Florida Bound! :)

Disney tickets are bought! Disney T-shirts are ordered! The bags are packed!!!

We are Florida bound! :)

10 days, 12 hour drive (twice!), 3 kids.....my oh my....I will let you know how it goes! :)

Merry Christmas!

Here are a sampling of pictures from our Christmas! The older these kids get the faster the gifts go and the harder it gets to snap pics in time :)

Christmas Eve before church

After church.....I mean the nap he took during service! 

The first gift

Christmas Morning! Gifts from the Carmondy's

They were a hit! 

8000 rubber bands

Iron Man! He only needs a Captain America doll to complete his Avengers collection :) 

Kate got the Simon game

Hot Wheels Car Wash! 

His most desired gift....the Power Ranger Mega Force Legendary Morpher! 

The family got a tablet! :) 

The girls got this Orbeez Foot Spa thing....they were super excited! 

Organizing her collection! There are no words!!!! 

We had a wonderful Christmas together and we hope that you did too!

Winter Break Fun!!

After school let out we only had a few days before Christmas so I took the opportunity to take the kids to Chuck E Cheese.

Owen has gotten pretty obsessed with MarioKart lately so this was right up his alley

She had just been complaining about how she never wins many tickets! 

Savannah would absolutely not allow me to take a picture of her! Too embarrassing :)

Singing and Cookies!

On Sunday the two little kiddos sang at church and then we came home and decided to spend the afternoon making cookies! :)

I actually was helping them practice and sat behind them during the service so this was the best pic I could get

Savannah I did get to see! 

Making cookies

You know you are raising a boy when....

you find this....

right next to this....

What a goof! Although last week at preschool he said to me in front of a bunch of the teachers, "Mom, I am tired. Can we go home and snuggle up and watch Pioneer Woman?" It was priceless!

Programs Galore!

This week was a busy one around our house! We had a ton of events to attend and it was also the last week of school before Winter Break.

The first program of the week was Owen's T/Th program at the preschool that I run

Because the majority of our 50 kids in the program are 2 and under, we kept the program simple. But our 4 year old class was a living Nativity! They did such a good job

My Owen Joseph got to be Joseph. The funniest part was Mary kept trying to pass off Baby Jesus to him!!!

the littler ones 

This pic Mike took makes me laugh! The parents loved it! 

One afternoon this week I attended my very first Ugly Christmas Sweater party with the staff ladies at the church where I work. And of course being from FL I don't own a single Christmas Sweater let alone an ugly one. So I bought one....it said "I fish you a Merry Christmas!" I was pretty sure I was going to win the prize for the ugliest sweater!

Our host cooked like she was Paula Deen and I couldn't even eat until the next morning! As the for the prize, you know you are around Christian women when you go to an "ugly" party and they all insist that your sweater is pretty and cannot bear to vote on the ugliest :) In the end we had to write down our votes in secret and I am sorry to tell you I did not win! But we had a great time! 

The next performance of the week was Kate's Winter Concert for Chorus. Unfortunately Savannah got sick at school so I had to stay home with her and didn't get to see it. But Mike took lots of pics and a little video for me.

Mike got her flowers for the performance

Not sure why but she ended up in the 2nd row behind a taller girl 

Here is she in front of the A/B Honor Roll! Smart and talented she is!! :) 

Then I threw my preschool teachers a little Christmas Breakfast at school....

Owen ate exactly 5 powered sugar donuts and noting else....how did he end up being such a picky eater? 

And finally on Friday we had our last program! Owen's MWF preschool program and Open House

They gave an awesome performace! Owen came down the aisle afterwards in tears because he had dropped her beloved eraser under the risers! So Savannah went and found it for him! 

Even though she was feeling a lot better, we kept her home to be safe. She had to miss her class party so I let her get all dressed up to try to cheer her up! 

These are two of Owen's favorite school friends Cooper and Lenox. I just think all three of these boys are very stylish! 

All I Want for Christmas....

Savannah wants her two front teeth!

Savannah's mommy just wants one day without this....

the fussy face....

Hint Hint....

So no one ever accused Savannah of being subtle. Ever.

After we got our tree put up the very weekend of Thanksgiving I was feeling very accomplished. But apparently Savannah was two steps ahead of me. She immediately started asking when I was going to wrap the gifts (You know Mom, the ones you are hiding in your closet??? You know all those bags from Target???) I held her off for a few days with things like, "Savannah, honey I really don't want to wrap a bunch of gifts until I am sure you are going to get them...."  Oh. Ok.


Then came the next hint....at least this one was quieter!

She and Owen spent several hours over the course of a couple of days wrapping up gifts for each other! 

This one makes me giggle! It says - To: Breck Oliver  From: Your Secret Santa 

On the back it says: You will like it. No peeking. I'm watching you!   It's just like my Savannie to be so sweet, yet threatening! :) 

I noticed there were a lot of gifts for her! About 10 or so were for her and Owen had about 5....funny....

Poor Kate, who doesn't get in on the action too much anymore since she gets home so late and is so tweeny, only got one gift! 

Here you go Savannah! I finally got the hint and wrapped all the presents :) Now I just have to keep her out of them for another 10 days!!!