How a 6 month old enjoys christmas gifts

Maybe someday she'll enjoy it!

PS. That's Halli's hand in the background, always being a great big sis trying to help Lexie feel better.

Christmas Eve

Christmas eve was such a relaxing day, we were able to just hang out with our girls and enjoy their company! It didn't really seem like Christmas Eve until later that night, but it was so nice to be able to enjou a day out with the whole family, just playing and having fun

Kevin and all his girls, Halli & Peyton were amazed by this tree and the HUGE star on top!

Me and Kevin by the gigantic tree!

What a beautiful face! This is the look she gave me when I told her to smile, That's what she gets, now it's recorded forever!

Peyton just being sweet as we were walking around market street in the woodlands

I absolutely LOVE her eyes in this picture! She was also making a high pitched sing-song noise at me too! What a happy little girl!

all of them on the carousel. I love this picture, they just look SO happy! Love those smiles!

Later that night we headed over to the inlaws for pizza and singing carols with all the extended family. It was fun and the girls enjoyed it, but they always enjoy being at grandmas! Peyton spend a large portion of the evening pretending to be a dog.

Here are the boys and Halli singing! They sounded great too!

The whole gang, and this isn't even everyone either! It was a large party!

This was just cause the girls looked so cute in their matching outfits!

Christmas Cards

I'm a little later this year than normal at getting our christmas cards done, but I did it, thank goodness! Now I just need to get them all in the mail, almost there. But here's a sneak peek so you don't have to wait!

We have a wide screen for our computer, and when I lengthened our photo, it still looked totally normal, till I printed them. This works out for me though, cause while the rest of the family looks a little long in the face, I look skinny! yeah for me!

I didn't print a back to our cards this year, maybe next, but here's what could have been. Maybe I'll send it out as a letter anyway, we'll see! Merry Christmas!

Sew, Sew, Sew!

We had our family pictures taken the other day, and after looking for Christmas dresses all over, I didn't really find any I liked, so I decided that I would sew THREE dresses! Seriously, what was I thinking? The most I had ever done was skirts for myself, and I think I can sew three dresses, with the girls running around? Well, Kevin didn't see much of me at night for a couple weeks, but believe it or not, I did it! Bonus, I really like the dresses! So, Here are some beautiful pictures taken by the talented Ginger that show of not only the beautiful dresses, but the beautiful girls that get to wear them!

Lexie's dress took me the longest by far. Only because when I thought I had it done, I went to try it on her, and it didn't even fit over her head! This was the day before the pictures, and I had no extra fabric, talk about panic! Somehow I managed to add extra room around the edges and cut some in the back, I'm amazed it worked, but she looked beautiful!

I love them, but you can bet I won't be sewing any more dresses for quite awhile!

What in the world?

Look what I found coming down the stairs yesterday! Isn't she beautiful?

And just what could this lovely blue stuff be? Food coloring you guess? you'd be wrong! I guess those stamps are too delicious to resist! Brooklyn was over and kept saying Peyton had stamps on her, I thought she just meant that peyton had used stamps on herself, nope, that's not what she meant.

Snow Day!

Okay, so it wasn't really a snow DAY, more like a snow hour, but hey, we'll take what we can get! I had just sat down to nurse Lexie, and Halli was just getting home from school and I hear Kevin say that it's snowing! Of course I thought he was lying, only to look out the window and see snowflakes! Halli & Brooklyn were running around in it, and Peyton ventured outside but was a little too cold. I gotta say, that's the last thing I thought I'd see yesterday! It didn't stick, but we enjoyed the freezing cold and the falling snow for the short time that we could!

Trying to catch snowflakes with her tongue...why is that what we automatically do? so cute!

Blake called to tell us it was snowing, so we had him run on down to play in it with Halli.

Just in case you didn't believe me...look! It fell kinda hard for a little while.

Peyton didn't love it outside, just too cold for her, but you can sorta see the snowflakes in her hair. The downfall to being blonde, it doesn't really stick out.

We bundled up Lexie and took her outside. After living in durango we have no shortage of winter clothes for babies, just for the older girls.

after it was all said and done, there was no other way to end it than with a big ol' mug of hot cocoa!

8 things tag

Rules:Post rules on your blog. Answer the six "8" items.

8 things I did yesterday:
*took Halli to school
*went grocery shopping
*wrapped presents
*made dinner
*Nursed
*did laundry
*went to BJ's for a girls night out
*played on the computer

8 things I look forward to:
*fitting into my old jeans
*having energy (will that ever happen?)
*christmas
*bedtime
*Kevin coming home every night
*Britt & Brett moving down
*Christmas break, no school for Halli
*naptime

8 restaurants I like:
*Macaroni Grill
*Red Robin
*Logans Roadhouse
*Cafe Rio
*Rodizios
*Mama's boy (in durango)
*Pappasitos
*Chilis

8 things on my wishlist
*new bedding
*furniture for the playroom
*telephoto lens for camera
*apple notebook
*time to workout
*my dream home
*a son
*a trip to bora bora with Kevin

8 Favorite TV shows:
*Prison Break
*Eli Stone
*How I met your mother
*Las Vegas, it was cancelled though, bummer!
*Grey's anatomy
*Desperate Housewives
*Priviliged
*One tree hill

