Merry Christmas!

I think this might be the last post that I do until Christmas! We have been quite busy this weekend. We had some our friends over this weekend to make ornaments and for some playtime! We had a great time. Today we went over to another friends house and made some Christmas cookies! A little more than we normally do for a weekend! It was so much fun! I have attached a video that I took today of the kids on the way back to the house. Evidently, Jake has learned how to say "Merry Christmas!" It's so cute!

I have also attached some cute pics of Hannah and I. She actually wanted to take pictures last Wednesday before her tumbling class. Notice her leg warmers....can you believe they are bringing those back?? YEA!!! I had some when I was a little older than her! We hope you all have a very Merry Christmas! Love to you all!

Party Time!

Last night was Brent's Christmas party down in Dallas. As always it was very fun and exciting, no not really! This will be the last Christmas party for Club Marketing in Dallas and I'm sure Brent is thrilled! Since we hardly ever have any pictures taken of Brent and I, I thought this was a good opportunity since we were all dressed up. Don't get me wrong, I will take any time to get to be with my husband, even though he doesn't really care for the party! I still had fun just being with him!

Where's Hannah??

The past couple of naps that Hannah has had, she has ended up in the plastic storage box that we keep her stuffed animals in. At first, we would come into her room to wake her from her nap and would find her nestled in her curtains on the floor. When you would first walk in the room you couldn't find her. It's been kind of funny to go in and see where you will find her! The other day Brent was home and got the chance to wake her up from her nap. When I got home he said "you're never going to believe where I found Hannah." He told me that she was in the box! So that last 2 days she has wanted to sleep in the box! Whatever it takes to get her to take a nap...I don't care! I got a couple of snap shots of her in the box!! Now when she takes a nap she says "Mommy, I want to sleep in the box!" I guess it like her secret hiding spot that we all know about now! Cute,cute,cute!

yesterday at nap time!

today at nap time!

My Q & A with Hannah

Hannah decided that she didn't need a nap today. Instead, she came out to the living room and talked to me about the Christmas tree. After a couple of minutes I thought...this would be a cute video! There is a little added bonus of Hannah's version of singing Jingle Bells. Check it out!

Deck the Halls!!

Today I accomplished quite a bit! Hannah was in school today and Jake was home with Mommy. We had a late start but, I soon came up with the great idea of wrapping presents. I started about 10 a.m. and finished about 11:15. I had already finished all of our Christmas shopping last Friday and now I thought it was time to conquer the world of wrapping. I did pretty good and got all of Hannah's gifts wrapped except for the kitchen, of course. That will be assemble by her Uncle Robert in his free time over at Dad and Mom's. I don't even think we're going to wrap it. We can't wait to see her face Christmas morning. Anyway, back to wrapping...I started on Jake's gifts since he was busy watching CARS! He didn't really notice me grabbing his gifts that were nicely hidden on the top bunk bed (It has to be used for something...storage works well for now). I had one more gift of his to wrap and I went in and grabbed it and all of the sudden I heard this loud gasp! I thought, "on no, he's in here!". I turned around and his mouth was wide open and he had the look of amazement on his face. I had in my hands....his firetruck! I ran into the kitchen and tried to cover it up with paper as fast as possible(while he is trailing fast behind me). I got it covered up and thought...he has short term memory loss right now, he won't remember as long as I distract him with something else. As I was trying to cover the firetruck up with paper, I ran out of paper and the roll was left behind. I handed him the roll and he thought this was the best thing ever!! He started running around the house, in typical Jake fashion, whacking whatever he could with it! Problem solved!!!

After most of the gifts were wrapped we headed out for some more shopping! For the past 2 years I have bought the kids their very own ornament for them to put on the tree. A little late this year but, I got it done. I got Jake a choo-choo train and Hannah a frosty the snowman! I also found some great silver and red jingle bells! Our tree has never been very creative, just the plain-jane balls you get at Wal-Mart! But since the kids have come along, they really get into putting their very own ornaments on the tree. It will be fun in 20 years to look back at each and every ornament that we have collected over the years. It may looked a little funny right now with not so many ornaments over here but plenty in just one spot. That's the way we like it...because those little critters did it themselves. Our little elves!