I just think these are neat (and sweet)

January 2008 Baby showerDecember 2008 Baby's first Christmas

Our first Christmas with Rebekah
The most beautiful girl in the world and her Momma

Rebekah playing with Mamie

Rebekah and her great Grandmother and Granddaddy Momma's most favoritest girls

Santa baby went to visit Oma
Rebekah playing with KaaKaa and Oma

Christmas with the Bakers

There are sooooo many pictures to share. I'm too lazy to put them in chronological order.

Please enjoy this random sampling.

The girl with her Mamie

Her Christmas dress was a gift from Dawson, Pam and Melissa

She loves boxes In her box turned "chef" hat
She knows she is cute

Silly girl you can't carve the meat if you can't see it

She likes her books from DeaDea

There are so many people for her to see

Her favorite gift: the wrappings

She had developed an apetite for paper of any kind.

Just some quality time with Dolph

She is thinking "I like that moustache, my Daddy has one too."

They like each other just a little bit.

"You people won't just let me be, I'm trying to go places"

Just a little help from Mamie

I'm 99% sure, Miles is her favorite Baker

She wants to know where she can get some hair like his

She says "Wow, Grandmother's tree has way more ornaments than Momma's."

And then Mamie says "I'll buy you whatever you want, precious girl"

The Carter clan dressed to impress.

Did it work?

Merry Christmas Eve with Mamie at Granddaddy and Grandmother's. Her Momma's heart captured in one picture.

She is so pumped to eat mush, while everyone else gets real food.

And I finally got to see her...

The following picture was taken in March 2006 and that was the last time I got to see Annette. At that time she was about 3 mos. pregnant with her daughter, Bay. It had been about a year since the last time I'd seen her because she had to go and move to Kentucky,and that is farther than a weekend driving trip away.But this picture was taken just last week! I finally got to see her after almost three years!!! She and hers drove down to Greenville to see family for Christmas, so Rebekah and I drove up to meet them. It was lovely. And I finally got to meet Bay(2) and June (1)! And they got to meet me and Rebekah.

I'm not super sure the girls enjoyed the visit, but we moms certainly did.

They ate together and had very serious important discussions.

And June teased Rebekah with some beads.

Annette, Rebekah and I went to visit the Lewis family at their new house. Rebekah and I hadn't seen them since September. They are still quite wonderful. This is a picture of Robert and Rebekah being the smartest children in the world.

Rebekah really liked this toy tractor and the noises it made.

Our trip to see Annette lasted all of 5 hours and was very worth much worth the drive. I'm hoping it won't be another 3 years before we can visit face to face again.

An introduction...

I'd like to introduce you to....

Wilson

Franklin

Collins,

the one and only Wendy's Square burger prince of my heart.

Well, it is really a second introduction. His first being by his Mama over at her place.

I finally got to meet my little Squareburger prince and he is more precious than I'd imagined and neither mine nor his Mama's pictures do him justice. Though their Christmas card/birth announcement was quite beautiful.

And then there is this picture of his sweet Mama and me, too. I painted the prince a picture (click the link and his is the top one) and got the chance to deliver it the last time I was in Jackson. And I even got to hold his preciousness for a loooooooong time. I stole him away from his Aunt Brookie. I love him, you will too.

Lewis Lights in Purvis, MS

If you live in our area, it is a must to take the time during December to go out and see the LEWIS lights. (I googled "Lewis lights Purvis, MS" and it pulled up 63,000 results). So click here or here or here to see some other locals' pictures of the lights or just enjoy few pictures. We went on a Friday night with the Giles and Mauls. It was cold and we were bundled up. Rebekah really enjoyed just hanging out with me.

Merry Christmas!

We hope you had a lovely Christmas. We were busy busy bees.

We began the celebrations last night in Jackson with the Baker family. Rebekah finally met my cousins Rachel and Jessie. Rebekah got lots of attention and several wonderful gifts. She enjoyed the tissue paper, empty bags, and boxes the most.

Our second event was Christmas lunch at our house with Great Grandmother & Granddaddy, Mamie, and Aunt Hayley. Rebekah got even more gifts; lots of books from her Momma and Daddy and a few more books from Mamie.

Then we drove to Laurel to see Oma and KaaKaa. Rebekah got even more presents (Did you know KaaKaa is magic and he can fit a pony in a box?) And we took a Christmas ride in the golf cart. Rebekah giggled every time we took a bump.

Our last Christmas day event was supper with Pops at our house. Rebekah was very glad to see him. He makes her laugh. He brought her a swing and she checked every part of it out already. She has a thing for straps. He also brought her present from Aunt Liz and Darian. A walker/stroller, she played with it alot.

It is now 9:40. Rebekah and her handsome Daddy are sleeping peacefully and I'm up avoiding stacks of dishes and thank you cards. I hope you all had a beautiful day and I leave you with this Christmas card picture (actual Christmas event pictures will be posted later, promise)

This week was a blur, next week might be too.

All the babies at our house creeping...
Sweet puppy breath kissesLuke came over to see the puppies.

They liked him.

Rebekah likes to grab her Daddy's face.

She is saying "Dada" ALOT these days.This is her first Christmas present.

They had a secret Santa party at the sitter's.

She played with it all the way home.

Getting squeaky clean.
Bed head after a three hour nap.

Following Gravy out the door (well trying to anyway).

We are at home enjoying a lazy weekend even though two of us are sickly.

Rebekah and I start a trip tomorrow(12.21) to meet these lovely girls in Greenville, MS.

We'll have Christmas with the Bakers in Jackson on 12.24,

Christmas Day lunch at our house, Carter Christmas at our house on 12.27, and then a few days of nothing before our 4th anniversary. Busy bees.