Athens, Christmas, Snow Mnt. and a hike

Just when I catch up on one thing, I fall back on another...this blog! So when a sweet & well-meaning friend told me she missed my posts, I knew I needed to make a better effort.  So, here goes.  I'm warning you, it's loooong....  

The day that school let out for Christmas break we picked up the boys 

and went to Athens for a basketball game.

Brice learned to ride his bike without training wheels 

when we were at Grammy's for Christmas lunch.

Brice was a shepherd in the pageant at church and we was so excited that he carried his very own hiking stick!

Sam had a speaking part for the first time.

One of Brice's favorite Christmas presents...Zombie Brain Lab!

Sam got a cool Lego pyramid game.

So, right after Christmas, Sam turned seven.  Really?  Anyway, a separate post about his birthday supper is above.  Here's what else we've been up to...  We went to Snow Mountain at Stone Mnt. Park with our cousins.  Even though it really warmed up and we all wished we had on shorts and t-shirts, it was still tons of fun!    

We celebrated Christmas some more at Pine Hill Farm.

Sweet teen-aged cousins are the best!  Emily, Andrew, Sam & Brice

Sam got a BB gun!

We went on a hike on the Hitchiti Trail.  

Ruby had the time of her life!

Our little Indian

Thanksgiving weekend

On Friday after Thanksgiving we loaded up the camper and went to Brian's hunting farm in Thomson, GA.  We had SO much fun!  We shot guns, ate good food, told good stories, drank good whiskey, and took NO baths!  When we got home on Sunday, after much desired baths, we went to get our Christmas tree.

Moye chasing Brice down to hog-tie him.

Reading stories in the camper

Showing off Momma's good aim, and the fact that I blew the target off the stand!

The boys got to fetch a deer out of the woods

Christmas Parade

Brice and I watched while Brian and Sam rode on the Boy Scout's float. 

Our BUSY Fall!

This past month as been really busy but lots of fun! As previously mentioned, Sam has been enjoying Cub Scouts and a few weeks ago all the boys in his Den achieved their Bobcat badge.

We finished up the Mighty League fall ball season undefeated but lost the final championship game. It was a heart breaker!

Lots of fun was had making "spooky cupcakes" with a little crazy attire from our funny-man, Brice...

Brian and I hosted a little get-together at the lake and had lots of fun with our friends.

At the end of the 9-week grading period, first grade had a small awards ceremony. As you can see, Sam is mighty accomplished and we are very proud!

Halloween rolled around and, as usual, we had tons of fun dressing up. Mix Master Candy Wrapper was the hit of the night! Dan Uggla (Sam's favorite Braves player) and our "charming knight" made out like bandits in the candy department!

And to bring this post to a close, today was one of the most eventful days yet! To our surprise Sam had to have TWO teeth pulled, unexpectedly, this afternoon. I won't go into all the detail but here he is...our snaggle-tooth. And, yes, (I know you're wondering) he did have to have Novocaine and he was quite a trooper! After the teeth were pulled we rushed to get Brice and head back to Sam's school so he could do a small speaking part in in the Book Fair Family Night skit. He kept it a total surprise so I have no photo or video.