If you read our blog only in the update email you may want to visit www.jklmorris.blogspot.com because I added text to the pictures I posted last week.

We had our first professional pictures taken in November.

Here are a few random ones that we like.

James built a "magnificent" fort in the backyard. He even added a flag with his name on it so that all the bad guys would know who lives there.

Mallory sacked out after and intense session of rattle training.

Celebrated Christmas just the five of us this last Sunday. We woke up and decorated our gingerbread house. We caught up on our Advent boxes that we had missed from being too busy for anybody's good. Then we cooked our annual tamale dinner and took it to a family from our church. Once we got home we ate and opened presents. We had a wonderful day together learning about Jesus and celebrating Him and His love for us.

I will try to do a better job updating so that I can remember all the funny stories about the kids now that we have a working computer. We might even be able to do video again!

We went to Bass Pro to try to see Santa but he wasn't there. So we tinkered around his workshop instead. He had guns and cars and stuffed animals, they loved it. I think their stances holding the guns are so funny. I asked Kinley if she wanted to go see Santa and she said "I don't like Santa...and he doesn't like me." I don't know what went on between them but it must have been bad.

We celebrated Josh's birthday November 20th. I let the kids pick out the cake and they chose green cake (very appetizing by the way), white and blue icing and LOTS of sprinkles. We had a little scavenger hunt for Daddy to find his present which was a book he's been wanting. We also got him new Dallas Cowboys and OSU hats. Those weren't a surprise because he had to pick them out.

Out computer's hard drive went out so we just got a new computer and I am trying to update the posts that I did on my phone!

Look at our little girl! She is getting so big! She asked me to take a picture of her in her new clothes and she chose to pose by the wall like this. I think she likes attention!

Kinley woke up with a stomach bug a couple of weeks ago. She was so lethargic she just slept wherever she was, would sit up to throw up then lay back down and fall asleep. She did this for about 4 hours then she was good as new. It was so funny and sad.

James and Kinley were playing dress up one day and I left Mallory in the room with them. When I came back in this is what I found. They said they wanted her to be a princess too. She liked it too!

Mallory has grown so much! We are finished breastfeeding which is really sad but really nice. She is eating about 35 oz per day and eats solids three times. Broccoli is her favorite! She is sleeping a good 12 hours at night and taking three naps. She is still a perfect baby. She is smiling and giggling a lot.