Winter

This has been by far the wetest, snowiest, and coldest winter we have experienced here in Tennessee. I have to say, I am not a fan! Ben is too high energy to be couped up inside this much. So while this was happening outside,

This was happening inside.

Crafts, glue, stickers, and pom poms and you have a happier boy.

I should note that the yellow page with hearts is Clara's.

The favorite activity. Daddy is off this week taking the Fire Academy Entrance Exam, so it is fitting that Ben is building his own Fire Truck. He is soooo into the fire stuff! and he did a great job!

It is hard to tell in this picture but he is holdind the fire truck he got for Christmas. I love it he calls his fire station his "fire engine house"!

Only firemen and their families are allowed in here, so I am told!

Family Home Evening

One of our family goals for the year is to do our Family Home Evening every week, or at least 52 times, even if we have to double up somewhere! So here are the first couple weeks! We have been getting our lesson, a song, and a prayer. Then it rapidly disintegrates into some type of rowdy playing! It is Awesome! Last week this is how it turned out:This week this is how it turned out! Matt built a fort and Ben promptly made it into a fire station!

Clara was not all about the fort, she was getting close to bed time! Hence the pacy and the hair disaster!So very thankful for my little family! I want these nights to be positive memories for them as they get older!

Snow Day, Tennessee style

This is roughly 3 inches of wet, wet snow. It is enough to shut down a town that does not have snow plows! It was a fun day, we snuggled up with some hot chocolate and watched movies!

Random Silliness

They Womack Wrestling Federation would like to introduce the three newest members.... In this photo there is one train per loop, moments later an additional train was added. This is Ben's favorite passtime, trains, trains and more trains!

Not exactly sure how this happened. I was in the kitchen and heard yelling. Matt was stuck in this position, literally stuck, I had to pull his legs down to the side to free him. THe boy ran away laughing! Classic!

and then came back for the tackle! HA HA HA!!! and of course I left matt there for as long as it took to find the camera and take photos! I am such a good wife!!!

The the sister, she has her new princess jammies and her trusty unicorn, she is ready for anything!

The Day After

Clara all deced out in her birthday clothes munching on some Christmas cookie!

Clara is not sure about that tunnel. Dad tried to show her how cool it is.

The unicor he is squishing is possibly her favorite gift. It is now in her crib, she lays on it all night!

Unkin and Ray Ray came over to play the Kinect with us!

Ben and I watching the projector, he loves this! He is totally in to dinos right now and they look big on the wall!

Christmas, finally!

Warning, extremely long post! and obviously 3 weeks old! Merry Christmas!


Ben woke up first. So we played with some gifts from the day before until Sister woke up.

This is actually a matching game, which he loves, but Christmas morning you can see he was making train tracks with it!

Sissy finally woke up but was not ready for presents until she had her milk. Milk-a-What?

Then they started with there stockings.

Then straight to the good stuff. We stopped to play with each gift for a few minutes between unwrapping. It was So Fun!!

Clara was really really in to the unwrapping! She warmed right up to it and required very little help really.

More breathers!

At noon we took a break got cleaned up and headed to Nana and Papaw's house for dinner. They were being hams, as usual!

Upon returning from Nana's we resumed present opening. Matt's favorite. Hands down!

Matt has a really great time with wrapping! This year was no exception. This is what was beside the tree.....

This is what was in it!

My philosophy is that the smaller the box often the better the gift! I mean diamonds don't take up much room.... But I digress.

What is more fun than a huge box? Nothing. Least not as far as I can tell! They wore themselves out playing in this one.

Yup, that is all three of us in the box. It was so big you could shut it completely with all three of us inside!

The highest compliment Ben can give, sharing his trains. We found them all in the box after he had gone to bed!!

Clara's new Cabbage Patch Doll, this is a tradition at least a quarter of a century old!

And she loves it as much as her momma loved them!

Her tea set......

To go on her tea table!! Brother is a natural at having tea parties!

Ben and his opening! he LOVED unwrapping, he did most of it all day!

A holiday would not be complete for Ben at this stage of life with out some new train tracks! and this set comes with a nifty mountain pass! He was gone for the rest of the evening building!

Matt's second favorite gift, the frames -not the kids! those are definitely his favorites! Anyway, I got him some pictures of the kids for his new office! they turned out pretty cute I think!

The Family Present, I got to open it and I am super excited about it! Matt got this for us and we have been playing NON-STOP!!

This is what was leftover after an Amazing Christmas!

Before we put the kids down for the night we all sat down with their new gifts and talked about why we had gotten them. Having Clara's birthday the day before made it a little hard for Ben to understand that Christmas was Jesus' Birthday, but I think he was catching on. We sang "Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam" and had a family prayer. I think this will be a Womack Family tradition. No better way to close Christmas!