Bad blogger

I'm sorry to all of you who follow my blog - I have been failing horribly at updating it! Not sure if I will get any better or not.

We've had a busy January. Soccer and swimming are back in session. Our weekends are completely booked these days. And perhaps the biggest thing that happened is that James resigned from his position at his advertising agency earlier in the month, and is busy starting up his own company. He has been working out of the house the past few weeks now. He and his partner have several clients already... and I know they will be successful. Just a tad stressful at the moment though. :)

I'm looking through our pictures to see if I have any to share, but they are either on my camera still or I haven't taken that many. It's probably more like I haven't taken many.

Austin turned 9 on the 1st. I can't believe I have a nine year old. Where does the time go? He had a few friends over for a sleepover and they had a blast. His new favorite thing is his Nintendo DS he received. We've had to put limits on it or else he would play the thing 24 hours a day. The other kiddos are pretty infatuated with it also.

Austin also placed 4th in the district UIL competition a few weeks ago!

Well that's all for now. Sorry again... and hopefully I'll be able to post again soon! Hope you all have a blessed week!

Decorating cookies

It's been awhile! Happy New Year! We had a wonderful Christmas and New Year. Life has been busy.

I was headed to the gym this morning, but turned around and came back home - it was storming terribly and there were tornado warnings. So I figured I wouldn't risk our lives this morning. We came home and Cole is actually content watching tv at the moment (gotta love Bubble Guppies). He usually will not leave my side. So guess I have no excuse at the moment not to update the blog.

Here are the older ones making our annual Christmas cookies.

I tried to pose them like this b/c I think one of my favorite pictures of all time is from 2 years ago. It makes me laugh every single time!

Oh - how they've grown! Not as funny this year, but I won't stop trying :)

Then Abby decided to put her wet hand in the flour

they all thought that was hilarious

and had to do it themselves. I wonder if my kids are the only ones that actually enjoy the taste of flour by itself? Gross. The flour then got poured in the trash.

They had fun decorating the cookies a few days later with friends!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!



Hoping you find joy, love and peace this holiday season!

5 more days

I feel like I'm not prepared this year. I still have shopping and wrapping to do... menus to plan. I'm not exactly sure when it will all get done, but it always does.

The kids are officially out of school. Yesterday they were getting on each others nerves terribly. This might be a long two weeks.

Here are some pictures from their Christmas party at school last week. The girls made gingerbread houses.


I'm the homeroom mom in Abby's class and we did these cute little snowman ornaments. I went in a few days before the party and did the kid's hand prints on the ornament, and then they decorated them at the party. I thought overall they turned out pretty cute, except for the kids who just decided to paint over their hand print and name with black paint.

Here's all the kids with their teachers. They are awesome!! We couldn't ask for better teachers this year. They are all so sweet and challenge our kiddos. LOVE THEM!

Christmas Karaoke

One of Cole's favorite things to do is find the TV remote and press as many buttons as he can... we he somehow stumbled upon the Santa channel. They have games, music, and I think on Christmas Eve you can even track where Santa is.

So every night (and morning lately) the Christmas music is on... and it is loud.

I must have had my finger on my phone speaker... but the kids love singing and dancing around to the Christmas music. Sorry in advance if this makes you dizzy...



How I wish I could bottle up their energy! They seriously did this for over and hour... back and forth, back and forth! Oh and yes, if you've never noticed Abby still walks/dances/runs on her tip toes. We are trying to work on it. Easier said than done.