The Blounts

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Christmas 2011 Recap

so I told myself I wasn't going to get behind again but well....here we are a week into the new year and I'm just now getting my Christmas pictures up so this is going to be a quick recap of all of our Christmas festivities!

Thursday, December 22:
Ryan's Christmas vacation officially began and we headed to Paris to spend a few days with the Blounts! We loved hanging out and being lazy.

Saturday, December 24th:
After a delicious Christmas Eve breakfast, we opened gifts and enjoyed watching the girls play with all of their new things! As always, Gram and Pop did way too much!

We traveled back home Christmas Eve afternoon so we could get everything ready for Santa!

Sunday, December 25th--Christmas morning!

The only thing Kinsey asked Santa for was a baby that went to sleep (one whose eyes close) and a bed to rock her in. She must have been a pretty good little girl because she got just what she wanted!

Seeing her baby for the first time!

Khloe trying out her big girl chair with her swollen, sleepy eyes! Evidently she didn't get the memo that Santa was coming because we had to wake her up so we could open presents!

All ready for church on Christmas morning!

After worship services we changed clothes and headed south to spend a week in GA with Pete and Nana! Kinsey was so excited to see Kayden and Brecken : ) We had a good trip but were so glad to finally get off the road. Ashley had made it in the night before we were excited to get to see him too!

Monday, December 26th: Christmas at Pete and Nana's

Aaron, Gena, and Ella came over for breakfast and then we opened gifts! It was so fun to watch the girls together and just all be together....that's very rare these days!

Ella's wagon was a big hit!

Introducing Dr. Kinsey : )

For lunch on Monday everyone came to mom and dad's for the Guthrie family Christmas! Since everybody was there we took a family picture...all 28.5 of us!

Cousins and spouses

Granny and Papa and their great grand daughters!

All sweet little girls and another one on the way!

the handsome Horne fellows

Tuesday, December 27th: Christmas with Granny Horne and Hobe

Tuesday evening Granny and Hobe made a delicious Christmas meal and we celebrated with them and opened gifts! I know Granny enjoyed watching the girls run around, giggle, and squeal but I think by the end of the night she was ready for some quite! : )

Granny and her girls

Cousins!

Uncle Ashley : )

Papa and Ella Bella

We spent the whole week between Christmas and New Year's at mom and dad's and besides all of us being under the weather with the crud we had a great time! Every morning when Kinsey got up the first thing she asked was if she could go play with Kayden and Brecken : )

She LOVED being with them! We had a great Christmas and like always Santa spoiled us but the best part was just being able to spend it with our families! We are so blessed and are looking forward to seeing what great things God has planned for us in 2012!

Friday, December 23, 2011

Christmas with Mac

Last night we celebrated Christmas with Mac at the nursing home! Patsy rounded everybody up so Mac could enjoy all of his kids, grand kids and the great-grands at the same time! While he didn't say alot, I think he really enjoyed seeing everyone and watching the kids play! They definitely kept us entertained : )

Gram, Khloe, Kinsey, and Mac

Us, Callie, Mac, Jason, Will and Alex

Mac with the little ones!

Mac with his great-grands!

I love the expression on Mac's face! He loves Will!

Ryan and his "mini me"

Mac and Mama Mac with their grand kids and great-grand kids

Typical Kinsey...in mid sentence! : )

My lil' cutie pa-tootie!

Kinsey and Callie playing hide and seek....

LOVE her expression!

Counting...

Helping Mac open gifts

Not sure who was having more fun : )

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Breakfast with Santa

A few weeks ago we had the privilege of eating breakfast with Santa at church! Kinsey was so excited about getting to see Santa that is until he actually arrived! : )

Kinsey's snowman picture frame

It's SANTA! I love the look on both of thier faces : )

Trying to talk Kinsey into sitting in Santa's lap.....it didn't work!

but Khloe did and wasn't phased at all!

After we were done taking pics of Khloe and Santa I took her to the nursery for a diaper change and Kinsey went with us. As soon as we got through the door Kinsey looked at me and asked very seriously, "Mama, is that really Santa or is that Emily's daddy?" Umm, umm what? You're 3 three years old! You're not supposed to be smart enough to figure that out!!! So I had to explain that Santa is really busy and needs some helpers this time of year so he sent Mr. Chris a letter asking Mr. Chris to come to our party for him! That seemed to be a good enough explaination so maybe it will buy us a year or two! I have a feeling we're not going to be able to pull anything over on her!

After she knew it was Mr. Chris she was more than happy to go sit in his lap! And look even a 1/2 smile!

So much for trying to get both of them to smile at the same time!

These days I'll take what I can get!

CHEESE!

Trying to get a picture in front of Gram's tree....Khloe had different plans! Lil' stinker!

Aunt Callie's the coolest and brought a tree for Kinsey to decorate! I'm not sure who had more fun putting the stickers on : )

Monday, December 5, 2011

Khloe's 1st Birthday!

Khloe turned 1 the day after Thanksgiving so we partied out 1 year old style with cake and presents then a nap! : ) Our sweet, spunky baby girl is growing daily and changing far too quickly from a baby to a little girl which this mama is not ready for! We had a great time celebrating Khloe and are so thankful to God for blessing us with a healthy little gal that brings us so much joy!