Videos

Once again I can't get videos to upload on this so here are the URL's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7R5glp_mso - This was Christmas day and my In-Law's house. They had a ton of good food and had dancing in their barn!. It was great!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Msh--VfUIiA -This was part of our Nativity scene. It was pretty funny!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2oJUcMdDdU - I love this one!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXBGafu9UVo - This was Christmas morning (obviously)

Christmas Fun!

Christmas Eve

We read the Christmas story from the bible and had the kids do a Nativity scene. Carly and Adam were Mary and Joseph. (Chad was the donkey)

Jesus Supper

It's a tradition in Daniel and Alycia's family to have a Jesus Supper on Christmas eve. They make foods that Jesus would have eaten and they eat on the floor by candlelight. It was pretty yummy.

Christmas Morning

Uncle Bobby and Sam

Carly loved Uncle Ron and Cheri's bird. Yes, she tried to poke at the eyes.

Uncle Frank pushing the kids on the swing. They loved it!

Sam was pooped by the end of the day!

Videos will be coming soon.

week in review

Sunday: Took family picture, relaxed.

(Sam loves Skipper)

Saturday: We had a Christmas party at our house. Only in Texas can you swim in December without freezing your butt off. (except today it dropped to 45 degrees, i know boo-hoo) We heated the pool to around 94 degrees. So, it was practically a hot tub you could swim around in. Very nice! Some of the pictures aren't that great because the pool was steaming so much!

The kids enjoying a Christmas movie while the adults chatted and played games.

Friday: Made Christmas cookies and Caramel (actually the caramel was on Saturday) Carly had more fun licking the dough than helping me make them! I had to make the traditional Chocolate Chews (cookies) and homemade Caramel that my mom always made. Brings back good memories that I want to make with my children.

Monday: Chad surprised me with an early Christmas present. Ever since we moved to Texas (3 years ago. Wow) We have always wanted a fish tank. Chad and I have had one ever since we dated. I took them while he left on his mission (they all died off one by one.) When we got married we replenished the tank and those same fish (3 of them) are now living with my sister. Anyway...our dream finally came true when Chad's uncle was getting rid of his tank. Let me just say thank you to Uncle Ron.

sleep

Last night I went to bed around 10:45ish and didn't open my eyes until 6:00 this morning. That hasn't happened in 7 months! No babies crying, no headache, no snoring from my husband. Just a long night of blissful slumber! I am in a VERY good mood today!

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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Here's what we've been up to...

First of all...my baby turned 7 months old on the 12th! Can you believe it?!? He is definitely showing signs of growing up. He rolls over all the time now, he can almost sit up by himself. He loves to grab EVERYTHING that is put in front of him. He loves to watch and laugh at Carly and Carly loves the attention. He has a MAJOR temper. I didn't realize babies could have such bad tempers. Don't be deceived by his sparkling blue eyes, when this kid gets mad he wants to let the whole neighborhood know! Lets just say I am not looking forward to his terrible two's!
Christmas Craft

I've decided to make it a tradition to have the kids paint/make their own ornament. This year was the first year since Carly is old enough now to actually get the idea of painting. It may look tacky having all these homemade ornaments on our tree but it will definitely be worth the memories! Carly had so much fun painting and decorating her ornament. She loves painting so much that it didn't stop when the ornament was all finished. :)

Oh Christmas Tree

We finally decided to go out and get a Christmas tree. We kept debating on whether or not to get one this year because a.)we were too lazy b.)we didn't want to spend the money and c.) we didn't want to try and keep Carly away from the tree every second of the day. But we broke down and picked one up on Saturday. Carly liked helping hang the ornaments and the "jingle bells" (which is her new favorite song by the way) Sam loves to just stare at the lights.

Gingerbread House
Tonight was the night we made a gingerbread house. I bought the kit on Friday but haven't had the time to do it until tonight. Carly thought she was in heaven! I was letting her play with Candy. She had more fun eating the candy and breaking the candy canes then she did decorating. The picture below is not staged by the way. She actually took a bite of the house? I seriously have never seen her so excited about something!

One of those days...

Have you ever woke up in the morning and found that Patience is nowhere to be found?

I have.

Thanksgiving fun!

There are a lot of pictures in this post so have fun! We spent Thanksgiving in Utah this year. We decided to drive rather than fly because of price differences and I have to say wasn't that bad! Our kids did extremely well and there were no major meltdowns which is always a plus! It took us about 23 hours one way so there was a lot of time spent in the car but with the help from Dora the explorer, Elmo and lots of books we made it!
We ate Thanksgiving dinner at my Mom's parents house this year! It bring back so many memories eating at their house! We came up with a good way to keep off those extra pounds after shoving our faces full of food! Everyone seemed to get in on the action! I have to give props to my mom who is freakishly strong! Way to go racquetball!

Sam was well loved! He got plenty of hugs and kisses while he was there! As you can tell, he loves the camera!

More pictures from our Thanksgiving feast! Carly slept through most of it but woke up in time to try some turkey and potatoes.

While we were in SLC I thought we'd get Carly's hair cut! She needed one desperately! My cousin Leslie manages Cookie Cutters. It is a really cute place for kids to get haircuts. Carly loved it and did pretty well at holding still! Thanks Leslie for the cute haircut!

