Christmas Deer

I know it's way past Christmas. But, I've had these pictures on my camera and just haven't taken the time to add them to my computer. But at our house, Christmas Day was a dreary kind of day. It rained basically all day. While I was in the kitchen, cleaning of course, I looked out my window and noticed we had some visitors in our back yard. Two deer were taking a rest. They stayed there forever. I took many pictures, then I got brave and opened our back door and took a few more before they finally mosied out in the woods. They didn't jump up and run away when they saw me. In fact, one deer stood there for a moment and just looked at me. It was really awsome to just watch these deer. I hope you can see these pictures. If not, then just click on the picture and it will blow it up for you.

Nicholas Quincy Moore

We have a new addition to the Moore family! Nicholas Quincy Moore arrived on 01/03/09 at 12:38 a.m. weighing 7 lbs and 12 oz and 19 1/4" long. Mark (dad), Sarah (mom) and big brother Benjamin along with Nicholas are doing fine. They live in Holley, Michigan so we just can't hop in the car and go see them. My in-laws are leaving tomorrow headed up there. Hopefully Jimmy and I can make a trip up there this summer! Benjamin loves being a big brother. As you can see in the above picture, he looks like he is just beaming! But, he just can't seem to understand why Nicholas can't get down on the floor and play cars with him or why Nicholas can't watch movies with him. When he became a big brother he thought he would automatically have a play partner and Nicholas would automatically be able to do things with him. But that's how life is. It's in our human nature to want and want it now.... I think patience is the most clever thing God has made. He doesn't work on our time, but he works on his time. And a lot of the times, just like a parent, he doesn't give us everything we want. And what do we do? We say "but why?" Isn't it funny how we adults act like that crying child, wanting everything, to our holy parent, God? This year hopefully I can whine less and be more patient!

New Year!

Even though I was off work, I has a busy holiday! The week of New Year I went back to Philly to visit my cousins who were down from Tennessee. It was great seeing all of them, especially Mia and Braxton. They are growing up so fast! For Christmas I got Mia a My Little Pony. The pony came with a 30 minute dvd. I don't know if they're still watching the dvd, but while I was there, they watched it about 3 times. I got Brax the police car from the movie Cars. You have to shake it to "crank it up" and it says something then takes off. It was fun the watch them. It was great to see my cousin, Brian. He and his wife, Leanne, moved up the Nashville a few years ago. She got accepted into nursing anestetic school (I know that's not how you spell it....). She has one more year and hopefully they're back to MS! At least that's what Brian says, he misses Mississippi a lot! That night we cooked hamburgers on the grill and then had a mean game of Yatzee. It was the first time my mom played Yatzee, but she got the hang of it. One New Year's Eve Jimmy and I went to a cooking at my boss' house. It was only 6 of us there, but we had a great time. Jimmy goes to bed at 9:00 so when he stayed up until 11:30, I was shocked!! We both didn't make it to midnight, but oh, well.... The new year still came... I hope all of y'all had a great and safe new year. We'll have to wait and see what 2009 holds for us! Hope y'all have a wonderful 2009!

More Christmas Celebration!

Saturday, December 27th, we had another Christmas celebration with Jimmy mother's family. They all live up north MS, so we don't see them as much as we would like. We always have fun when we get together. I'm going to tell on myself. A lady in the garden club that I'm a member of, had a "Hen House" party. It's just an after Christmas party with the ladies and we just sit around and to talk and eat. Basically, an excuse to get together. So I went on Saturday morning. Well, I got stuck.... I parked my car my some soft, wet dirt, and I got stuck..... I was so embarrassed! But not nearly embarrassed as having to call Jimmy to come and get my vehicle out! I knew he wouldn't let me live it down. After calling Jimmy I walked back to the hostess' house and told her that I was stuck but I had called Jimmy and he was coming. A little lady piped up and said "last year I got stuck and I didn't want to have to call my husband so all of the ladies got behind my car and pushed me out". I can just see all of these well dressed ladies getting behind a car to push it out of the mud just so another lady wouldn't have to call her husband! They offered to do the same for me, but I gratefully declined. I told them that we'll have to wait and see who gets stuck next year.... But Jimmy didn't give me too much grief about it. He had killed a good deer that morning and I think he was still on cloud nine!

The family get together was great. We had a new family member, Ava Elizabeth Ashley, 6 months old. She has such a great personality! It was fun playing with her. After eating lunch the men either went hunting or watched a football game. The rest of us played Phase Ten, it's a card game. As you can tell, we all enjoy playing games..... I've posted a few pictures...

Christmas!

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas! We sure did. Christmas Eve we went to Philly to celebrate with my mom's family. We ate, played Dirty Santa, ate, shot fireworks and then ate some more! It was great! We all had such a great time playing Dirty Santa that nobody remembered to take pictures. I tried taking a few of the fireworks and everyone standing around the fire, but they didn't show up well, so I decided not to post any. But believe me, we had fun! A friend of the family brought his son to shoot fireworks. When we invited them we intended the fireworks being stuff like firecrackers, bottle rockets, roman candles.... Little stuff like that. Well, they went further than that and brought over some of the "big stuff". They were absolutely beautiful! So, we all decided for next year each family is going to bring at least one big piece of firework.

Christmas Day we woke bright and early and had breakfast and opened gifts at Jimmy's parents house. It was really fun to watch the kids, Andrew (12, but we still consider him a kid), Kate (2) and Claire (2 months). Andrew was excited but he keeps his excitement to himself. I think he really wanted to go back to bed. Claire is still a little too little to care. But this is the first year that Kate understands about the presents. She has more fun opening the presents. As you can see from some of the pictures, she really enjoyed help passing out gifts. But I think she enjoys opening the gifts more. Jimmy let her open his gifts. It was such fun the have kids in the family and enjoy them!!