Painting, Trees, and Super Special Visitors

I just realized that it had been one month since I last posted!  Yikes!

I better get to posting or I'm gonna get behind.  Story of my life sometimes. :)

We had a very blessed Thanksgiving with family and ate far too much.  I cooked, so I didn't get very many pictures.  Then we put our tree up the week after Thanksgiving, after the girls and I painted our kitchen!  It went from yucky cream/white to a wonderful sage green.  It only took us painting it three coats!  That was after I decided the first color I chose was too light. :)  But we love it!

We had promised Holly that we'd use colored lights on the CHRISTmas tree this year, so we did!  My Mama only used color lights on our tree while I was growing up and looking at our tree this year brings back some good memories. :)

We had some pretty special visitors from Atlanta the weekend after Thanksgiving.
I love this picture of Pa with Aidan.  One of my all time faves!

Vicki, Trent, and Aidan came up and we had the best time!!!  I just love this little family so very much!

Look at that precious face!  Is he not the cutest kid ever?!

He is Jenn Jenn's silly boy!  I miss him very much and I can't wait to see him again in a few weeks!!!

We went over to the airport to pick up Aunt Pat.  Sadly I never got a picture of her. :(

I'm doing another post about our sweet sister Amanda's college graduation that we attended last weekend.

We are all ready to celebrate CHRISTmas and the birth of our Savior!!!

Wonderful Weekend

We've had the most wonderful weekend with Vicki, Trent, & Aidan!

Look at this sweet handsome boy, how can you not have a good time?! :)

We saved one of the chicks for him to name, so this is George! (After Curious George!) So for some of his pictures we had to include some baby chicks.

I love Love LOVE this picture!

His eyes are absolutely gorgeous!

And I totally enjoyed being a substitute Mom-mom!

Saturday we ventured up to the Creation Museum. I think they all enjoyed it!

We had went ahead of Brian, Vicki, & Trent in the museum so we made it out to the gardens and petting zoo before they did.

This trip Anna decided to ride Gomer.

Later on Aidan surprised everyone and decided he wanted to ride her also!

I thought it was very fitting for there to be a rainbow on our way home!

Silly boy! :o)

I am so proud of this precious family and their steps of faith that they are continuing to take. God has some pretty special plans for their lives! Today is their 1 year anniversary; so Happy Anniversary Vicki and Trent!!!

We love you all and can't wait to have you come back up to see us and we'll hopefully get to come see you guys soon too!

Mom-Mom's Runner-Up

We are jumping for joy around these parts........

because in approximately 40 hours we get to see this sweet boy!!!!

Oh, and his mom and dad too!

:o)

In regards to the title of this post:

He says I remind him of his Mom-Mom (my sweet sister:)!!!

#331 - Photos of the Addingtons!

We had such a great time when Vicki, Trent, & Aidan stayed with us last weekend! We can't wait for them to come back and see us again! She had asked me to take some pictures for them for Christmas, so we ventured out Friday to snap a few. :)

Aidan might have been bribed with a giant sucker that they got at Cracker Barrel for all of these great cheeses he was giving us!

Isn't he just darling?! We got to get lots of love from this sweet boy!Love his face in this one!Precious little family! My all time favorite! I called this my money shot of the day. :)

And here is his reward! "Cheese for a sucker!" was what he said during almost every picture and it paid off!

So happy for Vicki and the path that God has her on. Their little family have a heart for God and I just know that He has great plans for them. We miss them so much, so don't be surprised if we make a trip to Atlanta in the near future. :)

I'm also happy that they started a blog!!! Here is the link:
http://trentaddingtonfamily.blogspot.com/

Hebrews 1:1-2
"In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe."

#325 - Thanksgiving Blessings

We've had a great Thanksgiving weekend! I have lots of pics to post, but for now I'll just post one of Vicki, Trent, & Aidan! They stayed with us for a few days and we enjoyed their visit very much! I'm editing pics that I took of them right now :) And Brian and I finally upgraded to iPhones, so this will be my first post using it!

