Friday, December 24, 2010

Merry Christmas Eve

We spent the day yesterday baking tons of cookies to decorate.  Layla and I used cookie cutters to cut out the dough.  Then we baked them up, let them cool, and had a BIG time decorating and sampling the goods.  I wanted tons of cookies to serve on Christmas Day, but they sampled while they decorated....soooo we have two separate batches :)  IT was a super fun Christmas Eve Eve.



Layla loved every second.


Baking cookies is so fun, but the kids aren't very patient. 
They wanted to decorate and eat them hot out of the oven.


Hayden, otherwise known as Buzz
{lately he isn't happy if he can't be in his Buzz Lightyear costume}
just kept asking to eat.


He did great decorating. 
He'd eat a handful of sprinkles and then put some on the cookies.


See....haha!  Like I said, we made two separate batches.


A very happy & messy Buzz.


Layla's cookies were too cute!


She sampled the snowman. Mmmmm!



I hope you all have a safe and fun Christmas Eve!

Merry Christmas!!! 

Thursday, December 23, 2010

holly jolly photo session

Don't you just love this time of year.  When you dress up your kids in cute Christmas attire.  Hoping to get some great Christmas pictures.  I don't about y'all, but my kids are perfect angels.
 They totally cooperate and smile so pretty.  I love them so.


What a beautiful angel!


Look who's wings just fell off.



Trying to hold it in...


And release....Yep, that was a throw your body on the floor kind of fit.  Good times :)


Awww look, he is spreading the holiday cheer to his sister!


The only reason she is smiling is 'cause she's laughing at him.


Very excited about gifts! Can you feel it!?!


More gift giving joy.


She does look angelic in this one!


Along side the hap hap happiest angel in the room!


Here my angels are expressing the obvious joy they feel today!


Um what?  I fear for the safety of that cookie.


Did somebody say cookie?


I changed my mind...I don't like cookies today!


Oh, but I would like to open a gift!


Gifts are to be opened on Christmas sweet boy!


Half a cookie down and we are scared she will choke for laughing so hard at brother.


 Oh this is truly a mistake, he actually looks sweet.


Now that is just so precious...Christmas Hugs so joyfully accepted.


Look at the twinkle in his eyes!


One angel is really loving this photo session.


And the other is holding back her joy.


I hope your Holly Jolly photo session is as enjoyable as ours!

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Frosty the marshmallow Man

I planned tons of fun Christmas themed things for us to do as we count down to Christmas Day. We had so much fun playing with marshmallows! We used pretzel sticks to hold the 3 marshmallows together. I had twizzlers, caramels and mini m&m's for decorating. We didn't have a way to stick the decorations to the marshmallows, so we just licked them. They stuck and we were eating our own creations anyway.




 It was so silly to watch Hayden put his together and make it "talk" to Layla's.  And then as he was eating it piece by piece he was still making it talk...there goes the eyes, mouth, and nose.  Layla giggled so loud when my snowman's green eyeball just randomly popped off.  It was a super fun snack :)

I hope you are having a great Christmas week.  Layla woke up this morning after her first dose of medicine and she is bight eyed and bushy tailed.  She seems better already!  Hayden is still snoozing.  Any minute our house will be loud and rowdy.  I wouldn't have it any other way, as long as I can have TONS of coffee!!

Monday, December 20, 2010

monday madness

The munchkins and I laid low this past weekend.  They have both had a cough-cold for a week or so.  It seems like once one gets better the other gets sick, and then it starts all over again.  So I decided to veg out this weekend since Gary was out of town.  Here are a few pictures of our adventures:


We watched movies...tons of Christmas movies.
Layla wore her favorite Christmas gown and then we washed it and she wore it again.


We made Santa beards. They were supposed to be elf hats, but we got carried away.



I made cupcake/cookie treats that failed. They tasted good, but look terrible.  I can't believe they didn't work out. And they are supposed to be red. Not pink. And I can't even post a photo of the green ones. They are really ugly.


I put socks on the kids arms/hands and made them clean the table and chairs. Our table and chairs get so nasty. Yuck!


Layla loved helping.  She went to town and was a big helper.


Hayden was bored in 2.3 seconds.

I was convinced that the two days at home were just what we needed to get over our sickness. Until Layla broke into a horrible fever last night at around 9:00pm.  She was piping hot!  I knew when I woke up this morning I was going to call the doctor.  After Hayden had a sleepless night too I knew they just weren't better.



I took these pictures with my phone, so they aren't the best quality.

We got ready and thankfully our dr. office got us in bright and early this morning.  Layla was so nervous about going to see Dr. Shori, but she did great.  Hayden did okay too, but he has recently learned how to sass me.  I got so mad at him...ughhh! He says "no" so mean.  But I know he isn't feeling well.  Turns out Layla and Hayden both have sinus infections.  The colds they both started with just turned worse.  Layla had been complaining of a weird sound in her ear.  She has never had an ear infection in all of her 5 years, but she has an infection in her right ear.  Not even the one that is bothering her...weird right?  Hayden's ears look fine, but he has a really bad cough and tons of drainage.  And...the doctor was going to test them each for strep, but said she was going to treat them anyway, so why test them? Whatever...I thought that was weird. Anyway, we got 2 bottles of amoxicillin.  Hopefully this will fix them right up in time for Christmas.  Even though they are feeling crummy, they have both been pretty sweet.  When I am not feeling well I am a big, grouchy, cranky bear.  They have had their moments, but have done pretty good.  Kids are so resilient.



Hayden even sat still and was a good boy while getting his hair cut.  His hair had gotten so long. It was bad, but he is back to looking cool again.  I think he felt better after his haircut because he mentioned going to a restaurant with one of his girlfriends. Ha!  I can't make this stuff up.  Layla and I busted out laughing after he mentioned her...ha!  Little Miss Ava has a spell on my boy, and they are only 2 years old.

After picking Gary up from the airport, we are home and the kids are napping.  I'm sure they will feel better soon!  But wow....it never fails something crazy always happens when daddy travels!

Sunday, December 19, 2010

60 years old

Today is my sweet daddy's birthday. 
I love to post birthday greetings on our family blog :)


Layla showing DeDe her Leapster game.


And this...it is one of my all time favorite pictures of these two guys...so sweet!

Happy Birthday to you DeDe...we love you!