Merry Christmas!!!

Christmas is always anticipated in our home! The past couple of years we were able to spend Christmas with the McGarrah family ... This year however all of the McGarrah's were going to celebrate Christmas in Ohio. So for Christmas it was small this year! 

Davone woke everyone up at 6:30 in the morning!! Once everyone stumbled into the living room we knelt in prayer and thanked Heavenly Father for the gifts that we had received and thanked

 him most importantly for the the gift of his son!! It is a tradition that we pray BEFORE any presents get opened so that everyone can remember the TRUE meaning of Christmas!!!

The kids enjoyed the presents and we saved the ones they wanted the most for last!!!

Kiannah wanted more than anything a guitar and drum set... Yeah a 3 year old with drums

 I THINK NOT!!! So she settled for the guitar!!!

Johnathan wanted more than anything to get Eye clops. Night vision goggles that really work! They work up to 50ft. They are awesome!!

Imanni wanted more than anything... A Barbie house!! YES she is 11 and still plays with Barbies! I don't care... At least she isn't chasing the little boys!!! ;)

The kids were greatly blessed! Trevor and MaryAnn McGarrah sent gifts to the kids as well! 

After present time it was time to start cooking! We had my mom and dad come over as well as a friend of the family, Maida. We had Ham and Turkey and all the trimmings. It turned out to be a very happy Christmas!!

"Imanni's growling at me!!"

So the funniest thing happened a couple of nights ago....
Imanni and Kiannah share a room and Imanni had fallen asleep before Kiannah.
I had told Kiannah to go to bed and shortly after she came back into the living room and said:
K: "I can't go to sleep"
M: "Why can't you go to sleep?"
K: "Imanni is growling at me!"
So I get up and go to yell at Imanni for "growling" and found out that Imanni was really


SNORING!!!

11 years old???

Imanni turned 11 years old!! It is so hard to watch my little girl turn in to young woman! She wanted to invite a couple of friends to hang out for the occasion. She chose to invite Lyric and Gigi. Gigi, Lyric and Imanni were all best friends last year in school and were in the same class! Imanni was traumatized when Gigi's family moved to Springdale ( the next town over )!
So Lyric and Gigi came over and hung out playing video games for a while. Once we ate pizza we did the cake a presents. Imanni received a Jonas Brothers CD that came with a DVD also. Of course we had to watch that OVER and OVER again! I gave the girls two options.... to go to a movie or to go to the store and they could each buy a poster and a teen magazine. It was unanimous for the shopping. We went to Target and then to walmart. Imanni bought a Jonas Brothers book and all the girls got a Jonas Brothers poster as well as a magazine. Even though the plans that I had made originally fell through.... the girls all had a great time!!!
Happy Birthday Imanni!!