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