Christmas Sunday w/ The Coopers

Today was our "Christmas Sunday" at FBHC! I have always considered the Sunday that we do our plays, "Christmas Sunday"! It was supposed to be last week, but due to the beautiful snow God sent us...no church. Anyways, here are some pictures of the kids before heading out the door to church and then some of us after church this morning.

A friend gave me this beautiful dress for Kallee (thanks Michelle A.), but since it was

sleeve-less, we had Mamaw make her a little jacket to go over it (thanks Mamaw)!
Keegan acting crazy!

Kallee doing her silly face!

We LOVE our sissy!

Mommy's beautiful Christmas princess!

The Coopers ~ Jerry, Janiece, Kallee, Keegan & Talon

Mommy & Kallee

FBHC Christmas Programs

Well today was the day...Christmas program time at FBHC! It started off with the Toddler Class, lead by Sis. Melva Carey and Sis. Melissa Huffer. The little ones sang "Away In a Manager" and "Happy Birthday to Jesus", while ringing their jingle bells. Of course, it was adorable as usual, they ALWAYS look so cute up there, pacifiers and all, lol! Next was the Jr. Class (the class Jerry & I help in), directed by Sis. Angie & Bro. Gene Davis. The title of the play was "The Wubbles' Wonderful Christmas". It went over pretty good, but many lines were forgotten and the ones that were said, weren't very loud, ugh! I don't think it helped much that we only got to practice once (not even with the whole cast), and that we had to hand out parts over and over and over, since they kept losing them, AHHHHH! Oh well, it is over and done with now. Last but not least, was the Tween Class, directed by Sis. Tracie & Bro. Mike Peck. I wasn't able to be up there for most of it, but what I did hear my son's solo, which was very good (yes, I'm a little proud : ) All in all, we had a wonderful "Christmas Sunday"!

Kallee was the first "S" in JESUS!
These are the kids I was responsible for, to get up and down off the platform. They all did a great job! We had a few extras in this Nativity, but since not many were there without parts, Sis. Angie said "stick 'em in the Nativity", it worked! L to R: Maddy (our angel), Nikki (Mary), Cody (Joesph), Ethan S. (our Shepherd), Caleb (Wiseman #1), Kyler (Wiseman #2) and a couple of our bus kids were Wiseman #3, plus the extras.

My nephew Lane was "Grampy Wubbles" and Keegan was "Bubby Wubbles"

Connor & Ethan were our "thieves that stole Christmas"!

Brief Summary of our Play: After preparing for Christmas, the Wubbles family thinks their Christmas is ruined when a couple thieves break in and steal their decorations, gifts and Christmas dinner. Their church ladies (Karris, Jaida, Ava, Madison & Daryiah) come to the rescue, and the true meaning of Christmas in found.

Tween Class

Front Row LtoR: My niece Courtney (2nd from right), Jerry's cousin's daughter Karissa (3rd from right) and Talon (last one on the back row, to the right)

Courtney reading "her part" for the first time! She had to fill-in for someone that wasn't able to be there, she did a great job!

Talon singing his solo that was supposed to be a trio, he did a GREAT job!!!

Saying Goodbye to J & S Rentals

As many of you know, I have worked for The Waggoners, off and on for 13 years. A year and a half ago, I was asked if I would like to fill-in for the summer and I said sure, after all I we could use the moola. Well what went from just working the summer, turned into working until December, working till the first of the year...and now has been 1 1/2 years. I can't believe it has been that long, but it has been. I really have felt for some time that I was "cheating" my kids by having someone drag them to the office for me after school, and then getting home late and then not having much time before it was off to bed for them. I talked it over with my hubby and he said if I really felt like I should quit, to do so. Needless to say, I gave a 2 month notice and yesterday was my last day! The kids are thrilled that I will be picking them up from school every day and that we will get to come home and do homework and actually have supper before 6:30. I am thrilled that I can start my cleaning or laundry and not have to stop at 12:30 and leave to head to work. Don't get me wrong, I was very thankful to have this job, it helped pay off some credit card debt, some medical bills, and helped with the "extras". We will miss not having that extra, but I'm sure we will manage somehow. I do plan on going to work for Jerry a couple days a week in his office, but I will only be working a couple hours each day and I will be done before heading to pick up the boys from school. When I arrived at work yesterday, there was the most beautiful Christmas centerpiece waiting for me! It is sooo gorgeous, I wish it was silk and I could use it year after year! It has burgundy calla lilies(sp?) which are my favorite flower! It also has some burgundy carnations, along with some white snowball type flowers (I don't what type they are). There is some pine and spruce sprays in it, along with some gold sprayed greenery. To finish it off, it has a gold ball spray stuck here and there and a large silk, burgundy ribbon. Thanks so much J&S for this BEAUTIFUL centerpiece, it is much appreciated!!!

