Thanksgiving

We were lucky to have Aunt JoJo and family here for Thanksgiving this year. We had a blast shopping, fishing, eating, and hanging out. We made a thankful tree and cornucopia ice cream cones filled with m & m's. We ended our thanksgiving night with a trip to see the plaza lights! Fun! Fun!

Christmas crafts

The boys and I have been busy, busy! We have made lots of crafts for friends, teachers, and family!! We made hand scrub for friends. We also made stovetop potpourri. We made peppermint play dough and chocolate syrup for our friends with kiddos. Teachers got red velvet cakes in a jar. Grandparents are getting photo ornaments. We had lots of fun delivering everything to our neighbors last week!

Snow Day! Finally!

We waited two years for this day, but we finally got it! Whoohoo for a snow day! The boys were so stinkin' excited, even if it did mean a cancelled Christmas party at school!

Christmas Programs

We had a fun, busy round of Christmas  programs again this year. B was an elf in his production. He almost missed his big show b/c he decided to get strep throat the day before. Thank goodness for antibiotics. He was back to new by show time! A was adorable singing his songs. This is the first year that he stayed on stage and wowed us with his 'We wish you a Merry Christmas' song. C had a program at school and at Church.  He was simply adorable as our little shephard. Very impressed buddy!

B's First Sacrament

B made his 1st reconciliation last week. Wow! It was beautiful and he was so proud of himself. What a sweetheart! He says, "Mommy! It was so easy!". It was so much fun having a conversation with him about Jesus and the sacraments! Oh...and check out that hotty in the 1st picture! Blessed!

Happy #6 C!

C was spoiled for his birthday. He had a Mario themed bday at Chuck E Cheese with his buddies. We had cupcakes with marshmallow cloud frosting, topped with gold coins. He gave away cinnamon 'fire power' jolly ranchers for prizes. And every kid got his very own Luigi or Mario mustache. Too funny! We, of course, start every birthday right with a picture by the balloon wreath. Happy bday big man!

ISU!!!

B won tickets to a UMKC game for selling lots of Scout popcorn this year. He was pretty excited. We all got a lot more excited when we realized they were playing our beloved Cyclones! What a treat! The boys had a blast. This was the first time I ever saw them really go crazy for our clones! Fun night! Even better that it ended an ISU victory!!

Happy Halloweeeen!!!

Here are some cute pics of our pumpkins this year. The big boys made Angry Birds for their contest at school. We did our traditional potato head pumpkins for each boy, too. And Daddy helped carve a pumpkin, too. Sadly, mommy screwed up and took 0 pictures of the boys in their costumes! What the heck??? I'll get them to put them back on on Christmas break and add them in! They were the Star Wars crew...Darth Maul, Annakin Skywalker, and Yoda!!  Super cute!