SNOW!

SNOW........









































































Mr Liam stayed nice and cozy...

























HOT CHOCOLATE!!!!!!!!!















































































My little princess was SO blessed by the snow yesterday!
She has been counting down the days...
We told her that the trees had to loose their leaves..
Then it would get cold...
Then it would snow!

Yesterday all she could say was "See mom I told you it was going to snow!"
Thank you Lord for more smooches...........

1st Thanksgiving and more

Liam celebrated his first thanksgiving....
He celebrated in style....
His momma loved his shirt!!!

My little man is now four months old...
Man its going way to fast...

Thursday evening we enjoyed food at my mom and dads..
It was the beginning of the celebrating, we kept on going through the weekend,
bc we had some fun family in....
I enjoy SO MUCH watching my kids play with their cousins.


















































I made this honey bun cake....
It was awesome!!!
Not because I made it but bc it was good!
(if you need something sweet let me know)


















Friday evening we celebrated with my moms side...
This is always our Thanksgiving/Christmas because of Grandma Zetta going to Florida.
I did not see my older two the whole night!
They had a blast.....

Ella with her new favorite... Reghan

























Gabe opening his present from grandma Zetta
with all of his buddies...

























Ella with little Ava....


















A whole bunch of cousins....
Some were missing and they were missed!

















Gabe and Ella got to stay at my mom and dads Saturday evening so they could
play as long as possible with Micah and Peyton.
All four were out as soon as they hit the pillow...
They had some good play time....



Saying goodbye is never fun...
This momma always dreads Sunday mornings...
(no tears were shed this time bc my mom and dad had promised a trip to wal mart.... tee hee)























We had an amazing time with family...
Very Thankful for them all....



Speaking of being thankful...
I am very thankful for my father in law....
He lit a fire under my hubs butt and things have been getting fixed around here...
Can you tell he had really good help????

all by myself...

Last Wednesday evening, daddy took Gabe to the big ball game.
So mommy and Ella decided they were going to have a girls trip to wal-mart...
Nanna came to hold Liam while us girls headed to find girly things...

Ella wore her princess outfit..
She was squealing like a girly girl does, getting in the cart and out of the cart, enjoying throwing things in the cart with me, and saying "mom this is so fun"!

I had to pick up a few groceries and Ella added her items too...
which consisted of brownies, icing with sprinkles to go on the brownies, chocolate milk, purple fingernail polish, and bracelets.
She is a girl through and through... chocolate and girl things! I love it!

We had a blast and it once again reminded me that I need to do it more often with her!

When we got home I painted Ellas fingernails...
then got to making the brownies...
while Ella impatiently waited she asked if she could paint her toes "all by herself"...
I hesitated and then thought oh let her do it!

So we put down a towel and she went to town!



























The final results of the fingers...
The polish came with nail stickers and she thought that was pretty awesome!

















Working hard on the toes...










































LOVE that smile!

























Silly girl...


























The final results of those beautiful toes!

















Good job sister!
Mommy had a blast with you....
Can't wait for more times with just you and me.

the box....

Hubs brought home this box....
Its now a house....
Yes hubs did sit in the box like this and watch some tom and jerry..
Did hubs enjoy it???
Yes, even though it does not look like it!
Did hubs back hurt when he got out???
Yes, getting old.
Is hubs a GREAT daddy???
Yes

Gabes first school program...

Last Tuesday, my preschool man had a Thanksgiving program.
It was so much fun to watch all these littles get up and sing songs that they had learned.
I was one proud momma!!!

What a cute little Indian....

I wanted to share a story that is made of some smooches from the big man upstairs....
So we watched Gabe sing, and then there was a full spread Thanksgiving meal for the parents/grandparents to share with their little performers....

We enjoyed our company...
We eat...
We head home...

When we got home we were looking at Gabe's Indian attire...
His Indian name was "roaring lion"...

Now this is just awesome....
for anyone who knows my husband, he is a big cat freak!
Anything with big cats makes him go hog wild.....
Some may say it was happen stance that Gabe was givin the name "roaring lion" but I say it was smooches from our Jesus....
He was excited to see the smile on Andre's face when he read "roaring lion" on Gabes Indian outfit!
Our God is so GOOD... he loves the details!

Here are some pics of my main squeeze at his first performance!

Its beginning....

..... to look a lot like Christmas!!!!

Last Friday evening we had no plans so we decided to tackle the Christmas Decor...
The kids enjoyed the trees and the music....
When there trees were done they were done too!!!
So poor momma was left with the rest.... no worries though bc poor momma LOVES it!






























































































































After doing as much as we could it was time for pjs...
Andre and I decided, last year, to make it tradition that we slept under our tree after getting it decorated....
As you can see in these pics... there were no decorations.... BUT we still had a campout!
The kids had a blast!!!!


























Stories by Christmas light...


































































Saturday morning we woke up to watch some cartoons....
And then.....


















some stories........
and then.......



















time for wrestling......























































Happy Holidays here we come!!!!!

cardboard airplanes....

One day last week we put our brains to the test....
This momma was looking for something creative....
Glad to know that these $20 boxes (that came with diapers) were worth the money...
We put them to "double"use!

We turned them into airplanes...
They decorated them...
And then off to Florida they went!

Loved watching them talk about Florida and how they were going to get there....

The airplanes stayed for a few days and then momma had to throw them bc there was no place for them.... glad we will be getting more boxes again one day!

Some how I missed pics of the airplanes in their final stages...

Enjoy what I did capture...


























































































































This little guy was in on all the action!!!!