A Star Topper

Been wishing all season that I had a tree topper for our Christmas tree.

Tonight we made our own, very special toppers.

The best part according to Sam was using the safety scissors.

Proud of their creations!

And I am proud of the paper chains they made with Mamaw and Papaw this year.

Our 1st Ornament - a gift from our wedding.  Not sure we looked like this?

And this is one of my favorites - my parents 1st ornament from 1967.

Let the Celebrations Begin

Today we began to celebrate the season that marks Our Savior's Birth.

What better way to begin than by attending church

and then lunch at Grandma's with the Stoll family.

We are operating on a borrowed camera. {I am responsible, wink}

It only has a 2 second self timer, we laughed out loud

as mommy tried to race back to the camera.

But we were dressed in our Christmas best,\

so I wasn't about to miss a memory.

Sam ran around this morning with socks on his hands?

He is so proud of his Fisher Price mini school bus ornament -

 this year is his 1st year of preschool.

And Joe is in love with his Thomas the Train ornament.

After church we gathered with the local Stoll's - this is about 1/4 of the whole bunch.

But a very merry bunch.

I can remember when the teens {and twenties} at this end of the big table

used to sit at this table.

Sam and Joe at lunch with Dryce.

And we sang Joy to the World.

Oh, and we didn't miss the Colts game either.

Go Colts!!

Mama Caved.

Yep, I caved.

You see this delighful package arrived in the mail.

I should have kept it a secret, no one would have knew.

But, it contained these scrumptious jammies in a size six and two.

Yep, I shared.

I mean really, what was I to do?

What fun is a package unless shared by these two?

Yep, I'm proud.

Of these sweet two little men

and their new Christmas Jems Jams.
{guess I better leave the creative writing to my SIL, hee}

Rainbow Cupcakes

Celebrating 4 with Sam's Preschool Friends

DH helped me make Rainbow Cupcakes

Can you guess what letter they learned this week in preschool?

He sat in a special chair as they sang Happy Birthday to him.

He told them that his birthday was Christmas Day.  They giggled.

I am so glad that he can share preschool with his cousin Drew, they share a desk.

He also got a prize {from the treasure chest} for his attendance chart being full

And then we made a trip to this place.

Mama doesn't usually like these places

{bad experience with a kid who didn't feel well, inside one of the tubes-gag}

This was Sam's first real adventerous trip inside one of these, still didn't do the slide!

We took this little miss with us from preschool, Sam goes with her too!

And met this favorite friend of mine who had worked the morning,

 then got in the tubes with Joe so that he would enjoy them.

Then we went to see Dr. R for our 4 year well check.

Sam is 59lbs and 46 inches tall -still above the charts {but is on the chart}.

He named all the shapes Dr. R asked

counted well

colors mastered

and generally had good conversation with him.

He thinks we are right on track -

We are so thankful for a healthly {almost} 4 year old!

Finished off with a trip to Walmart, laundry, dinner, haircut for DH,

and wrapped all the presents that I have to date.

Planning to pack for our beach vacation tomorrow - only 12 days away!!!

5, 4, 3, 2

What do 2 mom's do with a 5 and a 4 and a 3 and a 2 year old?
Well, just exactly what they want to do. 
This was while the 2 daddy's dragged their deer out of the woods (and did whatever you do to them).

We (the 2 mommys and 2 daddys) played rock band to end the night
and the 4 kids banged on pots and pans and jumped on the couch. 
We discovered that our best parts were: 
Dan- drums
Brent -guitar
Me -Singing (who would've thought?)
and Melissa - Dancing (no this wasn't really a rock band part, but the kids really loved it so I think it should be)
Tons of throw it together, {invite yourself over to their house}, kinda fun - Thanks Guys!