And The Stockings Were Hung

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving hanging out with probably about 100 family members. Yes a little crazy, but yummy food and great company. There are a million things I am thankful for but most of all for my healthy family.

It was nice to have Dave home for 4 days. He cleaned out the garage, we got a lot done, and best of all we got all our Christmas decorations done.

My 2 little Santa's helpers

HUGS

We had Christmas music blasting as we were decorating the tree and the girls were rockin away, just dancing everywhere.

Concentrating really hard on trying to figure out how the heck ornaments are hung on a tree.

"this is really hard mom"

"I think I'll just play with my mouse instead"

The finished product.. ta da



Decorations done time for milk, and cookies and watching rudolph. What a great night.

Go Preschool

Nothing too exciting has been happening around here. I'm almost 13 weeks prego and still feeling great, probably cause I'm eating so dang much. Like one night I ate like 10 mini chocolate donuts with a big glass of chocolate milk (and I like to think it's somehow ok cause I'm pregnant) Then last night I was CRAVING deviled eggs, so I made a whole plate of them (the first time I've ever made deviled eggs in my life!). I think Dave ate 2 and I ate the rest. Oh they were so good, I want some more! I think I'm gaining weight a little too fast... oh boy. Dec. 14th is the date I find out what it is!!

Ty had a really fun preschool yesterday learning about Thanksgiving. Thanks Jess!

Here's her cute little group of preschool buddies being Indians.

Look at that adorable turkey cookie she made. She brought it home and could not wait to gobble it up!


So... the preschool flag somehow got lost while I was teaching preschool, so I bought some new ones the other day and Ty got one out and said the whole "Pledge Of Allegience" all by herself! I was amazed. I think I helped her with one word and she knew everyother word. I wish I could put video on my blog. It was the cutest thing to watch her "try" and pronounce all those big words like "republic and indivisible". She did it for Dave last night and I've never seen him so impressed and proud. Dave said, "where did she learn that??" yes, she actually is learning things in preschool, go preschool!

Visitors and New Room

Dave's brother, wife and new baby, Vienna came to visit us this weekend. It was so much fun having them here.

Ty got to meet her newest cousin, Vienna, 5 weeks old.

We went to the lake on Sat. Yup, Nov. 7th and we were out on the lake with beautiful weather. The water was a little chilli, but that's what wetsuits are for. Here's Stacey catching some sweet air!

Then we drove up to Sedona that night. They thought AZ was ALL just desert and cactus, so they were amazed to see a different view of AZ. It was beautiful up there. They just left tonight, it was a great little visit from them.

We got Ty and Madix's room all fixed up, even though they still sleep in Mad's old room where she can be in her crib and Ty on the floor. So I didn't get a good before pic. but this is one I took awhile ago of their beds and you can kind of see how the wall were all white and boring.

Here is the finished result. Their beds are impossible to move, so we could only do something with the top half but thought it turned out really cute.

This is a drawing of them we just got done at Sea World. I thought the guy did a pretty good job.

Trick Or Treat

First was Ty's preschool Halloween party.

She really got into character when she was grumpy all morning. I told her "you need to be happy" and in her pirate voice she said "pirates aren't happy".

I know how to get her to smile though.

Madix isn't in preschool but they are still all her best little buddies. She gets along better with some of them than Tyler.

The preschool gang.

Halloween night

My 2 adorable pirates.

Just practicing their sword fighting.

Me and my pirates.

"Trick Or Treat"

Dave trying to figure out what the heck Ty just got. It was a ceramic eggplant????

Madix's trick or treating buddy. She just loves Kiera.

Ty and Morgan

Our nieghbor goes all out. He had this ghost busters car in front of his house!!! Where in the heck do you get a ghost butsters car????
It was a great Halloween, hope you had a great one too!