A visit to Kentucky

We went up to Kentucky for the annual McBee family reunion.
We stayed with my sister, Kristie, and her family from Thursday to Sunday and then Gpa and Gma from Sunday to Tuesday.
My other sister Jennifer and her family also stayed at Kristie's house and one night even one of my cousins and her son stayed there.  Kristie and her family sure did have a house full, but it was so much fun!  They were very gracious hosts!  I think one night it was 14 people.  We did have a blast!!
 
It will be hard to move across the country, even farther away from my family.
I love being with them.

On Friday my 11 year old niece Tori helped me make the reunion cake.  We worked on it together, but she did at least half of it!

Here is a video of the reunion...

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Rose and her 3rd cousin Jacob having a good time at Gpa and Gmas farm

Gma and Gpa's back porch.....the most peaceful spot this side of heaven.  Ahh, I love it back there.

Kristie relaxing on the porch swing

Gma, me, and Gpa

Rose and her cousin Tim.

Okay, so I was wrong....

I said I was going to do all of Christmas in one post, but then I found some cute pictures that were hiding on my computer that did not make it into the original Christmas video. And I couldn't just leave them out :)

So here they are.....

Rose and her cousin, Tori worked together to make a gingerbread house....
And Grandpa Irvin taking them on ultimate sled rides....

Tori and Rose in plain ole silliness fun........

Rose and Grandma doing jigsaw puzzles (Rose got to do puzzles with both her Grandmas over Christmas!)......And making a snowman with daddy and cousin Tori......

Christmas 2010

I will do a summary of our Christmas all in one post.
I am even including a nice little video.
It includes a few of the Christmas activities such as

• making Rudolph puppets after attending the puppet show
• attending a little girls 'Christmas Tea'
• Christmas with family in Kentucky
• Christmas with family in North Dakota
• being snowed in at friends house in Fargo due to a blizzard (BTW, a thanks to the Sunderlins for let us stay extra time at their home during the blizzard!)
• Stopping in for breakfast with the Williams family in Lexington, KY before they went to church Sunday morning and us driving back to Atlanta, cutting our visit short to beat the snow before it hit Atlanta.
  

But what the video does not include is

• Me doing my moms and sisters Christmas shopping, then forgetting and leaving part of the presents in Georgia! ....So a lot of gifts handed out on Christmas Eve were "note cards" written on there what they will be receiving when I send the gifts up. ....But when I told mom, Jen, and Kris that I had left them in Georgia.....you know what? They did not complain. They were all very gracious and forgiving. They were kind and comforting with their words. I am very appreciative of their gentleness.
  

• Chad spending Christmas day driving from northern KY to Atlanta, GA and back again, by himself to pick up my passport. (yes that was the day we were suppose to be flying to ND from Cincinnati) Christmas Eve night I discovered my license was missing. After speaking with Delta for some time....the solution within our price range was to move our itinerary forward a day and pay the difference for flying out on the 26th instead of the 25th and for Chad to drive in the snow and some ice to ATL and back with my passport. Not having my license caused family in North Dakota to have to push their Christmas plans back a day, my husband spend his holiday on the road for 15 straight hours...and you know what, no one complained. Not once. How gracious is that?
  

I am very grateful to everyone responding to my mistakes with such love and kindness. It is such a blessing to me to experience such kindness. I have such a wonderful family that loves the Lord and shows His love through their lives. I am very blessed in many many ways.

Enjoy the video:

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Thanksgiving 2010

Well it is New Year's Eve and we are stuck in a blizzard in Fargo, ND. Thankfully we are staying with very gracious friends, as we are having to extend our visit with them. Sara and I are having fun stamping and making cards, Rose is having a blast playing with Isabelle (and occasionally with Max as well), and I often hear laughter from Chad as he and Marti are having fun playing video games, games with the kids, and billiards.

But you know me, I must blog in chronological order....so this post is about Thanksgiving! Who knows, maybe I will get my posts caught up during this blizzard.

Here is Rose with a fraction of her Thanksgiving crafts.

We were able to spend the week of Thanksgiving at Grandma and Grandpa Irvin's farm. They had a little bit of snow to play in!

Grandma had her Christmas decorations up (thanks to Tori, who did her decorating for her:) And Rose received her first porcelain doll from my doll collection. This was my first porcelain that started the collection.Here is a snapshot of Tyler being kind enough to join Tori and Rose in playing doll house.