Baby Bubba has a name!!

Please welcome Mason Robert, the newest love of our life!!
8 pounds 10 ounces and 21 1/2 inches long

He is a handsome little guy don't you think? Mason has had a name for some time now but we wanted to keep it a secret from my Hubby. Mason's middle name is after his Papaw, such a sweet thing for the kids to do.

He has the cutiest little cowlick in front that is sure to steal the hearts from all the girls, I know he has stolen all of ours in no time flat! So far he seems to be a really good baby, no fussing, crying, or pacifier needed, he is just checking us all out and snuggling down with whoever has him at the time.

Mommy is doing wonderfully, she has had no pain meds since the C Section this AM. The night nurse was taken aback by that and insisted she have something ASAP or she could be in for a long hard night.
We are all overwhelmed that God has blessed us once again with a new life. How could anyone question that there is a God in heaven when they see this miracle?!!

This Boy

Tyler 7 days old
Tyler and Papaw with the new train set Nanny had put back for this special night. It was to say the least a hit with both of my boys. Tyler is so sweet, I could hear him asking Papaw "How did Nanny know we wanted this special Christmas train?" Papaw replied "Little man, Nanny knows everything" I tell you my Hubby is brilliant!! HA

Where did the time go? Our little man is already 5 years old.

Tyler is having a sleep over with us tonight so Mommy and Daddy can get to the hospital bright and early, as soon as "Baby Bubba" arrives we will head to the hospital to finally get our turn with him in our arms!! It's hard to believe 5 years have past since Ty boy came into our lives, he changed our world, we will never be the same.

I can remember way back when ladies would go on and on about their grands, I would think wow they must have been crazy over the top when their own children were born if they are this into their grands. HAAAA, that was before God blessed us with our own Grands. Grands are nothing but PURE pleasure and love, no worries over how we will discipline them, educate, feed clothe, potty train, buy cars, pay for college, nada, nothing, no worries at all, just the joy of sharing their little lives. Tomorrow God willing we will have a new little boy to hug and kiss, all he will need from us is to love him with all our heart, we got that covered!!!!

Living room tree, most of the tree skirts I use are really table clothes of our Grandmothers or Hubby's Mom, They are only used for Christmas.
Advent house and musical toys on the grands toy shelf. We picked up the advent house a few years back at Pottery Barn outlet for $20.00, I put one M&M in each door for Tyler, the little girls don't know what candy is!!

My splurge for Christmas this year, I have NO business buying any more decorations but he was to cute to pass up and on sale for $19.99

This is one of 2 fireplaces we have on the fire place mantel that Hubby bought for me a few years back. We had to pick up the second one for the grands ornaments "Baby Bubba's" is in the mail on its way, just in time for Christmas. Last year we bought each of our Daughters family's the fireplaces as well, unmarried Daughters is put back until she gets her tail down the isle!!

I somehow finished another Christmas project I wanted to make this year for Daughter #2, I had to change the plan 3 times before I finally gave up and went for easy, just get the durn thing done!!! It was making me CRAZY. Hubby called to invite me to lunch around 10:00, so sweet, I thanked him kindly but passed, I wanted to finish the project I was working on and start something new. After a little hesitation on his part (OH no I hurt his feelings) he spilled the beans, he needed me to bring his reading glasses and watch he forgot this AM. I did meet him for lunch and handed over the missing items, who the heck does his errands when he is on a project! Back to the never ending stocking project.

Holly Jolly

Fancy Chubby Girls tree is just for fun, I have a few friends that exchange with each other when we can find the perfect chubby girl.

Grands Nativity tree and baby's first Christmas tree, we put each of the grands and big girls first ornaments on these trees

The Grands are welcome to play with the Nativity ornaments, but Nanny's Nativity is OFF LIMITS

8 Stockings are hung, 3 more are under construction, the baskets are full of Christmas toys for the Grands, they even have their own Nativity from Fisher Price.com A MUST for every family!!

My kitchen tree holds our collection of Hallmark house ornaments, we are on year 28. As much time as I spend in the kitchen I so need my own tree.

For the next week prepare yourself for Christmas decorations and pictures of "Baby Bubba" We are almost finished decorating, 2 more small trees to finish tonight and the live tree to put up in a couple of weeks. New wreathes are hung outside and hubby finished the few lights we put out and animals for the Grands. I am dog tired today, lots of moving out furniture and stuff to put up tree's then unpacking and decorating followed by vacuuming and more vacuuming, thank goodness for leftovers!! After the last trees are done tonight I will continue to work on the little girls stockings, will they ever be done???????

