Waiting on Santa

We had a great Christmas Eve with friends and cooking at the house. The kids Put out reindeer food, left cookies for Santa and we read Twas the Night before Christmas. They are exited for baby Jesus' birthday and their presents. This is the first Christmas they they "get it". Shawn and I are excited to see their faces tomorrow! Merry Christmas!

Pre-Christmas happenings 2012

We have been busy with Christmas parties, baking, family, etc the kids had fun at their school parties and I hit to attend them both. It is so cute to see them at school. They brought home goodies and precious pictures of them as Mary and Joseph. So cute!

Maddie as Mary

Cheese!

Max as Joseph

Hayride with the neighbors

Prou of his cookie with marshmallows, almonds, sprinkles, etc.

Cookies!

Growing like a weed

Maddie is growing so fast. In the fall I hit her size 8 and they are l fitting too snug now. Not only is her footing, but it's getting wider too. Thankfully her brothers Tony Lamas are the perfect fit. Love hand me downs!

P. S. Here is a picture if Maddie in her crib with all her buddies.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Thanksgiving cane and went, and we started prepping for Christmas. It seems like it took a while for December 1. With the kids at a good age we started putting up decorations, lights and fun outings.

Clark Griswold in the making

The kids love it everything about the lights

The kids were inspired to get our lights up after our trip to Santa's Wonderland. We went with the Currans on Thursday night. It was kind of a drive, but really worth it. The kids are still talking about it! The only real glitch of the night was the movie. They were showing The Grinch on the big screen. Max got scared and kept asking to go home. We had dinner there, sort of. I think the kids had coke and popcorn only. The trail ride was fun and it was actually my very first trail ride. The atmosphere was great. The kids and I even got on stage and sang Christmas songs and did the hokey pokey. Fun night!

Our first trip to Santa's Wonderland

Leah and Maddie - It was so fun to go to this fun place with the Currans.

It snowed and they loved that too!

They all got a fun treat from the candy store

Sunday we got together with our playgroup for our Christmas playgroup. Each of the kids got to meet with Santa and get their picture taken. I don't have our picture yet, but I hope to have it soon and I'll update. Max was anxious and excited to tell him that he wanted cars for Christmas. Maddie was excited at first, but then changed her tune. So we ended up all posing with Santa. The party was alot of fun and the dads got to hang out too. Great way to start the holiday season

Christmas party with our playgroup

Shawn has been disappointed he didn't get pecan pie at Thanksgiving, so I thought I'd make him one. I found a great Paula Deen recipe and gave it a try. It was so good, it's gone! Thankfully we shared with friends. This was so easy to make, I'll never buy another pecan pie!