Christmas has arrived!

Ok - much to tell, but I'll stick with some pictures for now. First of all, Santa came! He brought lots of stocking stuffers and toys for the little ones, and Jacks and Nealy have had a wonderful day playing and playing and playing. Jacks is, in fact, still in his pajamas at 4:30 in the afternoon. When he woke up this morning, I think he expected Santa to be there waiting for him, so his waking words were, "I can't find Santa!!" Very cute.

And check out my new bike that Santa brought me!!! Sweet!!

A quick Twilight update.......no me likey, y'all. I'm going to stick with it, because I am going to treat it like an assignment, but I am failing miserably. I was sure I'd be through 2 of the books by now after about 3 nights of reading, but I'm still trudging through book 1. I was hoping things would start to get interesting by page 300 or so, but I'm still waiting for something good to happen other than page after page of descriptions of how gorgeous the boy is, how plain the girl thinks she is, and how much they are in love with one another because of the scent of one another's pheromones, or something like that. You know when you see a movie, and the romantic leads seem altogether wrong for each other, so you wonder why you care about their story? Yeah, it's like that. I need more, Twilight people. Much more.

Also, we spent a night with Joe's grandmother in Huntsville over the weekend. The kids were so well behaved, I didn't know what to do with myself. I'm always terrified that Jacks will go running toward one of her beautiful china cabinets at top speed and break all of the contents in millions of pieces, and he did manage to manhandle a few things that he shouldn't have. And there was that one time that he ran smack dab into Granny ON PURPOSE because he was playing with her (we were really scared she was about to fall over!). But overall, they were really great. I couldn't have been prouder. And Granny gave Nealy the cutest little baby tiara! Have you ever seen such?


We will be headed to Pensacola tomorrow to spend a few days with my family, so I'm sure there will be more to post about. Before I leave you for a while, I just HAD to post this picture of Nealy in her monkey hat. Have you ever?


Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night. Sorry for the erratic nature of this post. I've had a major search for a missing Transformer going on around my feet. I'm so easily distracted.