Christmas Eve

Well, here we are, it is hard to believe that Christmas is upon us yet again. I am super excited for this year. Since I have left home, Christmas has been missing something and until recently I wasn't sure what it was. I still gain that lovely holiday weight from all the delicious cookies and other fattening goodies and I still spend more then I should on Christmas gifts but it was not until Jack came running out of his room the other morning and stood in sheer surprise at our huge and gorgeous Christmas tree, let his mouth hang open and yelled "CHRISTMAS TREE, It s pretty", that I fully realized that it is the pure joy, awe and excitement of children that make Christmas as magical as it us. Now, mind you, there are no lights or decorations on our tree and no presents underneath it. See Santa loves our house, so Santa will bring the lights and decorations with him, along with the presents and decorate the tree on Christmas Eve. This is a new tradition for me, not one that I was too sure about in the beginning but I think it will be amazing to see Jack's shock and awe when he comes out tomorrow morning to see the decorated tree and all the presents that surround it. I am super excited for Christmas this year! Happy Holidays to all!!!

Almost There

There are officially two days left until Christmas vacation! We are almost there and then it is 17 days off (including weekends) yipee!!!!! We are all very excited. It will be so nice to be home with the boys and spend some quality time with them. I cannot believe how fast they are growing. Charlie is already 7 months and growing fast, before we know it he will be up and chasing after Jack. Jack is talking up a storm. I remember when he was not saying anything and now he says more then I even knew he could. I told him he was being Crazy Silly and he looked at me as serious as all get out and said " No Mommy, I am not crazy, I am Jack." From the mouths of babes. You got to love it. I cannot believe how fast it goes though, Jack will be three this summer and Charlie will be one. It seems like just yesterday I was graduating from high school and then college and somewhere along the way I blinked and I got married, had two beautiful boys and everything changed; good changes all of them. My, how the time flies. Well, now that I have gone off on a little tangent here. Happy Holidays to everyone and may God bless you! I hope to see everyone over the break!

Picture Perfect

So here is the photo from my Christmas card, don't you love it? This is total Jack. He is so full of life and usually always happy! The picture totally captures him, even at 5 in the morning when I had to sneak a photo in. Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas !!!

Holiday Spirit!

Here are the boys in their santa hats being festive!!! It is has been a while since the last post but life has been very busy and there is not much free time for blogging plus I have not been good about taking photos lately! (bad mama) Well the boys had a busy day today! We spent the morning at grandmere's, off to see Santa, daddy had his big dry-land dog race, then to grandmere's 60th birthday party (Happy Birthday Grandmere!!!) and then we went to Little gym for Maggie's happy second birthday!!! It was a busy day!!!

ELMO

A new Super Wal-mart opened in our area so we had to of course go and check it out to see what kind of deals they offered. It was a quick trip because I had all my boys with me but we had a wonderful surprise when Elmo was there. Charlie was not so interested but Jack was elated. He went running up to him screaming E-L-M-O!

Happy Halloween

Here are the boys in their costumes......Jack was a froggy and Charlie was a tiger. Jack went to every house and proudly said "Trick or Treat", his goal for the night was more candy!!! Charlie came along for the wagon ride and was lulled to sleep long before we made it home again. Overall I would say that it was a successful night in Galena; for candy!!!

Pumpkin Patch!!

Jack wanted so badly to go to the pumpkin patch and we finally made it! Jack was so tired while we were there but he snapped out it enough to pick out his favorite pumpkin and to ride the tracties they had there.....Charlie picked out his pumpkin too but he was not quite as excited about the adventure as Jack was.