Tulips are my favorite!

I had a WONDERFUL birthday. I guess the good part about getting older is that you are reminded of how loved you are.
The Wednesday before my birthday which happened to be the day before the "big snow" (it snowed for like 30 minutes here, but we still got a day out of school), I came home from the grocery store set all the bags down and then turned the lights on to find these....

The purple ones were from Adam and the pink ones from Albe. I was SOOO surprised and SOOO happy. I think I danced. They were beautiful. Have I mentioned that I LOVE tulips.

Happy Birthday Amy!!

I know this is a few hours early, but by the time most of you read this, it will be Amy's birthday (January 8th)!! I didn't want to get too busy at work and forget to post this. Amy enjoyed her 9 days being younger than me, but now she has joined the same age as me club. She has been such a wonderful wife and best friend, putting up with me and my obsession with sports, especially the Cardinals. I hope that she has a great birthday with many more to come!!!!

Fun, fun, fun

During the Christmas holidays, the Knight family traveled over 1400 miles. Albe and I slept about 1200 of those miles while my wonderful husband did a fantastic job of driving.

It is always so refreshing to spend time with family and friends, laughing and relaxing. As always, we received the most entertainment from "little man" aka Jackson. He is at such a fun age. I truly believe he is the smartest 3 year old around.

Adam and I were very excited about giving him our Christmas present. Swords and shields. This kid is ALL boy and turns everything into a weapon. We were tired of not having anything to defend ourselves with, so we got a set of swords and shields. To say that he loved them was an understatement. Another thing that Jackson loves is his Uncle Adam. It warms my heart to see these two play. And play they do. Adam plays so well with Jackson. I heard a million times, "Mimi (that's me), come and get the Monster (that's Adam" or "Come and get Uncle Adam's sword"

We had so much fun with that little fella and the rest of the family too. Did I mention that I got dominoes and Phase 10??? I LOVE THEM!!

We also went to the kid version of a casino, Gatti Town. Thankfully we had a 3 year-old to disguise how much fun the grown-ups were having. Mom, Adam, Amy and I rode the bumper cars. So fun. Adam and I played Dance Dance Revolution. Can you say, HARD!! I think Jackson had fun too!!

Deck the halls

We loved decorating our new house for Christmas. Its no secret that Adam wants to be Clark Griswald with the Christmas lights, but have you ever bought lights for the outside of the house? Somebody is making some $$$$. So I lovingly told him that it is a process and we will add every year. He did a great job this year, tasteful yet awe inspiring.
Last year Adam and I moved during Christmas so we didn't get to decorate for Christmas, so we took advantage of having a place to decorate this year and put our Christmas decorations out before we left for Thanksgiving. One of our traditions is to buy Christmas ornaments at all of the places we travel to. We haven't used some of these ornaments yet, so it was fun to pull those out for the first time this year!


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These are just a few of the memorable ornaments on the tree. I will post again soon about the fun we had with Jackson and the families!

Happy Birthday Adam!!!

I have been away from the blog for a while so I didn't get to post on my wonderful husband's birthday but we celebrated his birthday on Wednesday. His parents and sisters were able to come and be with us that day. We had a great time with them. I am so thankful for him. He is an amazing husband, friend, and provider. I LOVE that he will be older than me for 9 whole days!!! I love you sweetheart!! I hope you had a wonderful day.

Must Watch

I just watched this video on my former home church's blog. Take a minute to watch it. It is well worth your time!1

http://blog.firsthattiesburg.com/cardboard-testimonies-video

We serve a very faithful God!!

Thanksgiving recap

Adam, Albe and I headed to the 'burg for Thanksgiving. Jeremy, Amy and Jackson were already there so we were looking forward to spending some quality time with little man. He definitely kept us entertained. He liked walking around in Uncle Ben's boots, with his holster on. Notice that he has tools in the holster. He hasn't gotten any guns yet. But uses everything as a gun.
My favorite thing is that he asks my permission before doing bodily harm to Adam. Our conversations usually go like this...
Jackson: Mimi, can I drop an elbow bomb on Uncle Adam?
Mimi (me): Why sure sweetie, you can definitely drop an elbow bomb on Uncle Adam?
Jackson (1 minute later after a successful elbow bomb): Mimi can I do a pile driver on Uncle Adam?
Mimi: Yep, you can!
Jackson (30 seconds later): Mimi, Can I pull Uncle Adam's foot off?
Mimi: Laughing hysterically, well I don't know if he could walk without a foot.

I'm telling you this kid cracks me up. LOVE HIM!!! He keeps us entertained!!!

Jackson and Adam ate their cereal together one morning and I thought it was precious!!! So I thought I would share it with you. Two of my favorite fellas, I was just missing Dad in the picture!