Brown Paper Packages Tied Up With String....

These are a few of my favorite things...

Just wrapping, watching Christmas movies, and sipping hot cider tonight!  Are you ready????

December So Far...

Well, I forgot my camera over Thanksgiving Break - we spent 5 days in Galveston at the beach...so...on to December and all the fun Christmas festivities so far!

Me, Jae, and Mom went to my Christmas Dinner at church!  It was AH-MAZ-ING - incredible food, music, entertainment, etc!

At the dinner after party they had smores making stations:)  So fun!

The very next day we bundled up and headed to Dallas for the Neiman Marcus Parade - this was our first time ever...and such a blast!!!  We met Jae, John, and Kai - and some friends of their's the Morriss's.

Then this little guy joined our family...meet Smiley Elfibob!  He is so much fun and such a rascal - here are some of the shenanigans he's gotten into since becoming a part of the family!

First he drew mustaches, elf hats, and reindeer ears on our family photo...

Then when the kiddos were sleeping he drew Rudolph noses on them...

little stinker...

Next, we found him in the fridge and he'd turned our milk pink!

Our most favorite so far - we found him one morning cuddled up to baby Jesus...

the next day he made snow angels out of sugar on our kitchen counter!

he forgot to move one night...but then, when we least expected it...and Kinsley was in the bathroom...he moved to the gingerbread house, we thought he might have even snatched a piece of candy!

He had a date night with Barbie one night!

And was the life of the party swinging from the chandelier...

Brief intermission - Kinsley had her Winter Program at school and even had a part playing the xylophone - so adorable!

Now back to Smiley - he helped himself to a midnight snack...

had a little downtime...

another intermission - Kinsley and Kaden at their Christmas parties at school...

Then we found him one morning like this...he had written a message to Santa!  He continues to suprise us with his antics but that's all up til' now!  More to come on Smiley Elfibob's adventures:)

We've also had Kaden and Kinsley's church program - it's been a super busy December and Christmas isn't even here yet - whew!!!!

October 2011 - Catching up!

Hello there blog world friends!  It's been awhile...let me catch you up!

Kinsley had pirate day at school - so fun and so cute - she was thrilled to dress up!

At the beginning of October we went to the Flowermound Pumpkin Patch, a yearly tradition with Kim (Curtis's sister) and Kaden and Kinsley's cousin Malakai!!

Curtis and John both celebrated their birthdays toward the end of the month...

And we celebrated Halloween!  Mom came over and made fun treats with the kiddos...

We went trick-or-treating for the first time ever with Grandma and Granpops - they moved to town and we are so excited to have them here!!!

and I got good and settled in my classroom - still and forever will be a work in progress;)  So thankful for my job - I'm LOVING it!

In this pic my room was set up for Reading Night - we had a "Midnight Snack Restaurant" theme and the kiddos got to wear their pajamas, make a reading "menu" and come and read to their parents:)

more updates to come...stay tuned:)