Things that I'm REALLY excited about

This time of year there are so many things that make me excited but what I love most is......

1. Receiving Christmas cards. I really get excited when I go and check the mail to find a Christmas card. What makes it even more exiting is when I receive a picture too!

2. This year was our first family Christmas card. I couldn't wait until Christmas time so we could do this.

3. These Christmas Pajamas! My mom has a tradition every year that she buys us all new pajamas for Christmas and this year Kennedy got her first set!.....love them!

These are just a few things that really make Christmas exciting for me! It's really just the small stuff, some traditions and some new things!

Picture Tag

The rules are:
1. look in the folders where you download pics to, and go the fourth folder.
2. choose the fourth picture.
3. Explain the pic (who and what)
4. Tag 4 people.

I tag Hollie, Jobeth, Mrs. Cup and Katie Lake.

Of course this is pic is of me and Kennedy! That's all my pics include it seems! She's 4 months here!

Christmas Spirit

We (or should I say "I") finally got our tree up. I'm officiall in the Christmas spirit! I have this feeling though, and I don't know if anyone else feels this way, but I kinda feel like it's a little to late and Christmas is almost over. My house is finally Christmas ready and my heart but I can't help but to think it's all over in a week! Isn't that terrible? This is my favorite time of year and it always seems to go by so fast. We get so caught up in all of the shopping and parties that I don't take time to slow down and enjoy the moment. The moment of the day our Savior was born. Tonight was our first trip to see Santa! We journeyed to the local mall (when I say local I mean it's 40 minutes away) where Santa was going to be and expecting there to be a crowd. I thought wrong. It was awesome! We literally were the only people in line. It was decorated so cute and it had to be the nicest Santa I had ever seen.

Of course after seeing Santa we had to grab a bite to eat and being with Taylor's and all we had to hit the buffet! Me and my sis in-law (Hollie, who we went with tonight) hate buffets, but our husband's love them! Their's nothing like a germ infested buffet. Someone did enjoy themselves and the icecream!

A few days in one!

I always seem to just be a few days behind in blogging so, then I have to cram all my happenings into one blog! I say " happenings" like I have a lot of interesting things goin on! Nothing to exciting well, maybe a little to me!

Tuesday Night.

Tuesday night was LNO, and need I say more! I think LNO (ladies night out) is the high light of my month! I love it! I really look foward to the girls night out but what I look foward to most is the word of God that Rhonda brings! Rhonda done some stomping on the toes a little or should I say God did! How come he knows exactly what you need to hear? (dumb queston b/c he know's all) Anyway, the topic was on respect. Respecting your siblings, Respecting your spouse and Respecting your childs heart. She spoke for about an hour or so but it flew by! I find myself thinking "it's over already, but I need to hear more!" I love that feeling, I love that i'm so eager to guid our child in God's path! It's so exciting and scary all at the same time!

Wednesday

Mom took us girls from work to do a little Christmas shopping and to by us our Christmas gifts from her! We got some really great deals and I managed to stay focused and got MOST of my Christmas shopping done! I have a few more things to buy and i'll be set!

Never long enough!

So, the weekend flew by as usual! I always have these great goals of getting things done and there NEVER seems to be enough time! Well, it's probably because I really don't make time. Normally it's household stuff, such as, cleaning the blinds, scrubbing the bath tub, laundry and I still have some unpacking to do, but really who wants to do these things on the weekend?! Or during the week!...lol!

Iopted to skip these things and drag out some of my Christmas decor! Here it is

almost the middle of December and I still don't have a tree up yet! Better yet, I sent my husband to the shed to search for it and it wasn't there! You see, last Christmas I was pregnant and in the pit of range of packing all of the ornaments back up and the tree (by myself, 9 months pregnant) I think I might have decided to toss it out! I remember thinking we'll need a new one

next year because our living room will be larger! So, now I think I need to go buy a tree! Just lovely!....lol

We did go to the local Christmas parade Saturday and it was a huge let down! I think there were maybe 30 people there. Obviously, we didn't know how lame it would be sense we're the only dorks REALLY excited about it! I did get a few cute pics!

