Christmas Catch-up with the Hemphills

For Christmas with the Hemphills we all drove up to Osage Beach Missouri where mom and dad got us all one big cabin for the weekend. It was fun to all be together again (since it usually only happens about once a year now). We had a pretty big winter storm come through while we were there so we didn't get out of the cabin very much but we did get to go swim at the indoor pool and then hit the outlet malls the day after Christmas.

All the Hemphills: Dan and Laurie, Dad and Mom, Val and Jonathan, Chris, me and Char.


Laurie got a new embroidery machine - that's about the most excited I've ever seen her on Christmas.

Dan was pretty excited about it too... not really.

Charlotte wanted Pop Pop to read the Super Mario Brothers instruction booklet to her.

This is the little blanket Laurie made for her. She doesn't look like it, but Charlotte actually wanted to take lots of pictures with it.

The backpack full of food for her new kitchen set

Gotta make sure there's nothing left in the bottom!



Thisis the little baby sled my dad found for Charlotte. Since it was way too cold to go outside, we just pulled her around inside. She was loving it so much.

Loved it so much she wanted to give all of her new friends a ride in it!!

We got back to Fayetteville to discover we'd missed out on all the snow, this was what was left by the time we got outside to play.