Makenna's Baby Dedication

Last Sunday (the 7th) we had the opportunity to dedicate Makenna at church. I didn't get any outstanding pictures because Pastor Dale kept getting in the way. But that's ok, the important part was the pictures but having our little girl prayed over and dedicated. Below are some snapshots of being in front of the church and some afterwards at Olive Garden.

Rudolph

Last weekend while the whole family was in the car driving to a Christmas party, we were talking about the moon and the two planets that were visible. Peyton didn't want to see Mars because "that's where the aliens live". There were a couple of jet airplanes that were in view as well. In the distance was a red light and Peyton asked what it was. (This brought on the memory of the bright red light told in the following post.) I told him that it was Rudolph and he got so excited! He asked if that meant that Santa was coming that night. Brian spoke up real quick and said no, Santa and Rudolph are just making a trial run to make sure the sleigh was running smoothly. Whew...

Favorite Christmas Memory

When I was about 6 years old and living in Oklahoma, my brother (6 years older than me) came into my room on Christmas Eve and lead me over to the window. He showed me a bright red light up in the sky and told me it was Rudolph. Of course looking up to my brother I believed him! YEARS later I learned that it was actually a radio tower!

Cheese and Crackers

Makenna and I had a girls night in tonight. I brought home some assorted cheese and crackers from an after hours function at work and we had some fruit on the side. I cut up small pieces of cheddar cheese and gave her a couple of different crackers. While she was playing with that I was spreading brie on my cracker. When I looked over I noticed Makenna carefully putting her pieces of cheese on her cracker. But of course whenever she would pick up the cracker the cheese would fall off! It was too cute watching her.

Lunch with Peyton

I went and had lunch with Peyton today. His face was so cute when he saw me waiting in the school foyer. We walked hand in hand to the cafeteria and then he showed me all that I had to do. He chose pizza and I chose a fish sandwich. He also had carrots with ranch dressing and peas with chocolate milk. I had peas and applesauce with mine. We sat at the "boy table" and I got to talk with all of his little friends. Another mother came in and had lunch with her little boy and they sat at our table as well. After lunch (started at 10:25 and was over by 10:45) we walk back in a single file toward the classroom. I stopped back in the foyer and gave him a big hug and a kiss and thanked him for having lunch with me....his little face was beaming as I walked away. I will definitely have to make a once a month (at least) habit of "doing lunch".

Cookies

Peyton's class is doing a Christmas project that requires a 42 ounce oatmeal canister. Brian LOVES no bake cookies so I thought I would make some with all the oatmeal that I'm now storing in a Ziploc bag. While I was at it, I asked Peyton if he would like to help me make Rolo cookies. Brian jumped in as well. We had a good time...even though I did wonder at one point if I would have enough rolos with Brian snatching them behind my back!

Friends

Sunday afternoon we had our dear friends from Greenwood up for dinner...Denise and Drew. They used to be our neighbors and we miss them terribly but we try to get together and stay in touch.

Makenna had a great time with Drew. She just kept starring at him and smiling. We couldn't figure out if she was flirting with him or if she thought he looked like her daddy (glasses, baseball cap, etc)