Saturday, January 29, 2011

Rebecca's first Pedicure

A sweet friend of mine gave me a card this summer with a gift certificate for a pedicure. I kept putting it off, not finding the right time to use it. Well, it expired in December, so on December 31st, I took Rebecca with me and we both got pedicures. It was fun, but I don't think it was quite what she expected.

Rebecca actually didn't like the massaging chairs. I, on the other hand, loved it, but I guess she doesn't have the same old worn out muscles that her mother does!

She didn't like how long she had to wait for the toes to dry, but she did like the cool little flip flops!

Beautiful Mom & Daughter Toes!!

Friday, January 28, 2011

Pampering Party

Julianna was invited to a special birthday party with a friend she used to be in Mother's Day Out with. Faith invited 3 special friends to go have a Pampered afternoon - actually, it was a surprise to Faith done by her Aunt. The girls had manicures, pedicures, massages and makeovers. They had a fun time. I had to post some of Julianna's first mani/pedi pictures!

Julianna's pedicure!

Not so sure about the color she picked though.......

A make over!

Beautiful!

Manicure Time

The massage - when asked, THIS was her favorite part - she went back a few times!

Enjoying cupcakes

The birthday attendees

Wanna bet Julianna had something to do with this Silly picture?!?

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Fun in the Snow

We've had a lot of snow here in Tennessee already this year. I did get any pictures during the first couple of them, but we woke up to a couple of inches one Monday morning and schools were canceled. Our neighbors to the south (in Nashville and below) got a lot more than we did but we enjoyed the little we got.

We have friends from church who live close by and have a pretty nice slope in their back yard so we piled into the car and carefully headed over to there house. We were only there an hour or so but we had a blast!!

My girls walking back up the hill

Going down again

Cameron - one of the Lewis boys

Braden, their oldest - I think he was going to throw something at someone!

My girls got quite creatie on this tube!

Whoops - they got turned around!

Colton - the youngest Lewis boy!

And the Mommy - Heather!!!

Rebecca! Watch out for that pipe!!!!

Crash!

And Harrison - the 2nd of the 4 boys!

Christian

Even Matt a little fun with the rest of the kids!

Okay - girls, now watch out for that tree!

Whoops (again) - I'm not so confident in Rebecca's ability to drive or navigate this tube!

Look at those cold, red cheeks!

Fun with Daddy

Whoo-hoo!

The Lewis's got this Zipee for Christmas! Man, it was fun & fast!


SSSSCCCCRRREEEAAAMMMMM!!

So sweet

Building a snow fort

Mama's turn - not so sure!

Wheeeee!!!

Christmas with the Paynes

We were able to go spend a couple of days with my family in Leiper's Fork. Unfortunately, my youngest sister, Rachel and her family were not here - Washington State is just tooo far away. Justin & his family made it from Memphis so we had a fun time together for a couple of days.

Pops playing Santa - Santa was trying to stir up the hornets nest here, trying to figure out "how" we were going to open gifts - he likes the wild and crazy and madness.....then afterward, he quietly slips to a corner and slowly and calmly opens his. We had a bit of a compromise this year!

Uncle Tim and the little girls anxiously waiting!

More kids waiting!

Ruth & Julianna

Aunt Mandy is awesome - she painted each of the kids these awesome pictures for their rooms. As you can tell, the kids were so thrilled!!

We brought the game Quelf. While some of the little kids were napping, I grabbed a group to play with me. The funny thing about this game is that the people watching laugh as much as those of us playing. It only ended up being Mandy, Anna Blair, Rebecca and me playing, although we had some spectators that were quite active in the game (JUSTIN!). This is the craziest game and so much fun..... see below for pictures!

Rebecca had to keep her thumbs in her mouth and her hands on her shoulders until it was her turn (or until another action card was drawn). She was not so happy, yet Caleb seems entertained by her!

Anna Blair had to lick this piece of paper and stick it to her forehead and keep it there until the time ran out or pay the penalty! She did great with her licking and paid no penalty!

Mandy the artist got this one -I had to draw 5 different shapes and some lines on a paper and she had to draw an illustration for a children's book and I think tell the story - she's quite proud!

I had to be a human pretzel here - there were many instructions on whose ankle, shoulder and knee I had to touch - not comfortable.....but awfully funny!

I believe Mandy may be speaking in her best ganster rap here!!

Caleb & Christian

Justin & Mandy

Uncle Matthew reads Josiah a book.

Sweet Lydia!

Justin & Mandy were playing Christian's new game, Loopz