Christmas Morning

Ethan getting a new shirt!

Austin getting a new shirt!!

Our wonderful kids did not get up at the crack of dawn, thankgoodness. We did not rise and shine till 7:30am!! That is sleeping in for us, we are used to getting up by 6:45am, so we were happy!! We had a great Christmas day, each of the kids get a turn to pick a present and give it to whoever it is for. We go one at a time to make the whole opening presents adventure last longer and so we can appreciate all the wonderful things we have been given. We were spoiled again, and had a great day. Here are a few pics of our morning!!

Officially a teen!!

Today is Justice's official day to be called a teenager! YIKES, where does the time go. She had a fun party here at our house, 7 friends came over to have a MaryKay party. My bestfriend is a MaryKay lady and came to teach the girls that "less is more". They got to enhance thier natural beauty with some color and learned skin care. After that they had Oreo mint blizzard cake from Diary Queen and opened presents. Justice was very spoiled! Teenagers have to be right?! Later in the evening Travis took her to dinner for a Daddy/Daughter dinner date. (Say that 5 times). They had a good evening together, and Travis found out who the boy is she likes. Score!

So now we really have to keep tabs on her. I remember liking boys by age 12-13 so I guess I better be very prepared!! All in all I think she had a very Happy Birthday!! WE LOVE JUSTICE!!

We had a pretty bad storm today, so we decided Santa at Walmart would be the best route to avoid any accidents! So off to Walmart we go, to see Santa. Justice and Austin are "too old" for Santa so they chose to stay at home. Kason as you can see is very curious about this bearded man. Too cute at his age, to go see Santa. They are so unsure about this red man! Well the kids got to tell Santa thier Christmas wish list. It was a short but sweet trip! Merry Christmas:)

Tree Trimming

So we got our tree finally. I just love a real tree, I grew up always getting a real tree so of course I will having nothing less. We had fun getting the lights all untangled, finding ornaments and breaking a few. Kids loved seeing some of thier ornaments, and ones they made at school. We got it done pretty fast with 6 kids, ornaments were just flying on the tree. The kids had fun and did a great job!! Merry Christmas!!

Remodeling Already!

So we are in our new house, and we demolitioning it already!! The kitchen has one of those false ceilings, and it only over the kitchen area not the dining area, so it feels short or squishy! So we are having it ripped out and a new ceiling put in with recessed lighting. It will be nice when it is all done, but for now no kitchen. We maybe eating pizza tonight! DARN!!:) I will post pics when it gets all done! Here are the demolition pics!!

Thanksgiving night we had some friends over for pie!! Our good friends the Tillery's came over with 6 pies!! All together we had 9 pies!! Needless to say we had plenty! We had a nice evening hanging out with our friends. They have 2 boys, one is Karli's age and one is Ryley's age. We were all stuffed out of our minds!!