Thursday, December 8, 2011

Black Friday 2011

I'm very blessed to be married to a man who likes to shop....especially when shopping involves a challenge.  Chris and I are hardcord Black Friday shoppers.  We started our Black Friday tour at our local WalMart for the 10 pm sale.  After we survived that we came home and slept a few hours and then went to Shreveport to continue shopping and finally drove on to Dallas to shop some more and stay overnight.  We had such a great time and have such great stories to tell of our experience!

Below are a few pictures of the mania at WalMart:



We emerged successful 2 1/2 hrs later after an interesting experience that involved Chris sprinting across the crowded store in a race against 100 other crazed shoppers.  The things we do for our children!

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

The boys...an update

It's  been awhile since I've updated on both boys and what they're up to these days. 

Starting with the random.  I'm hoping someone in blogland can tell me what's wrong with my Aiden.  For more than a month now he's had this situation going on with his cheeks.  They have red bumps on them that are very red at times and other times just bumps.  They never go away though.  It doesn't seem to bother him but it's kind of strange.  He goes for a well baby visit in a couple of weeks and I intend to ask the doctor then but I was just hoping someone had a similar experience and could give me some insight before then.

 Moving on....Owen is majorly into drawing these days and will just sit and draw in a notebook for a long time.  I just love looking at all of his pictures.

This one is a dragon
 I believe this was an ant....or a donkey!?!  He continues to write the "N" backwards in his name just for kicks.  When he writes other words he always does it the correct way.  He's just quirky like that.
 Owen with two of his favorite people in the universe....his beloved Miss Brooke and his BFF Landon.
 Owen wrote a letter to Santa the other day.  All he wants is a sailboat and he seems to think Aiden needs a game.  He's very excited to go mail his letter on Friday.
 a lion and a tiger
 Aiden is very into coloring and especially loves to color in his Mickey Mouse coloring book.
 We had another Pinterest weekend last weekend and had the best time making different things.  We made the cinnamon Christmas ornaments but they didn't turn out so great.  Notice the hole in Owen's jeans.  Every pair of jeans the child owns have holes in the knees....life with boys!
 Our Pinterest koolaid popcorn...so good and so addictive!
 Our Pinterest Santa pancakes...a big hit!
 Someone ate every bite!
 Owen made a Santa with stickers on the table all by himself.  Look closely and you'll be able to see it.  I was very impressed.
 We went to a fun birthday party at an indoor pool over the weekend.  The kids had a great time and the place was really cool.

 My little swimmer boys.  Owen is still swimming so well after being on swim team last summer.  We're already looking forward to next season.  Aiden did really well too and was just swimming like a little fish around the steps.

 They got really cute treat bags that had make your own ornament kits in them.  So they went to work as soon as we got home.

 I had to throw in one last shot of Owen in the lazy river.  This place was too cool with two olympic sized pools and a lazy river in the middle.  They had two great water slides but the kids were too small to go on those.
All in all a fun but busy weekend!

Thanksgiving 2011

I'm just a little behind on the updates.  We had a great Thanksgiving with the family.  Everyone came to our house and we had food spread out on every surface.


food as far as the eye can see!


 the dessert table


 We had a lighter crowd than usual but everyone visited and had a great time!



 Owen got his hands on my phone and wanted to take pictures of everyone.  The rest of these pictures are from him...not bad if you ask me!
 Missy and Josh
 Grandpa
 Baby Keira
 Zach

Nan


We ate lots of food and enjoyed good fellowship!  Thanksgiving was the start of a very busy weekend for us.  More updates to come!

Thursday, November 24, 2011

The Latest

While I was rounding up pajamas these two jokers dumped an entire bottle of shampoo in the bathtub and had quite the bubble bath!

 I had lunch with Owen at his Thanksgiving feast at school last week and this is his "nut" pose.  He loves that song "I'm a Nut" and he keeps doing this every time I try to take his picture!
 Owen is majorly into drawing these days and every week he gets better and better.  These are donkeys.
 Every year Owen's school has a turkey decorating contest.  This year Owen wanted to make an Optimus Prime turkey and he won a prize.  He was so proud!
 Owen's going to be in the Beginner Choir Christmas program in a few weeks and is excited to be a sheep.  He wanted me to take his picture when he tried his costume on. 
 Finally, a picture of Aiden!  He just doesn't demand that I take his picture all the time like Owen does!
 We babysat our cousin Keira over the weekend and the boys cracked me up trying to get her to play with them.
We're looking forward to lots of family time and lots of good food this week!  I'm sure I'll have plenty of updates after our fun weekend.

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

My Pinterest addiction

I'm here to confess that I'm a Pinterest addict with nearly 2000 pins and 17 boards.  I need an intervention!  Here's my latest Pinterest work. 


I made 50 of these turkeys for the boys Thanksgiving feasts at their schools.  I don't want to see a piece of candy corn for a long time!  {This was the first one I did so it looks a little sad but they did get better!}

Cayenne rubbed chicken with avocado salsa....it was delicious!

We had a Pinterest food weekend this past weekend and ate some great food!  If you're an addict like me, you have to pin Paula Deen's banana pudding recipe.  It is heaven!

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

A few random updates

Aiden has shown some interest in using the potty so we have started casually working on potty training.  He is so proud to wear Elmo underwear and has actually done pretty well so far.  His fat little legs just make me laugh in this picture!


One day Owen was at the table coloring and I was off putting some clothes away.  When I came back I found that he had discovered where we hid the Halloween candy and had laid out quite the spread for himself!

Monday, November 21, 2011

Halloween 2011

I'm so far behind on blogging so I'm just now posting our Halloween picture.  The boys went as Darth Vader and Yoda this year.  A lot of people thought Aiden was Shrek if he wasn't standing next to Owen.  They had a great time going to the church Trunk or Treat and walking around our old neighborhood.  This was the first year Aiden went to the door to get candy and he was all about it if someone else would go with him.  By the end of the night he was laying over on our shoulders with his milk and banks (the infamous security blanket).  All in all, a great night!