All ready for Christmas!

Let me just say, ITS GOING TO BE A LONG MONTH! It's our tradition to put up the christmas tree the weekend after Thanksgiving. We set it up and immediately Gavin started asking why there wasn't anything in his stocking. He is really into Christmas this year. He's getting old enough that he knows what it's all about- PRESENTS!! A couple hours after we set it up, he started asking "When do we get to open presents??" I tried explaining to him that we still have a while before Christmas and I thought he understood. Then this morning when we woke up, Mackenzie was asking if she could do a craft and Gavin Yells NO! YOU CAN'T DO CRAFTS ON CHRISTMAS! WE HAVE TO OPEN PRESENTS FIRST!!! He thinks that since the tree is up, it must be christmas. So, today our project will be to make those paper christmas countdowns. Maybe that will put it into perspective a little bit. I just have to say. my kids are lucky that I shopped early this year. I already have all of their christmas stuff paid for. A word of warning: If you're wanting to get an IUD, check with your insurance. Just because they've paid for all other birth control, doesn't mean they will pay for an IUD. I am now paying $800 for a tiny piece of plastic. That makes $3,000 that we've paid in 2 months (OUCH!) So, for chritmas this year, Dallas and I are getting BIRTH CONTROL!! WOO HOO!! (How am I supposed to wrap that??) Dallas is thinking that it's not fair that because of my stupidity, He gets nothing for christmas, but it's not exactly something that I can take back and say "I want a refund!!"

Thanksgiving

This year for Thanksgiving we went to Dallas's parent's house. We ate LOTS of good food. I was even brave and tried sweet potato casserole for the first time and it was REALLY good. The kids had fun and we saw some family that we haven't seen in a long time. It was a nice day. Bailey's new pink hair-Do.

Our Little Alien

Gavin had a thanksgiving feast at pre-school today and when I picked him up I asked him "what are you supposed to be? He said An ALIEN! ( I think he meant Indian)

It's a Miracle!!!

Dallas is going to kill me for doing this so I'd better enjoy it while I can. I'm sure you all know this by now. I HATE facial hair. So what does Dallas decide to do right after we get married?? He decides to grow it out and he decides that he likes it. We have been married for seven years and I can probably count on one hand the number of times that he's shaved it all off. (Too bad we just got our family pictures taken. I wish I'd waited till now!) I think that the main reason he keeps his facial hair is because he hates having to shave everyday. (I don't like shaving my legs everyday either! But, I do it because the alternative just isn't an option!) Anyhow the reason for this post is because I discovered that I am still married to one HOT man! He looks great without all of the scruff covering up his face. I just had to post this picture so you can all remember what he looks like. Jealous, aren't ya!

The Joys of Having Children

More scrapbook pages. I LOVE this! It's so easy. I'm not making pages like this for Gavin. Just the girls. For Gavin I'm doing a bound Hardcover book from mpix. I figure it will take 2 years to fill it up if I do 3 pages per month.

Kids are so funny. We have been talking about Thanksgiving and Mackenzie and Gavin have been calling it "Turkey Day." Anyway, I was telling them that we are going to grandma's house for Turkey day and Mackenzie Says "Yes! I'm so excited! We get to go eat CHICKEN!!!

I'm Going Digital!

I hate scrapbooking!! I've always done it though because it's something that I want my kids to have. I really really do not like doing it anymore so I decided to make it a little easier on myself. From now on I am going to be doing the pages on my computer. No more paper, stickers, or lost scissors. No more fighting my kids, trying to keep them out of my stuff. They can have it because I am done! I figure I will do one page a month for each of them and that will be plenty!! Here's my first page. It's fast and easy. I should hve done this a long time ago!

My Biggest Fear!

My whole pregnancy, since the first day I found out that I was having a baby, my biggest fear was that I would go into labor at home and not make it to the hospital. The closest hospital to my house is 45 minutes away. The hospital I was planning to deliver at is an hour and a half away. Once I go into labor, I go so fast that I always felt it was a possibility. I would start thinking about it and it would scare me to death because my imagination would take over. I was so afraid that the baby would come out and something would be wrong. What if she's not breathing?? I wouldn't know what to do. Luckily, the hospital agreed to start me 2 weeks early. Anyhow, Saturday night after the kids went to bed I decided to stay up and do some scrapbooking. At about midnight, my phone rang. It was my friend Melissa. She said that her water broke and wanted to know if she could bring her other kids over. They dropped them off a few minutes later. About 10 min. after that I heard a page for an ambulance and I started wondering. Then I heard the operator say to the peramedics who were en-route to cancel. That the baby had been born, was doing well, and that they were just going to drive themselves the rest of the way. She had her baby in the car on the side of the road!!! They were driving, and she told her husband to pull over because she could feel the baby crowning. He pulled the car over, and the baby was already out. Luckily, the baby was fine. I just thought it was funny because my whole pregnancy I was so worried about that and her whole pregnancy, she wasn't.

P.S. I took avery to her 2 month doctor appt. last week and she weighed 12 lbs 5 oz. She's in the 85% for weight, and the 25% for length. She's definately not going to be as tall as my other kids

A Little Bit Of Everything

My Kiddos
Avery was blessed last sunday by her Grandpa Anderson. He did a great job. Afterwards, we went to Sill's Cafe and ate soup and bread bowls that Grandpa Sill made. YUMMY!! I just want to thank everyone who came. Especially those who drove a long way. It was a fun day.

I have the BEST kids in the world!!
My First Smiles!!Dallas's Mom gave Avery this cute little tutu so of course, I had to take her pictures in it. I'm just happy that I finally got her to smile in a picture. I've been trying for a while and she would never smile when I've had the camera out.