Easter Fun and Counting

We started our celebration of Easter off the night before with an egg dying session. It was just us girls but we had lots of fun. The video posted at the end of the blog is of Nanna helping Bethany and then her counting to 10! She's just 19 months old so I think that's pretty impressive.

Everyone attended the sunrise service because the church we go to is so packed on Easter that you have to get tickets for the other 3 services. Even though we were all a little groggy eyed it was still a great celebration of Jesus coming back to life!

Our Easter dinner was fabulous. We had ham, scalloped potatoes, green bean casserole, and Jeff Davis pie(custard pie Brad's Mama made).

After lunch was the Easter egg hunt. Grandad hid the eggs and Bethany had a great time finding them. We ended up doing it twice.

We ended the afternoon with some Sonic that Dad bought us. Bethany's favorite part was to eat the ice. I'm so glad Mom and Dad got to come down for the weekend. I think having lots of family to celebrate special holidays always makes it so much more meaningful.

Catch Up Post on Bethany (More for me than for You)

Just a few pictures of Bethany and how she has changed over the last 6 months. She is now running around like crazy and repeating everything you say. Some of her favorite words are:

Chicken

like it

Monk (milk)

More

Side (outside)

Broccoli (said very plainly)

Blaa (bath)

chocit (chocolate)

She can say all her grandparents names "Nanna, Gindad, Mimi, Pappy."

She can even say her cousin's, aunt's, and Uncle's names. I don't know if this is normal for an 18 month old but she loves to talk!

She loves singing! She can sing part of the veggie tales theme song; Sung as follows "broccoli, cerrey(celery) ga be(got to be) bum bum bum.(tuba noise)" as well as several other songs from the veggie tales movies.

I am now a stay at home Mom which has been nice. Brad has landed another job at Panera bread to cover my old job. We recently remodeled our bathroom so I'll have to show pictures of that on another blog. Enjoy watching our booger grow!

Shortly after her first b-day

October

a lion for Halloween

Christmas day

January

February

Making valentines cookies with "Nanna"

finally able to wear pig tails!

Snoozing in the car with her monkey

March; loves to feed the dog

The Hall Family Christmas

This was our first year celebrating Christmas just by ourselves and I do believed it turned out quite satisfying.
Christmas eve Brad got off work by 8pm so we had some time to watch the Traditional Christmas movie: The Griswold's Family Christmas Vacation while putting together Bethany's tricycle.
Christmas day began by opening and playing with all of our gifts. It was so fun to see Bethy get excited about her gifts. Brad and I had tons of fun making our Christmas dinner of juicy turkey, homemade cranberry sauce(I don't think I'll ever be able to go back to canned stuff), stuffing, Mama Hall's spoon rolls, mash potatoes, brussel sprouts, and pumpkin cheese cake. Yummmmy! Bethany was our official taste tester and she loved the job.
We took a long afternoon nap and lazed around the rest of the evening. It was a glorious Christmas!

Let the Hall-odays Began!!

We are 3 days, 7 hours, 52 minutes, 40 seconds, and counting away from Thanksgiving!!!! I am so excited to see the Hall family and celebrate our Thanksgiving/Christmas together.The Halls have a lot of great traditions that we enjoy every year. We usually arrive at Mimi and Pappy's on the day of Thanksgiving so the minute we walk in the door our mouths start salivating from all the wonderful smells coming from the kitchen. Carol(Mimi) always makes a pre-dinner appetizer plate with sweet pickles, cinnamon cucumbers, olives and other yummy things that we snack on while we visit and finish the cooking.The table is always filled with the traditional Thanksgiving foods and everyone eats more than their fill while having a lively conversation about past Thanksgivings and what stores they want to shop at on Black Friday.The Hall Thanksgiving would not be complete if we didn't watch the Cowboys play. Everyone gathers in the living room and sits around talking and playing while the game is on.Sometime that night we exchange our Christmas gifts and then it is time to make a plan on what stores to go to and what to get. We all get a chance to look through the adds and dream about our purchases.Shopping commences early the next morning and by 8:00 am we are all back in the kitchen for a hardy Hall breakfast.There are so many other fun things that go on during our short 3 and a half day stay but this seems to be the standing tradition on Thanksgiving and the day after. I am so thankful to have married into such a fun loving family who is truly thankful for each other and what they have.

We Have Internet Again!

We finally have Internet again so I can get Blogging once again! So much has happened since I stopped so I want to share a few things that will get me updated:

• My job at Kindercare is working out well, hence the Internet.


• Bethany's 1st Birthday was a huge success


• Bethany is now walking wait... running everywhere! she never stops


• Happy Holidays! The Holiday season officially started at the Hall House the day after Halloween per Brad's declaration.
  
  Here are a few Birthday pics to kick off my restart of blogging

Bethany loved the giraffe we got her and gave it a big hug and kiss

Not so happy about the hat

The cake was ok though

Things We've Been Doing

We went on a picnic for Memorial Day/ 3 Year Anniversary. Bethany enjoyed telling us how much fun she was having.

We all like to take naps. Daddy and Daughter had so much fun they wore each other out.
Bethany had her first spaghetti dinner. She loved it!

I also got a job at Kindercare. Will be working about 30 hours a week. Just finished training so am excited to see how the real job goes. Will let you know!

Bethany and Daddy