Weekend Update

Thursday night I was so proud of Chad he played Mr.Mom to Allie Hunter and a friend of mine little boy, Colton. I think Chad had more fun than the kids did. :) They had a blast and I believe they were both asleep before their heads even hit the pillow that night. Rebekah and I went to see our co-worker in a play at her church. It was such a good play with wonderful music. Kristie did an AWESOME job !!! This was the pic I got while we were at the play.

                    

                                    Nothing like a dinner and movie date :)

Friday night we finally were lazy. We did nothing except grocery shop and ride around looking at Christmas lights with Allie Hunter. Chad fixed us supper and I literally ate the most amazing fries I have ever eaten in my life. Better than any restaurant or fast food fries. Who knew he was Mr.Chef.

Saturday I had a girls day. I have been looking forward to this day for weeks. Two good friends of mine,Kelli and Meg,and I went and had sushi at Hokkaido for lunch then off to the The Nutcracker ballet performance. It was so good. I've always said I wanted to go just never found anybody to go with me.

When I got home instead of doing the chores my husband was suppose to do this is what he did instead.....

My awesome new fire pit...It's almost finished. Thanks to some help from JD. So guess I couldn't be to made he didn't do the chores. At least he did something productive. That night we went over to a friends house and they made some DELICIOUS(or her husband did) Japanese food. I definitely think I will skip going to Hokkaido and just pull on over to their house next time. :) AH had a blast playing and we had a good time getting to socialize. Think AH was worn out cause we didn't get home till late and she was asleep before I even cut off the light. The next morning we all over slept and missed church

:( I hate we missed it but so thankful you can watch it live on the Internet. I enjoyed the praise and worship so much. It was a wonderful message. Then around lunch we headed down to the farm to do Christmas with Chad's Uncle and his family. Busy weekend again but was sad to see it gone so fast cause this upcoming week is going to be so busy with trying to get last minute stuff done for Christmas.

Elk Hunting

Since I always blog about myself or what we do as a family I figured it was only fair to blog on behalf of Chad. I'm sure one day he will appreciate being able to look back at some pictures I stole off his facebook page to put on here :)

The day after Thanksgiving Chad, his dad and another guy named Jim loaded up and headed out to Raton, New Mexico. They had all 3 gone the year before and Chad killed his first elk (thank goodness we moved just in time cause now he has an awesome place in his man room for it instead of the den)
It took them about 22 hours to get there and they drove it straight. They were gone about 8 days. That was a long 8 days for me, and I hate staying by myself at home. Thank goodness for MiMi keeping us company some.  Needless to say, :( They all came home empty handed. But as Chad said "Oh well, we made some fun memories" my response "That was some expensive memories" Here are a few pictures that I got from Chad. They are all gorgeous and I can't image how breathtaking they were in person.

Thank goodness we still have plenty of meat from last years kill. Till next year........

Allie Hunter's Ballet

Last week was Allie Hunter's last ballet class for the semester. It was also friend/family night. Anybody could come and we were able to sit in the room with them and watch all that they have learned this semester. It was so cute and so much fun to watch all these little kids. Gigi, Mimi and my sister all came to watch AH. She was so excited that we were in there watching her. She kept looking at us and smiling. She looked so grown up.

Doing the "ballerina march"

Counting down and then "BLAST OFF"

2 of her sweet friends, Sophia and Emma Grace

She loves to tap dance :)

AH loves circle time, you get to get a stamp before class starts.

"TIP TOEING"

Weekend Update/Christmas @ TOTO'S

Friday night we went to dinner with Gigi and Paw Paw (Chad's parents) @ Longhorn's Steakhouse. Since we didn't get home till late I had to get up super early next morning to get ready to go to my TOTO'S house for a HUGE family early Christmas Party. I have been looking forward to this for weeks. We always have so much fun and get to see some family members I don't get to see very often. A few people weren't able to make it, this included my brother, Joseph :( We missed y'all !! I think I snacked way to much cause I didn't hardly eat anything for lunch. We had ribs and wings like we normal do and they were delicious.

The FAMILY minus a few

What wonderful bartenders

My perfect lil' family

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Allie Hunter with her TOTO

Allie Hunter, Will and Jake

Mr. and Mrs. Lauderdale with AH

One of the sweetest lady's I know Mrs.Linda and AH

All of us grand kids with our significant other :) and AH the great grandchild

As AH would say "Unc JD and Aunt Jen Jen"

Showing off her backpack

The "KID" table

Sunday we visited this new church again with some of our wonderful friends who have been going and LOVED it again. Can't wait for this Sunday. Thanks for inviting us and making us feel welcomed.

Christmas Parade

Last night I took Allie Hunter to the Christmas Parade in downtown Tuscaloosa. We meet up with a friend and her little boy to watch it together. We had a delicious supper at Jim N Nicks before. Allie Hunter was all about Colton and even kissed him, which Colton did not like :) sshhh...don't tell daddy!!! The kids loved the parade but it was a long one. Took about an hour before it was over. They were both getting antsy and sleepy but we had to wait to see Santa cause he finished up the parade.

Warning-Sorry the pictures are so horrible, my phone is awful and plus it was at night :(

AH and I

The Tuscaloosa Police Dept. had the Grinch locked up!!! SOOO CUTE

Ms.Rebekah and Colton

They were wanting to play in bushes before parade started.

Waiting on the parade, they were sooo excited.

Ms.High Maintenance

Play Date with the "E" girls

One of my best and closest friends came over to our house last night with her 2 precious girls. I cooked supper, we let the girls play (pretty much do whatever,haha) and we got to have some adult time and catch up. Of course Allie Hunter and Emma Grace were SOOO excited to see each other, they just hugged each other so tight. Sweetest thing ever. At first Ella Raegan wasn't paying anybody any attention she went straight to the back windows to look and talk to the dogs. I love having lil' play dates with our sweet friends, made for a wonderful fun filled night.

Ella "Rae Rae" and Allie Hunter

Ella Raegan is the only non-diva in this pic. Emma Grace is stylin in her sunglasses and Allie Hunter is being prissy in her high heel shoes :)

Getting ready for some Temporary Tattoos :)

Dinner time, notice they all are eating something different, cause they are all 3 spoiled !!

Cookie Time

Best Friends

Love this baby. She's really my child, She's Allie Hunter made over and is nothing like her real sister. hahaha

Silly Girls, this looks like a disaster waiting to happen.

Girls picking out their Hello Kitty Tattoos

Look who came to visit

After thanksgiving Santa sent an elf to come visit the Hoggle house. This was AH's reaction.

Mommy-Allie Hunter, who is that up in the tree?
AH-That's an elf.
Mommy-I think Santa sent her to watch you so she could go back every night and tell Santa how good you were.
AH-I not like that elf and I not like Santa
Mommy-Allie Hunter, the elf and Santa are both very sweet. The elf just has to help Santa watch you to make sure your sweet to everybody so you can get presents.
AH-Ooooooo....She can stay I like her and I like presents :)

Kids....never know what they'll say. I told AH she has to pick her out a name and of course she picked Tinkerbell. Told AH she already had a Tinkerbell and they might get confused so she had to pick another one. Well...She picked Bell. Gotta love her. So meet Ms.Bell !  AH hasn't really gotten into her very much but hopefully they will warm up to each other and she'll enjoy looking for her.