Note To Self...

Note To Self:

#1 Remember that when you put up 13 trees in your house for Christmas, you'll have to pack up that many afterwards... and you'll have less than a tenth of the energy that you had prior to the holidays actually starting!

#2 The same boys that are letting you sleep in until noon every day (because they're enjoying WAY too many hours of video games than any "good mom" should allow)... those same boys are going to have a REALLY hard time going back to NO video games on school days...

#3 The holiday pounds that you put on this year... will be MUCH harder to get off.

# 4 Christmas really is your favorite holiday...

Happy Birthday Dad

To the world's best daddy!

I hope you have a very special day today... because you always make sure all of us have fantastic birthdays. We love you lots pops!

Never A Dull Moment...

Colton... always wins...
No matter what it takes...

The night before last... they were racing to see who was going to get to sleep with me until daddy got home...

Colton hit the night stand by the bed... and yes, he got to stay in bed with me... with an ice-pack.

(Can I just say... I love that my boys still love to cuddle with me... even if it is only at night... and it's really just a ploy not to have to go to bed on time)

To get ready for Thanksgiving... we gave the boys a new game to keep them busy!

Then we went in the kitchen and made a huge mess...


But it was worth it... talk about a lot of YUMMY food.

Here is the "Real" cook! My mama is T.H.E. BEST

(Notice the difference in my blender and hers... *grin

Look at all these happy... full folks.

Even pop was getting his hands dirty to help...

I loved Kyle's cookies...

The decorations were great too!
This is how some of them get ready for seconds...

and this is how some of us try to keep the pies off of the thighs!