Christmas Card Pictures

 As usual, most of my favorite pictures will not make it onto our Christmas card or even our yearly photo book, but they show the real us, so here you go:

(After asking him to "smile, but not scary-fakey-smile," this is what I got:

 And this is Cate:

 I love this one:

Ty is just taking a break.  :)

 And then we lose Cate again:

She was off doing her thing:

 JD was so uncomfortable in this one, I can't look at it and not laugh...

  Thankfully, we did get lots of good, usable shots too- all of the kids did great with my parents.  Unfortunately, (excitingly!) these grandkid pictures will expire in 2 or 3 weeks when my new little niece or nephew will be born!

 

Thanksgiving-Christmas

We celebrated Thanksgiving on Wednesday

so we could celebrate Christmas on Thursday!

 We aren't traveling to Iowa for Christmas this year, so they brought Christmas to us!

 

Memphis Children's Museum

 

While my parents and niece were visiting over Thanksgiving break, they treated us to a trip to the Children's Museum of Memphis! 

Maddie's favorite area in the entire museum... She is just like her dad.  Ha!

Care to guess who won this quiz game?

Hint:  There was a tie.

 Loading the FedEx plane:

 

Fishing the (Not-So) Mighty Mississippi: 

 

I'm pretty certain that Halle chose to listen to this water cycle thing only because she enjoys old telephones.  :) 

 

The Itty-Bitty Kroger:

 

This may look like a shopping cart that is weirdly full of bananas to you, but you need to know that Ty is my banana-guy on grocery day.  His job is always to remind me to not forget bananas.  We buy at least this many every week...

To the rescue!

 

 

 

Halle made it to the top!

 *Shudder*

I get claustrophobic just looking at these pictures.

 

Cruisin' the streets of Memphis-

 

Making out a check for (play) cash:

Mastering(?) the paper airplane launcher:

 

 Making "Rain Sticks"

 

Thanks for the memories, Nana and Papa!