Kate and her famous smile!!

Might would have been cute if I could see.....lol

We had our Christmas play at church last night so, I decided to dress Kennedy up! She looked so cute!

All in all it was a great weekend just never long enough!

Catching up!

Late night shopping trip

Last night my friend Traci called me around 5:30 and was asking me what my plans were for the night.....of course I replied the usaul, laundry, picking up the house and washing bottles. (Mean while keep in mind Traci is my friend with the triplets.) The she replied "oh, well, me and Pam (another friend of ours) was thinking to head to Target around 8:00 and maybe Walmart to do some Christmas shopping if your interested in going." Her husband had been volunteered to spend some quality time with the babies so she could regain some sanity and do some Christmas shopping. Afterall, can you imagine having triplets???..... Well, I immediately pretty much turned down the offer because I had so much to do at home and I new it would be impossible to get it all done and then still have enough energy to go.

8:00 rolls around and i'm sitting on the couch getting pumped up to watch Grey's and I started thinking.......you know I should really get out, I need to do some Christmas shopping and a trip to Target is hard to turn down. I decided to go at the last minute and i'm so glad I did! We had the best time. I ended getting Kennedy just a few things.

As it got later you could tell we're getting a little sleepy! I'm really not used to staying out past 10:00 and we didn't get home until 1:00am!

After Target our next stop was Walmart and for some odd reason we ended on the cereal isle. Traci and Pam compared calories and carbs I know for 20 minutes! They went from whole grain cereal to wheat and whatever all that healthy stuff is! Well, if you know me I went straight to the sweet ones. I did end up with some cracklin oat bran! I really like it just not in milk! I can't drink milk or have it with cereal at all. While I was pregnant if ate any diary or drank it came right back up and it scared me for life!!

Breaking in the new house

Wednesday night was our first night having people over in our new house. I cooked tacos and that was the first time I cooked in our new house too! I've been so scared that, that new smell who go away if I fried something or cooked something that stunk! It didn't! I also was afraid that I would be this terrible person that chased people down telling them to use a napkin, take off there shoes, don't touch that, wash your hands and don't take that on the carpet! I should have known better, our friends/family are very respectful and wouldn't do such things! I was being a (LITLLE well maybe A LOT) extreme! We really had a great time and I can't wait to do it again!

All of the little ones! Kennedy, Kate, Emma Rae, Payne and Bennet (he's hidding behind Kennedy)

Hair color change

So every winter I pretty much go all dark and I say every winter i'm never doing it again! I always love it for about a month then i'm sick of it and ready for a change! Well, guess what?? I done it again! I always go to the extreme! I'm a natural dark, dark brunette but it's always a shock for the first couple of days! I'm sorta getting used to it! I'm sure in a few months it will different again! I guess that is the advantage of being a hair stylist.

One big Happy family!

Lastnight my mom and dad came over to help me (my mom not my dad!!!.....lol) decide where to hang some things in our new house. Well, we pulled out the ladder and proceeded to hang the clock and here walks over Kennedy. I could tell she was on a mission. She had a look of determination on her face. It was like she was reading my mind, she would stop, look at me then the ladder, then look at me again. I had turned around to finish washing bottles and there she took off! It was like a rat race to see if she could get to the ladder before I noticed her! And she did! She's so fast! So, of course what do I do? Run and get the camera! (such a mom thing to do, or a blogger thing to do!)

Tonight we celebrated my brothers b-day a little early and mom cooked a yummy dinner! Her being so creative and on top of the seasons she already had her Christmas decor up. So, I took advantage of the beautiful scenery and wanted to take a cute little family picture (and to have an idea what we want to do for our Christmas cards) in front on the tree. This is the lovely picture that we took!

OK, he really does this ALL of the time! Every time i'm trying to get him to take a cute picture of the two of us or a family pic he strikes his favorite pose! You know how people have a go-to shirt this is his go-to pose!

AGAIN.....

I think he really likes these poses! I think he feels most confident when he strikes a pose in this fashion....lol!!!

We did FINALLY get a cute picture by the tree!