O'Christmas Tree, O'Christmas Tree!!

Yeah, we are a little late decorating this year. We had to get a real tree this time (oh darn)...I was planning on going to a Tree Farm and have Mike cut down a tree with an axe, but he wasn't going for it! I'm still wondering why. ;-)

Anyways, Mike went to Lowes and got a tree, I told him I really didn't care where he got it, just go get one!!! Not a lot of pictures of it, so I'm only posting 2. My camera wasn't really capturing it the way I wanted it to.

I love real trees. We've only had 1 since we've been married and I forgot how good they smell!

This would have been one of my 12 Days of Christmas, but I think I'm "dropping out". lol. I don't have enough to post on. Good luck to everyone else though!

Love ya'll!

What are we thinking??

Ok, so if you've read my previous post, you saw the recent update I did to myself. You know, the whole "Fish on a hook" thing! Ok, well, today, I also got a funkier hairstyle...Which I love!...BUT this post is NOT about me for a change! It's about my husband Michael! Yes, I'm still married and yes, he does still exist. LOL. I know, I very rarely do posts about him, but this, I think deserves a special post.

So when we were at the tattoo shop a couple weeks ago, Mike found this design on a poster and got to talking to the tattoo artist Caleb (the same guy that did Mike Toews and Cortnee's tats), well, Caleb has really been wanting to do that design on somebody and was really excited that Mike was interested. He was even going to give Mike a special price because of the fact that he has always wanted to do it on someone. So, we went to the tattoo place today and YES, he did it!!!

Here was the picture he saw on the poster.

This was the second the needle started going.

And here is the finished product!

It actually looks really really cool! Caleb did a GREAT job!

I don't know what we are thinking...Piercings and tattoos??!! See what Nashville does to people? HaHaHa.

Hope you enjoyed this post! ~Love ya'll!~

Fish on a Hook!

So last week, we all did something crazy...Zach and Cortnee were here visiting Mike and Cindy and Cortnee convinced Sheri and Cindy to get their noses pierced. Sheri's been wanting it done for a while but she just needed a little push and Cortnee was just the one to do it! :-) Ya Cortnee! Well, I've been thinking for a while about getting another piercing myself, and just being there and with a little push from my husband, I went ahead and went through with it. I've looked up this kind of piercing online and from what I've read, it's one of the most painful piercings you can get! (Thankfully I read that AFTER I got it done!) I also read that when you get this done, you officially know what's it's like to be a "fish on a hook". Aint that the truth! lol. So here I am getting "hooked"The tattoo shop that we went to was awesome! It was right downtown and everyone in there was a believer! They had Christian music playing, bibles by the door, and just their way of doing things is amazing! We found one of our new favorite places here in Nashville! :-)
Yes, I got a little nervous...Just a little though.
He's lining it up

I'm hooked!Right after it was done, he needed to screw the "bowling ball" on.
Yep, we all got something done that night! 3 piercings and 2 tats..Mike Toews got a cool tat on his arm too. And Cortnee got a really cute little star behind her ear! Sheri and Cindy's noses look so cute!
Here's the finished product, HOWEVER, in 9 days I will be putting a smaller stud in. (Sheri I need that picture of your husband and the stupid spoon lol)

I personally like it. I know there are some that I've heard that do not like this type of piercing. And that's ok, I didn't do it for you. I did it for me. :-)

It's actually called a Labret (sounds like Lebrae). It's not considered a lip piercing.

So, there you have it. If you want to know what it felt like in case you are considering it yourself, the initial piercing was a piece of cake, it's the after effects that suck. Nothing you can't handle though! :-) I know, I'm crazy. In a good way though. HaHaHa.

We are going back on Friday for something else...Hmmmm, wonder what it could be...Check back cuz I'll definitely be posting it!

Love Ya'll.

On the 1st Day of Christmas....

On the 1st day of Christmas my true love gave to meee.......

A beautiful White Snow Flurry!!!

Ya!!! Our first snow!! Not enough to accumulate on the ground, but enough to be beautiful!

What a great day so far, The beautfiul snow,

The fireplace going (yes, that is my fireplace, sad sad looking thing)

A yummy hot cup of coffee

and Christmas Music Playing

I love days like this!!

