Thursday, December 29, 2011

Down on the Farm

Quick random pic of Hudson playing his cousin, Mary's guitar. I just thought it was cute!I have been in the Buie family for 15 years and have heard so many stories about their relatives who live on a farm in Winchester, AR. Robbie and his dad hunt there. Well, today I went to Winchester to see it for myself. I'm not very outdoors-y....unless you are talking about laying out at the pool or the beach! But, I have to admit I had a good time!
The farmland we visited was just beautiful!
The kids thought throwing rocks into the river was SO much fun! Are we city people or what?! They didn't want to quit!
We had to drive across this part of the river to get to Papa's deer stand. The kids were really excited about it!
I found the concept of the duck blink really entertaining. There is a bleacher-type seat under all this straw. It is long...would probably seat 5-6 men. I just got this vision of them sitting on this bleacher seat should to shoulder...with serious faces...holding their guns staring at the sky for hours....they suddenly busting up through the top firing away the first time they spot a duck. Almost like a Jack-in-the-Box! Just cracked me up!
They farm cotton on this land....and this cotton picking tractor is about the same size as my house...not much exaggeration! It was mind boggling huge!


Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Little Rock Christmas

We drove up to Little Rock to have Christmas with Nonie and Poppa today! We got here at dinnertime and had a yummy pot roast dinner! Ummmm!
How fun to have even more presents waiting on us! It's fun to make Christmas last for several days!
We got lots of nice presents! But, Rob opened an Ipad and you can see the reaction from the kids!
The kids really wanted to ask Santa for one...but we managed to convince them that Santa doesn't usally bring grown up toys to kids.
Needless to say, we all have plans for how we plan to use the Ipad and are really excited!
Thank you, Nonie and Poppa!

Sunday, December 25, 2011

Christmas Day

When the kids woke up, they went into Lawson's room and knocked on one of her walls that connects to our room. We tried this with them last year...gives us a chance to grab our cameras and meet them in the living room. I'm still suprised that they have the composure to actually work this plan!
Lawson's Loot!
Hudson's Loot (he had a note on the wall from Santa telling him that he had to leave his basketball goal in the garage)
Here they come!
They are funny! They always barely acknowledge the big things are go straight to digging in the stockings!
Once Lawson tried out her new fuzzy blue chair she did not come out of the chair for the rest of the morning! Even took it out in the driveway when we took Hudson out to test drive his bike! You will see in the next post...the chair traveled with us to Texarkana and Little Rock too!
Pretty sure Lawson has more make-up now than I do!
Santa did not dissapoint!
About noon, we packed up and drove to Mimi and Doo Dad's in Texarkana.
Everyone in my family was there except for Brady (missed you!) and it was such a special time!
Love that my mom has started such fun traditions with the kids. She has someone read the Christmas story (Rob was the designated reader this year) from the huge family bible. Meanwhile the kids reinact the story with Mimi's nativity figurines. She always bakes Jesus and birthday cake and we all sing Happy Birthday to Jesus.
LOVE Lawson's face in the pic!
The the present opening began! (Note: Hudson checking himself out in the mirror! Funny!)
Hudson was pretty freaked out by Aunt Steph wrapping his present in the Justice box! He is a girl-a-phone these days! And he knows that Justice is pure girl!
Batman forever!
Love ROB's expression in this pic! Man I captured some priceless expressions this year!
And then there is always wonderful food! Janie Beards Chicken Tortilla soup and these little baked buttery poppy seed sandwiches!
Then it was time to check out the new stuff!
And snuggle!
All 8 grandkids in one place. One is hiding and one is crying but you can see 3/4 are representing! Not too bad when working with 8 kids!
Merry Christmas to all! And to all a goodnight! Long, full, wonderful day!