It looks so pretty on my dining room table!

Look at the gorgeous calla lilies(sp?)!

Princess Kallee

Jerry's secretary is sooo wonderful!!! She not only bought Christmas gifts for our kids, she also bought Jerry and I a gift certificate for Apple Bee's, plus included babysitting in the deal! Are we lucky to have her or what? We really feel she was sent to us by God, especially after going through 3 secretaries in 4 years, ugh! Anyways, she bought Kallee this complete "Princess Set" which includes a whole lot of "bling" with a pair of lovely shoes to match. Of course Kallee thought the gift was great, it sparkled and it was jewels, HA! Missy, his secretary, has 4 boys so she said she was really excited to get to buy this set for Kallee!

She is doing the whole Cinderella thing, bib-a-dee/ bob-a-dee/ boo (I may not have spelled this correctly, but you get the point)!
She was making sure she had her wand the right way!

She looks just stunting in her RED snowflake pj's, her PINK & PURPLE jewels, along with her ORANGE & GREEN pappy and to top off the whole outfit, the BLUE, GREEN & YELLOW curlers, LOL! I think she could win a beauty contest with this get-up!

Lafayette's Living Nativity

Tonight we took the kids and went to the Living Nativity at Faith Baptist Church in Lafayette! WOW is all I can say! We have made this a Christmas tradition, but every year it seems to get bigger and better. I can't imagine all the time, volunteers and funds that goes into this major production. We were in line #3 out of 4 and there were at least 30 cars in each row. When I saw the lines, I thought it is going to take forever to be our turn, but it really didn't at. Of course we all enjoyed it and we will return next year. There were 12 different scenes, 100's of cast members and live animals.

Scene #2 Noah's Ark and some of the animals

Scene #3 Annunciation

Scene #4 The Journey to Bethlehem

Scene #5 The Manger

I thought it was funny when I looked at this photo, I caught Joesph yawning :)

Scene #6 The Shepherds

Scene #7 The Wise Men

Scene #8 Raising of Lazarus

Scene #9 Walking on the Water

Scene #10 The Cross

Scene #11 The Resurrection

Scene #12 The Second Coming

Keegan Funny

Today I was looking for a pair of boots on Ebay for Kallee and Keegan seen the title for a pair of them. Instead of sounding it out, he guessed as usual, grrr! He said, oh look they have a pair of Toyota Green Boots in her size, instead of Toddler Girl Boots. At least they all started with the same letter, LOL!

Christmas Around the World

We had our first ever night Christmas parade here in Frankfort, on Saturday night. The theme was "Christmas Around the World". There were a few really cute floats with globes on them and such (see below). Of course Frankie (our town's mascot) was there and Frito Lay showed up too, handing out tons of chips. They drove around the square once and they still had a ton of chips left, so they came around again, this time to hand you 5 and 6 bags each : ) The Clinton County Children's Civic Theater had a float, so Talon jumped in the parade procession and finished the parade with them. Of course my kids loved the parade and the chips and all the candy. Santa showed up on the old, blue firetruck at the end of the parade, as usual. I asked the kids when the parade was over, if they liked having it at night or in the morning better and...Keegan said he liked it in the morning because he could see all the candy on the ground and he didn't have to search for it in the dark, UGH! Poor child, he rarely gets candy so he has to wait until the Christmas parade every year to get loaded up, ha!

Frankie the Hot dog

Various floats

Our FHS band

A couple more neat floats

"Annie" from the Clinton Co. Children's Civic Theatre

Our very own Shine 99, radio dude

Santa himself riding in "old blue" is what they call it.