1st Annual Christmas with a Cause Party

On December 12th, Kendra and I will be hosting our 1st Annual Christmas with a Cause Party. We are SO excited!! Instead of just having a regular ol' Christmas party, we decided that we would adopt a family and everyone could make donations to help this family have a special Christmas this year. We have adopted a family with 2 girls, ages 8 and 11, and one boy, age 7. We will be having it at Kendra's dad's hanger and we will hopefully have a jumper for the kids and music and dancing for the adults. We really hope that it is a success so that we can hopefully make it a bigger and better event every year so that we can give more families a Christmas during these hard times.

Thanksgiving weekend

I'm pretty sure that I gained 5 lbs after Thanksgiving! I've also decided that it's too hard to juggle holiday's and all the family that we have. I wish that we could just be everywhere and not miss a single one, but it's not possible. We had lunch at Chance's Aunt Gene's and supper at my Grandma Bosley's. Let me tell ya, two Thanksgivings in one day is a killer, but it is sure delicious! Saturday we got to go and visit Aunt Jana and all of that family. We had a great time and hope to see everyone again soon.

Shaylee had RSV all last week, but she is better. She actually slept all night without even waking up one single time last night!! Woohoo!! She is learning so many new things everyday and is just more precious to us than we could ever even have imagined. I have a whole bunch of pics that I need to post, but I still haven't found my USB cord to get them on here. When I finally do find it, you guys with be overloaded with pics! LOL!

I hope you guys had a great weekend and Christmas is right around the corner!! I better get busy!!

More Wedding Pics

Smile:
Aren't we sweet! LOL!!

This one is my favorite:

The whole group, we all clean up pretty good:

I really like this one too, it looks old timey:

Gotta show off the boots :)

I love him!!

My computer is moving to slow this evening, and I have SO many good pictures that I can't even pick which ones I want to post, so I am just going to give up! LOL! Chanda, you did such an awesome job and I LOVE every single one of the pictures.

Wedding!!

Whew!! What a wedding we had?! Thanks so much Cindy, Twila, Jaycee, Kelli, and everyone else that helped out at the wedding, and and to Chanda for such taking such great pictures. And thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate with us! We had such a blast and everything was more than perfect. We sure are excited to the O'Daniel family now instead of the soon to be O'Daniel Family! I hope that everyone had as much fun as we did.

2 more days....

I am ecstatic!! I'm taking half a day off on Thursday to clean the clutter in my messy house so that all of our out of town guests won't feel like they are sleeping in a pig sty. Yes, I am a bad mom and am going to leave Shaylee at daycare while I clean, but that is the only way I am going to get it all done. Yesterday, I had plans to take her outside with me while I spray painted the cupcake tier and that did not work out so well. I ended up taking lil' girl back in the house and Chance painted until we ran out of paint and he even went and bought some more and we finished it all up when Shaylee went to bed. I'm so excited because everything is going to be SO pretty and thank you SOOOOO much to Cindy and Twila for all of their great ideas and hard work! I don't think I could ever repay you guys for all the work y'all have done!

I've posted some of the pictures that Chanda took and they are SO awesome!! I can't wait for her to be able to take pictures at the wedding. If you guys like her work, you should check out her blog that I follow.

Well, this will probably be the last post until the week after the honeymoon. I'll get the wedding and honeymoon pics posted and will also get Halloween pics of Shaylee and Payton posted. I'm behind on all my pictures!! Oh and by the way if you didn't know, we are taking out honeymoon to Nashville. We sure are having a redneck honeymoon to pick up a truck!! LOL! We are flying to Nashville on Wednesday and will be driving the truck home Saturday morning. We are SO excited because neither one of us has been to Nashville and the CMA's will be happening the night we get there, so maybe we will get a peek at one of the country stars! I'm hoping to visit the Grand Ole Opry, Music Row, and pretty much anything else that we can fit in. It's also my first time to fly, so that's exciting too!! I just can't wait for everything to happen, but can wait until I get everything done that I want to! The next time that I get on here I will officially be Mrs. Chance O'Daniel and our blog will the The O'Daniel Family, instead of The soon to be O'Daniel Family!!!! Woohoo!!!

First words, well sort of....

Sometime last week, yes I say sometime because all my days are running together and I can't exactly say which day it was, Shaylee was getting her diaper changed and getting some clean clothes on. Well, she HATES changing her clothes, or at least her shirts and was throwing a fit and I mean not only were her eyebrows turning red, but her whole face was red. Anyways she started yelling, "Da da, da da" like he was going to come run to her rescue so she wouldn't have to get her shirt changed, it was just pretty darn cute! So, I guess "Da da" will be her first word and I'm pretty jealous that it wasn't ma ma. LOL! It was really exciting, and her daddy sure did get an ego boost from it! My lil' Shaylee girl is getting to where she isn't so lil' anymore :(