Decorating for Christmas 2011

Having so much decorating for Christmas with my boys. I love every year when we bring out the Santa hats and they go nuts with posing for us.

Gavin's Santa hat he made one year at Austin's school Ornament party.

Window sticker time.

Gavin's looking so grown up lately.

Gavin was really excited this year to help put up our Christmas Tree.

Where's Garrett??

Garrett is a crazy kid. They both loved going through all the ornaments from years past.

Decorating the tree, they did pretty much all the ornaments.

I had to post "All" these pictures of Garrett, he is such a riot.

So sweet..........

getting a little crazy........

totally nuts!!

Our Tree.

I decided to decorate my Advent Calendar I made with my friends this year. Put some old pictures of the boys with their Santa Hats on. Had so much fun doing it.

Thanksgiving 2011

My niece Danielle and her husband Houston came to stay with us just over Thanksgiving. They got into town Wednesday night and stayed over one night with us. We did a yummy breakfast (order of Houston) scrambled eggs, bacon with green peppers. Little Grant and our boys played so good together.

Grant getting friendly with Garrett's big bear.

The gang over at Travis & Ginger's house for the big meal.

Me and my sisters, Tonya and Nadine.

Grant being so cute again.

Yes Ginger, I'm taking your picture. Hee hee

Watching the morning "Macy's Day parade" that Travis DVR'd for us.

Misc Pix's

Our boys are growing up fast. Just a few misc pictures taken this month. Both boys doing the dishes, Gavin's been getting a weekly allowance for some time now. Dishes is part of the deal.

Our very little snow fall so far this year.

Shoveling the walk way.

Getting ready to put the Christmas lights up outside.

The reindeer.

This was so cute, Gavin's picture of Mommy watching her favorite show "The Talk". I'm on the right drinking my Hot Chocolate. He wrote his name and our address too just in case I didn't know them. Hee hee

Garrett fell asleep on the couch the other night, he looks huge, where has the time gone.

Advent Calendar Craft Night

Had such a fun night with some of my fellow mommy friends. A few of us got together at my house to do an Advent Calendar craft. My close friend Lisa came up with a great idea to use these Santa pant gift bags and then put some black boots on them. The original idea was to hang candy from the boots. But thinking more about it last night I might just decorate the boots with pictures of our boys from past Christmas's. Then fill the inside with candy for the boys to pick from each day till Christmas. Thanks so much to all the ladies who could come, missed Heather and Lisa. Heather's about ready to have a new baby girl and need some rest, Lisa's son was sick, so sending best wishes to you two.

This is another Advent Calendar I did this year too! My mom gave me a bunch (or most) of the supplies to make it. It was pretty fun decorating each circle to co-inside with the day of the month. In each muffin cup there is a mini ornament that the boys will put on a mini tree through Christmas Eve. Thanks Mom, I had fun making this. :)

Heather S. Baby Shower

Such a fun Baby shower for a friend of mine, Heather, she's having baby girl #3. My sis-in-law Ginger and I drove over together and enjoyed some fun games, good food and great conversation. This cake was soooo cute, Heather's mom makes the cakes for a lot of their parties.

A necklace of baby wishes for the new little one.

Time to open gifts.

Grandma's on both sides I think, made her some wonderful blankets.

Opening my gift to her. Congrats Heather and family.

Misc Pic's from Fall

Just some fun pictures of our boys doing silly things!! The other day Gavin and I went to his last soccer practice and it was so cold out that my toes were pretty frozen when we got home. So I remembered a foot massager I had and brought that out to thaw my toes. Of course the boys wanted to try, Gavin enough enjoyed reading his Target Big Toys magazine while he soaked. Hee hee

Making a bed in the living room for Movie watching.

And of course the kitty's wanted in on it.

Gavin had a blast making a Caption America shield and mask the other day. He's all about him since watching the movie with Daddy and his friend Bill. Now that it's out on DVD he's really liking it. Thinking maybe Santa has some CA stuff for him this year?? Hee hee

LEAVES!!! Garrett came home the other day with a assignment from his Preschool teacher!! Go on a leave hunt and bring some cool looking leaves back to school. So we did two bags one for school and one to use at home to make leaf pictures.

I love how excited Gavin still gets over doing little fun projects like this. He's always ready to learn.

Gavin and his picture.

The finished product.

Garrett just wanted to play with the leaves, he decided he wanted to glue them on his picture. This kid is always thinking outside the box.

I told them to say "Leaves". :) Lots of fun.