Over Thanksgiving break (yes I forgot to blog this) I took the boys to the movies to see Arthur Christmas. This was Blake's 1st time ever going to the movies!
We of course brought the good movie candy and got popcorn and an Icee. He did so good, he sat and watched it (having all the fun snacks I am sure helped).
Tis the season for Candy Canes! There is a local candy store that makes candy canes for all to see and for 1.39 you get a warm one to shape to your desire!
My good friend Jenn and I took the kids and stood in line for about an hour to get in. Once we were inside the kids all loved watching them make candy canes!
Saturday night we set out for our annual Christmas light night. We stop and get hot chocolate, then drive around and look at Christmas light. We found a few houses that are set up and correspond with music! Those are the really fun one! The kids love going and pick out their favorite houses.Kyle and mom get ideas for next year that dad poo poo's!! Oh well we can dream!
Only in 1st grade at our kids school do they do a Christmas program! It is so cute!
Luke was a "sleeper" so he had to wear his pj's, hang a stocking and then go to bed and sleep! They sang lots of Christmas songs, they really got into it, singing loud and dancing.
18 years ago on December 6, 1993 my life changed forever! I finally knew what love was and thats the day I started wearing my heart on my sleeve!
After 21 hours of long hard labor I delivered a 8lb 10 oz baby girl. Unlike most birth stories, I didnt get the fairytale delivery where she was born, Dr announces its a girl and lets me hold her. Instead I got "call the NICU and they tossed her into a bed where they started pounding on her little chest to get her to breathe! All I kept saying was "Is it a boy or a girl, is it ok" No one was answering. After about 25 minutes I finally got to hold my baby girl for 3 minutes before they told me they needed to take her done to the NICU to monitor her.
I have always loved Photography, so in Feb. I bought myself a nice camera and started teaching myself to take good pictures and editing. Of course I have the cutest 4 models anyone could ask for even though the 3 boys aren't always thrilled to let me practice on them! Thankfully Brittney will willing be my model.
This November I decided to advertise through local friends about the start up of my new business. I actually got 5 families book dates! I know that doesn't sound like much but to me it was perfect because the editing takes so much time. Since I am new to all this it gave me the right time between shoots!
After my very first one I got a phone call from the girl asking me to please fax a letter of release to Wal-Mart so she could print her pictures! She said they told her that they can clearly see that they were professionally taken. That made me feel so good!
I had so much fun doing this and it was so exciting to see the Christmas Cards come in that I had taken the picture! I am so grateful for the experience and the extra Christmas money was nice too!
We have the same traditions every year for Thanksgiving, we got up to my parents house, some years we have a hockey game usually early morning but this year the tournament started the day after. We us to go out to Glamis for the week of Thanksgiving but Hockey knocked that off. We miss it but it was so crazy busy and dangerous its nice not having to worry about someone getting hurt.
On the way up to my parents G and the boys (Brittney had to work, welcome to retail) dropped me off in Redlands at the Mormon temple so I could do my sister and her families pictures! It was fun! It was funny to get to see another family getting irritated with someone for not smiling or goofing around! I thought it was just my family who did that during pictures!
I started the tradition of going to see Santa Claus and taking our Christmas card photo the Monday of Thanksgiving week! Its working out very nicely! The kids know so there isn't anything to complain about because it just that day every year!
This year we headed to the mall and pretty much walked right up to see Santa (lets face it everyone is at the grocery stores shopping for Turkey, Santa is not in high demand yet) Blake liked him from afar but wanted nothing to do with him up close. Thankfully Brittney will still go willing with us and get her picture taken with Santa and her little brothers, so she can hold Blake. Not that it made him happier.
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| Not sure what this melt down was about, maybe because he wanted to play and we wanted to do pictures. |
It was crazy hat and sock day at school! Luke loves showing his School spirit! He came up with his own ideas and was very proud!!
For a new job! I am happy to announce that Brittney got hired on with Old Navy as seasonal help!! YAY!
She had 2 hours of register training and then was on her own! Kind of crazy to me and she said they didn't teach her to do returns etc so she is pretty stressed trying to figure out things, they didn't even teach her to use the walkie talkie! YIKES!! But she is asking and hopefully will get it all figured out, she has only worked 1 day while the store was open! Its a job and she is getting the experience and that's the important part!
Every morning after Luke eats breakfast and brushes his teeth he asks (he always asks) to go play with Blake. If Blake is awake and just playing in his crib (which is usually the case every morning when Luke asks) I say yes. Luke climbs into Blake's crib and usually gets things of his to show Blake. Usually they get to spend between 10-15 minutes playing before its time to get ready for school. It is so cute to listen to them over the monitor, Luke shows him his pencil toppers and teaches Blake what each animal is, I hear Luke say "this is a whale" then Blake says "whale'. Its adorable and a great way to start the day!
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| On this particular day they were playing with Luke's hockey figures |
One of the kids favorite holidays!
Pumpkin carving was Saturday the 29th. Kyle does his 100% on his own now! Luke degutted his by himself and G helped carve it! Brittney doesn't carve pumpkins anymore and Blake painted his tiny one!
