Christmas decorations ....

here's a few of my decorations throughout the house

not sure that they look much different than

previous years but I like to document on my blog

each year. I need to take some pictures outside

at night of Johnny's crazy decorations....haha

below is a bowl of Christmas balls that are probably 

about 60 years old....they were from Johnny's Christmas tree

when he was a child. They are so fragile that I don't dare

put them on the tree...so afraid they would fall and break

the den tree

the living room tree

the book shelves between the foyer and living room

the foyer table

small table in the dining area

little Norfolk Island pine for the kitchen island

have to have a little Christmas in the half bathroom

kitchen hutch

you can see my Christmas cactus in the picture

and of course some mistletoe

2 framed pictures of Maddox with Santa and

one of Declan with Santa

another picture of the living room tree

later.....

Operation Krank .... again

back in December of 2011 we "Kranked" our 

youngest sisters house while they were out of town

for the holidays

we drug out decorations and decorated their

house as tacky as possible.

just like in the movie The Kranks, they had decided not to

decorate for Christmas but to skip Christmas

and head out to the Dominican Republic

So when we heard that our brother was going out of town

for a wedding and more than likely had not decorated

for Christmas, we decided to help him out

and this time we went through Momma's old Christmas

decorations to take over there.

what fun we had laughing and imagining his

funny remarks.....here are a few pics

haha....no paper towels but it got a ribbon

and I don't know why we tied a spoon to it....

also tied ribbons to a bunch of things in his fridge

ribbons on everything!

we wanted him to know that Momma was probably laughing with us

just reminding him to dust before Santa comes

To say that I don't worry about the revenge would 

be an understatement....haha

later....

Another grand baby.....

Our oldest daughter Nicole and her fiancee Tyler

were expecting a baby girl.....and were scheduled to go

in to the hospital on Monday, Nov 30th for a scheduled c-section

But on Sunday about 1:30 in the morning, that little baby girl

decided she was coming on her own, no c-section for her!!

and so on Sunday morning, Miss Lorraine Leona McKearin

made her debut

7 lbs 10 oz and 21.5 inches long

she's sweet, looks just like Nicole did as a baby

and a head full of hair.

her parents are thrilled, her brothers are excited

and our entire family is so happy to welcome another baby to our lives

beyond blessed....

Lorraine on the left and her mommy Nicole on the right

I think they look very much alike

so now we have 4 grandsons and 2 grandaughters

how exciting

later......

One more Thanksgiving post ....

On Saturday after Thanksgiving we celebrated

again with our family

sisters, brother, in-laws, nieces, nephews

so much fun.....except that Daddy wasn't up to coming out

so we really missed him

and again this year Aimee and Alex hosted 

their home is so beautiful and fun!

here's Jacquelyn and Avery Grace as we were getting ready

to leave the house

Jake and Kayce 

My brother sitting at the "cousins table"

Tyler....little did he know that about 11 hours later

Nicole would go in to labor

Declan getting some love from his mommy

and little did Nicole know that about 11 hours after this

photo she would be headed to the hospital via rescue squad!

Johnny and our host Alex

Aimee's fancy wine decanter

sister Vickie

and sister Kandi and brother-in-law Xel 

at least I did get a few pictures

later.....