I Must Have Been Good This Year...

...Because my family (I mean Santa) came bearing great gifts!

More important than gifts, I got to go home this year and it was so good to see my whole family. I will let the pictures show the madness : )

Before heading to OK, Jesse and I celebrated our own little Christmas. We never got a good picture together, thus the matching individual pictures.

Chickasha Festival of Lights
Time to open presents!

My niece and nephews.

The nephews hang out with uncle J...

...quite literally.

Hope all of your Christmas celebrations were merry and bright.

Brightened My Day

I have been very busy lately with little sleep and lots of crankiness. However, my husband knew just what I needed to make me smile.



Flowers are my weakness. My husband knows me well, love him.

Oh Christmas Tree, 2011

This years Christmas tree experience was different.

In year's past, we went to a tree farm, pick out a big tree and cut it down.

We are living in a smaller place than last year and we live in a big city where it's not very convenient to go cut down your own Christmas tree, but we did the best with what we had and it was still a lot of fun.

This year was a quick trip to Home depot to find the perfect tree and we did.

I apologize in advance for the blurry pictures. My camera was struggling.

Jesse bringing in our tree.

Before.
After.
Another After.

Poll: real or fake tree, which do you prefer? Take my poll in the top, right corner.

A Tennessee Thanksgiving, 2011

Nashville, TN was were Jesse and I spent our time for Thanksgiving this year. Technically we stayed in Gallatin, but we did spend a few nights in Nashville with my SIL and BIL, the Martins.

Although I had been through and in the general area of Nashville several times before, I had never really toured it, so the trip started off with an insiders tour from my SIL, Molly.

In this picture: cool, old buildings/churches, Batman looking building, our pretty tour guide.

A few of the McKee women.
Jesse's Grandmama and I matched, so a picture was an absolute must.

A walk to the creek. The weather was beautiful.

It never fails. Jesse is always climbing on things.

A few of the cousins.

Happy Belated Thanksgiving from the McKee's.

November Family Visitors

I officially have to add the month in the title when we have family visitors because we have had so many lately, but I am not complaining, we have so enjoyed family coming to visit us.

And now for our featured November visiotrs: Mike and Kim McKee (aka Jesse's parents).

Wednesday was Mike's birthday, so we ventured out to the Mason Jar for dinner.

Opening a few presents.

Mike created a beautiful painting of our friends dog, Norman. I call this picture "Stormin' Norman." There of course is a story behind it : )

Althought I didn't post a picture, Saturday Kim and I attended the International Quilt show. Wow, there are some pretty talented quilters in the world. I like to sew, but I'll stick to my curtains for now.

Sunday afternnon we went to Galveston. It was a cool by the water, but still only around 70 degrees.

Mike and Kim seeing Galveston for the first time.

Now for a silly picture...
We even saw the cutest little mermaid.

Thanks Mike and Kim for the great visit!

Trick or Treaters Welcome

We hung our little "Welcome" sign for trick or treaters expecting floods of cute children in their cute costumes to come to the door. Unfortunately all we got was a 13 year old with no costume and a Wal-Mart sack. She didn't even say "Trick or treat" or "Thank you."

What is this world coming to? You can bet my children will say "trick or treat" AND "thank you."

Fortunately this cute trick or treater showed up and made my day.

He is such a good sport.

Hope everyone else had great trick or treaters come to their door.

Blogger Help: Spacing Issues

I know I don't usually have many people comment on my blog posts, but if you can help me, please don't be silent!

The Issue: I create my posts in edit mode and format wise they look fine, but then as soon as I post the blog and review it live there are all of the crazy spaces and sometimes my font color changes. What is going on?

Just take a look at several past blogs and you will see what I am talking about.

I don't know much about HTML code, but is the issue occuring there?

If you can help, please leave a comment. If you have any suggestions, please leave a comment. OR if you just feel sorry for me, please leave a comment :)

In advance, thank you for the help!