Breakfast with Santa

For the past two years we have done BWS at church. This year it is coming a week earlier, which has me jumping to get things done. So this is about all I have the energy to do tonight. Just sit here and mindlessly type out words, while I should be doing some many other things. Tomorrow Abbi and I are going to be in Little Rock all day at Children's Hospital doing a study, it is a nutrition study, but that was not my motivation. They are giving(and I use that word loosely) $200 for one full day of sitting up there and letting them run tests on Grace. So seriously, not a great parenting move on my part, but $200 right before Christmas....I am all for that. I called the research people back and I think I might take Emma after christmas. So that will pay for all of that midless spending during christmas. I will post pictures from our day tomorrow.

Thanksgiving

What a great holiday. We had a wonderful time in Texas, and amazingly enough when you unplug from life, it does relax you. Until it is time to pack up and come home. I heard mainly that I write too much on here, and need more pictures. So here you go Rhesa, and Jodi pictures from the time we spent together!!

Nothing like a little paddle guitar!! Cason's was more like a sword, but Em was rockin out!

The campfire smoke is unbelievably hard to get out of clothes. Third times a charm!! Chase was the Fire MAN before Daniel came and took over. Of course right now in my head is the Fireman from George Strait.

This is the life. A Hummer. On Caddo. The first and only.

Abbi got a little cheeky. This made me laugh, She just cannot get the grasp of pockets.

Adley and Emma were crackin pecans, and giving them away for free. Not good in sales, but they are soo cute.

And last but not least. Abbi has found her calling in the art world. I have often walked in on one of her many masterpieces, but today, I took pictures.

Oh yes, she has become the master artist in panty liner art. My ginormous box of 150 has dwindled down to 50. She has made trails thru the house before, but mainly she just likes to stick them to pretty much anything she can. Cracks me up. Unfortunately, I have a warped sense of humor. But I have decided to embrace my youngest's talents, at least until my box is gone. I hope that you all had a great Thanksgiving.

So a lot has happpened!

Well, I noticed that it had been a while since my last post, and I was sad. I thought that I would really keep up with this blog thing, and I am just as much of a slacker here as I am with cleaning my house. So, here is what we have been doing since halloween. Nothing. Honestly, I am just a slacker. But here are some pictures for ya.

This is from Emma's Thanksgiving "Feast", she was a Indian( of course) She loves being an Indian, it is one of her favorite parts of Thanksgiving.

We went to Chase's moms for a before Thanksgiving day thing on Saturday. Just the family get together stuff. Here is my favorite picture from that day. The girls love their Uncle Ryan and Lyssa. We had a fun day, of hangoing out with family and good food.

Now this week we are headed to Caddo for the annual Thanksgiving family reunion. I am happy about going, but after losing Aunt Edna, and her daughter Barbara a couple of weeks ago, it just will not be the same. I am sad to say that a lot of family went to the funeral, and are not headed back up this way for Thanksgiving. We will definitely miss all of them. I hope all of you have a great Thanksgiving. See ya in a couple of days Jodi!!

Halloween Fun

Halloween was a huge success this year. Both girls were able to actually walk around the neighborhood, and go door to door trick or treating. It amazes me how fast they grow up. This is our first year with out a stroller, and it was really nice.

Emma had a great day on Wednesday. She had her "fall" party at school, which was so much fun. They got so much candy from the mom's in her class. I honestly think that I counted 3 goodie bags per kid. Crazy! Abbi and I went to lunch with Emma Claire that day also, and brought a special guest with us. Tommy(one of our boys) came to school to have lunch with her too. She was so excited to have him there. She told all of her friends that he was her brother, and bragged on how cool we was to everyone. It was pretty cute, she is so smitten. We went back and stayed the rest of the day with Emma Lou at school, which was fun for me, but Abbi had enough after about 20 minutes. It is funny how much fun it is to go and help out at the school. It seems like I tried so hard to get out of school, but now i look for reasons to go back and hang out. I had a little girl ask me how I was able to come up there so much, and I told her I justloved coming up there. She of course asked me why I did not work, and if I just did not want to make money. It made me sad for her, because I am sure that she has heard that somewhere before.

The girls wore matching costumes this year, and honestly they were beautiful. I did not think that Abbi was going to wear the wings the entire time, but when you tell her "if you wear these wings and knock on people's doors, they will give you candy." then she is all about the wings. She has tried several times to go and get them on so she can get more candy. She is so silly. I tell you these girls are so stinkin funny this year. Emma is so grown up, and then there is Abbi, who is just squirely. She has been a hoot over the past couple of days. Just being a goof. We went out early Wednesday night, so that we could make it to church on time.....we were just a little late. But the main thing is that the girls had fun.

The last 2 days Emma has been out of school, I never ever thought that I utter these words, but I have said it a lot lately. It is so much easier having Emma in school all day long. It has been a challenge having her here. She is so bored, and the girls just fight all the time. I do think that Ms. Meins needs a huge raise for doing her job. Can you just imagine 17 kids all day long? I would be nuts. Yesterday we ended up at the park for 3 hours. If you know me very well at all, you know that I despise the park, it is just too much for me, but the girls loved it. We went with our friends Madison Watkins and maddie McKamie. Abbi played with Austin and the big girls too. It was fun, and I did not really want to come home. Luckily it wore the kids out, so bed time was a little easier. We had to come home thought for dinner, which was absolutely fabulous. We had Chicken parmesan with noodles and salad, and it was the best thing I have eaten from a college student. Tommy, decided to treat us to one of his famous dinners, and it was good enough to be served in a restaraunt. Of course, My pride only allowed me to tell him that it was just okay, but I am almost convinced that he should just cook for us, and not the other way around. We finished dinner got the girls to bed and then played cards. A very fun evening. I love playing cards with Chase, it is my favorite thing to do with him, until he wins. This next week is my girls trip with mom and the other gals from the family to Houston to the Nutcracker Market, so the blog may go untouched for a bit this next week. I will be having too much fun shopping to even think about blogging.

This picture just cracked me up, so I thought I would add it. Abbi was hiding from the girls in Emma's class. She was being chased and did not like it, and this was the safest place she found. She did however, stop hiding to say Cheese for the camera!