New Year's Eve 12/31

We had a birthday party today.  Jonah had basketball practice.

We had a friends over to help us celebrate the New Year.  The kids had a blast playing together.  We grownups got to play some games and talk without too many interruptions.  I cannot believe I forgot to take pictures!

Well a year long project of pictures has come to an end. It was not easy to keep up with at all.  It was a challenge.  It is mind boggling to see how much we actually did in one year.  Being able to record important events such as graduations and ball games, really made it all worth it.

McKenzie 12/30

McKenzie came over to play today.  Hopefully, he had a good time. 

Bed 12/29

We went shopping for a new bed.  Just for fun.  We need a new bed, but let's face it, they are expensive.  The boys had a great time.

Party at Jared's House 12/28

All three boys went to a party at Jared's house where they ate and played video games.  Vic and I had some time to ourselves.

Basketball Never Sleeps 12/27

William and Jonah have practice today.  Next weekend are the first games, so the coaches are trying to get their teams ready. 

The Morning After 12/26

We declared today a "do nothing" day.  Well I wanted to start taping our bedroom in preparation of painting and Victor wanted a day to relax.  He had spent of last minute time at the grocery stores yesterday.

Christmas Eve 12/24

Would you like a tour of the house and decorations? 

Yes my tree is leaning.  It fell about four times and I had to decorate it about five times because of it and the lights going out at the top.

I copied a friend of mine.  What do you think?

It's time to set out cookies for Santa

Earlier, we spread reindeer food in the yard.

Merry Christmas to all.  And to all a good night.

Christmas 12/25

Christmas morning!

Trying out the new bikes

The table is set for Christmas Dinner

Grocery Shopping 12/23

Victor and I went to the grocery store to buy food for Christmas.  We were gone for about 2-2 1/2 hours in the store.  Then I went home and wrapped presents.  I bought the wrapping paper that we used in the Christmas program at church.




We also had fire wood deliverred to the house.  Jonah insisted that he help.

Cookies 12/22

My parents came into town today.  Now that I have three Classic Batter bowls, we could all make cookies at the same time!

Jonah made the Hershey Kiss cookies

William and I made Oatmeal cookies

Robbie could not decide on a cookie that he wanted to make and ended up just helping Grandma and Jonah

William did so well with the oatmeal that we started a batch of gingersnaps as well.

He loves to help cook!

Carpet Cleaning 12/21

We have the most beautiful shag area rug.  It is green and cream colored.  Apparently, Silvester thinks it is grass because he is constantly thowing up on it.  It smelled so bad that we put it in the garage.  Today we are having it cleaned along with the bonus room where the kids will be sleeping Christmas Eve. 

I told the guys cleaning the carpet that it was super important to have it cleaned, deodorized and sanitized because my sister-in-law is coming and she is allergic to cats. 

Take a look at it now.  It is so clean and you can just smell goodness.  We have taken to rolling up the carpet at night so that Silvester cannot get to it.

Santa!! 12/20

We went to the mall tonight to see Santa.  We had seen a Santa at the Otter Creek Clubhouse, but he wasn't the real Santa and was pretty bored/tired.





See what I mean?  I told my kids we were going to see the REAL Santa!

I had invited another family to go with us.  They have a 9 month old and a 3 year old.  To be fair, I warned them that there would be a long wait.  We waited in line for over an hour because Santa was at dinner when we first got in line.  All the kids were starving so Victor went downstairs and bought dinner.  The kids were eating Chic Fil A in line.  When we finally got to the front of the line, some raggedy looking guy offered my friends $5 to let him cut in line.  The guy did not even have kids with him.  Must have been a bet?!?  During the hour and a half wait, Victor informed me that William and Jonah have practice tonight at 7:00. It is already 6:50 and we have not seen Santa yet and we do not have their clothes.  Victor wasn't too happy about that. When all was said and done, we had missed practice but - this is what we came home with:

                                                           Ahhh, that is sooo much better. 

I also got inspiration from our friend's house.

Pretty cool right?  I am going to try it!

Hair! 12/19

My sweet, sweet husband took off today because I did not realize the kids would be out of school when I made the appointment to have my hair done.  The last time I had all three boys with me while I was getting my hair done, William cracked his head open.  He was  jumping from bench to bench and fell.

I like the way my hair is, but wanted to kick it up a notch. 

Not my best picture, but deep black on the longer hair and a black street on top. 

Painting 12/18

We have paint burning a hole in my garage, so we decided to see if we could knock out the dining room.  It was all hands on deck.

We taped everything.  Then William, Victor and I started painting.

So here is the dining room before:

Here is it now decked out for Christmas:

I need to get something different in the planters, but other than that, what do you think?