I remember when...

I remember very clearly when my little brothers were in cub scouts and they would pin things on my mom when they earned certain awards.  Now I am that mom...seriously, how did that happen?  Owen is LOVING cub scouts.  I am just thrilled that he is involved  in something that promotes creativity, respect AND keeps his mind engaged.

Jesus Rocks!

Today Kate and Gracie were "princess dancing" to the song "Jingle Bell Rock" as a stuffed snowman toy sang it over and over again (my grandma sent this holiday treasure a few years ago for the kids and they LOVE it--never gets old, according to them!).  After the 250th time of hearing the song Kate asks me, "Why does it say 'Jingle Bell Rock'?"  To which I give her a tired mother's reply, "I don't know.  Why do you think it says that?"  She then says, "I think it's because Christmas is about Jesus and JESUS ROCKS!"  Away she danced and I was suddenly filled with a little more joy. Maybe she does realize Christmas is about Jesus and not really about Santa after all. 

Funny Quotes...

Recently Davis was bugging Kate about something and Kate yells at him, " It's not your wax Davis!"  It took me a while to figure out that she meant to say, "none of your bees wax." :)

My family will like this one...This past summer we took the kids to Pinecrest Lake down in CA.  This is a place I grew up going to in the summer time.  Well, Davis loved it there and talks about "Pie Crust Lake" constantly.  :)

I love kids.

The Bear Hotel

The Christmas Season is in full swing for our family, the tree is decorated (with clumps of ornaments in all the areas the kids could reach--I love it that way), the music is playing, cookies are being eaten and yesterday we visited Santa at the Bear Hotel.  I love December!

Notice Something Missing????

During the Thanksgiving break my sister and I spent part of a day Christmas shopping together (yay for sisters!).  When I got home there was lots of leaf raking going on and this is how I found Davis.  Notice anything missing?  He looks so cute with his first lost tooth!  He could hardly wait to see what the tooth fairy would bring.  Is he really old enough to be losing teeth?!?!?

Give Thanks

 My Sister, her family and my parents were all able to come for the whole week of Thanksgiving!  What fun we had.  We were...

"singing and dancing in the rain"....

 listening on Papa's ham radio...

 eating the Dads' pies...YUM!...

 reading the paper....

 exhausted at night...

 walking around down town....

 playing on our cousins' Wii...

 learning to sew yo-yos for headbands...

 doing projects with chocolate...

baking with Hunter...having teeth problems remedied...shooting paintballs...raking leaves...playing games...date night for the Moms and Dads....movie night with Nana and Papa...Christmas shopping and of course, eating and being thankful.  I love family.  Thank you for making the trek to come be with us.  It was a wonderful week.

Davis turned SIX!

 I can hardly believe it, but my "little man" turned SIX last month. Of course, we had to celebrate Star Wars Style...

This pinata started as a soccer ball, but with a little help from my Jedi's we transformed it into the Death Star.

The morning of Davis' birthday Kate woke up throwing up.  Luckily, he still had a few friends willing to come help him celebrate and he hardly noticed that the day didn't go as I had envisioned.