Let the rush begin!

Well actually our family gatherings started yesterday but you get the point. I cant believe Christmas is THIS week!! The past month has flown by..I feel like I have ran around like a chicken with my head cut off and still am not finished. I still have to buy for my mom. Not really sure what to get her. She gave perfume as an option but that is very hard to pick out for somebody. Dont you think? She said nothing loud and /or fruity smelling. Do you have any suggestion?

Also as some of you know from my twitter comments but wanted to let the rest of you know in case it is brought up in a post. This past week my dad was diagnosed with liver cancer. Still unsure of alot of the details at this point. what I do know is he has two tumors on his liver. That is two more than we would like there to be. So please if you are a prayerful type person keep him and my family in your prayers. We have alot of tough decisions coming up and could really use them.

I am not going to keep going on and on about it... I know this is a fun and joyous time of year but I just wanted to make you all aware. Some of you have come to feel like family...

Tyler

Getting to know YOU!

Hey girlies! Today I am going to jump on board with my bloggy buddy Keely over at MannLand5 and have a sunday funday. This is a little blog carnival she put together to help us get to know each other a little better. So head on over and check it out!!

Alright we have one word (I will try and keep it short ;) answers this week so here it goes....

Today's questions..


1. Middle name? Elizabeth


2. What do you think is your best asset (physical)? Eyes


3. If you could only eat one type of cuisine for a year, what would it be (Mexican, American,Chinese..etc.)?
hhmmm... thats a hard one but I am going to to Italian

4. Walmart or Target? Def. Target... there are not very many days when I have the patience for wal-mart. I do believe you can get alot better deals at wal mart but after you deal with the crowd and crazy people I would rather spend a few more dollars...lol

5. Favorite State besides the one you live in? New York... really because I love the city! I love the hustle and bustle of the city, the melting pot of people, sense of style, and entertainment. Christmas time is my fav. time of year to visit.. beautiful

6. What side of the bed do you sleep on, left or right? Left

7. King or Queen size bed? King.. thank goodness... I need my space

8. Beer or wine? Beer... does that make me a redneck? Possibly!

9. Water..ice-cold or room temp? Ice-cold.. room temp water is so... BLAH

10. Christmas..love it or hate it? LOVE IT!! :)