12.26.2009

Christmas eve continued. . .

We decided to stay the night with my mom and dad Christmas eve since we have lunch at my Nanny & Papa's house in Hickory Ridge on Christmas day and those of you with kids know how difficult it is to load up and get somewhere on time with ALL the stuff you have to bring for just one day. . .so we avoided the hassle and just stayed. And after all the rain I was glad we did! It looked like the roads would have been a little scary in the dark!

When we got back to my parents house, from my grandparents house, Jarrod and I decided to go ahead and do our christmas gifts to each other and to Stratton.

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We did good this year, it's usually a chore to shop for each other but both of us managed to find things the other wanted or needed this year, and almost all of it we kept secret! Jarrod got a new dvd player, under armour base layer pants and shirt, a new beard trimmer and a plaid polo shirt. . .he also got a new pair of waders but Santa brought them to the house last Sunday so that Jarrod could duck hunt in them this past week! Stratton got clothes. . . not much fun, but we left the toys to the grandparents and the rest of the family! And I got a new pink nightgown, a 16 GB jumpdrive, and AUTO START for my car (I am getting it installed next week, yay!!) and my favorite. . . .

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. . . . a custom handmade necklace with Stratton's name and birth date, it is absolutely gorgeous!! I saw this necklace in a magazine several months ago (like before we even had Stratton) and showed it to Jarrod, I didn't think he was paying attention, but I guess I was wrong! I love that it is one of a kind, and if we have more kids he can add their names later!

Christmas Eve with the Wilson's

Christmas eve we always get dressed up and have dinner and presents with the Wilson side of the family at my grandma & grandpa's house. There are now NINE great-grand kids. This was the first time we got to be with the whole family since Stratton was born, since we missed the family reunion in August. We had a fun time playing dirty santa. . .or excuse me, I mean the white elephant game. . . and visiting with the family. Stratton got several nice gifts, and a couple of noisy ones, of course!

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[Dressed up and ready for the party!]

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[the Wilson great-grand kids]

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A very wet Christmas!

It started raining on Wednesday (the 23rd) and didn't stop till Thursday night! Boy did it rain! They were closing streets and highways all over the state! Hwy 49 from Jonesboro to Hickory Ridge was fine. However, the main gravel road we take to my mom and dad's house was flooded bad enough we had to take a back farm road, and it was pretty deep in parts. Luckily, it was just the roads!

I took these pictures from the truck . . . .

The shop, bins and the farm house. . .

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The farm road we ended up taking to get to mom & dad's and Grandma & Grandpa's house Christmas eve. I am glad we stayed the night, I wouldn't have wanted to drive back down it in the dark! But the rest of the family did and made it just fine.

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The main road on Christmas day, it still hadn't gone down much from the day before. My mom & dad and Grandma & Grandpa live where you see the trees in the distance. a long way to go on a flooded road, so we turned around and went the other way!

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the swirling water is where the culvert is, the water here in this ditch is VERY deep!

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