Kaeleigh!!

I took some pictures of Kaeleigh Monday while she was here since we haven't seen her on the blog in a while!

POOR BABY!!!!!!

I put one of our Christmas villages on top of the gun cabinet this year. To do this, I had to try and squeeze behind it to plug in all the plugs. Mackinley was NOT happy about this AT ALL. We're not sure if he was upset because he thought Momma was stuck, or if he was unhappy about that fact that he couldn't squeeze back there with me. Maybe it was both?!?!

Oh, Christmas Tree!!!

We finished up our decorating over the weekend. For those of you who may think it's silly that I'm posting all of this....remember that my Grammy lives FAR AWAY and never gets to see us or our house and I know she'll LOVE that I'm sharing this! =) So grin & bare it!!!

The Dining Room

Garland with lights for the breakfront! =)

The Hallway

We have a hutch in our hallway that doesn't get forgotten!!!

The Village

My Ace Hardware Christmas Village! HEHE! We have 3 nice Dept. 56 Christmas houses that I still need to set up.

The stockings are hung...

The outside, too!!!

Jason getting the wreath re-lighted and figuring out which strands can be re-used and which ones need thrown out.

Our house (without the flash)

Our house (with the flash)

The Little Man

We took Mackinley out for his first look at the outside lights. We took these pictures without the flash because we liked the way they turned out. I hope they're not so dark that you can't see them!

Some with the flash!

Jason took a couple with the flash! =)

Looking at lights with Momma

Play time!

The top picture is just a giggle picture! The bottom picture is Mackinley's face while Daddy is fanning his face with the pillow. The box is from the new high chair...Mackinley had a blast with that box!!!

Daddy time!!!

Mackinley & Daddy having fun!

No more MCC!!!

The MCC has been upgraded to it's next purpose of use. It has a built-in walker and Mackinley loves it!!! Makes Momma nervous because he can REALLY get it rolling!!! Wish we had more room for him to walk around with!

New high chair & new skills

Because the MCC is now a walker...we needed to get Mackinley a high chair. He's doing so well with his pincer grasp and feeding himself!! He can also drink from his cup all by himself now, with no help from Mommy! Oh...and he can wave bye-bye! He's getting so grown up! =( He's 10 months old TODAY and I can't believe it!!!!

Cool Whip!!

Daddy shared some Cool Whip!

Thanksgiving!!

Thanksgiving was at my Mom & Dad's this year. I'm not sure why I don't have pictures of food...probably because Mackinley & I were late and everyone was standing in the kitchen waiting for us to get there so they could eat!!

In attendance were: Uncle Joe & Aunt Pam (my Mom's sister and her husband), Jeff & Johnna (Uncle Joe's brother and his wife), David & Misti (Aunt Pam & Uncle Joe's oldest and her husband), Nathan (David's Dad), Dustin & Kayla (Aunt Pam & Uncle Joe's youngest and his wife), Grandpa & Grandma Heavilin (Mom's mom & dad), Aunt Alice Mae (Grandma's cousin AND Grandpa's sister-in-law!!) Kelly (my brother), Cathy (Kelly's girlfriend), Korie (my sister), Kyle (my LITTLE brother, hehe), me & Mackinley, and Greg & Keetha (haha my mom & dad!!)

I think I remembered everyone and I think those of you who don't know all of us should have a pretty good idea who we are! LOL

Mackinley

LOL!!! Mackinley getting a smooch from Kamma...look at that face!!

Mackinley & his cousin Misti. Misti calmed Mackinley right down from some crying! She needs to live closer so she can babysit! HEHE

Kelly & Cathy

Kelly had fun taking pictures "Kelly-style" with my camera. I think he had Korie's and Dad's at some point, too. (I'm pretty sure that's why Mom has a random picture of her dresser on her blog! LOL) Here he is with his girlfriend, Cathy, in a self-portrait & one of Cathy tolerating him. LOL

SISSIES!!!!

Some more of Kelly's camera work.

Kyle John

For some reason, the only pictures I got of Kyle are these two silly ones Kelly took. Probably because Kyle disappeared to his room for a turkey nap shortly after dinner!!!

Jeff & Johnna

My Uncle Joe's brother, Jeff, and his wife Johnna (I hope I'm spelling that right!!) They're fun and silly people! We love them!!! (When Jeff isn't being MEAN to me! hehe)

Mackinley & his Papoo

Mackinley & my Dad have a very special bond. My Dad just BEAMS with pride (as in this picture...he's looking at Mackinley). He lets Mackinley do ANYTHING his little heart desires, even lets him play with the antique bottles that Kamma just told him NOT to play with.

....or the remote!!! Hehe! I love how my Dad and Mackinley have that bond, it makes me so happy and warms my heart. I can't wait for Mackinley to be old enough to go on his first fishing trip with Papoo!!!!

Baby bird

Papoo LOVES feeding Mackinley yummy treats. Here is Mackinley anxiously awaiting Papoo's arrival with a cookie.

This was so funny...we were all cracking up. Mackinley would have his mouth open before Dad was even close!!! LOL