Aunt Doris

The day before we traveled to Memphis, my great Aunt Doris had a stroke and fell into a coma. I was able to spend some time with her and her daughters in the hospital on Saturday. It was such a blessing to be able to be there and have that. She passed away the following week. 

Here she is holding newborn GG in the hospital.

She is already greatly missed.

Kentucky, here we come!

After Doris passed, we thought we might not have our Kentucky Christmas. My grandma decided it would be a good thing to do. Doris would have wanted it that way and we needed to be around each other and be happy. So the weekend before Christmas we packed up and headed to Kentucky.

We had Christmas with my mom at her house Saturday morning. She cooked breakfast and we were all there: my brother Jason, his wife Jennifer and her son Josh and my brother Andy, his wife Megan and their kiddos Hattie and Hayden. 
Breakfast was great and the kids loved their presents from Grama.
This is Hattie and GG playing with Grama's stethoscope.

They thought that was really fun.

After that we were off to Nana's house...

Nana's house

This is our annual Christmas tradition. We all ( my mom, brothers, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc..) meet at my grandparents house the weekend before Christmas. We have done it from the time I was a child and now my children get to enjoy being around their cousins and having fun. I think we have over 40 people there. It's a crazy weekend, but lots of fun.

My cousins, Anna and Rachel, thought it was funny letting Shep attack Maddox.

 Not nice , girls. :)
Anticipating Aunt Gina's " ready, set, GO!"  to begin the opening of presents.
Shep working on his.
Hattie and GG were inseparable. They played so well together. 

Whew... we really packed a lot in over two weekends. But it was worth it. Family is important and it was so nice to see everyone and visit. 

Merry Christmas

I tried to get a video of GG singing Jingle Bells. This was as good as it got. I tried. Enjoy the brotherly/sisterly love. And hope you all had a very Merry Christmas!

Jingle Bells

Sophie had a choral program for school the other night. We all got dressed up and went to hear big sister sing. She's on the back row, 5th from the left.

Shep in his new hat. Oh my, I could just eat him up. So precious.

My three little loves.

Catching up...

Wow... things have been crazy lately. Very busy. I wanted to catch up with a few things. The way these pictures uploaded are a little backwards, but oh well. We had Thanksgiving at our house with Josh's parents. It was really a great time. We also did our Christmas with them and it was Josh's birthday as well. It was a very busy few days. But lots of fun. GG got sick the week of Thanksgiving and then it went on to Shep. He was sick the week after and had to be on breathing treatments for a few days. Everyone is doing better now though.

This is our Christmas tree. We did a real one this year. 

GG really got the knack for presents this year. And she can't get enough. She'll open all hers and yours too! She loves it.

The girls with Grandma Whiting.

The boy with Grampy Whiting

Josh blowing out his candles. Whew... he's old.

Shep napping on Grandma. One of his favorite places to nap :).

The children enjoying Thanksgiving dinner. Cooked by Grandma. It was wonderful. 

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