Our Rock Star.... featured in the local newspaper

Today we went to see Santa again at the mall. Kyndal sat in his lap and once again told him that she wanted a Little Red Car. We didn't get any pictures, we wanted to have it just be a visit with Santa. When we got home later today our Neighbor Jennifer gave us a call and asked if we got the Smyrna AM in the mail today. I hadn't checked the mail, but she said that Kyndal was on page 4. The Santa visit to our Stonewood Subdivision earlier this month made it to the paper and a picture of Kyndal on his lap was featured in the article. I will scan it and post it for those who don't get the Smyrna am, but for those who do take a look at page 4 and don't throw the paper away please save us a copy. I am sure there are several sets of grandparents who would like to have one.

Kyndal's first production.... our little black sheep

Last Thursday was the Christmas program at Kyndal's preschool. Our little girl was part of the Nativity scene, playing a role of a sheep. Our friend Katie was playing Mary. It was really the sweetest Christmas program evah! I cried when the children sang, cried when Mary came out, and cried when our little sheep came out. I guess I cried the whole time! Kyndal did quite well in the program. She didn't crawl out as planned (and like she practiced for a month), but considering she had only a 5 minute nap that day I can't blame her. She did sit and cross her little legs and I could see her sing and do hand motions along with the rest of the Children who were singing. The sang Happy Birthday Jesus, and Kyndal did at church last Sunday too. Here are a few pictures. I will have video eventually, but right now it is on our video camera tape.

Here are the rest of the kids (ones not in the nativity). They were the choir.

Here is our sheep, front and center.

Christmas fun

We were invited to our friend's house Samantha, Josh and Lilly Kate's for a little Christmas gathering for the girls. The girls decorated cookies and had a little book exchange. Everyone was going away before or on Christmas (except us), so it was nice for them to get together to celebrate. Here is a little slide show of the fun!

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Holiday Cheer

Here is Kyndal in one of her Christmassy outfits.

Ho Ho Ho

Cheese face again.

Opryland Visit

Here are some pictures from our Opryland Hotel/Opry Mills torture visit.

I am actually in these pictures... Thanks Daddy.

At the hotel... Look a tree bigger than ours.

Mommy and Kyndal rode on the train.


We rode the carousel at the mall too.

Cheese face.

A more serious one.

Kyndal's Christmas Wish List

Enjoy the video.

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Making a Gingerbread House

We made a gingerbread house on Saturday. It was lots of fun and good to eat too!

Breakfast with Santa

Yesterday morning we went to have breakfast with Santa in the common area in our subdivision. They had hot chocolate, donuts, cupcakes, juice and a big bon-fire to keep us warm. Santa arrived shortly after we got there and all the kids sat in his lap and he knew what they wanted for Christmas even before they asked. Kyndal has seen Santa in the various malls several times by now, but wanted no part in sitting in his lap. You may remember our Santa Visit last year. We didn't want to repeat it, so we have not pushed her into sitting in his lap. Yesterday, however, she wanted to sit in his lap. It may have been because her little friend Lauren sat in his lap first. Here are a few pictures, I think it is neat because there is still a little snow left on the ground in these pictures.

Snow

It felt like Christmas time last night. We watched the snow fall and baked some cookies. This morning we had a pretty good covering. I had to bribe Kyndal to go out in it. I told her we would play with playdough if she went outside with me and let me take some pitures.

Here are a few pics and a video.



This is what Kyndal does when I tell her to smile for the camera.

Our finished Christmas Tree - One of them

Here are some pictures of the new Christmas tree. I picked up a few more things today to make it complete. I love our little Angel on top of the tree. We bought it last year after Christmas on clearance, I thought it would be too small for this tree, but I really love it. I am also posting pictures of some of my favorite ornaments.
Love our new Photo Ornament of Kyndal, it is one of the new products at Kristin Aune Photography.
This is one of our wedding ornaments. It is kind of hard to see here because it was quite far up on the tree, it is beautiful though.
A wedding photo ornament. My favorite picture of us during our wedding reception.
I love this angel.
Kyndal admiring the tree.
Self portrait. How do you like this Mom and Dad, a picture of me. I saw this from the picture of the Kyndal ornament and thought it was cool. I like how you can see the whole house behind me. I guess it is a makeshift fisheye lens!!

Tree Trimming

We are almost finished decorating for Christmas. With a much larger house, there was a whole lot of decorations to buy this year. We now have two Christmas trees decorated in our house. I was pretty certain we would need a larger Christmas tree here in the new house, so I began searching. The one from the old house was a slim-line 7.5 foot tree. With our soaring ceilings I was sure it wasn't big enough. Bret did not understand this... we have a perfectly good tree. So I put it up in the living room and he immediately understood the need for a bigger one. We put the old one in the foyer, I got it decorated last weekend. Last night we decorated the new one in the livingroom with all of our family ornaments. Kyndal helped and here are a few pictures of Kyndal's decorating job. Notice the conglomeration of balls on on the bottom all in the same section.


It was interesting trying to get the angel on the new 9 foot tree. We tried using Kyndal's stepstool... We tried my step ladder... We ended up getting the 6 foot ladder out to finish the job.

Haircut

I forgot one thing. Kyndal's Nana Kennedy gave her another haircut while they were here on Thanksgiving. Nothing drastic, but she did taper the sides. It looks so cute, thanks Nana. I will post a picture shortly.

Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving in our new house. Kyndal's Nana and Papa Mcconaha and her Nana and Papaw Kennedy were here, as well as our friends Joe, Kim and Lola. I guess I am starting to get used to cooking the whole Thanksgiving meal, because it certainly went a whole lot smoother this year. Not that it has ever been bad, just more stressful. This year the Turkey was done on time and everything else came together great. I didn't have to buy two Turkeys either like I did a couple of years back because I forgot to put one in the fridge one evening and it was left out all night... LOL!

The table all set...


The kids table


Getting ready to eat. Here are all of our guests.

I do need to make one observation about this photo. Do you notice everyone looking at the camera while I am taking the picture. Okay... all but one. This is why there are no pictures of you on the family wall, at least you don't have your arms over your face in this one, LOL! I love you and will eventually get a picture of your face unobstructed, it is a new goal of mine.

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