A Very Merry Fortenberry Christmas

The Becnels' decided to trek once agin to North Louisiana for the Fortenberry Christmas party. I would just like to say that Natalie travels quite well...she sleeps most of the time and if you give her a sippy cup of milk she is pretty satisfied. Steven, however, does not travel well and usually abandons me for a nap and is grumpy that I won't let him listen to football on the radio. If Natalie starts fussing he tells her to "Quiet down" in his loud booming voice which usually makes it worse! I love him for his efforts though :)

Steven - always thrilled to be there!

Natalie is ALWAYS happy to be here!

We went up on a Friday, much to Nanna and Papa's delight! We spent that evening attempting to make treats for the party the next day. I found out that I am NOT a baker for numerous reasons...example...I have no patience. However the good thing about baking is that even if its ugly most of the time it still tastes good! We traveled to Transylvania, LA (yes there is such a place, and yes there is a bat on their water tower!) for the Christmas celebration. I was personally looking forward to Aunt Debbie's shrimp dip as well as the bruschetta that my mom was making. We were also having a little birthday party for Natalie since my dad couldn't be at Natalie's actual birthday party. We ate, we visited, we opened some gifts, and Natalie got mad when I took the little smash cake away from her (who wants to clean up yellow icing baby throw up? NOT this woman!)

Natalie's Smash Cake Before the smashing commenced

Natalie's Birthday cake for the day!

After everything my cousin Katie Grady took Natalie outside and did a little photo shoot with her! The pictures turned out so great! If anyone in the Tallulah/Lake Providence area needs a photographer she is your girl!

We had a great day that day full of shrimp dip and gumbo and it really got us in the spirit for the holidays!

After that we went to Monroe to try to catch a quick dinner....little did we know that was the plan for everyone else within a 100 mile radius! We finally got a table...had a crappy/expensive dinner and Mama and I went shopping while everyone else went home to watch the Saints Game!

We headed home the next day a little tired, a little queasy (probably from all of the junk the day before), and a little cranky! By golly we were in the Christmas spirit though!