Merry Christmas Everyone!

Love,

Jonathan,Karen,Parker,Peyton, & Paige

Chrismtas Past Photos...

Michelle had a neat idea and posted several photos of her kids from past Christmas' so I decided I would share some of our past photos also! It is neat to see how much the kids change from year to year and to look at their Christmas outifts! (Michelle found a pattern with her girls dresses...) So far, I haven't seen a pattern yet with ours.

Parker 2 months old: Christmas 2002

Parker: 2002

Parker 1 year 3 months: Christmas 2003

Parker: Christmas 2003

Parker 2 years old: Christmas 2004

Parker 3 years old: Christmas 2005
(One of my favorites!) Parker: Christmas 2005
Parker 4, Peyton & Paige 11 months: Christmas 2006

(The twins first Christmas!)

The Walden kids: Christmas 2006

Chrismtas Eve 2006

The Walden kids: Christmas 2007
(Notice it is a different Santa this year! It was "our" Santa's day off! I was crushed!)

Parker 5 years, Peyton and Paige almost 2: Christmas 2007
They really do like each other!

Merry Christmas from the Walden's!
Jonathan, Karen, Parker, Peyton & Paige

Welcome to our house...

As you walk in our front door...
Our main tree decorated with red & green ornaments,

snowmen, & special gold ornaments...
The stockings are hung by the "fireplace" with care...

(We don't have a chimney!)

My tree by the fireplace decorated with Boyd's bear ornaments...

A new favorite Boyd's piece I got last year in Tennessee...

Our kids ready for church this past Sunday morning...

Merry Christmas 2007

I didn't get all my Christmas stuff out this year due to 2 toddlers and a 5 year old who loves to play ball inside! One of my favorite things, my Boyd's Bear nativity set is tucked away until the kids get older! Maybe next year I will be able to put more of my things out and not worry about them being shattered!

Perfume anyone?

Last week, Mom and I were shopping in the Greenwood Mall and were in Macy's at this particular time! We were walking by the fragrances and I absolutely hate it how they "hound" you when you are trying to walk by them. I saw the perfume that Jonathan bought me last Christmas that I absolutely "love" and decided to squirt some on myself! The fragrance is "Juicy Couture" and it was fairly expensive so I used it sparingly all year and just ran out this month! (Pretty good for me, I usually run out in May or June!) Anyway, I grabbed this very small bottle of this particular perfume, gave myself a squirt and said, "I just love this stuff, it smells so good..." to my Mom! A sales lady saw me, came over to me and said, "Would you like to try the "real" perfume in that scent? You just tried on the "doggy scent!" In disbelief, I said, "What? They make this stuff for dogs now?" She proceeded to show me that it was in a dog bone case and they have a "set" for $55.00 that you can buy for your dog so you will smell alike!!!! I cannot imagine ever buying perfume for a dog and especially that expensive of a set! I told the lady that I had the "real" stuff at home and said my goodbyes quickly! Boy did I feel good smelling like a dog for the rest of the day!

"People" Juicy Couture

"Doggy" Juicy Crittoure

See how I made the mistake???

It's over for another year!

Yes, we actually were able to have church yesterday and pulled off both programs without "too many" blunders!!! The Jr Church program was very cute and all the kids did well! One little boy was so scared he wasn't able to say his "Welcome" but quickly recovered after he saw everyone else saying their parts! Peyton and Paige even went up front when they were supposed to do so. Peyton decided he wanted "...to go see Parker" when they were getting ready to sing. We let him go up there and it was so cute to see him and Parker standing there. Peyton just stood there and Parker kept patting him on the back. (However, he didn't stay put for long!)

We practiced all afternoon for the adult program until we were blue in the face! The first practice was so terrible I thought we should cancel it! We had several visitors fight the snow and come out to see this wonderful production! Let's just say we could've used several more weeks of practice! By the way, we did not pull this program off without any big blunders! Several times we got "lost" and got so carried away "ad libbing" that even our prompters didn't know where we were going!

At one point in the program, I was standing up about to say my line and all of a sudden this coat rack "loaded" with coats decided to topple off the platform! The crowd roared and I said, "There is going to be a slight break in the action here folks..." and proceeded to try and clean up the mess! My Grandpa jumped out of his seat and helped me! How embarrassing!!! Wesley repeated his line before me and we were able to go right back into it!

Another hilarious thing was when our maid, Janet, came running out of a side room and said, "What was that noise?" and had skipped several pages of the play! Obviously, the sound effect had not gone off and I knew that wasn't right so I "ad libbed" once again and said, "What noise, I didn't hear anything!" and went right back to my line that I was actually supposed to say! (Someone told me later that they were all dying in the back room when she said the wrong line and when I brought it back, Jonathan said, "Good girl, Karen!" Later on when the racket actually occurred, I looked at our maid and said, "Now there's that noise you thought you heard earlier!" It was quite hilarious to all of us but I don't think the audience even knew we goofed! It seemed like there were minutes between some of our lines when we would forget our parts but somehow somebody always pulled though and we did survive! (Thanks to our prompters, Missy and Mila!) We are all breathing a huge sigh of relief that this past weekend is over and we are looking forward to an actual Sunday afternoon at home for a change!

Unfortunately, I did not get any "still" pictures as we were all involved in the play and my mom was busy with grandkids! We had our DVD recorder all set up on the front row and thought we had an hour disc! We didn't know it was only 30 minutes on each side and only got about 33 minutes of the play. I guess it is better than nothing since no one was even running our camera!

Blogging may be scarce the rest of this week! You should see the pile of gifts I have to wrap! I am really stressed! I don't see how I will ever get it all done! I work the next two days so look out Thursday and Friday! I will be burning midnight oil for sure!
My laptop also has a "bug" and is in the hospital so I have to use Jonathan's when it is home and available! I am going through Blog withdrawal during the day!

Hope you all get your last minute Christmas shopping done and have a great rest of the week!

Just a quick picture I snapped of Paige today during lunch in the mall! She is finally starting to pose for the camera instead of running from it and laughing!