Christmas Eve

Since Christmas Eve fell on a Saturday we decided to have Christmas with Mom and Larry that morning. Friday night I put 2 very excited little kids to bed! What was really fun about it was that we got to have 2 Christmas mornings. There is nothing like kids anticipation on Christmas morning. This is going to be just a ton of pictures. 

So Tammy lives in Cullman, AL now so we don't get to see her often. Mom and I had both asked her to come home for Christmas but she said with their work schedule it just wouldn't work out. Well Saturday morning Ryan and I are getting the presents ready to go to moms and Ryan asked who's F150 was pulling up behind our shed. For some reason I didn't care and was just trying to get to moms. Ryan was really concerned about it but for some reason I wasn't. I had walked outside and was half way to moms when Ryan opens the front door and yells at me to come back home. I was so aggravated. he said just sit the presents down and come back real quick. I thought he needed me to help him do something so I was just getting madder and madder. Ok, Ryan I'll just sit down all these presents in the middle of the wet grass to walk back in the house. I walked back home, aggravated at him, and walked in the foyer and she comes running from our bed room! It scared me to death! I was sooooooo excited to see her!! She COMPLETELY surprised us. We literally had no idea she was coming. We then ran to moms and snuck in and surprised her too! It was a great Christmas present!!!

Nana and Paw Paw came over for breakfast at moms. It really did feel just like Christmas day.

Later in the afternoon we got dressed and headed to Ryan's Grandads.

Grandaddy with all his grandkids and great grandkids. Well just the younger ones.

We got way to many presents over there to just head to Aunt Cheryls to get even more.

I love how these 2 guys make me feel SHORT! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it!!

I'm doing a whole different post on our NEW PUPPY!!!!!

When we got home we got cookies out for Santa.

And fed the reindeer. A side story on he reindeer...the food was obviously still out there the next morning and Tanner said "Stupid make believe reindeer. We just wasted all that food on no one!"

We then laid out their way to many presents and headed to bed. It was such a fun day and I'm so thankful we got to spend it with our family!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! Love Ryan, Tiffany, Ryleigh and Tanner

Happy Birthday Ryan!!

Happy Birthday to my favorite guy!

Anyone that knows Ryan knows that he has been saving up for a few months now to buy boat electronics. They are very expensive but he knew we weren't using any of our money to buy them. Bless his heart, he's never saved up for anything in his life. He still had a little ways to go but guess what I surprised him with....

He's not one to get excited about much but I love that smile on his face when he opened them. He had NO idea I was getting them for him. He was even more surprised that I bought them for him (with my money). I had gotten with his friend Wesley and he told me exactly what to order. I had told Ryan I would give him money for his birthday and Christmas to put up for his electronics. So he thought he was opening a ton of ones.

Ryan, this is the first and last time I ever plan to buy you something so expensive! So don't get used to it!! I'm so glad you like them and the smile on your face was worth all the money I spent. You don't get excited about many presents. I think I was more excited about giving it to you than you were about getting them!

Happy Birthday and Merry Christmas! I love you more than you love your new electronics!

Party, Party!

The next few post are just so I can have the pictures on my blog. It's Christmas, I'm tired and I don't feel like writing a lot.

Just take a moment to look at Ryan. I like how he's sucking in like Superman. I love Robert's (beside him) smile even more! :)

The kids had a blast throwing ball pit balls into the ceiling fan! They thought it was the coolest thing ever. Of you hit the blade just right it really would go flying hard across the room!

Poof!

I've never been a hair person. I've never colored my hair or really had a hairstyle. Now that I feel like I'm a "grown up" I thought it was time to get a grown up hairstyle. I spent a good bit of money (something I NEVER do) to go have my hair cut and styled professionally. At a real salon. Not Fantastic Sams or some random place. I looked at it as an investment.

So she cut my hair. To be honest I wasn't impressed, it was basically the same haircut I had for the past, I don't know, forever! But then she did something I had never dreamed of doing...she Poofed my hair!

When she initially said she was going to poof it I had thought surely this lady is crazy. But the end result? Pure Love. I had never Loved my hair like I did that day. Everywhere I went, seriously, everywhere, people commented on how good my hair looked. And yall, I'm someone who never got compliments on my hair. It's just not something people noticed. Height? yes, all the time but not my hair. So here is the picture...I would also like to say I fixed it on this day. So it is something I can actually do at home and not one of those salon do's that are impossible to recreate. Not that I would know much about that since I have visited a salon about the same amount of times as I've won the lottery. (Zero, in case you were wondering.)

It's a terrible picture but you get the idea.

Thanksgiving was the first time my family had really seen my hair and the boys laughed at me for a solid hour. Well the boys and Whitney. They kept going on and on with the big hair jokes. But I believe the bigger your hair the closer you are to God, right, Nana? :)

After all the laughs, I have had numerous request to poof other peoples hair. I would maybe even venture as to call myself the poofing expert of the family. I have tried more hairsprays than I care to count and have found the ones I like best. I've poofed Aunt Velvet's hair, Lindsey's hair and a few of my friends hair.

Aunt Cheryl even had me come over when she was getting ready for a wedding to poof her hair. At first she was unsure if she liked it or not but she wore it like that anyway. And guess what, (I know you know but humor me) Everyone loved it!! She said she got tons of compliments on it all night!!

I have even transitioned into poofing my ponytails. I haven't perfected it yet but I did have someone stop me in the Limited to ask me how I made my ponytail looks so good. Nothing like a stranger admiring your Poof to make ya feel good. So here's to Poofs!

Happy Birthday Jesus

This Friday night we had out Happy Birthday Jesus party at Nana's. We've done it ever year since we were little and we always have so much fun! Here is Nana reading the Christmas Story. The kids were so good during this. They stayed quiet the whole time. 

Me holding baby Noah...I have to admit, this did give me the tiniest bit of baby fever. Now don't go crazy mom, I said the tiniest bit. I thought it would be cured by the end of the night because he was bound to start crying but nope, he was so good all night!

It was a fun night! After the party Me, Ryan, Whitney and Jordan loaded up and went shopping. We didn't get home until late. Saturday morning Me, Mom and Aunt Cheryl got up and went shopping...I'm shopped out and thankful to be done!