Christmas in MS!

Merry Christmas! We just spent a wonderful week and a half of non-stop fun and celebration with a house overflowing with family at my parents. Because Luke & Isabel were the only grandchildren, they got lots of doting from their aunts and uncles and Nina and Pops, which was very special!
It was in Luke's words, the "best Christmas ever!"
Little does he realize we'll be celebrating all over again when we get to Atlanta this evening!
We're just thankful for the special memories we'll hold on to as we head west in a few weeks. I can already feel my heart storing up these moments to keep me for the next few months. As time ticks, my heart feels weaker, but this only tells me my faith must grow stronger! I have the most amazing pictures to share, but bc it may be a while before I can upload them, here are a few I wanted to share.

Here's to you, a very Happy New Year!!!!!

2012, really??

Hot chocolate hugs!

From Lukey!

This boy looves hot chocolate!
And we looove this boy!!!

Making some special memories here...but this Friday can't come quick enough, when we'll welcome our Daddy home after his long travels!

The Nutcracker Tea

This past Saturday, we took Isabel to the sweetest Nutcracker Tea party! Mobile Ballet puts on the Nutcracker each year, and this year the Barr began the season with an invitation to have tea with Clara! Isabel was just enthralled with all the decor and especially with Clara. We also heard the story told by a wonderful lady, watched a few scenes from the play, then shared cake pops, gumdrops, and snowflake cookies! Our table was in the Land of Snow. Just such a sweet memory this will always be for us!

Mississippi Christmas!

Hello from Mississippi!! We've arrived to our temporary home at Nina and Pops house! Our house sold so quickly, so after moving out last week, we gladly drove just 45 minutes to MS to spend the last few of our remaining weeks in the South!

I hope to be blogging more regularly now, as I just got my system up and running.

I do hope you are enjoying this beautiful time of year!!! I'm slowing down this year...enjoying being "home", playing on the floor with the twins, drinking hot cocoa with marshmallows and a peppermint, and truly seeing Christmas through my children's eyes! The true meaning of Christmas...is loving a child!!

Enjoy a few photos of my Mom's Christmas decor ;)

See you soon!!

happy thanksgiving time!

   i will miss this tree....it's been good to me....

These photos were taken on Tuesday.  We have had a very rainy, dreary week here, but with that moisture came lots of color in our trees.  It's quite pretty. 

Happy Thanksgiving! 

 Just 1 week from tomorrow we'll all be "stuffing" ourselves : )  

Have you found some new recipes to try this season?

These are some yummy things I would love to enjoy over the holiday/s:

Hot Olive and Artichoke Dip

Pumpkin Muffins

Apple, Date & Ginger Crisp

Five-Spice Glazed Sweet Potatoes {with}Walnut Toffee

Gooey Butter Cake

These in addition to the classic's of coarse!

Forever on Thanksgiving Day

~ the heart will find the pathway home ~

Wilbur D. Nesbit

more of colorado and wyoming..

This is something I loved about Wyoming. Wind farms. I had never actually seen one. Look very very closely where the grass meets the sky, and you will see hundreds of windmills. They are all along the drive from Denver

into Wyoming. Really neat.

Thought I'd share a few of the neat places we went while there,

and I would highly recommend.

Totally lucked out at this lunch eatery, The Kitchen {Next Door}

Went in because it looked neat from the outside, and it was fabulous!

Spiced Chickpea and Hummus plate..delicious.

An incredible home/kitchen store in Boulder,

Peppercorn

Website is great, and can order from it too!

Just a beautiful day in Boulder. So glad we took the short drive to see this city.

Snooze in Denver

i did not take this picture.

Sweet Potato Pancakes. Worth the trip alone! oh my goodness....

Oh the places you'll go!!!

our {BIG} weekend!

Saturday was a BIG day!

Sweet, sweet birthday parties..

oh my, what a big Dora you are!

On to the BIG battleship...

USS Alabama!

A BIG, wonderful weekend!

One more BIG coming soon...have to get it scanned in : )