8 People I tag: (you're it!)
*Stacy
*Jamie
*Allie
*Kristen
*Jenina
*Jessica
*Mindy
*Aubree

Tagnabbit

*i am a wife & mother.
*i want too many things, mostly to be able to really decorate my house!
*i have amazing daughters
*i miss sleeping in
*i fear losing anyone in my family
*i hear the sound machine on the monitor, ahh nice!
*i search the internet for christmas gifts
*i wonder what the girls will be like when they're older
*i regret taking Peyton's pacifier away
*i love Kevin
*i forgive easily
*i ache where I had surgery when I go running
*i always check on the girls before I go to bed
*i try to be a patient mom, but I'm not.
*i am creative
*i seem quieter than I really am if you don't know me.
*i know I'm loved
*i feel the cat purring on me
*i dance with my girls
*i dream of owning a vacation home on a lake
*i give my girls kisses every day
*i listen to screaming, crying & laughing at least 5 times a day, minimum.
*i sing in the car, really loud, but not really well!
*i laugh at cheesy things
*i can't Shimmy shake my shoulders (does that make sense?)
*i write pretty poorly, but I'm trying
*i cry in private, I hate when others see me crying
*i sleep whenever I can
*i am Happy
*i see with the use of contacts, sometimes I'm suprised how poor my eyesight really is.
*i need to lose weight, or buy new clothes
*i should get off the computer
*i tag Allie, Jamie, Stacy, Laura

Christmas fun

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Christmas Advent

With Halli being older and REALLY anticipating christmas this year, I decided to put together a little advent. She loves to read stories (or have them read to her, she's getting better at reading, but not quite ready to read full books), so I did a christmas story advent. I spent alot of time in November looking for cute christmas books that were also kinda cheap. I think we only had 2 to start with and needed 22 more, so they couldn't be too pricey. Luckily, I found some good deals, and wrapped all of them, added the date when they were to be read and put them under the tree. So far, the girls love it, and look forward to unwrapping a present every night. It also gives us some fun family time before bed, since normally just one of us reads the story to them in their beds. It's been fun, and is definitely an easy tradition that we'll be doing every year now!

Our Christmas tree with all the "presents" underneath.

The dates on the books

Okay these pictures are of the books, but also the tree skirt, which I made this year! I love it, and I love the colors. It's way fun since I also found some really pretty brown ornaments at sams, I'm totally loving the brown and red together!

Merry Christmas to us!

Kevin and I got ourselves a little early christmas gift this year. After 6.5 years of marriage, we decided it was time to have a real bedroom set. None of this college type bedroom for us anymore! yeah, I am so excited! Now we just need some pretty bedding to go with it, not to mention some pictures on the wall, but one thing at a time, right?

Rice vs Houston

Okay, I don't want to totally skip Thanksgiving, so before I post about the game...We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with Kevin's family at his parents house. Tons of food, tons of kids, and tons of fun as well. It is so funny to see these 7 two year olds and Halli (all girls of course) running around. We put on Tinkerbell after dinner and it was a chorus of screams, they were so excited. I of course forgot my camera, cause I always do, but it was a great day, and we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.


Friday was spent putting up christmas, we got alot done, but not quite all of it. oh, and eating TONS of leftovers, gotta love leftover turkey!


Saturday was spent putting up more decorations in the morning, and then that afternoon we headed down to Rice for the Rice/Houston football game. We met up with the Monsons, the Kirkhams and their parents. It was a little chilly, but the kids did pretty well. Kevin had been dying to go to a game, so when they asked if we wanted to join them, it was a no brainer, I didn't have a choice. :) We all watched the game intently and I know the girls followed everything! Really I was watching the kiddos the whole time and trying to take some decent pictures, and Kevin was corraling kids and trying to pay attention to what was going on in the game, but it ended up being tons of fun and the girls loved playing with their buddies.

The scoreboard, It was fun to see a college game again, it's been awhile!

The field and all the Houson fans, I think they beat Rice in the cheering department, but that's alright, Rice won the game!

Halli and Sydney being cheerleaders!



Lexie looking cute, she did really well. I just tried to keep her warm the whole time, it was windy!

Braden looking cute. He's playing with Kevin here.

Peyton did great, luckily we had her princess dolls and she was set. She just played with them the whole game and was more than happy to do just that.

The whole fam! We had a great afternoon.

The best part was that after the game Kevin suggested we head to the galleria to watch the ice skaters and see the huge christmas tree, so since we were headed that way, we went to the cheesecake factory for dinner and had the Monsons join us. It was so fun! The kids loved watching the ice skaters and Halli and Blake really want to go now, guess we'll have to squeeze that in sometime this month. We also went into Dylans Candystore while we were there. They have so much fun stuff there, although next time we won't be taking the kids.

On a side note, we're doing pretty well without our pacifiers. Peyton didn't even ask for it last night, so hopefully we're almost through with her needing it. It has been tough with her, so if you have a two year old with paci, wait to take it away, it's been a long week!

I'm sure alot of moms have pictures of their kids like this, but this NEVER happens in our house. Normally Lexie has to be swaddled with a pacifier. But I was letting her watch baby einstien and came in the room, and she was like this! Yeah for no pacis! Makes it kinda hard when we're out, she's not great at soothing herself yet, but she'll get there!

As far as potty training, she went poop on the toilet yesterday morning, I didn't see it, but Halli says she did! Oh, she also pooped on our swingset, so it's not going great yet, but she's SLOWLY catching on.