Christmas Shopping at Mimi and Big Daddy's

Our Christmas vacation at Mimi and Big Daddy's started off with a Christmas shopping trip...

Lala got a camera as an early Christmas present too!

Steve and "A"

Finding bargins at Wal-mart...

Looks like J3 is playing a little game of Scramble...how unusual!!!

WHOO HOO! I GOT A CAMERA!!!

After months of not taking hardly any pictures because my camera wouldn't hold a charge, my SWEET husband gave me a camera for Christmas!!!

I am so excited and hope to do a much better job of taking pictures and updating the blog.

Of course, "A" is going to keep up her good work on the blog as well. She will be able to add video to her entries as well, since she got a Flip for Christmas.

Here are the first pictures I took with my new camera...

Basketball

This year, like pretty much every other, J3 is doing basketball for our church, TFBC. His team, the Steelers, has their first game on Saturday. They are VERY excited!!!:) J2 is his head coach and J3 always has a "ball." HAHA!!! Get it ball....haha......:). Well....here are some pics of him playing..............


J3 and J2


THE "BALL" :)

Verse of the Month

From now on, Joyful Pilgrims will have a verse of the month. This verse will be one we think will be appropriate for this month. If you have any other verses you like for the current month, feel free to share them in the comment section. Here is the verse of November:
Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol himwith music and song.
- Psalm 95:2

MORE CATCHING UP TO DO! :)

Then came Halloween......MOM'S FAVORITE!!! O.K., it isn't Mom's favorits...actually it's her LEAST favorite, but I'm gonna post about it anyway:) First on the day's agenda was swim practice. You might be thinking, WHO ON EARTH WOULD GO SWIMMING IN OCTOBER!!! But that's exactly what we did!!! B.T.W., me and J3 are on the YSSC year-round swim team. The water is FREEZING, but it's really fun. After that, Joseph's swim coach, ESC(E...Swim Coach) had the annual YSSC halloween carnival in the YMCA gym. She did a great job!! There was a "haunted house"(a blow-up building), face painting, and so much more!! Me and J3 got our faces painted and got LOTS of candy. Then, we went home ot get ready for the NEXT event of the day, a fall party at our friend's house. J3 was a football player and I was a cowgirl. Here are some pics of the day......


Me and J3 with our faces painted


J3 the football player


Me the cowgirl

Treat your mother right!!

This is just for a laugh!! P.S.The little girl rapping is impersonating Mr. T!! (Be sure to mute music at the bottom to get the full effect!)

Here we go again!

Hi!! A here!!! Since Mom hasn't had time to post in awile, I decided that I would catch ya'll up on what's been going on. So, here we go!! This year, we went to the beach TWICE!! The first time, we went to Seabrook Island. It was great!! The weather was perfect and so was our "home." Here are some pics....


ME and J3


A palm tree outside the house

The second time we went with some of our friends from church. We had a blast!! Here are some MORE pics.....


Some of us playing on the beach


Just a fun picture(good photography J3!!:))

There's more to come!!