The Ross Family.

My uncle Boo (Forrest), Aunt Teeter (Cindy), My dad (Steve Al), and Aunt Brenda.




My dad's family.

Back row; Dustin (Leah's husband), Jack, Leah, my dad, my dad's wife, my brother Taylor, me, and Gage.
Bottom; Zac and Lucia



My Aunt Teeter's family.

Teeter, Jack, Alexis, Chasty, Kevin, Ryan, Carrie holding Ava, Jorge
then Kolby and Annabel



My Uncle Boo's family

Natalie, Jeff, Boo, and Linda



My Aunt Brenda's family

Ashley, Phil, Abby, Brenda, Ross
then Bailey and Hannah



All the cousins!
We were all so close when we were younger.



All the cousin's kids. :)
That's my fam. At the Ross Family Christmas this year.

It has been years since we've all been together for Christmas!

Before we ate lunch, my Uncle Jack said a prayer. Then Lucia said a prayer.
Then my aunt Linda said she wanted to say a few words.
She said,"I just want to say...if I can without crying"...then she teared up and started crying. She said."I am so thankful that the younger generation got us all together again, after so many years. It's so great to be all together again" I can't remember everything else she said because I started crying along with everyone else. It was sweet. And Leah told them all that they are always welcome in her home anytime.
I hope we all get to get together again soon.

Tis the season.....

Gotta loooove Christmas time!
So, part of Zac's therapy is learning to be alone without freaking out. Like, at bedtime. He starts getting scared, being in his room by himself, in the dark. The doctor said he needs to lay there and focus on clearing his mind, calming it so he can fall asleep.
Well, he told me he was ready for bed at 7 last night! I let him lay down at 8 and watch tv for a bit....or until he fell asleep. He came in my room at 10:30, crying, saying,"I can't calm my mind! I'm trying, but I keep thinking about Santa coming. I can't fall asleep and he's not going to come!!"



So, I made Gage lay down with Zac until Zac fell asleep. Gage said he was immediately out. haha. Poor guy.

I was up until about 11:30 watching my True Blood my mom bought me!! Woot, woot!! Seasons one AND two!!! Love it!!



Then I checked to make sure the kids were asleep, and Santa put the presents out.
Theeeen, Zac came running in my room at 6:15 yelling,"Mom, Santa came!! Santa came!"
I was like....cool, let's sleep some more then check it out. haha.
Not happening. He went and woke Gage up, I had to drag myself outta bed and watch them be all excited about the things Santa brought for them.
Gage said,"Wow, Mom....Santa gave me all the Jackass movies." I said,"Heck yeah, Santa's down, yo." haha.
So after all the ooohing and ahhing, I went back to bed at 8:30 and woke up at 9:30 to Beauty laying in bed next to me, licking me. haha. Sweet girl. :)
Now we're at my sister's house, chilling with them. My aunt Brenda and cousin Ashley came in town last night.

Yesterday, we did Christmas at my mom's. Here are a few more pics. :)

The three sister's; keeping it real, yo.
(We like peace signs and put trouts..a lot! haha.)

The normal picture of us. :)

My mom and Mike; keeping it real. haha. They're so cool!!

Mom and Mike with all their grandkids!

Zac and Lucia.

Me and my sister's kiddos; keepin' it real!! What did I tell you...we like to keep it real!

Awww, cute normal picture of the kiddos!

Gavin and Jack!! Two little cutie pies.

My boy, Gage.

The mom's with their kids.

I can't seem to part with the True Blood dvds.

Goofy face time.

Ohhh, how I love Christmas time and family time!! It's the best!! :)

Wee Bit Wednesday

Want to play along? Link up here! :) {one} did you buy a christmas tree this year?Nope, I bought a sad excuse of a tree last year at the Dollar General. haha. I call it our "Charlie Brown" Christmas tree!
{two} what is your favorite holiday tradition?Just getting together with the family on Christmas Eve.
{three} do you open your gifts on christmas eve or christmas day?Christmas Eve. Christmas Day is for Santa.
{four} at what age did you stop believing in santa claus?I never believed.
{five} do you fill stockings?I do. I bought about $50 worth of stocking stuffers yesterday! Candy, toys, beef jerky. haha. All the good stuff they love.
{six} handmade presents or store bought presents?I do both.
{seven} do you have a favorite christmas meal?Nope. As long as I don't have to cook it. :)
{eight} is your christmas tree real or artificial?Fake! I love the smell of a real Christmas tree! But having to water it and vaccuum the pine needles! ugh. No thanks.
{nine} what is your favorite christmas song?Rudolph. Lame, I know. But I can't help but sing along everytime I hear it!
{ten} did you send out christmas cards this year?I surely did. Every year. :)

Secret Santa!

I am in the Christmas spirit! I'm one ugly Christmas sweater away from being the old women I make fun of!! haha.

I'm wearing TWO santa pins today.

These cute little berets. I have my hair in pig tails today and each pig tail has these cute little clips.

All thanks to my Secret Santa here at work! :)

I'm also wearing the cute little bell bracelet that is pictured below with my lotion and chap stick. :)

Notice the Hot Fries in the background. That's my breaksfast every morning. My secret santa was nice enough to get me a couple bags of those too! haha.

I also got this book and cute cross book marker!!

A couple of cute ornaments! I just love ornaments!

A close up of my berets. :)

Need a new book to read!

I was making out Christmas cards last night...yes, I'm doing that already! We also got our tree put up yesterday! :) Anyways, I was addressing the envelopes and Zac asks if he can send a card to Santa. Well, of course, you can! All he has to do is set it beside Happy and he'll make sure Santa gets it. So, he writes Santa a long note inside the Christmas card, puts it in the envelope, puts one of my stamps on it, gosh! haha. Then brings it to me and says, "Do you like it?" Well, Zac, you misspelled Santa! You forgot the "n". OH! Is this better? Well, Zac....you have the n in the wrong place, it's SaN-TA. S-A-N-T-A, not S-A-T-A-N. hahaha. scribble, scribble, scribble write, write, write "Is this better?" "Well..." "What did I mess up on now?" "Well, nothing...it looks perfect! Santa will love it!" Even if you wrote 'Sorry I bib that' instead of "did" with an arrow to the scribbled out "Satan". hahahaa. I love that kid! Speaking of which, I can feel my anxiety rising. His appointment is this Wednesday. And while we are all excited about it, to figure out what's going on, I can't help but having the racing heart and sick to my stomach feeling. Ugh. I may need a Xanax the next couple days. Ohhh, just thinking about it, I can't breathe!!! So, Zac's testing is going to be 4 hours long. I need a good book to read!! I've read all the Sookie Stackhouse novels that are out. I read Stephen King's new book "Full Dark, No Stars"...which was freaking wonderful! Four short stories...oh my gosh. I couldn't put it down!! Loved it! So, what can I start reading now? Any suggestions? :)