Christmas...Its the most WONDERFUL time of the year!

Our Christmas Home...

Our Christmas Traditions:

*We have an Elf who comes and stays with us (the kids named him Mr Fixin) he leaves every night and reports to Santa and comes back in the morning and its a race to find his new watching spot

*The Wiseman took Jesus 3 gifts so Santa only brings Easton and Pais 3 gifts

*Mr Fixen (the Elf) brings us all new jammies to open Christmas Eve

*Christmas Eve we have a Birthday cake for Jesus

*Christmas Day we go to the movies...this year Princess and the Frog

Our Thanksgiving Feast...

This is the most inexpensive Thanksgiving I have ever fed my kids and the easiest clean up! We had turkey legs from Animal Kingdom for our Turkey Day feast. Easton was very concerned with where we were going to get turkey from on Thanksgiving and this was our solution! It might even become a tradition.

Lets Play Catch Up...

We went to Disney and stayed at the Nickelodeon Suites for Thanksgiving. Yup just the 2 kiddos and I. We had tons and tons of fun and after going through all 300 pics I decided I would just post the kids character meetings since they loved them the most. Disney was magical and just the vacation the kids and I needed. Heres who we met, hugged, dined with, and shared very magical secrets with...

The night before we left for Disney Easton had a lil birthday party with his "bestest" friends. We met at the pizza place in town and then ventured to the movies to see Astro Boy. Fun was had by all! I still cant believe your 6 dude.

You're invited to our pity party...

Life has been busy busy around our house lately but today I finally stayed in and did nothing...I mean nothing... but I did miss this boy (see pic below if your not sure who) and maybe even shed a tear over him. I pulled it all together in time for Easton to come home and it all to fall apart again. It started with Pais who stubbed her toe and in major tears proclaimed "I need daddy to kiss it better" I thought gee wouldn't that be nice. Easton then came to me with frustrated tears and said "Mom...I miss dad...I cant get allllll these Lego sets together alllllll by myself" so of course I cried with him and then because mom was crying we all cried together.

I hope America loves and appreciates this husband father and solider tonight because his family sure misses him and I would like to think maybe just maybe our sacrifices will one day better this country.

Ben we love you...words are just not enough.

Happy Birthday Easton!

Today is this kids 6th birthday!

YES...hes 6...and isn't he the coolest 6 yr old ever!?!

In true Birthday fashion

I must post lots of heartfelt loving things about this dude

BUT we all know how much I love him

and how fantastic of a kid he is so instead

I'm interviewing him for you...

ENJOY!

Me: whats today?

E: Going to disneyworld and the Nickelodeon Hotel and its Wednesday

(OK hes apparently in denial hes getting older)

Me: whats your favorite color?

E: BUHHHLUE

Me: Whats your favorite breakfast?

E: Cinnamon Crunch Cereal

Me: Wheres your favorite place to eat?

E: China food or Waffle House

Me: Who's your best friend?

E: Bella (yes the dog) Uncle John and Ili

Me: What do you want to be when you grow up?

E: A Vet and a dog rescuer

Me: Who do you love the most? haha

E: MOM (of course)

Me: Whats your favorite toy?

E: My G.I. Joe toys

Me: Whats your favorite movie?

E: Cars and Transformers

Me: What are you an expert on?

E: sports

Me: Do you have a girlfriend?

E: Yup Bella and Ili

Me: What do the girls love about you?

E: I'm tall and funny and I protect them and I took them to the movies (his bday party)

Me: Whats your favorite thing to learn in school

E: Math (ew yuck!)

Me: What would you buy if you had a $100

E: a new puppy

The End!

Happy Happy Birthday Easton!

Your the BEST 6 yr old EVER!

October Happenings

More of our busy October...

I "ran" a 5 K with my dear friend Sam and didn't die or come in last place...

whats that...ooh yes a woot woot!

(FYI: friends don't sign eachother up for 5k runs)

Proof we didn't die

and I would dare say the sweat is proof I worked hard

We had our annual dinner in a pumpkin.

I experimented this year and came up with a super yummy recipe...

watch for it on the cooking blog.

Doesn't look that good I know but it was fantastic and the kids LOVE it!

We dressed up for Halloween..

.as a witch and Superman to be exact

we trick or treated with our friends

the ballerina and a dirt biker

we even paused for a group shot...ooh tender

that snitch witch came along snitched the candy

and left calorie and cavity free goodies in its place



We also found time to pose for cute pics with Dad

Weekend in the ATL

October was a busy busy month for us! Ben had 2 weeks off work so we took advantage of that and skipped town. Our first adventure was to Atlanta for a weekend of baseball, the aquarium, and shopping! (My favorite was the shopping...go figure)

The kids had lots of fun at the Braves game...we gave into the hype of it all even despite the fact were not fans...well Ben claims the Cardinals.

(The a on my hat is clearly for awesome, amber, and amazing)

The Braves were tied so we went 2 extra innings so Easton put on his rally cap and we all cheered but they still lost. Oh and do you see proof that the said St. Louis Cardinals fan was participating in the cheering...

Atlanta has the worlds largest Aquarium so we ventured there for the day. It was cool and the kids loved it. We saw lots of fish...ooh go figure right. Eastons favorite was the whale shark...which I might add is H U G E!!!

I got in my own fun and hit up the outlets on our way home. Sorry no pics but I would hate for Ben to be reminded of the damage and have a full grown man twitching and rocking in the corner of his tent. Here's him and I at some point during that weekend...clearly before the shopping.