Christmas Day!

Well we survived yay! What a busy couple of weeks! We hosted themPinder Christmas party on Christmas Eve and we loved it but can't wait for the bigger house! We made some great memories even with me still being under the weather we had a great time! The best present I would say was someone bringing a taser as a gift and Adam (our brother in law) got it and we are the very mature grown ups decided to taser ourselves! Stupid yes I know but such great therapy for laughter afterwards! Christmas Day was great and long! Carter woke up at 2 in the morning running through the house screaming Santa came and justin and I were like no go to bed so he crawled in bed with us and went back to sleep then Braden wakes up at 4 or 4 30 so excited well Justin thought it was time to wake up! I must say seeing their excitement was so worth it! They loved everything and were so thankful for what they got! Spent the whole day with our families and love it! We are truly blessed with some amazing families!! We are sad Christmas is over it has been so much fun even with me being so sick this year but we are looking to the new year with big things for our family!

Christmas cookies!

So every year we try and make those cute cut out Christmas cookies and every year we fail!  I swear we have tried everything to make them cute it is just not happening! Lol.  They look great when we cut them out and place them on the cookie sheet then they explode when they start cooking!  We can't tell what they are! Lol but the kids have a blast making them!

Almost busted!

Ok so being Santa is very hard work! Lol. Especially when you have no place to store presents and you have them scattered from one end to the other!  So Justin is on nights so we thought it would be a great idea for him to take all of the gifts to work and wrap them.  Ha!  So Carter is taking a nap and Braden is playing outside at least we thought with he was at his friends house a few houses down, so Justin and I get everything together in these huge toys r us bags and think we can make it to the truck without anyone seeing us!  So I go out the front door with all of these toys which like I said are in huge bags and I as I am going down the front stairs Braden and his friends are coming up to the house between our cars so I make a mad dash to the side of my car to where they can't see me and whew I avoided them but Justin on the other hand decided to lay his bag of toys down on the front porch and go back inside to get more!  I guess I should have yelled at him and give him notice but I was just trying to stay out of sight I figured he could turn and go back inside had no idea he just left toys laying on the front porch!  So i get my bags in his truck and go up the stairs and see Braden looking in the bag at the toys I was like what the hell!  So after doing much rearranging of gifts and rethinking what was from Santa I hope come Christmas morning he does not remember what he saw! Lol. Yeah right  that child has a memory like his daddy!   Like I said being Santa is HARD!

Santa!

So I hate going to the mall and seeing Santa never really is any fun to me so I always try to do something different.  This year there was a community Christmas festival.  Santa was flown in by helicopter and the kids thought that was pretty awesome!  So we got to take pictures with Santa and write him a letter the kids had so much fun!  This year Santa Emma was not to crazy about him!  I am telling you she had a death grip on my neck!  So of course same as last year momma was in the picture! 

Carter 6th birthday!

I am so amazed at how fast time goes by and I feel like it was just yesterday our Carter boy was born!  I will be very honest he was not the easiest baby!  I mean we were literally done after we had him! He has kept us on our toes and he is so full of energy!  He is the one that we worry about what will come out of his mouth!  You never know!!  We had a great birthday even though it was pouring down rain!  It never rains here until that day!  I had a big bounce house rented and of course it was canceled due to the weather so we were all crammed into our house made me think we need to build very soon but as a friend pointed out then you wouldn't want all of these kids inside your new house!!  So true!  But now I know that next year we will have to reserve some place several months in advance!  All in all we had a great turn out and he had a lot of fun! I mean what kids don't have fun playing in the mud and rain!!  

Baby Chicks!

So last March we got 12 chicks and that are now full grown chickens!  We were getting eggs right before time change so now we might get one egg a day!  So when we were getting eggs we got 4 to 5 a day and trust me they couldn't not keep up with the Lulues so we decided to go ahead and get more now to where when it does come time to start laying they will be big enough to start with the rest! We will see how it goes right now they are a mess!  Hopefully we will have more hens I this ru. Then the last but you never know what you are getting so we will wait and see so be ready if we have to many more rooster you know what we will be eating!! And yes we have killed three roosters and have eaten all three and they were yummy! Lol

Another school project!

Yes we got another fun project that Carter was so excited to do so after several days of coming home to work on it and of course I had not gone to town to get things to do this crafty project Justin and I get a plan together on what WE are going to do (first mistake). So we get everything we need, this is on Fri kids get home and we tell Carter we got everything for his project and of course it is nothing like what he has plan we have no idea what his plan really consist of so we went with ours.  We have to make An ornament and decorate it however we wAnted so Justin and I are making it a snow man!  So Carter and I start it and of course it is boring and he would rather be outside playing so he is gone and guess what Justin and I finish!  We were so proud of our project (promise it was nothing fancy but for us it was GREAT) so when Carter came in for playing we showed him it and boy was he PiSSED!  I have no idea what that child was thinking when he went out to play if our idea was changing but he hated it thought it was so stupid!!  Boy let me tell you we wanted to tear it in half! Talk about busting Justin and I's bubble!  So when he brought it to school on Monday he got in the car and we asked him what his teacher thought and he kinda looked at us and he said she LOVED it and so did he now!!  We were like what!!