This turkey is ready

I had to sneak a quick photo of Daughter#1's baby bump, she hates having her picture taken when she is prego. This little turkey is big enough to join the family Wednesday!!

Does this look like Christmas to you? Not so much, but it will be super cute when its done and ready to go under Daughter #2 tree.

Hubby ended up working a full day today so no Christmas decorating happened, instead I finished up the Thanksgiving feast clean up and packed up all the fall decorations. We will hit the floor in the AM bright and early to get with the decorating program before heading over to Daughter #1 to help them finish up "Baby Bubba's" nursery.

With the extra time on my hands today I cut up the bright pile of fabric above for a tree skirt for Daughter #2's funky girl tree. I will have to hit the shop for a bit more background fabric (ran short) other than that everything came from my stash. I will piece some leftover batting from other projects then dig around to find some backing. This should turn out to be a super frugal project that will be perfect to dress up her tree. Not to be left out Daughter #1 now wants wreathes to hang on her dinning room chairs and a little something for the front porch. Daughter #3 hasn't started her Christmas decorating, I'm sure she too will have a wish list of a few holiday extras. If we didn't have all girls I think I would have a lot more time on my hands to finish things I would like to do!! I shouldn't have to cook for at least 2 more days (LOVE LEFTOVERS) so that will free up a little more time to put the pedal to the metal on the sewing machine!!

Pre Thanksgiving Cooking

Home made pie shells are over rated, mine never look nice
This one turned out a little nicer

Chocolate layer desert with dark chocolate leaves

Tyler's cupcakes

The tables are set, just need to move in more chairs

14 hours in the kitchen doing pre Thanksgiving day cooking seems a bit much to me. From the looks of these photo's all I did today was to make deserts. Not so!! Below is my list of accomplishments for the day, now it's off to bed. Gotta get the turkey in to roast early in the AM along with a ham that needs to bake, still have rolls and a few more sides to knock out before the crowd piles in.

Cornbread dressing - Finished

Bread/sausage dressing - Finished

Sweet Potato casserole - complete (taters from our garden)

6 pints of vanilla bean ice cream - in the freezer

3 pints mint chocolate chip ice cream - in the freezer (Tyler's favorite)
Chocolate pie - check

Pumpkin Pie - check

Chocolate layer desert - can't wait to dig in

Pumpkin cupcakes - finally done!

Turkey- soaking in homemade brine

Ham - ready to bake in the AM

Have a blessed Thanksgiving

The spending is over!!!

Christmas table runner complete.

What a crappy photo, maybe if I have the time I will try to get a better picture tomorrow, it's hard to make out how cute this turned out since our table is black and it's 11:00PM! The free motion quilting took forever on this thing, black thread on black material is pretty hard to see, in addition for some dumb reason I did little bitty tiny swirl quilting. The quilting is the best I have ever done but a crazy amount of time went into it. In the next week or two it along with all the other handmade Christmas gifts will be headed to the post office!!! So thankful that I forced myself to work over the summer on Christmas gifts, I could never pull it all off if I would have waited until December this year.

I was able to finish ALL of the Christmas shopping today, even had time to return home organize the rest of the family sewing gifts to see what additional notions I will need and back out I went to pick everything up. I can now put my feet up and enjoy the Christmas season!!! We did come under budget but by the hair of our chinny chin chin. Shopping the sales during the year was key to keeping the cost down. I don't bother buying clothing for anyone, it's gift cards from shoe stores, fav department or clothing stores and a few to some discount stores. This gets me off the hook for disappointed big kids (wrong size, color, style) and they can purchase twice as much shopping the after Christmas or New Years sales.

When I returned home for the night I had a message from our bank to call ASAP due to a fraud alert on our account due to unusual activity. After speaking to the rep and assuring her we made all the purchases she ask if she could be adopted, HA, not likely sweetheart we have more than we can afford already. I rarely use a debit card, it's cash only around here, when the cash runs out it's time to head home. Christmas is the exception to that rule, I'm not comfortable carrying a lot of cash around so the debit card gets a good workout. I feel like a free woman now that the shopping is done, instead of laying out $$ the month of December we will be tucking some cash in the savings account.