Christmas

What a better way to start the long Christmas weekend than with a little hair tinsel?!! Lisa and I took Katie and Savannah on Friday afternoon to get some bling. The best part was listening to them sing Taylor Swift in the car, yet they were amazingly silent after we stopped at Sonic!




Christmas Eve we celebrated at my mom's house. I didn't get many pictures, but managed to catch her opening the grandkids reindeer footprints.


That evening we always give the kids a gift from us. We try to pick out one special thing we know they'll love and then Santa brings 3 gifts because that's how many baby Jesus received at his birth.




Can't forget matching jammies! E is a pretty good sport about it!

Jasmine didn't have matching jammies, but she dressed up too!

We left to drive through the Isle of Lights and somehow managed to get home and get everyone to bed so E and I could go to the Christmas Eve service at Church.

Katie woke up around 7am and helped me put some glazed donut muffins in the oven while we waited for the boys.

Nearly 2 hours later, they were up and we were able to check out our stockings and open presents!





I hope everyone else had an equally fabulous day!

Wordless Wednesday - The Climber

Konny's First Haircut!!

Since his hair had gotten long enough that I was putting it in a little ponytail to keep it out of his face, I knew it was probably time for a trim. Our friend, Angela, did a great job since he was kind of a moving target.





He looks like such a big boy now, but he's still my baby!

Thank You Pinterest!!

I know everyone laughs about all the fun ideas they pin at pinterest and never get around to trying. I haven't had the chance to do as many as I'd like, but I've found time for a few things.

One that I knew I had to do was this wipes container with fabric scraps idea for Konny. He is forever emptying the wipes, so I knew he would love this.



I made these cute orange slice baggies for Kelton's classroom earlier this month. (I've decided I love being a room mother.)


I've made these little Extra Thank Yous to leave anonymously for people who really deserve it. There is nothing more fun than doing things like this without being caught!


Pinterest also came in handy for Christmas this year! I got so many ideas and had a lot of fun making them all!

I made our parents little finger print snowmen canvases. Instead of having each child make a seperate one, I had each of us put one finger print to represent the whole family.


For my mom, I gathered all the grandkids feet to make reindeer footprints on a canvas. Needless to say, she LOVED it!


These little containers for puppy chow are out of starbucks frapp bottles. An excellent reason for drinking them since they are great for things like this!


All the bath and body gifts were probably the most fun to make!
Oatmeal Cookie Bath

Candy Cane Bath Salts

Salt and Sugar Scrub

Honey Lemon Lip Scrub
I subbed lemon essential oil for the lemon juice and
added vit E oil as a preservative.

Since I only have a zillon other things pinned I know I'm going to stay crazy busy in 2012, starting with the kids birthdays!

Christmas at the Farm

We had our first Christmas celebration at Eric's parent's house last weekend with his brother's family. It's always so much fun because there are 4 other K-kids to play with. We nearly have one of every age when we get together...8,7,6,5,3,2,1.

Hartzell was sneaky enough to find us again and left candy canes on the tree for all the kids.


One of the first things we did was ride the tractor and we discovered how much Konnor LOVES it! He was not a happy camper when it was time to get out.




We got some shooting in..



And of course, there's always some work to be done.

Don't forget the presents!!








And Konny decided he does like Uncle Shawn!

It was a great weekend and we were sad to say goodbye because it probably won't be till spring or later when we see the K-cousins again, but we'll be back at Nana & Papa's next weekend so Moosey can shoot a deer!