He's Baaaaaack!

Prince Alfie is here!

He started his visit attending a tea party with Barbie in Ambry's room!

We love our crazy elf!

Let the Christmas festivities begin!!!

The Barn

Luke's Grandaddy Buckner built the barn that stands 

next to his mom's house in Moultrie.

It's a beautiful, old red barn.

Lately, it has shown it's age.  Many of the boards are rotting and in need of repair.

Well today, Luke decided to build two new gates for the center section 

of the barn.  He did a wonderful job!  I never knew he had these mad

woodworking skills!

And of course, when you build new gates for a barn, 

they must be painted red to match the rest!

Love my little family of worker bees!

Thanksgiving 2011

We enjoyed a beautiful Thanksgiving Day this year!

Jon and Selena hosted the meal at their cabin on the pond!

God blessed us with gorgeous weather and in true

Buckner style the food was delicious and PLENTIFUL!!!

We have so much to be thankful for!

 Nana's funny garden turkey!

 Aunt Kakidy, Uncle Larry, Will, 

Anna Marie and baby Kailey Grace.

 Bo and Luke

(I always think of the Dukes of Hazzard!)

 J.R. and Trey

 This was our view while we ate Thanksgiving lunch.

Selena had all the tables set up outside on the deck.

 Jon and Tucker pulling the turkey!

LOVE Jon's outdoor cooking shack!

 Look at all those white cars!  HA!

 The boys started throwing the football and that

quickly turned into throwing DIRT at each other!

 Nana and her grands!

 Mother and Son

 Only in Moultrie... a little girl in a pretty 

smocked dress riding on a muddy gator!

 Daddy and Daughter

 Anna Marie's expression pretty much sums up how 

we all felt on Thanksgiving... JOYFUL!

In the words of Luke's mom...
"Gooble, Gooble, Gooble!"
LOL!

The Lights!

I love our annual tradition of going to see the lighting of the Christmas

lights on Moultrie's town square.  Such small town charm!

And a ride on the little Christmas train is fun too!

Luke and Trey went hunting this year instead of coming to see 

the lights and Santa.  Our little boy is growing up!  :(

Pecans!

How much fun to go to the farm and see the pecan tree shaker in action!

The kids and I had never experienced this and WOW was it interesting!!!

Like an earthquake and a snow storm all in one.

Uncle Randy had the pecan shaker come and shake his trees and 

was kind enough to ask him to come down and shake one of Nana's trees so

we could all watch!

Up on the Rooftop...

Grammy and Grumps have a lot of pine trees around their house.

The trees drop pine needles all over their roof and 

G and G needed the roof cleaned off and 

the pinestraw piled up for use in their yard.

Who could do this for them?

A yard service?  Their sons or son-in-law?

NO....

 Trey got up there and did it for them!!!

 The rake wasn't working well...so Daddy gave him a blower to try!

 The blower was awesome!  Much faster.

 Tah Dah!  

I think Grammy and Grumps have found them

a new yard man!

Celebrating Aunt D's Life!

We were so fortunate to have grown up close by to my "Aunt D"!

She was my mom's, dad's sister, my great aunt.

And GREAT she was!

I will always remember going to her house when we were little.

She had this wonderful closet right off the dining room, full of hats and games

and tins of poker chips.  My brothers and I LOVED playing in those poker chips!

She would always make Johnny Mazetti for us (kind of like lasagna), 

and snickerdoodle cookies.

She has crystal bowls full of hard blue mints and little soft buttery mint candies.

We loved spending time with Aunt D and Uncle Walter.

Last year after Uncle Walter passed away, 

my parents graciously invited her to come and live with them.

They enjoyed her for 14 months in their home, 

taking care of her, following her strict meal schedule, 

and playing lively rounds of scrabble at night... a favorite of hers.

She passed away peacefully in October, 

with my dad and my Uncle David and his wife Sherri at her side.

Her wishes were, that we all gather together to celebrate her long, full life.

She lived to be 101!  Just three months shy of 102!!!

We enjoyed every minute of her "celebration"!

Telling funny stories about her and listening to family and Kiwanis friends remember 

her many, many charitable good deeds.

How amazing you were and what an example you set for us all
to always be kind hearted, generous and caring towards others!!!
We love you Aunt D!

(Aunt D came to visit with mom and dad last fall.
Here we were at Trey's football game.)

It's always silly when the Boughners and the DeSousas get together!

Ian and Kelly... baby boy DeSousa is coming soon!

Michelle and Greg

Grammy loves her grands!

Ambry and Nicole

Leanne and I

Trey and Andrew

My daddy and I

Our family 2011

Dinner Time

 Not the best quality photos... but some of the BEST times we have

are around the table each evening.

It's a priority of mine that we eat together as a family every night!

I love cooking for Lukey and Trey and Ambry

and even more, I love LAUGHING with them 

and being silly during and after our meals.

Ambry has always loved climbing up on Luke's back after supper.

Hilarious!

Our tummies get nourishment, and so do our hearts.

SO thankful for Dinner Time!!!

Stampers!

 Grammy and Grumps sent Trey and Ambry some Halloween stampers

in their goodie boxes this year.

I'm pretty sure Trey LOVES football, if this is what

he created with his Halloween stampers!
I wonder if these plays would really work...we will
have to let Coach "Daddy" have a look!

TOUCH DOWN!!!