Thursday, November 27, 2008

thankful


I am extremely thankful this year...
  • for a hard-working and loving husband
  • for 3 beautiful little girlies
  • for a wonderful family - both immediate and extended
  • for a job I love with a great group of kids
  • for good friends
  • for God and his faithfulness
  • and for LOTS more
Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

santa

Here is the "professional" shot of the kids with Santa that I promised you....
See, not much better than the one Chad took, right? Oh well, in a few years I'm sure we will get a nice one of all the kids smiling - sitting happily on Santa's lap.

school pics

We got Presley's pre-school pictures back today...take a look.
:)

She must've been told to say Cheese or something. Quite the grin, huh? Good thing we have some other cute ones from our photo shoot.

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We are working on potty training with Addy right now...we've had quite a bit of successes, but still have a ways to go, I'm afraid. When she decides she wants to, she goes several time successfully, but then other days there's no convincing her.

I overheard Presley talking to Addison tonight about going poo-poo on the potty...

P - "Add, you just sit on the big potty and you push it out like this {making grunting} noises. And then when you are done, just call me and I will come and wipe your bunnit for you."

:)

And Presley brought this little headrest home from pre-school today. We are surely thankful for her too. And what do you know, she is still thankful for Queenie even though she mentions how badly Queenie is peeling apart daily. ;)

Monday, November 24, 2008

super-duper

That's become Presley's new favorite phrase lately... she adds that onto everything. "Mom, I'm super-duper hungry", "That was super-duper fun"...you get the idea.

We are doing super-duper here, but also super-duper busy... and I'm finding it super-duper hard to keep up with this blog. The girls go to bed later now (well Presley and Addison, Reese is in bed by at least 7 every night and most of the time earlier) so I don't have much time at night to sit down on the computer. So, I apologize...

Once again, I guess it's time to play catch-up. We have been busy with gymnastics, pre-school, work, church, laundry, house cleaning, Christmas list making, and also decorating. We now have the house completely decorated for Christmas...at least the inside. I know, I know, we're early. And to be honest we put one tree up last weekend. Oh well. I just feel like we do so much to decorate, I can't stand that it's only for a month or so. And since we are not having Thanksgiving here, I thought, why not? So the trees are up, all 4 of them. The girls have one small one in each of their rooms and then our main one and the one in the basement. Everything is up and decorated on the outside of the house as well, except for the lights on the house. I'm not sure if that will get finished or not this year. It's way to cold and snowy to think about it right now. We'll see. I'm fine with it, if we just get our reindeer and snowman out. Candles are in the window and we've been watching lots of good Christmas movies. Chad and I can't wait to watch one of our favorite all time movies...hopefully this weekend sometime. Love that one...so funny. Now I just need to get around to take some pictures of our decorating work.

Let's see, what else... oh yeah, they finished our roof...all except one vent cover, they still have a little bit of the downspouts to do, and then I think we're done. It looks really good, although you can't tell now because it's covered with snow. :) I rode in my first Hummer limo the other day. Granted it was with 7 kindergartners and it was just to McDonald's, but still it was fun. Looking forward to a nice short week at school and then having some time off. I don't know if we'll get much shopping done, but at least we won't be at work. That I am thankful for. And I will really be thankful if the girls decided to stay in their own beds and sleep in until at least 7 one of these days that I'm off this weekend. :)

And just because I realized that I had a few more shots from our photo-shoot awhile ago that I never posted...here are more. Funny how most of them are of Addy...the one who wanted NOTHING to do with pictures. Maybe it's because she made Jenny work so hard to get them. Love that little girlie...

Saturday, November 15, 2008

non-scheduled visit

We took a kind of last minute trip to the mall tonight to pick up Reese one of these. Presley, Addison and cousin Gabi were all nice enough to help Reese out stuffing her moose. Here is the joyous meeting between Reese and Holly the moose. You can see how happy was Reese was to meet her new friend. ;)
After getting her moose, we decided to run and pick up something to eat in the food court. After dinner the girls rode the carousel.
On our way to Build-a-Bear we walked right by Santa's spot and saw that he had dropped by the mall early. Santa wasn't there are the time (he was on lunch break) but we were told he would be back later. We thought we might as well stop and visit him on our way out because it wasn't busy at all and it would save us making another trip out there later with the girls. Presley was excited to see Santa and couldn't wait to tell him a few of the things on her list... Reese just wanted to look at his beard and Addy really didn't want anything to do with him. I tried to bribe her with candy, but nothing worked. Oh well, we tried. :)
Reese liked Santa...and it looked like Santa likes Reese too. These are pictures Chad took with our camera....I still need to scan the "professional" one. Unfortunately it's not much better. I told Chad we probably have at least 3 more years or so of this before all the kids will be ok with Santa. ;)

Friday, November 14, 2008

first award...proud momma

Presley came home with her 1st award from school on Thursday. So proud of her for learning her phone number. She is even trying to teach Addy now. :) I hear them when they are laying in bed supposedly napping, and Presley is saying, "Addison say this...." and it's our phone number. I told her she was a big girl because there are still quite a few of my kindergarten kids who still don't know their phone numbers. Now we are working on our address.

Sunday, November 09, 2008

fall pics

I'm so thankful to have such a great connection to a photographer who is willing to be so patient with my little, AddyPaddy. 2 is definitely not the age to want to sit and smile at the camera. :) We picked up our cd of pictures from our fun day at the park a couple of weeks ago. Here are a couple that I'm especially loving... I'll share more later. Now I'm just trying to debate if we should pick one of these for Christmas cards this year or maybe try again later... hmm... Thanks again, Jen. We love them.



Let's see what have we been up to...

  • basketball practices for Chad some before school (6 AM) some after (3 PM) and some at night (5:30 PM)
  • gymnastics for Presley and Addison on Tuesdays
  • visit from Nana and Papa this weekend
  • Hacienda lunch with Aunts and cousins
  • naps by the fireplace
  • chili dinner at AJenny's
  • princess and pony time with Raegan and Reilly
  • two different movie nights - TinkerBell & Barbie - A Christmas Carol
  • lunch at Applebee's after church with whole family before Nana and Papa went back home
  • looking through toy magazines trying to narrow down Christmas lists :)

and... oh yeah, LOTS of banging going on at home. They started replacing our roof today. Not a quiet job. The girls kept looking out the window, noticing the mess on the lawn and wondering why the "boys" were being so naughty - being loud and making messes. They thought they should quiet down so they could hear their show. :)

Monday, November 03, 2008

It pays to go to church.... :)

The littlest trick-or-treater who didn't even wear a costume ended up winning a $50 gift card to Chuck E. Cheese! :) Remember how I mentioned that the girls voted for their favorite decorated trunk while trick-or-treating...anyways, they drew 1 name out of those that voted and gave away the gift card, and the winner was Reese! We got a call yesterday congratulating her. The one who can't even eat pizza yet. I'm sure her sisters will appreciate her willingness to share her gift with them. Thanks Reese.