McDanal's Memoirs

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Vote for Leila

Hey guys if you got time go and vote for my friends little girl on this website http://sfisherphotography.com/blog/index.php/2011/01/top-20-of-2010/

She is number 13!!

Sunday, January 2, 2011

our last Christmas we celebrated with Jamie's brother Jason, who had to work on Christmas. We exchanged gifts at our house and enjoyed a nice visit! The boys are getting good at this and JE only had to worry about opening one present this time!

Jamie and Jason exchanging gifts

Jason I told you that you would make the blog... so here you are!!

That's caroline and rebecca visiting!! They were in town and at our house playing to give mom and dad a break!! After all it was mom's birthday and we thought we would let her go celebrate without all the kids!!

This was the end of our Christmas celebrating!! We had a great time!! Hope you did too!!

Christmas in Pine Hill 12/25/10

so, after Santa Claus came, we played for a little while, then got ready to go to Pine Hill to see Jamie's folks. Here we are getting started with the presents after eating a delicious lunch

Again, here is the only present that JE opened... after this he was done!

Eric got the Lego fire station that he has been wanting for at least a year!!

Jamie's grandmother

Here is JE playing with his Buzz Lightyear rocket

Jamie's dad

Jamie's mom

we unfortunately had to cut our visit short this date because the weather was bad and we needed to be on our way before the roads got bad, however we had a great time!!

Here Comes Santa Claus... 12/25/10

I know it's hard to see because the lights are out, but here is what Eric got. I think his favorite is the Light in the night that Santa left him to help him sleep in his bed all night without being afraid. He says that it works and he is not afraid anymore!

Here's something Santa left for both the boys and to help mommy's sanity when on long car rides!! Guess he heard our other one broke!!

Here's the loot that JE got from Santa... there are a couple of identical items that Eric got because I have learned that sometimes with boys they have to have the same thing to keep the fights to a minimum!!

So Christmas morning Jamie and I wake up to the sound of silence in the house!! It's 7:30 and both our children are still snoozing!!This is insane! I was always up at the crack of dawn seeing what I got... my boys, not so much!! Jamie and I were on our way to start to wake up Eric when he appeared in the kitchen with us. He had walked by all the presents and hadn't noticed! He said we have to look under the tree to see what Santa brought us! He walked past them again to the tree and was disappointed to see the same presents that were there the day before. Here was his expression when he finally realized where the presents were!!!

John Emory still sleeping hard!!

Still sleepy,not sure why we woke him up!!

He quickly got over it and played with his new train table for the rest of the morning!!

We had a great Christmas morning, but it didn't last long because we had to get on the road for our Christmas road trip to see Jamie's family. Good thing Santa brought those DVD players!! They were quickly installed in the car before we left!!

Christmas with the McDuffie's 12/24/10

The excitement is building as the kids decorate one of their rooms in Christmas lights!! I have a funny video of this if I can ever get this thing to load it!!! (any tips out there?)

This is one last birthday present for Eric from my brother Jason..

Santa's little helper...

Can you tell they are excited...

Rebecca, John, Jenni, and Jason

let the fun begin...

The first and only present that JE opened... RC from Toy Story! He absolutely loved it! He had to have it out of the box right then..

and here is the aftermath of four kids and 7 adults opening presents...

Chirstmas Programs

Eric was a Shepherd in the Church's Christmas Program

This was John Emory's first Christmas Program at Northport Baptist... They sent home his songs and we worked on them several times a week. He did so good! He didn't sing any of the songs, however he did do most of the motions!! I was so proud of my little man!! (He's wearing the green in the middle! That's sweet Mac on his left! Can't see him too well through that lady taking a picture!)