Christmas Fun at Stone Mtn

Tim scored free tickets this year to St. Mountain's Christmas and those are the best kind of tickets to score!

We were all super excited to go. Lilah was really super excited to see Santa and ride the train.

First up was Mrs. Clause's story time.

Then Lilah was lucky enough get her picture taken with the Mrs. herself.

Mac wasn't about to take a picture with Mrs OR Mr. Claus so we had to settle for a few shots of him by himself here and there.

Lilah found one of her pacifiers in the stroller. She can hunt one of thoses things down like nobody's business!!!

After the 4D movie, a sing-along and a little candy and christmas tree ornament shopping, we sent McG off to The Barn to play while Tim and I tool Lula Belle to see the Snow Angel.

She was way excited and very happy in line........

...then the snow angel magically appeared and things took a turn for the worse.

Lilah was not a bit happy but was a pretty good sport about it.


After our adventure there, I went to go pick up McG and Daddy took Lilah to go stand in line for the Christmas parade and pictures with Santa.

We ate while waiting for the parade. FYI, St. Mnt's chicken tenders are delicious amd slide down the band in my tummy quite smoothly!!!

The parade was fun. Lilah was jumping and waving and was so happy to see Santa!!!

After the parade, the reality of actually being face to face with jolly 'ol St. Nick set in and Lilah started weeping and wailing. Seriously, she was scared to death!! Luckily, we were 3rd in line to see Santa so the crying didn't last too long.

She cried all the way up to the point of me putting her on his lap, then she stopped crying but certainly didn't stop pouting. She was able to tell him that she wanted toys for Christmas and that she loved him (with my prompting, of course).

After that trauma, we went and experienced a different kind of trauma:

standing in line for an hour and a half to ride the #%$^&*# train!!!!

The kids and Tim did really well while waiting.

Me??? Not so much!!!

But I was fine and chipper once we sat down and ate a little fudge!

We ended up leaving after the train ride since we were so exhausted, but we really did have a fabulous time. The weather was chilly and a little sprinkley but overall it was very pleasant and the experience really jump started our Christmas season!!

My Thanksgiving Adventure

Tim was ever so kind enough to take pictures of my little appendectomy adventure last weekend.

I won't bore you will all of the gorey details, but basically I ended up here:

at this hospital and diagnosed with appendicitis.

:insert sympathy here:

I got wisked away to surgery and got a 2-for-1 deal with an appendectomy AND a much needed hernia repair that came as a bit of a surprise to me.

Heaven forbid they throw in a tummy tuck! IS that too much to ask?

Anyway, I ended up in this room,

looking like this!! EEEEEK!!!!

Here's my only meal for the stay.

Say what you will about hospital food, but the grits were to die for!!!

Lilah ate my applesauce but the bite I had of that was delightful as well.

They had the coldest water in the South!

Here I am, the next day, in all of my make-up-less glory ready to home to my own warm bed!

The kids made me get well cards and Lilah spent the next couple of days bringing them to be regularly!!

Bev and Rex sent these beautiful flowers in the cutest little vase. I think Bev wants wants me to give her the vase for Christmas, though!! haha

I have to say, I feel so blessed that everything worked out so smoothly and as painless as possible. I've heard horror stories of appendicitis and although I would never recommend it, the whole ordeal wasn't as bad as you would expect!!!

St Simon's Trip

Everyone on FaceBook has seen these pictures but I wanted Grandma to see them as well, so this post is really for her!

Tim's company has been very, very good to us!

The latest perk was a free trip to St. Simon's island. Actually, it was a nice vacation for me and the kids...Tim was basically busy all weekend with his work seminars.

Here's the resort where we stayed.

Our room is in the top far right corner.

As soon as we got there and got settled, Tim had to set up for some meeetings and of course go to his fancy company dinner so I got fast food for the kids and then took them swimming in the heated pool.

The next morning we all had a nice breakast and after Tim left for his meetings, we went to the beach!

After a few hours on the beach, we (meaning the kids and I) had a nice lunch poolside. We did see Tim breifly and he even took us to get our food.

Tim had another fancy dinner with his co workers that night so I took the kids out for dinner and they went night swimming again.

The next day, Tim and McG went to breakfast and later while Tim was at yet another meeting, I took the kids to the beach again for a little while, then they splashed around in the freezing cold swimming pool as well!

We met Tim for lunch after his meetings were over so we were at least able to spend a little time with him on our vacation.

Here's a sunrise view from the hotel room!

The kids enjoying the view!