Here's a couple pictures of Alex before I took him to school, I just think he looked so cute all bundled up. I know he doesn't match, but it's what he picked out and wanted to wear. :-)

So, there's my first of the 12 days of Christmas challenge! Hope you enjoyed!

Love ya'll!

It's that time of year again!

Don't you just LOVE this time of year? The anticipation of all that yummy food?? The anticipation of all that food going straight to your thighs???!! Ya, gotta LOVE this time of year! Got this cute little Thanksgiving poem that just says it all. :-)

May your stuffing be tasty

May your turkey plump,

May your potatoes and gravy

Have never a lump.

May your yams be delicious

And your pies take the prize,

And may your Thanksgiving dinner

Stay off your thighs!

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

SALLY.

Well, I have been planning something for some time now, and the time has finally come! Alex saw me getting our "guest room" ready for somebody and so he asked me, "mom, who is coming to visit us?" So, I told him "Oh, uh, Sally is coming to visit us" He asked me, "Who is Sally?" I told him, "It's just somebody you don't know" (there's actually a story behind the whole Sally person). So, it was time to go pick Sally up from the airport....

Mike told Alex on the way to the airport that Sally was a really old lady who walked with a walker, and she stunk really bad and she had really ugly feet. LOL. So, here is Alex waiting for this old lady...

After about an hour of waiting, FINALLY Sally arrived!

He was absolutely speechless! I've never seen him like this before. He was seriously expecting an old stinky lady, but instead he got his beautiful grandma! (whose name is not Sally by the way lol). We haven't seen my mom in 9 months, and her and Alex are very very close. It was very hard to keep this a secret from him for so long (about 2 weeks!), but he had no clue! It was great! We are so excited to have my mom here! She'll be here visiting Nashville until Nov. 28th, so I will definitely be posting more of her visit as time goes on! Here are some more pictures...

Yes, he cried. This was after my mom told him that Papa really really wanted to come too, but he wasn't able to this time. :-(

We went to Cracker Barrel afterwards..We had to let her experience some good ol' country cookin'. It was yummy!

Notice there are no pictures of my mom and I, or Mike and my mom, it was ALL about Alex. :-) Which I'm totally ok with that because he missed her so so much! There's plenty of time to get pictures with her. :-)

Now, the story about Sally..When my brother and I were younger, we were with my mom in the supermarket and you know, it was one of those "mom, mom, mom, mom!" days, where you are hearing mom from every direction. Well, she was a little fed up at the time, so she said "Mom is no longer here, it's Sally!" So, we giggled and said "Mom"...no answer..."Mom"...still no answer..."Sally"...She answered! So, mom checked out, and Sally checked in! So, when she was just wanting to escape from "mom world" Sally came to visit. Sally was really cool. LOL. So, I told Alex that he doesn't know Sally because well, Grandma has never had to check out when it comes to him! So, there's the story about Sally. :-)

Check back often, I'm sure I won't have as many posts as some with this little competition we have going, but that's ok. :-D

Love ya'll!

Honeysuckle Hill

So last Saturday, we went to a pumpkin patch as a family event with the church. It was called Honeysuckle Hill. It was the cutest pumpkin patch! It had so many things to do for the kids (And for the adults I might add)! We had a great time just being with the people doing something fun. I have a lot of pictures to share, but that's the fun part of this whole blogging thing right??!! :-)

Look at these HUGE pumpkins!

I thought these were pretty funny!

Welcome, the newest TN residents...The Toews Family!!

Told you they had stuff for the adults too! LOL

Larena, I know your love for frogs, so here you go. LOL.

Mike actually lasso'd a steer! :-D

They even had a milking parlor! This was Alex's favorite thing! Just for laughs...Alex and I were in the supermarket one day and he told me that he knew where milk came from, I said where? He said, it comes from cows. Then I proceeded to ask him how do you get the milk from the cows? And just to let you know, he has never seen the video of Kameron explaining how you milk cows! LOL...So, he said "You pull on all of their pink wieners" So, here's Alex milking a cow!

Here's a video of Alex telling Kameron what he was doing...He was being a little bit shy so you might want to turn up the volume.

