Last post of 2014.
Officially caught up!
Well, here we are. The final minutes of 2014.
Today, the Ryan family came to Tuscaloosa for a make-up Christmas celebration. The PNEUMONIA that invaded Mary Powell caused us to have to cancel our time with them, so we did it today!
Lots of fun and laughter and sweetness and crying (that's Night Night)......
Wanna see?
Aunt Paige just got back from Disney and had recorded the Frozen part of the parade for Mary on her phone. Mary like.
Just hanging out and talking.
Best part of family Christmas.
Mary's watching the parade VERY carefully.
Max. Smile. Seriously.
In Dirty Santa, Mary helped NightNight unwrap his chosen gift.
And if you watched last year's Christmas blog, you're recognize THIS little fella. He made it BACk into Dirty Santa again this year! I had hidden that little gem in our Christmas closet in hopes that Mary would NEVER find it again. Unfortunately, as we were in the close just before Thanksgiving, she was "helping" us get out some decorations and found the bag WAY back in the corner, opened it up, and was DELIGHTED when she found this darn singing chipmunk. She said, "OH! Here is!" The rest of us collectively groaned and have endured that THING for the last month. So. BACK INTO DIRTY SANTA HE WENT. Poor Night Night.
BUT THEN: we found him in our MAILBOX after everyone had left.
No worries, though. We know an AWESOME Fed Ex man (PawPaw) and it's gonna make it to North Alabama, so help me......
Mary with her Max. She acted like she wanted to give him a hug, which he happily obliged..... but she REALLY just wanted one of his chocolate covered Mickey Mouse pretzels.
Lots of treasures in her Minnie stocking.
Read that book, baby girl!
A keychain! A Disney keychain! A Disney keychain fit for a teenage boy who just got a new truck!
Will Raney.
Love.
Dad got an Alabama toolbox filled with goodies!
These slippers. Hilarious.
And she wore them the rest of the day - even out to lunch.
Look what Mudger did.
Made me cry.
Made us ALL cry.
Adoption plug: It changes you. It changes your family.
It is awesome.
Do it.
Cause LOOK.
Disney parts for Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head!
Josh Raney is THE biggest Taco Casa fan on the planet Earth. So, we decked him out.... the shirt, the cup.... all of it.....
Mudger and NightNight.
Good uns.
Cause Night Night isn't even a LITTLE bit techy, he only HEARS about this good ole blog, but doesn't really understand how to find it and read it. AND cause in the past, my tradition has been to WRITE A BOOK for NightNight each year (I used to be creative and crafty....sigh.....)..... I decided to just have the blog turned into a BOOK!
They cried.
They always cry.
The gang.
The gang doing poses that Mikki forced them to do.
Aunt Paige and her boys.
And then we were off to a late afternoon lunch at Mr. Chen's! Jack drove NightNight and a couple of the boys in his truck behind our car. NightNight said he did, "Real well."
We still have ONE MORE bit of Christmas fun with PawPaw and Mimi tomorrow (another makeup due to the PNEUMONIA)..... so Christmas continues around here.....
BUT: 2014 does NOT.
The Powell family wishes you all JOY and LOVE and PEACE in 2015.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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