Friday, December 23, 2011

My Life in a Hazy Blur... (Part 2)

Marci & Maddox are so funny.  They make up
pretend games all the time.  
And they love to dress up!
Here they are as the Chef & Waiter.
They seated the whole family at the table where
they had made out Menus.  They even had
kid Menus with puzzles and games
drawn on them.  It was so cute!
Marci cooked chicken nuggets &
Bagel Bites.  Maddox acted like
a real waiter and asked us
If everything was ok and if we needed
more to drink.  At one point he whispered to 
me that Marci had put "man lipstick" on him!
Hahahhahaha  It took everything in me to not
bust out laughing until he left the room.
I was seriously crying from laughing so hard.
I wish you could see the pale pink 
"man lipstick" he's wearing in the pic.

Another one of their dress up games..
They came home from the church Christmas Party
and decided to do their own Nativity.






This makes me laugh so hard every 
time I watch it!
I don't know where Marci gets her
 dramatic flair, but I LOVE it!

Baby Jesus in his tupperware manger.
Marci said "I want him naked so it
will be authentic."
Haha! She is definitely MY daughter
to have such a vocabulary at 8!
Mandy & Cassey always make fun of all
my "big words" and correct grammar. 
It's pretty ironic that my 2 BFF's have
the world's worst spelling skills ever!
It makes for a lot of laughs when I
finally crack their "code" and figure out
what the heck they meant to say! ;)

I took this pic because he seemed so tiny
sitting in Tim's big chair!

Marci singing in her Christmas program

Bradley playing in the Band Concert.
It's so weird that my baby is playing 
in Band concerts already!  It seems
like just a couple years ago that I was 
playing in Band!!  

Grandpa with Miles & Maddox at the Concert

What is this you say?!
Why, it is an elusive SMILE from TIM!
It is rarely ever seen out in the wild
and even rarer to be captured on film!

My grown up boy looking a lot like
Johnny Cash in his head-to-toe Black suit.

Granma & Grandpa came to see Bradley

Me & my friend Elizabeth co-hosted
Book Club this month.  The book
was one of my absolute favorites:
The Hunger Games!
SO of course, I took the opportunity
to dress up as a character from the book!
I'm one of the fancy Capitol residents.

Roses for Pres. Snow

Arrows & twine for traps for Katniss

A feast from The Hob

Katniss's favorite roast and potatoes

Maddox's class Christmas Party

Marci's Christmas Party

Maddox's sweet Kindergarden teacher

I am so glad the kids are finally out of
school for the holidays!  I have been 
so burnt out on getting up early!!!
I hope Santa brings me 
1000 hours of uninterrupted sleep!
One can dream right?!

Thursday, December 22, 2011

My Life in a Hazy Blur... (Part 1)

Life has been crazy busy lately.
Baby, 3 kids in school, me in school,
husband in school...really, why on
Earth would that be crazy right?!
It's been overwhelming at times
but I have great family and
friends to keep me sane!
I really and truly feel so amazingly
blessed to have great friends
here and back home.

 Tim gets Miles to make this sad face.
Maybe we're horrible people, but
we think it is freakin hilarious and make
him do it over and over!

 Bradley is in the real deal
Boy Scouts since he turned 11, so he
went on his 1st campout without
Dad or Grandpa.
He was filthy when he came home, 
but he survived and I managed
to not have a full on panic attack
with my baby boy out in the woods
without me!  To be honest, I did
feel nauseous with worry
until he came home!  Ridiculous right?!
I'm not liking this growing up thing at all!

My cute cow for Halloween

Escaped Mental Patient ;)

Pretty pretty Princess

War Machine

Miles gets cuter and cuter every day! 

At 4 months he weighs only 13lbs. 12oz.
So he's still pretty small (5.5%)
I'm workin real hard to fatten him up!

Marci is so good with him.
She wants to tote him around everywhere.

I love my sweet Maddox.
He still hugs and kisses and 
loves on me all the time!
I hope he never outgrows it!
I am tempted to keep him home from
school every day so he can stay home
with me.  I miss my little buddy.

I call this Tim's GQ look. Hehe
This is actually him skipping church 
because the baby "needed" to go out.

This boy can sit up by himself now!
The laundry basket 
aka "White trash playpen" keeps
him occupied for awhile! ;)

Miles for some strange reason likes it when we
put fake teeth in his mouth.  He thinks its
fun and we can't stop laughing.  I need
to snap a pic of his Bubba teeth too.

Mandy and I hosted our 
annual Bunko Christmas Party.
We went overboard and over budget as usual, 
but it was all in good fun!
Staying up til 4am hit me hard the 
next day though!

Almost the whole group... I need to 
remember to take pics at the beginning 
when everyone is still there!

Me & Teresa

Mandy * Susannah * Me

Me and Cassey

5 months old

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Christmas Card 2011

This is our Christmas card this year....
just in case I run out and you don't get one. ;)
Know that we love each of you and are 
blessed to have you in our lives!
Merry Christmas!










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