Merry Christmas 2011

I have written a cute Christmas post several times here just to have it somehow dissapear so......here are some Christmas pictures.

Program:

Program singing:


And it is always more fun to have a baby on Christmas! Jeter had so much fun!





We always let the kids open their gifts to each other on Christmas eve. It takes some of the edge off of the anticipation and they can appreciate each others gifts more and the spirit of giving when the gifts arent swallowed up in the Christmas morning chaos.


And the elves brought jammies! They are so sneaky!


Christmas day was great too, we don't have tons of pictures, I was too tired to even remind Mark to take any. We have a few from early in the morning, but then I was busy in the kitchen and crashed out on the couch by 8! My sweet boys covered me up with my luxurious new blanket. My mom and dad came down, but Brianna and Killian were super sick and stayed home. Emily ended up sick Christmas night, and Sadie is totally sick today. I hope it skips me! Christmas is SO fun, but so much work. I try to do as much as possible as early as possible, but I always end up exhausted. Here are a few from Christmas morning

Grandma got Morphsuits for Wyatt and Dayton.....so wierd, but so cool LOL



Cooper came down for Christmas morning all ready for church since we had an 8 am meeting. Always such an early bird!

We saw what Santa brought, looked at stockings, then got ready for church. When we got home it was presents and egg casserole breakfast, then a Christmas story movie and waiting for Grandma and grandpas to come so we could have curry and ham and pie. Pretty much perfect!

Now on to a very exciting and adventurous 2012!!

This is Halloween....this is halloween

How cute are these little goblins? Cooper in the alien Morphsuit, Dayton is Thor, Wyatt is the Green Lantern, and Ava is a Monster High girl. Cade ended up being the same as last year, an army mercenary, and Sadie was a guy, but she was babyitting until after 6 and we already did pics. I sense the trick or treating Spazzy excitement of dressing up is dwindling. Sad. Dayton said that it wasn't quite as fun this year. In fact, I think this is the last year of buying costumes, we have amassed enough stuff that they can make whatever from now on. It was fun though, Mark was out of town but I got the house looking really cute and creepy and then sat out in the driveway with the neighbors and the firepit and roasted hot dogs and handed out candy. I was loving Halloween Pandora playing too. The weather was perfect and we had lots of spooky trick or treaters. I wish I could have taken good night pictures of the house because it was so cute but I took these the next morning.....

Wyatts is the puking pumpkin. And FYI it is hard to get dried pumpkin slime off of concrete. Nobody else wanted to carve pumpkins except Dayton so we only did two, but I was able to keep the others for Thanksgiving and they look pretty :D

And now it is time for my all time favorite time of the year, I'm doing 2 boutiques and making 2 custom cakes and popcorn for the season. I'll be getting REALLY crafty and sew-y and bake-y for the next 2 weeks to say the least. It will be fun! Then, we are having a Lamb Thanksgiving with our amazing Missourri peeps this year, which just really thrills me! I really CAN. NOT. WAIT.

Some Crafty Stuff :D

I haven't been blogging much, but I have been busy creating fun things for my house (and other peoples :) My friend Katy and I made book wreaths, which are SO stunning in person

I rolled my pages and inked the edges, Katy loosely accordion folded hers like ruffles and lightly inked the whole thing. They turned out different but both really cute.


I have had this bench FOR-EV-ER and gave it a facelift for my front porch

My Friend Rachelle made me this custom frame for my new family picture. LOVE it! Can't wait to get it hung up and my piano painted. Yep, thats right!

Burlap runner I made for my moms Thanksgiving Table....

Burlap wreath: made 3 of these (in slightly different versions ) for my sisters and mom. Hope I get to mine soon! :D
Along with all of this I have repainted my whole downstairs in what I have termed a "buttery tan" and got rid of all the red and khaki walls, which has just changed the whole look of my house. I love it. I have so much fun with makeovers!!

September to Remember

Today was my birthday! It was seriously the best birthday I have had in a really long time. I feel better in general than I have in a long time, I guess that has something to do with it, huh? Mark gave me lots of hugs all day and the kids mostly cleaned up the house. Most of my sweet family came all the way from Thatcher and Globe to celebrate with me and my neice who is turning 9 on Monday. We went to Coopers football game and then came back to the house. We ordered Greek food and I made this cake:

I was showered with presents from everyone and it was SO fun! Cute things for my house and a gift card to Home Depot from Mark so I can paint downstairs. Makeup, jewlery, cute Halloween decorations, AHH just so fun! Then we chilled and did what we love to do the rest of the day...eat, play Settlers, make holiday plans and chit chat. PERFECT. The guys watched college football and the Dbacks game and we all played with the babies. Yep. Pretty much perfect.

I have some great craft and sewing plans in the works, SO exciting. Right now, though I am exhausted and I still have to go pick up Cade and his friends from the dance. And we need more pitas for the rest of the delicious hummus for Sunday football snacking!! :D