#86 - Lazy Sunday

After having such a busy week it was very nice to just go to church worship yesterday morning and evening and have a sweet little nap in between :) Honestly, I didn't even take a picture yesterday! After taking approximately 3000 pictures (Vicki & Trent's wedding, Kelsey's golf signing, & St. Baldrick's) for the last week I thought I'd take a break...haha!

Here is one of Aidan from last week that I hadn't added.

I miss this little cutie!

Also, I learned how to do texturing in Photoshop a couple of days ago and did this with the bridesmaids' bouquets from the wedding. I thought it turned out pretty neat!

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
"Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus."

#77, 78, 79, & 80 - Vicki & Trent's Wedding in Arkansas

This blog post is going to explode with pictures! I just figured I'd do my 4 days I missed all in one post :)

We left early Thursday morning for Pea Ridge, Arkansas for my niece's wedding. My sister, Starla, moved out there after she got out of the Army 23 years ago.

I was actually driving when we drove through St. Louis so Anna took our traditional picture of the arch. For the past several years we have been driving I-64 through Indiana, Illinois, then through Missouri to Springfield then on down to Pea Ridge. On our way back home (we left directly after the reception) for some reason the GPS had us go a different route on HWY 60 across Missouri. I was asleep and before Brian realized what was going on it was too late to turn around! Ha! It reminded me of the first trips we took out there when Mom and Dad would drive through western Ky and then the Ozarks. It would literally take us 15-16 hours, but now we can make it in 11 hours usually. Our little detour coming home was about the same amount of time. Brian drove halfway and then I drove almost the other half. I am just so grateful for traveling grace there and back!

We always stay at the Courtyard Marriott in Bentonville. Their rates are great and it is always very clean and nice. And this time there was a nice little bouquet of flowers in our room when we arrived!

Thursday when we got there we just hung out at Sis and Mike's house and ate pizza. Then Friday morning I ran some errands with Sis and then went back to the hotel to watch the girls swim for a little while.

Friday afternoon we went to Vicki and Trent's rehearsal.

They got married at a place called The Inn at Carnall Hall on University of Arkansas' campus. It was 106 years old and very beautiful!

Their pastor married them and used his iPad! I thought that was funny.

My familia!

Can't remember what was being said here, but it was funny. :)

Vicki & Aidan

Dad, Sis, & Aidan

They needed a wallet size photo for their guest book, so we used this one :) The Walgreens in Bella Vista rocks!

Sweet kisses!

Sweet sisters!

Trent's Dad and Step-mom hosted the rehearsal dinner at Carino's in Rogers.

They had wanted me to take the photographs, but I suggested that they go ahead and hire someone to professionally take them. I was scared! But I did take the back-up photos....1451 to be exact :)

Her colors were kelly green and guava....so pretty together!

"Love never fails"

Her dress was gorgeous!

She was too!!!

Ariel & Vicki after getting ready.

I made her pose in front of this window and we couldn't stop laughing! She kept saying....what should I look at?!

I tried a little photoshopping on this one of Ariel :)

One of my favorites.

Anna did the guestbook.

The groom and his groomsmen walked into ZZ Top's song "Sharp Dressed Man" It was cute!

There she is!

Sis and the newlywed!

Beautiful couple - inside and out!

Mr. GQ

Aidan, Sis, Trent, Vicki, Mike, & Ariel

Aidan - he is such a cutie! So hard to believe he'll be three years old in 2 weeks.

Arriving at the reception.

The cake. The lady that made this has been on a Food Network cake challenge before!

The groom's cake :)

Father/Daughter dance - so sweet! My nieces have always had a special bond with their Daddy. I am sure Mike had a speech ready to say to her during this dance. She was sobbing almost the entire dance.

Mother/Son dance!

Leaving with sparklers all aglow!

They left on a plane! How neat!

They flew around the area for about 30 minutes after everybody left. Trent surprised her with their honeymoon and didn't tell her until Sunday morning when they got to Atlanta that they would be going to Jamaica! They are a precious couple and we pray God will always bless them in their walk together with Him!

This was right before we left for KY. I miss my sister and wish we could live closer. Vicki & Trent will be living in Atlanta - so I tell Sis that she and Mike should move to Knoxville and be halfway!

It was a wonderful weekend and so very hard to believe that our little Vicki is so grown up. Here is the video we did for their ceremony: