Christmas

Well we had a different kind of Christmas around here. It turned out to be a white Christmas. . .in fact there was so much of the white stuff that we were stuck in our home for several days. On Christmas eve is when the stuff moved in. . .the highways where even closed I am not sure when that could of happened in the past but I do not remember it ever happening.

I was super bummed when Anthony suggested that we stay home both on Christmas eve and Christmas day. He could tell that I was disappointed (pouting) so he said if I wanted to go we could try. . .I knew it wasn't in my children's best interest especially since one of the places we were going to was in Edmond and the other in Norman and we are in the middle of OKC.

So we made the best of it stayed warm, sang songs, played with the kids, watched movies, played games, drank hot chocolate. It was really a nice couple of days.

This picture was taken out my back door while it was still light outside on Christmas eve and while it was still far from over!



This is my kids on Christmas eve after we were singing Christmas songs in front of the tree and watching the snow come down like crazy out the windows.



On Christmas night Caden was not about to go to sleep so he ended up coming to our bed while we snuck around the living room and helped Santa. . .once that was done we all went to sleep. . . till little Caylea bug woke us up before 8:00. The girls were so happy and excited. Caden on the other hand was a little grump for a short amount of time.



Caylea's only request from Santa was a Panda bear . . .Santa is so good!



Carolina's ONLY Christmas request was this Dora Dancing doll. . .however mommy thought she wouldn't play with it and it cost way too much for a toy that just sits around and never gets touched. . .however Santa had Carolina's desires at heart so she got what she wanted.



Caden's request to Santa was a guitar and that was really the only present he cared about on Christmas morning (yes we gave him a sucker at 8 AM and it helped his Christmas mood)



After all the presents were open, the kids ate a yummy breakfast daddy made, the toys were opened and put away, the trash was all out of the house we all went out side to play in the snow on Christmas day. . .the 14 + inches of snow.







Even daddy was jumping in the big snow drifts!



After an hour or so of playing outside in the snow everyone came inside soaked to the bone from making snow angels, having snow ball fights and just playing in yes SNOW!

After everyone got dried off and warmed up we had more of our family fun! In fact Anthony has been off since Christmas eve and does go back to work till after New Years so we have been having a whole lot of family fun this week! In fact this is mommies little Vacation. Anthony has been letting me sleep in, making almost every meal, and oh so much more. . .he even gave all three of the kids baths yesterday. I even got to go hang with my friend for several hours while he took care of Caden! I am not looking forward to next week when daddy goes back to work. Caden especially is going to have a really hard day :(

A few pic's

These pictures were taken on Monday when we finally got to get out of our house and celebrate Christmas with my mom and sisters. . .

My mom made the girls all these tutu's and I think she had the 3 boys cape's made for them. . .too cute!




And my Aunt Vickie gave all of the girls these awesome umbrella's for Christmas they all have their names on them and some cute pictures. . .Caylea's is bumble bee's and Carolina's are kitty cats. . .very very sweet and oh so cute!




The boys got a truck Caden loves his!

Oh and here is a picture of Sarah that I thought man I wish I had my flash on because this could of been a really cute picture!



Thanks so much Aunt Vickie for thinking of our kids and being so thoughful!

Good reason? maybe

There must be a good reason why my 4 year old daughter is wearing my 2 year old sons 24 month clothes. . . but for the life of me I haven't figured that out yet. . .

Christmas Eve

We ended up snowed in on Christmas Eve. . .I was kinda bummed about it for a little while. . .but we made the best of it and it turned out to be a very a nice day. . .here is one of the many video's I took yesterday.

Church Christmas Play

First a picture I took of my 3 when we were leaving the house for church Sunday morning. I thought it turned out really cute everyone cooperated really well.



The next pictures are of my girls in the Christmas play Sunday night. It was such a cute play I really enjoyed watching it. I had to ignore my darling 4 year old who was being a little ham towards the end. I knew from experience there was nothing I could do to stop her at that moment. So I just concentrated on recording, taking pictures and of course the wonderful performance.













One more video. . .this is closing. . .Caylea was so excited because she got to do the hula with Taylor and Abbi. . .I think she did great especially considering she didn't know she was going to do it till we showed up for dress rehearsal. . .so she only practiced a few times. . .already she can dance better than her momma!

Baby, It's Cold Outside

But my 3 - they do not care!

Good answer? maybe not?

So this morning on the way to church my hubby and our 3 blessings were chatting about what they want to be when they grow up. Caylea wants to be a vet. . .no surprise there. Carolina was talking about some different things then out of no where she says "Daddy can I be a big Shamoo when I grow up?" To that my husband who was by this time only half listening answers "sure sweetie you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up." Caylea and I started laughing and Anthony was like what? I said do you really want Carolina to believe that she can turn into a big whale when she grows up? He was like no is that what she asked so then he said "Honey you can work with Shamoo at Sea World when you grow up or with other animals at the Zoo but you can not turn into a whale." She was okay with that!

