Pirate Day!

The second graders had pirate week this past week, culminating on Friday with dress up day before school

After school with his loot

Birthday Celebrations

Flowers from Chris...they are so bright and cheery! My very good friend is exactly one day younger than me. So this year we celebrated out last year of 20's together with lunch at her house. We had "girl food" and delicious cake!

Happy Birthday to Us! Our Birthday cake

"Girl Food" = Monte Cristo sandwhiches and Pear and Apple salad with Light Lemonade and walnut muffins

the kids enjoyed their own personal pizza

Pretty, huh! We had a great time and the food was absolutely delicious. Chris helped me make dinner when he got home and we had more cake! It was a great birthday!

The Kids New Bedding

The kids each got some new bedding for Christmas. This is Mykenzie's:

Jaxon's (gotta love the skulls with the teddy bear):

This is Jayden's--it glows in the dark:

Warm Fuzzies

Here is our warm fuzzy jar (sorry it's a little late).

jaxon held the door open for us at church

jayden helped jaxon unload the dishwasher

mykenzie helped me with payton

i made a special treat for everyone

chris cleaned out the garage so i could park in there

Christmas Morning (Christmas Part II)

7:30 am...can't complain about that






thank you katy and micah....I'm scared to use it!












it's supposed to look like her (same hair and eyes)

santa brought lots of legos

Christmas Part 1

Christmas Eve always seems so busy and we never seem to have the time to color in the coloring book. So this year we made it a family home evening activity the Monday before Christmas...so here is our fun:





Christmas Eve Day, by about 2 the kids were so tired they couldn't even pretend to smile, so I made them all take a nap. A few minutes later, I heard them coming up stairs armed with blankets, pillows and silkie to nap under the tree. I put on some soft christmas music and they all eventually fell asleep. Chris came home from work early and joined them. I was in a rush to get the house put together so that it could be destroyed the next morning :) They all slept until it was time to go to the family Christmas dinner