Catch Up Time

It has been a long time since I last posted - sorry! I'm attempting to do a little catch up with December. Below is a random assortment of pictures from Christmas. Enjoy.

Ryan was a sheep at his pre-school program. I don't know if I've seen a cuter sheep! He loved singing his songs before the program - but was a little shy at the concert. Oh well...he's only 3, right! The video is so cute of them singing.
Ryan wanted me to take a picture of him with his hat and special snowflake shirt from school. He is also showing off a favorite ornament on the tree. He loves for me to take his picture -

Oh, if we could take a nap like that every day! Don't you just want to be 2 or 3 again and have a mandatory nap time?

MiMi and Poppy (Jeremy's parents) with the boys

We were at home for Christmas Day and had some friends over. Here the boys are with some of their best friends, Camryn and Kendall.

"Happy Birthday Jesus!"

Nana and Papa (Deborah's parents) with all their grand kids.

Jeremy, Ryan and my nieces. My parents live in the woods in East Texas and we love to spend lots of time in those woods. Hurricane Ike provided lots of trees for the kids to climb on.

Austin and the girls at his table - hmmm. Is he already a ladies man?

Jackson is doing some crafts at his Christmas Party, or should I say "holiday party"? But that is a whole other issue...urgh! He just had to use the glitter glue - which ended up on at least 5 other items before it dried. I just really don't like that glitter glue! Who invented that anyway?

The family pictures...2008

Austin-8, Jackson-6 1/2, Ryan - 3 1/2

Hope you all had a blessed Christmas!

Laser Tag Birthday

Austin turned 8! This year Austin got to choose 2 friends to take to Main Event to play Laser Tag. We had to keep this a secret for several days so the boys wouldn't talk about it at school and upset other boys...but when Austin came home from school on Friday and found out that we going that night - it was great to see the excitement - the kind of excitement that makes you glad to be a mom :-). We picked up T and S and headed out on our first boy trip. Jeremy and I want to be the house and the parents that the boys want to hang out with - and this was our first big attempt at being "cool parents". We had a car full of boys - 5 plus Jeremy - and it was so loud. I had to keep reminding myself that it was going to be OK. All sorts of noises were being made and all kinds of silly talk that usually drives me CRAZY! But we made it! We ate some almost decent pizza at Main Event and then went to play Laser Tag. Jeremy and the boys (minus Ryan) played. They ended up being the only ones in the course and had a great time. It was the boys against Jeremy -and I still think Jeremy won. After they finished we coerced them out of Main Event by suggesting we go get ice-cream. So off we went to get some cheap ice-cream at McDonald's and they played on the play gym for another 30 minutes or so before we headed home - Austin had a great time and it was so cute to have one of his friends give us big hugs and thank us many times for taking him.

Christmas Pictures

11 Pipers Piping

Coming home from our night out at Main Event, we drove through our neighborhood looking at Christmas lights and found a street with lots of lights. One of the streets did the "12 days of Christmas". Most of the houses followed tradition, but this one didn't. It took me a second to get the display, but once we got it, we had to take a pictures. So hats off to the creators of the plumbers working on the pipes! One even has a butterfly tattoo...

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