Weekend Update

This weekend seemed to fly by! I'm sure that's how the next month or so will be with the holidays and all. I want to enjoy them so badly, but I feel like my head is already spinning! I need to stop, take time to breathe, and especially take time to see my kids (particularly Sadie) enjoy this time of year!
Friday night, Sadie and Dennis went and picked us up some Chilis-to-go. We all just hung out here at home all night. When the kids went to bed, Dennis brought out the Christmas tree so that I could decorate it and when he plugged it up only one strand of the lights worked. Uh oh! Secretly, I was a bit excited because I have been wanting a new Christmas tree. Ours was pretty pathetic. I mean, it was great for when we first got married, but it's just so small! So, Dennis left to go to the farm and I decorated our tree that is in the foyer. Then, I tried to head to bed but the Saw-man (aka Sawyer) kept me up most of the night. I even tried to give him some formula before bed, hoping that would fill up his belly and help him to sleep, but it did nothing.
Anyways, Saturday morning I woke up feeling like a zombie. My stomach was hurting from lack of sleep, I was on the verge of tears, and I was beyond exhaustion. But, I prayed and prayed and prayed, and my day wasn't so bad after all. When Dennis got home from hunting, we all went to buy a new Christmas tree! Yeah!!! We went and got it at Home Depot and I love it! It was a great price too!
Saturday afternoon, we headed to Franklin to Dennis' dad's house. He and Barbara want to put the kiddos on their Christmas card this year, so they wanted to get us all together and take their picture. And, we had dinner too, of course. I mean, we can't get together without eating, right??? ha ha The kids did better than expected for the pictures. I attached a few below of the ones that I thought were best. The girls looked so precious in their matching dresses.




We had a good time though. We just hung out and let the girls run around like crazy people, which they did very well at. We came home and put the kids down and I put out a few more Christmas decorations.
Sadie was sooooooo cute when she saw our 2 Christmas trees. She was literally running back and forth between them all day long. She is mesmerized! And, we have a little reindeer in our foyer that is named "Rudy" and she loves him! Dennis said that she kept going up to his tail and going "tickle, tickle" and that she tried to kiss his nose. Too cute! I'll have to get a picture of that.
Sunday morning, we missed out on church, but for a great reason. Dennis' stepdad, LJ, got baptized! Although we missed the baptism because it was too early, we went to his mom's house for a celebration lunch. We are so, so proud of his decision to get baptized. What a wonderful event! His Sunday School teacher and longtime friend, Bill Henry had the honor of baptizing him.

Sunday afternoon, my sister came over and we went to JoAnn's to buy some things for my new Christmas tree. We went and picked up a pizza and came home and ate. She decorated my mantel and it looks awesome! She is so incredibly talented. Here's a picture of the finished product, although the picture doesn't do it justice.

Then, somehow she agreed to stay and help decorate my tree, but she pretty much ended up doing most of it and it looks awesome as well! Here she is, hard at work!

Oh, and we had a little elf helping us too!

We had a great time. Thanks sis for ALL of your help! You made my night by helping me decorate everything. You took a huge load off of me and I know how early you have to get up and go to work, so I truly appreciate you staying so late and helping out!!!!!