I've been tagged!

Well, I've been in blog world long enough now that someone has tagged me. Thanks Tiffany! So I'm supposed to go the 4th picture in the 4th folder in my pictures folder and tell a little about it. So here it is...

This is Reed at 18 months old in April of 2006 I guess after having breakfast or something. The funny thing about this picture is Lauren just turned 18 months yesterday so it was kind of fun to compare her to Reed at that age. Reed definitely had more hair on his head. Lauren's hair is just starting to grow. And, while Lauren and Reed don't really look alike, she gives us this exact same expression sometimes, so I see a lot of her in this picture.

Also, this picture was taken at our old house about 4 months before we moved so it made me think about our sweet little first home and how great it was for us while we lived there. I try not to drive by it anymore because it looks a little depressing. The people who own it now live in Miami and use it as a vacation home so it just looks vacant. It was definitely full of life while we were there! Good times!

So now I tag... Heather H., Heather K., Kyla, & Pamela

Can't wait to see your pics!

Catching up after the holidays - Part II

Good morning! So glad to see some sunshine today! I swear it practically rained the entire month of December and now January too. While I usually enjoy the winter, I'm starting to long for warmer weather.

Anyway, back to our holidays... After Christmas and our visit with my parents and sister we basically just vegged and played our new Wii. It definitely is as much fun as everyone says it is. I'm afraid we're not very good at it yet. Although, I do have to say the first time Jay and I played bowling and golf...I beat him! It will probably be the one and only time I will beat him at anything so I'm relishing my initial victories.

We did absolutely nothing on New Year's Eve and it was glorious. In fact, I slept most of the day. My body needed to crash for a little while so I was very thankful that Jay humored me and kept the kids entertained so I could be a total bum.

We went to see the Grinch Ice exhibit at Opryland on Saturday. The kids really enjoyed it but they quickly got cold so it was a short visit. We bundled little Lauren up and Jay and I took turns holding her in our coats. She was wide-eyed and taking in everything. She probably could have stayed in there longer than the rest of us. She was pretty toasty except for her little nose!

So that's about it. It was a fantastic Christmas and a restful New Year for the McKnights. We spent time with friends and family, ate some delicious food (thanks for that fried turkey, babe), rested, but most of all we remembered what this season is all about....our Saviour, Friend, & Lord, Jesus Christ and the wonderful gift that He is to us all. Thank You, God for another wonderful Christmas!!!

Catching up after the holidays

Well, I'm back! I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and a very happy new year! We certainly did, even with a little minor hiccup to our Christmas plans. Please excuse the long post... I've just got a lot to catch up on!

As I predicted, I did spend the days leading up to Christmas frantically working on our bonus room and wrapping gifts. And, we were able to get more done to the room upstairs than I believed possible. I still have a few things I need to sew and we are well on our way to having a really fun room.

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Part of our "bonus room" gift to each other was a Wii. Now, we were thinking way ahead and ordered our Wii on Amazon back in the middle of November so we wouldn't have to be scouring the stores for one. Jay, of course, wanted to open it right away but I continually convinced him that we needed to at least wait until the week of Christmas so it would really feel like a Christmas present. We both had these grand ideas that my family and us and the kids would play it all weekend long and how much fun that would be. My sister even got Jay and I matching Wii PJs because we had talked it up so much. So Jay was able to hold out and waited until Christmas Eve. At 10 pm on Christmas Eve, Jay hauls out the box and starts to hook everything up. Can you believe it......IT DIDN'T WORK!!! What??? Never in a million years did we think it wouldn't work! What a major bummer. Jay even tried to call Nintendo but they were closed and wouldn't be open until the 26th. So we had a Wii-less Christmas.

I'm proud of my hubby though, because as soon as he saw the kids come down our stairs on Christmas morning to see what Santa had left for them, he cheered right up. Sure, there was the occasional sad comment so we would feel a little sorry for him, but we all had a wonderful Christmas in spite of the little bump in our plans. Jay was able to get in touch with Nintendo on Friday and they had a replacement to us by Monday at lunch. So kudos to Nintendo for being cool about replacing it with no problems. After the whole computer crashing incident then the defective Wii, 2008 was not our year for electronics.

My family came in on Christmas Eve and we had a wonderful time with them. Thanks for coming to Tennessee Pop, Gigi, and Kay Kay. We loved having you here.

We were able to fit some gingerbread house and train making in on Christmas Eve. Here are the proud kids with their creations.

Sweet kids in their Christmas PJs.

Santa brought Audrey a Kitt Kittredge doll (Because she looks like Audrey) with a closet of clothes and a beauty parlor chair.

Reed got a cool fire house with fire truck, ambulance, police cars, and rescue helicopters. You can see Lauren in the background there trying to climb up her new slide!

Mama got Daddy and Reed some Hulk fists to fight with. Here is Reed trying them out with Pop. Reed likes them a lot but Lauren loves them. She'll put them both on and come up to you, beat them on your lap while she growls at you. Super hilarious!

Pop, Gigi, Kay Kay and Audrey playing a dominoes game Audrey got for Christmas. She's pretty good at it!

OK, so this has gotten kind of long and I'm getting sleepy so I'm going to continue this tomorrow.

Happy "late" New Year Everyone!