Country Music Capital of the World

The first week of December I drove the kids 11 hours to Nashville, TN to visit my sister and see this beautiful city. We had a great time. My camera rarely cooperated so we got few clear pictures. The highlights were seeing downtown, seeing ICE!, touring Gaylord Opryland Hotel, and seeing where all the famous people live. (My sister knows each of their houses and occasionally stalks them.) One of the big reasons we came was to see her perform in a Messiah concert and a Christmas concert which were both amazing. It was a wonderful trip.

Since my sister is single living in an apartment with a friend, beds were tight but she generously let us take over her bedroom. Here three kids share a bed.

Two more kids in a bed. (Later I move them to the floor so that I can have their bed.)

Kaitlyn in her pack 'n play wearing a dress over a shirt that she put on herself and wouldn't let us switch for a jammie shirt.

Trying to take a cute picture of the kids at the Messiah performance. A lady watching nearby said I wasn't holding the camera still (after I complained that it was blurry.)

She told me to hand over the camera and she would take a good one of all of us. Ha!

I don't think it's the steadiness of the camera holder. It's the cheap camera. I was about to throw it away that night, I was so frustrated that every picture was awful.

My girls and I at the Christmas concert the next night.

On the way home through the mountains we stopped to cut a Christmas tree down and surprise Nathan with it when we got home. It was hard to find a place that was open on a Monday and when we finally did we had to hike aways to find a decent tree. All of this made our trip turn into 13 hours. But it was a lot of fun.

Spencer cutting off the lowest branches

Decorating the tree.

November Happenins

Kaitlyn wearing Daddy's socks
Trying to put on one of her dresses and some jewelry. She always says, "Pretty" after she gets herself ready.

Wearing Kylie's shirt.
Whenever she sees this shirt in the clean clothes on the couch she has to put it on.

It's really a 3/4 sleeve shirt, but it looks like a dress on Kaitlyn.

Spencer finally pulled one of his top teeth out right before heading to scouts.

Thanksgiving with Nathan's parents and little brother who came. Kaitlyn was napping and Thomas hid under the table when Nathan took the picture. I couldn't believe we all fit around this 4 person table.

Nathan got cheap tickets, but had to work, so I took the kids to our first football game.
It was really fun even though we lost.

Thomas is on the far right and Spencer took the picture.