We had our family pictures done back in November by Holly, you can read about it here if you want to. Anyways, I'm just now getting around to posting our pictures. Hey it took us 2 years to take them, 2 months is nothing to get them posted.
We fingerpainted
We played in the snow
We had a challenging year but we are so very thankful for all our blessings. It has been fun for me, Dusty and the kids to take a break the last few weeks and get recharged. I am not terribly excited to get back into the daily grind but it is inevitable. I promise to get Christmas pictures up soon. I seriously thought about it a few times during the break but then decided to go play or cuddle in the chair with my kids and enjoy the time off.
Dusty wanted to take the kids to Santaland this year so I agreed just happy that he wanted to go and take them. Mom and Dixie went along to and we made some great memories. Only Baylor screamed when we sat her on Santa's lap but I didn't expect anything more and I think these pictures of my kids with Santa will bring back a lot more memories in 30 years than one of them perfectly sitting on his lap and smiling.
It was freezing, I mean seriously.
This picture makes me smile, a lot, I bet your smiling too right now.
And then it got serious, no more smiling was going on. Right here, Brier was looking at Santa's hand and thinking "On second thought, I'm pretty good with my toys I've got right now."
Baylor didn't like Santa at all
but loved Mrs. Claus
and here Baylor was saying "really, are we going to try this again"
Waiting in line to see Santa
Santa delivered our very own Elf on the Shelf the other day. These little guys are fabulous and every house with kids needs one. I kinda thought it was cheezy when I first heard about it but then I saw how my kids acted around one and I'm in love with him now. The concept is that Santa sends this elf every year to watch you and makes sure you are being good and if you are not then he will go back and tell Santa. He moves each night to a different spot in your house to watch you. He's great, other than our elf has forgotten to move a couple of nights.
I don't know why these pictures are so horrible, crazy camera.
That was rescued from certain death and nursed back to health to live a life of torture from a little girl that loved him so much.
I took my friend Holly's family pictures this past weekend and she did our pictures. It was exhausting having 3 kids 3 and under luckily our husbands were there or we might have had CPS called on us. She wrote about it on her blog, check it out here. Holly's blog
By the way, I'm not showing our pictures yet because they will be on our Christmas card and gifts.
Well, I will not be winning Mother of the Year because on the question where they ask "Did your kids have cute Halloween costumes weeks in advance waiting on them." I will have to check NO.
Brier's costume was thrown together with stuff from home and a toy hat from Walmart and I squeezed Baylor into her costume from last year. But after it was all said and done I only spent $7.00 on costume accessories this year so actually I'm pretty happy. So in the spirit of being cheap using what we already have, I thought they were still as cute as could be.
I don't have actual pictures from the festival because I didn't take my camera in. Once again, a mark against me on that award thing but hopefully I can get some from other people soon.
He's our all boy, Daddy loving, amazingly messy, John Deere adoring, people pleasing, ultra sensitive, chocolate craving,brown eyed, mercifully giving, bed hopping, dangerously destructive, absolutely precious first born.
She's our total diva, big hearted, completely dramatic, very talkative, nurturing, terribly sassy, independent, fashion forward, fruit craving, Mommy helping, sorta sneaky, beautifully stunning second born!