Ok, so then, Mike had to give it a try!
I had to give you a close up of his face! I think it's hilarious! It looks like he got caught doing something he wasn't supposed to be doing!
Oh yeah, and we cannot forget Re-Re's favorite part of the whole thing....The Chickens! LOL. I'm serious though, I know it's been the "butt end" of all of our jokes, (her love for roosters) but she really couldn't wait to go see the chickens! Sorry Sheri, I had to! :-)
We had a great time! I am so looking forward to this next year as well! At dusk, we all met back at the bonfire pit, and we roasted hot dogs, and marshmallows, and had smore's! I came home smelling like campfire! MMMmmmmm! It was just a really great time of getting to fellowship and have fun with our people. And just like Sheri said, there was just one thing missing and that was the rest of our family...It's an annual thing for us to go to the pumpkin patch together, so we really missed you guys! It really wasn't the same.
Well, I know this was a VERY long post, but I guess I just made up for my slacking huh! :-)

Love ya'll!

Slacker!!!

Ok Ok I know, I'm a slacker...But my life isn't as busy and exciting as others. LOL. Not much has really gone on here. If you haven't already heard, I met Elvis! Thanks to my beautiful, charming, I am oh so gonna get her back sister in law Sheri! Ya, we got our picture taken together in Walmart. Yes, it's true, Elvis shops at Walmart! I copied this from Sheri's blog. Laugh all you want because it really was absolutely hilarious!

The way this whole thing happened was just too much! I laughed so hard my side hurt.

Anyway, that's about all the excitement I've had for a while. :-)
The weather is definitely changing here! Today is really COLD! So weird because yesterday, I was running the house fan because I was sweating, today, I'm bundled up w/all my windows closed! I love it though.

I'll be posting more maybe tomorrow or the next day, we have some fun stuff coming up!!

Love Ya'll! ;-)

Alex's 1st Field Trip!

So I was so blessed to have been able to go on Alex's first field trip! We went to the Symphony! I'm so bad, I don't even know where it was located, all I know is it was somewhere downtown, in a beautiful building! We were being rushed to get inside because they were about to start. I couldn't take pictures inside so sorry, no pictures of the place. But I got some stuff on the way there. It was also Alex's first bus ride! It was also a lot of the other Kindergarteners first time as well, needless to say, they all had fun, especially when the bus went over bumps or made turns, they would say Whhhooooaaa, and squeal and scream. It was pretty loud. So, here are some pictures and some videos of our bus ride....

Here's Alex telling you what we are doing. :-)


And here he is enjoying the bus ride (along with all the other kids, which you can hear!)


So I was soooooo tired after spending 4 hours with a bunch of Kindergarteners! I give props to those Kindergarten teachers out there! Whew! I came home and crashed for a couple hours! But before I did that, I got this little video...After we ate lunch at Alex's school, I just went ahead and brought him home with me, he was in the bathroom downstairs and I was sitting on the steps waiting for him...Just watch...


I cannot tell you how many times I've watched this video and I laugh so hard every time!
Ok, so that was our day yesterday! We had a great time! And I got a much needed nap after it all!
Love ya'll!

Goodbye's and Fun Stuff.

So, we've had quite a week! I'll just get right to it. We said good-bye to the Gannaways on Sunday.

This one was an all too familiar sight!

Aren't my 2 guys just so cute?

Ok, moving on...
Before we left for Nashville, Alex got blessed with a whole bunch of Thomas the Train stuff! Well, he and his daddy spent quite a while up in his room figuring out how to put it ALL together and this is the finished product!

This is with ALL the tracks and ALL the trains he has! It takes up a lot of space in his bedroom! He was so proud of it though!

Me and Alex were playing, he was getting on my feet and I was (trying to) have him fly like an airplane, you know that thing you do with your "little" kids, every time I would scream, it would make him laugh so hard! You can't really see the video, but just listen to his laugh, it reminds me of when he was younger...Very cute! :-)

Other than those 3 things, things have been pretty quite on the Anderson end...We did have a GREAT service on Sunday! I of course was in with the kids, and for the amount of kids I had, it was all so peaceful! They were all obedient, and minded very well! I was so proud of them all! I love them! :-)
So, there's our update! Love ya'll!