We are having a restful this Sunday afternoon my 2 guys are passed out from staying up late playing video games (that would be my son and husband-husband of course stayed up WAY later than son). . .my girls are in the backyard! It is in the 60's today and It has been awefully cold here and I am sure it is coming right back so I sure was not going to make my girls stay inside this afternoon!

Me I am fixing to get our Christmas Card's made out so I can get them passed out at church and in the mail for those I have to mail.

Also we have a new "pet" at least for the time being Caylea found a lady bug outside and it is now residing in her bedroom.

Well I am off for now "chat" with you guys later :)

Progress

I know I have been kind of a blogging slacker lately so I thought I would give a progress report on Caden's becoming a big diaper-less boy! Also a few other odd's and end's. . .maybe?

Well Caden is doing great mostly. . .notice I said MOSTLY . . .it seems as soon as I say he is doing well he has an accident so I am refraining from saying that now. However he has slept in under ware at nap time the last few days and has done well with that. . .the next step is night time. . .only he usually ends up in our bed so that risk is something I am avoiding. . .he has however I think stayed dry at night/nap time since we started with the process so I have much hope that it will not be a problem. He has had really very few maybe less than 5 pee accidents since we started almost 2 weeks ago and probably about the same number of poo accidents . . .today went well so crossing my fingers. It would appear that maybe he is a tiny bit more difficult than the girls to potty train but still really not as bad as I had feared being a boy and all.

Last Sunday the kiddos and I went to Walmart to pick up a few things after church. While we were there we saw a Santa he was handing out candy canes and taking pictures with kids. So of course my girls wanted to tell them what they wanted for Christmas (they had never seen a Santa before or talked to one). They were so excited I had little doubt that the girls would have a problem and huge doubts Caden would get anywhere close to the Santa. However as Caden and I watched the girls I explained to him that Santa wanted to know what he wanted for Christmas and than he saw the girls getting Candy Canes from him after the picture. So he was willing and sat up there and told Santa when he was asked what he wanted for Christmas . . .want to know what that might have been? A Candy Cane. . .lol Santa was able to full fill his request right then. That made for a very happy 2 year old Caden boy!

Here are the pictures. . . well they are pictures of pictures. I wish I had had my camera with me. Oh well this is what I have :) They are actually hanging up in my living room with my other Christmas cards and will make it to the kids baby books in a few weeks after Christmas.

Gosh I wish I could get my scanner working. . .the quality is not good at all partially because I do not want to take them off the wall. . .

Misty's Unexpected Haircut

Never I repeat Never leave your 6 year old up to watch tv quitely while you lay down and try to get rid of a horriable sinus headache while the two younger one's were taking a much needed nap! If you do this may happen to your beautiful Beagle. . .




Granted Misty is still beautiful. . .she just has some chuncks of hair missing :( Poor baby girl! I guess it could of ended much worse (ie Caylea could of cut her own hair or cut the dog or herself). . .thankfully this is the extent of her experiement. . .

It's been crazy around here. . .I have been spending a lot of time at home due to "potty training" Caden was doing GREAT but the last few days he has had a few accidents. . .I am hoping this will correct himself and he is just trying to figure out how long he can successfully hold it. . .HOPEFULLY!

A Week In Review

My three making a Birthday card for their Grandma who's Birthday this year just happened to fall on Thanksgiving.



On the way to the kids Grandparents we stopped at OU's stadium because Caylea has been wanting to see it. . .she was so excited and wants to go to a game so bad with her daddy. . .we will have to work on that next year!



Friday morning I got up and went black Friday shopping with Anthony's cousin and Aunt . . .it was fun . . .just oh so early in the morning. Although I can't complain I got up at 3:00 AM, got home at about 8:15 and slept until 10:30.

We got the tree put up that afternoon/evening. For the first time the girls helped us put the actual tree together they were so excited and proud! They love doing the ornaments!







It's not completed in this picture I have not taken a picture of the finished tree yet.





Anthony's cousin and her husband came over that night and we played this game called Wahoo. . .it was a blast!

Sunday morning I woke up sick :( Thankfully my hubby let me sleep all day basically!

Felt much better Monday and we started potty training with Caden. . .he is doing okay. . .not great but not bad. . .so we shall keep moving forward. He is just not the same as my girls right before they were two and a half I just put them in under ware and they did great. I haven't lost hope that he will do very well . . .we will keep going and see what happens :)

Tomorrow my two youngest have pre-school we will see how Caden does in under ware there. I hope he does well for his Auntie! I think he is doing much better this evening than this morning :)

Well that is all for now my friends I am heading to lay down for the evening I am exhausted after all the running to the potty every 20 minutes . . .lol