Christmas with the Moss Family

So after BR, we headed up to Dallas to spend some time with Ben's family. His grandmother, Meg, who just turned 90, always flies from NC to see us, and it is a wonderful treat for all of us!! We absolutely adore her!!! Ben is so blessed to have three grandparents still living, so the camera is always out in full force whenever we are with them.

McCullough adores Meg and they "play well" together! Sweet Meg is always chasing her around and trying to entertain her. She wishes McCullough would snuggle more, but so do the rest of us :)
We actually did two 1000 piece puzzles in just a few days. It's great to have so much help - so I can do fun, mindless things like puzzles!! This year we did the NY skyline and another one with farm house.
PRESENTS!! McCullough is still trying to figure out the whole presents thing, but one thing for sure, she loved the copper hose holder that we gave Nancy!
She also loved the chair that Nana and Pops got her!! She loves to sit in it and has figured out climbing in and out of it. We often bring it from her playroom to the main room so she can sit with us and hang out :)

She also got her first tea set (of many I presume)
We had a great time...and though it was short...we will be right back because our niece, Margaret Brooke is about to be born!

Christmas Morning

Well...let's just say it wasn't what we expected :) It turned out to be great but it started off shaky. To give you a little background, Glo went to 4:00 church on Christmas Eve and by 4:05 she was gone because she felt nausea. I'll spare you the details, but we never saw her again that night. So, we pulled off Christmas Eve dinner as best we good without her, said our goodnights and wondered "who's next''. Before we even got to sleep, Clint texted to say Samuel was now sick. We woke up to find out Glenn was sick during the night.

So at 9:00am on Christmas morning, it was Aus, Ben, Squirt and myself wondering what to do!! Should we cancel Christmas (how do you to that...and this was my year in BR which made me even sadder at the thought of canceling). We decided the show must go on, so we put the turkey and ham in the oven and then wondered...hmmm, what other food. Thankfully the rest of the family wasn't coming til later, so hopefully mom and glenn would show up.

So, here's McCullough opening up presents in front of Uncle A :)

Clint and Bethany showed up around 10:00 after a very long night and put Samuel straight to bed (he slept until 4:00).

Mom and Glenn finally rallied around noon, just in time for the Schexnayders to join us and bring some much needed Christmas cheer. Of course, this meant it was time for matching Christmas dresses!!!

YES...there is life other than kiddos...here are a few pics to prove it...

Ben insisted McCullough was cold and wanted her fleece :)

You can see what Samuel got for Christmas!!!

Proof that Glo made it!!
At about this point, she asked me if I got the plastic bag of gizzards OUT of the turkey BEFORE I put it in the oven. My reply.....NOPE!!
The lovely couple patiently waiting the arrival of their first baby in June. We find out tomorrow what it is!!!
Poor Glenn never got out of his robe!!

Well, all in all, we had a great day, quite different than we thought, but that's what family is for!!

Off to Dallas to celebrate some more!!

McCullough is TEN!!!

Well...nothing like being a month late. TODAY McCullough is 11 months old (it's also Uncle Clint's birthday...so a sweet shout out to the worlds BEST big brother!!!!). But instead of posting her 11 month pic, I am first posting her 10 month (and will take the 11 tomorrow).

Dont be fooled by this sweet, precious face.....
This is what she NORMALLY looks like :))) Ben loves to make this face to McCullough, so of course it is now her ALL TIME favorite new expression. Of course, it gets her lots of attention at the grocery store, on airplane trips, and most of all...from her grandparents!!!

Cookie Swap

While we were in BR for Christmas, McCullough got to make her first grand appearance at the McCullough Cookie Swap :)) Except for the giant blow out that she had half way through the night...she did great and was certainly one of the many stars of the night!

Sadly, Glenn (the photographer) had to work late, so there aren't too many pics from party. No evidence of Brooke, Blair, Lindsay, Elizabeth and many more... oh and Clint missed the party thanks to an illness that took him down. AND...some little kid passed around the vomiting virus, which subsequently put a MAJOR damper on our Christmas...but that's for the next blog.

The REAL action was taking place in the playroom where there were no less than 15 children at all times...CHAOS for sure :)))

The first half of the EHS group...

Christmas Playgroup

Needless to say...it's been a month and I am really behind on blogging so I am just posting some pics to get me caught up!

I hosted our little playgroup in December and we have a Christmas luncheon -- the kids were precious!!

Pictures with Santa!

When Ben and I were in Dallas, we decided to take a trip to the Arboretum with Nancy, Barney and McCullough - and we were glad we did because we found Santa and Mrs. Claus there...so we grabbed the camera and started snapping!!

And of course I "just happened" to have her Christmas dress with "in case" we did see Santa. We quickly changed outfits and kept snapping pics!!

We even got Mrs. Claus in there for a couple!
First trip to see Santa...pretty successful!!

Fun Times at Thanksgiving!

early morning fun over thanksgiving!!

you can tell who the funny parent is :)))

Well - everyone has role models and we all look up to people that are older than us... luckily for McCullough those two things go together when it comes to Cate and Madeline Tiffany!!! They are two of McCullough's favorite people (and you can tell they like her too) so every time we go to Dallas we make it a point to spend some good quality time with our sweet friends (and it's nice for me to see their mom, Kelley Moore Tiffany, as well :))) Here are so cute pics for our afternoon at the park!!

C and M were SO sweet and helpful and wanted to do ANYTHING they could to help and play with McCullough!

What fun friends!!!
They even pushed her in the swing (which you can see in the video below). She LOVED it!!!
On our way to the park, I caught a cute pic of pops and mccullough hanging on a park bench!!