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.

   

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. . . .

. . . . 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!

 

[Dressed up and ready for the party!]

[the Wilson great-grand kids]

 

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. . .

 

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.

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!

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

More pictures with Santa

Stratton is spending a few days with Nan & Pa (aka Margie & Terry) in Searcy this week. Yesterday afternoon they took him to see Santa. This makes the 3rd time he's seen Santa this year! Hey, you can never get enough Santa time!! 

 

Christmas with the Staggs. . .

Stratton's first time opening presents!

 

 

We had a good day Saturday with Jarrod's family. Stratton got lots of presents! He even got the hang of tearing off the paper, but then he would try to eat it!  He likes all of his new "noisy" toys and he got lots of them! ha! He also got some more educational toys, including a Leapfrog dog that you can customize by hooking it up to the computer and downloading songs, and stuff (it's the coolest toy for babies), he got some new books and some Baby Einstein dvds! Yay! One Christmas down, THREE more to go! I think we are going to need a Uhaul to get all of Stratton's toys home next week if this past weekend was any indication of what is to come! 

Christmas exitement. . .last year

I don't think I ever posted this video from last year. . . .
We wrapped a pacifier in a box with a "note that said you're going to be grandparents!" Margie got a little excited, to say the least! This year wasn't quite as exciting, but it was still fun!

Stratton's first scary stunt!

Let me set the scene for you. . . It's about 6:15pm, it's been a really long day and I am exhausted, all I can think about are a hot bath and my comfy clothes. I  had just walked in the door with my hands full, with Stratton, who was half asleep, and all my bags and the cat was under my feet crying to be fed. So I lay Stratton down on the couch, thinking he will go back to sleep while I go feed the cat, in mere seconds I hear him screaming. . . so I go back into the living room thinking he was just throwing a fit because he got woke up from his nap when I got him out of the car, but no. He is no longer on the couch! I ran around the ottoman to find him face up lying in the floor!!  He had rolled off the couch! I was shocked! He has never even tried to roll over on the couch. In the floor he will roll over but he has never attempted it on the couch, at least not to my knowledge.  Anyway, it scared me and him both half to death! Probably me a little more than him. I pick him up, we were both crying and all I could think about was having to go to the emergency room alone, so I called Jarrod (who is working in the Hardy area again this week and left Tuesday and wasn't coming home until Thursday night) to tell him to come home. . .but he didn't answer! So, not knowing what to do and really afraid something might be wrong with him,  I called my mom. She was still in Wynne eating supper with my dad, but they headed towards Jonesboro. I finally got him settled down holding and rocking him, but every time I tried to look to see if he was ok he would start screaming again! He finally went to sleep for a little while and then woke up and ate and after that he seemed fine. I gave him a look over and he didn't have a scratch on him, Thank goodness!! My mom and dad stayed for a couple of hours and after they left I fed Stratton again and we went to bed. I put Stratton in our bed in his snuggle nest (so he couldn't roll out!) in our bed. I was scared that he would have a seizure in the middle of the night or something awful. . . he went right to sleep and slept almost all night. I am so thankful that he is ok! I don't know why he thought last night, of all nights, while I was all alone would be a good time to pull a stunt like this!  That's just my luck! I can breathe a little sign of relief today. It's funny how I really freaked out, I never would have thought I would have reacted like that?! It's really a new experience for me!  I know I need to get used to it, and that this was just the first of many scary moments to come!!