It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like...

Well obviously we've been pretty busy!  I'm becoming more lame at blogging by the day.  The thing is that I feel like blogging about life actually gets in the way of life itself sometimes, ya know?  Do any of y'all feel that way? It's just time-consuming, especially when all your photos are on random cameras that you can never find, not to mention the card-loader-thingy has grown legs and ran off and the computer battery dies and your teenagers have taken off your power-cord into the bottomless abyss of....well I don't even know.  And thus, the main reason why it's been a month since I've been to the blog-world.

Anyway, the kids are growing like weeds.  Football is over and basketball has begun.  Tyler has successfully completed his first semester of college and is home for the holidays. (And successfully drained his bank account as well!) The halls are decked.  Santa has been visited.  Parties have been had.  Cooking and baking has begun.  Gingerbread house decorated. Exams are coming next week.   Spent $751 at Costco today on crap food for the masses of teenagers I expect during the holidays.  Pey-toven had his first piano recital & rocked!    Nolan has decided that being Will Ferrell is more fun on the basketball court (church league) than playing like LeBron James.  Have you ever seen a 16-year-old boy turn a cartwheel in the middle of a game?  Or intentionally shoot at the wrong basket?  Or take out their cell-phone and call their mom before shooting a free-throw?  Well, we witnessed all that and more out of our 16-year-old today, and needless to say, we RAN out of that gym when the game was over before anyone saw that he belonged to us!  Believe it or not, they won, and more importantly to Nolan, EVERYbody was entertained, including the refs!!  I don't know how many technicals he got for his antics. That kid ain't right.  As for Macy Li, she's the boss of the family and the best word to describe her right now is loquacious!  She NEVER stops!  She's a mess a minute, but oh-so-much-fun!  I walked into the room where she was yesterday and she looked up and said, "Well hi, Angel!"

Maggie and Macy on a recent trip to visit them in Cincinnati

These girls were DANGEROUS in this Jeep!

TOLD you!  This is their road-kill!

Look, the Boss is in charge!  "Take me to the park!"

I love this because both feet are off the ground!  What joy!

A girl's gotta have her lipstick when she's swinging!

McKenna Grace showing off her "turkey" cupcake...

Okay, here they are about to visit with Santa.  Macy Li's yelling, "Hey Santa!  Look at me!  It's Macy Li!" over and over and over!

Well Santa apparently had been into some Vodka or something because he was anything BUT jolly!  Mama 'bout went fist to cuffs with the old fart guy.

 I felt the same way as Macy Li....get us the heck out of here!  Look at the old guy's face!  And to think that he still had a month to go at this point!  A new song called, " I Saw Mama SLAPPING Santa Claus!" comes to mind.

Santa's thinkin', "Snap this picture so I can get another sip of this Vodka!"  The boys are thinkin', "Snap this picture before Mama goes postal on this jerk!"

Poor Macy Li....I wish she'd have taken that little right foot straight to his jingle-bells and given him something to be grinchy about!!

So, the boys felt so sorry for her after the visit with Grumpy Claus that they even VOLUNTEERED to take her to 

the H1N1-Pit, I mean play-area, at the mall for a while.

They were willing to go, but they didn't say they had to like it!

Macy Li's new obsession:  "Boo-Eggs"

Macy and Maggie waiting in line at Opryland Hotel to see "ICE!"

Burrrr....

I don't know who had more fun on these ice-slides...Me or Macy!

Okay, so I shoved nudged her a little over-zealously!  

Chinese Eskimo!

Macy Li with Papa, who is WAY out of his comfort-zone...on a LOT of levels!!! hahaha!

Eskimos love penguins!

CLONES!!!  This is Peyton (wearing a pair of Dad's glasses to show how much they look alike) about to leave for the Junior Cotillion Holiday Dance...

Macy Li LOVES her Aunt Sissy!

Partners in crime...

Here is my almost-99 year old grandmother, Granny Jackson, who Macy Li calls Michael Jackson. Doesn't she look amazing?! 

My other grandmother is 100!!

Visiting Daddy at his office...

Some of his girls...

Love this!  Here's Macy Li attempting to HIDE her chocolate that she just snuck out of the bowl!  Little did she know that she left evidence right there on her front teeth!  Good thing she is her dentist's FAVORITE patient!

Will Ferrell at his best!

Nolan's cheerleaders ;)

Macy's priority was applying lipstick and taking everyone's phones during the game.
I'm trying to pretend I don't even know Nolan!

Breakfast with old friends this morning at Loveless Cafe again...

Macy Li loves her some butter!

This is Danielle, whose wedding Macy Li is going to be in, come May in Charleston, S.C. :)

We affectionately call her DanL

So, that about sums up our life for the last month.  Life is good.  We are BEYOND BLESSED!!!!

So thankful for our family!

Even more thankful to know the Savior of the World, Emmanuel, during this blessed season!!

Oh Come Let Us Adore Him, Christ the Lord!!