We celebrated birthdays while we were there. Chad's birthday fell on Thanksgiving this year which is kind of fun! I surprised him with some fishing lures that he wanted. I guess you know were getting old when things like that can excite you! We enjoyed some birthday ice cream with family.

We had so much fun! It was sad to come home. I love visiting my family, especially around the Holidays. We got home last night around 10:00 (a little later than plan due to some Thanksgiving traffic) It was nice to be at home and sleep in our own bed! Now.......on to Christmas!

videos

For some reason I can't get my videos from You Tube onto my blog and I don't feel like trying to download them again onto something different so here are the URLs just in case your interested in watching some cute kids :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvgW2k659wc Carly and Sam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZPkcULsqS0 Carly reading a book
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJEQwfO6KSk Carly singing in the car
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R28laGelvvw Carly and her Pumpkin

Half A Year!

Our little Sambo is 6 months old today! Man, time sure flies! He is such a fun little guy (when he is happy) He is very easy to get a smile from, he loves to give you kisses and hugs! He loves to pull my hair and suck on his fists. He has found his voice and loves to use it by screaming like a girl, to the point where I think my ears will explode. He eats like a horse, I didn't know a little baby could eat so much, but it seems like he is constantly wanting food. I'm sure it'll be no time at all before he is scooting himself around and getting himself into trouble!

Carly, sharing her toys.

Mondays always come to fast!

okay, not really....it's not like my life is that busy and my Mondays are really no different than Thursdays. I just never like thinking about Mondays! This past weekend was nice. It was relaxing, nothing too exciting.
*Carly went poop (multiple times) and pee in the potty! HOORAY...we might be headed toward big girl panties before the month is over! Okay, so maybe in my dreams that will happen but I have the right to dream okay?
*Gas hit $1.83 at the Wal-Mart near our house, which is a great thing in and of itself but it also means our trip to Utah at Thanksgiving time will be a lot cheaper than expected! (yes!)
*I think I've lost 2 lbs since I started back at the YMCA. Okay, so 2 pounds isn't that great but hey, it's something! :)
*Sam has finally mastered the rolling over thing (although, he can only do it when he's really mad) oh and he's also mastered screaming like a girl! Chad is pretty proud of him for that :)
*Sam thought it would be fun to wake up every hour last night. 12:30 am, 1:30 am, 2:30 am, 3:30 am, 4:30 am, 5:00 am, 5:30 am, and finally 7:00. It's like he had an alarm clock in there with him. Needless to say I wasn't very fun to be around today! :)
*It's finally been getting cool enough at night to turn our heater on so...it actually feels like Fall (which is always good thing, considering it's November!)
*I've got all my Christmas shopping done (just for our kids) which is actually a big deal since I'm such a procrastinator!
Anyway...hope you all had a good weekend and that we can all make it through Monday!

Halloween 2008

Well, here are our pictures from Halloween. It was pretty fun this year! Since Carly is obsessed with Sesame street I thought it would be fun to dress up as characters from it. As you can see..I was Oscar the Grouch, Carly was Big Bird, Sam was Elmo and Chad was The Count (minus the purple face) Thanks to the wonder of EBay and Craig's list I got everything pretty cheap (which is always a plus!) The top picture is all of us in Halloween shirts that I did.

Another picture of Carly and Adam, and a confused big bird/Oscar the Grouch.

Carly did pretty well Trick-or-treating. We walked down our street a couple houses and after the first couple she got the idea. She got a Halloween pencil at one house and ended up throwing it on the ground (luckily not in front of the people that gave it to her) She didn't want it because it wasn't candy. We had a lot of good food and good company so it was a great Halloween!

just some pictures....

I took these this morning. Sam was being such a silly guy! When he's not mad he's happy and smiling! (Don't mind me, mornings are not my best time!)

I took these of Carly, she was having fun with her "pwincess chair".

On a side note.....

Next season Dancing with the Stars!

Can you imagine if that really happened?? ( I got this in an e-mail from Chad)

Halloween Fun

(above) Sam is getting big enough to put in the jumping (thingy) He loves it as long as he's not in there for a long time and he especially loves it when Carly talks to him while he's busy jumping. (I have a video I'll have to put on later)
(Below) We went to Alycia and Daniel's house last night for our annual pumpkin carving get-together. It's always fun to have an excuse to get together!

Carly, Adam and Andrew were excited to see the finished product of all the pumpkins.

I was just wondering,

When all this political crap will be over?

(I got this in an e-mail from my sister and I totally agree)

Good luck??

Does it mean I'll have good luck if while changing my childrens' diapers they both feel the need to fart in my face?? Ahhh...the joys of being a mother :)

What we've been up to!

I decided it would be fun to make some Halloween decorations. I only have a few items that I've bought in the past. I didn't really feel like going out and spending money on new ones so I tried to think of a way to make something festive.....a black and orange paper chain is the only thing I could think of. So I printed off some Halloween coloring pages for Carly to color. She handed me the orange and black strips of paper to put together and ta-da! We had a Halloween decoration!

Over the weekend we celebrated my mom-in-law's b-day. We just had a little get together with family. These pictures of Carly and Adam were taken after Carly got in trouble for being naughty to the cat. I guess Adam felt bad that she had to sit in time-out. They have a love-hate relationship as most two-year olds do.

Here is the birthday girl with little Sambo.