A Redneck Christmas

Every year, we travel to Kevin's parent's house in Louisiana for Christmas. While none of us are actually rednecks (they're from Ohio), we did have a lot of fun, and ended up doing some pretty redneck things on Christmas day...sitting around a fire, burning trash, and chopping down a tree.

There's a TON of pictures, so I'll try to keep my comments to a minimum. :)

The Christmas-themed room our generous hostess (aka Grammy) prepared

Such a trooper for the drive there.

After the Christmas Eve Service

Santa's favorite helper

Waiting on Santa...he didn't fall asleep until 11:37...almost missed the cut-off.

Chase's first Christmas!

Let the redneck fun commence!

7 Months, Sort-Of

Here is the 7 month photo shoot that I promised. But first, here's the story. If you're a mom, I'm sure you're aware with the challenges presented with dressing a squirming, crawling 7 month old. So after I put in the effort to actually get this adorable (or, as one of my Sunday School kids says, "Country") outfit on Chase, here is what he did. I started in his glider, as usual...

But this is seriously the only thing I got ...

So we moved to the crib...

Yeah, another fail...

The floor was next...

Notice how he is purposely hiding his face, and crawling away from me?

Then it was time to get daddy involved...

That little tongue sticking out is classic Chase right now!

Even daddy got a uncooperative moment or two.

Such a big boy!

We tried a few more after I took off his outfit...

Melts my heart every time!