Christmas Cookies...

...Oh how I love the smell of cookies baking in the oven.

Me & Anna made our friends and family Christmas cookies this year. First we had to decide what cookies to bake. Our first list had over 10 different cookies... we narrowed it down to 6. Then it was off to the store to buy all the ingredients. Finally it was the fun part, baking all the cookies!

We were in the kitchen all day & baked 14 dozen cookies.

{I am not even going to tell you how many we ate!)

It was so much fun, Adrianna is a GREAT little cook!

Here are some of the cookies

Here they are all wrapped up & ready to go!

I bought these cute boxes from Pier 1 and Target.

First Attempt at getting a pic with Santa...

On the way to the mall, Adrianna & I would ask Andrew "Are you ready to see Santa?" and he would answer "Yes!". He was so excited but when we got inside and he actually seen Santa then he was terrified! He wouldn't have anything to do with him. Maybe next time...

Adrianna's Christmas Party...

Adrianna's class had the cutest little party this year. They made crafts, watched Christmas movies, & ate lots of candy! Andrew & I came and had lunch with her which is always fun. Since I have been working in Little Rock I haven't got to have lunch with her all year.

of course Mr. Andrew was into everything the WHOLE time. He was totally Everywhere. geesh, i forget about this age. {wink wink}

Can you find her train and snowman in this picture?

Andrew loves the scraf his sister made... I guess she will have to make another one!LOL

Now we are out for Christmas break... No school or work for 2 weeks!! We are loving it!!

"The Princess and the Frog"...

pretty much the cutest disney movie.

we loved this one, and after the movie i asked Adrianna what her favorite part was, and she said "when they kissed" Ha Ha




seriously so cute, we can't wait to see it again...

Andrew's Second Birthday Party

Drum-Roll puh-leez...
Look who turned TWO

Welcome to the wild and crazy PAR-Tay!

I didn't do a great job capturing the party...
I was too busy running around but here are some pics

Andrew is really into tractors if you hadn't noticed.
He loves going to our farm and helping his daddy!
Andrew rides in his lap while they check on the cattle and look for deer.

Andrew loved all the attention from his fabulous cousins

Uncle Shane & Heather brought LOTS of toys!

Sweet baby Eli was enjoying the party too!

Thanks to all of Andrew's adoring fans who came to wish him
well on his special day! I wish I would have gotten pictures of everyone!

So much to be thankful for...

My BEAUTIFUL happy and healthy children who enrich my life daily!
My hardworking, handsome hubby who has made me one happy mama, FAMILY, good friends, beautiful surroundings and a BEAUTIFUL LIFE...

Thanksgiving was much different this year... We slept in late, watched the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade & ate our delicious turkey dinner at home with just our lil family. After lunch when we were all done cleaning up, Adrianna & Andrew went outside and played together, Jeremy watched football, and I searched through the ads. It was a wonderful Thanksgiving!

The twilight saga: New Moon

Adrianna and i went to see "New Moon" with our friends Debbie and Mallory

they made Jacob way sweeter in the movie than in the book. In the book, his speach is lazy, he dresses sloppy, eats like a pig, etc. I think they made him more dreamy in the movie to create more of a battle between him and Edward. All in all, I loved the movie. Can't wait for Eclipse.

Still Team Edward

(even though he did not look his best!)

a few questions, points, and/or
funny things we'd like to point out...

WARNING

{do not read below, if you haven't seen the movie yet!}

• what is up with jacob's hair extensions?
• a few times edward smiles, it looks as if it hurts. why?
• Alice is adorable, for a vampire.
• love when charlie refers to himself as the "famous ladies man!"
• Jessica was hysterical.
• the "face punch" action movie-scene, still laughing. "marshmallow!"
• Edward tells Bella, "you gave me everything just by breathing," Awww!
• we love the squeals & giggles of the audience!
• Overall, "new moon" was much better than "twilight"

*****

Happy Birthday Babe!

Jeremy turned 30 years old!

I wanted to have a birthday party for him but he didn't want to miss one day of Deer hunting LOL
Instead Adrianna, Andrew & i made him a chocolate cake, packed up and headed to the hunting lease to spend the weekend with him. He had already went hunting before we got there and killed an eight point!
He had to do some serious hunting while he could! Ha Ha

My kids love deer season! Adrianna even has her own gun {although she has never killed anything!} There are always lots of kids for her to play with and talk to on the radio. She especially likes to go to the camp at night to eat delicious food around the fire & roast marshmallows!

I had a blast spending the weekend with you,

no one else in the world I would rather be with.


Here is a picture of Jeremy's Birthday Cake

Skate Party...

Adrianna's school had a skate party which included black lights, fog machines, spooky music, & awesome costumes. Adrianna went as a rocker! They did limbo, Thriller, & the Casper Slide! It was LOTs of fun!

Happy Halloween...

call me a freak... but I LOVE Halloween!

Maybe because its so much fun to wear costumes...
Maybe because I {heart} Candy...
maybe because we theme our costumes to kind of match. {wink wink}

Halloween is so much fun, and kids make it crazy fun!

We had a pre-trick-or-treat party which included friends, creative costumes, and "Jack O lantern" pizza from Papa Murphy's &
a skeleton veggie tray. {Jeremy helped make this!}

Then it was off to Trick or Treat!

I tried to get some pictures after we got home but the Dalmatian didn't want me to take his picture...

Miley Cyrus Concert

My wonderful sister gave Adrianna & I tickets to the Miley Cyrus!!! The concert was awesome, my fave moment was when Miley did Thriller and "Party in the USA" was amazing, as expected. Before the concert I took Adrianna downtown Little Rock. It's so fun to take her out on the town. of course, it's more fun when she stays awake all evening.

Our New Tradition

On nights that Jeremy has classes, me & the kids go to the old post park and play. Adrianna can't wait for Monday & Wednesday nights! The park is so beautiful this time of year.We play on the slides, swings, throw the football & feed the geese.


Andrew loves to slide... he comes down however his sister does! He a little copy cat! LOL


Anna loves the slides too!








Andrew insist on swinging in the big kid swings and doesn't want any help from me or Anna.

WOOO PIG SOOOIE!

How about those Hogs!

Playing...

Luckily the kids were able to get out & play before the rain came! Jeremy's parents came over brought Andrew his first 3-wheeler. He loves it!! They rode bikes, 3-wheelers, & Adrianna played pool.










Andrew loves to goooo

Happy October...

I know i say this about every season... but I LOVE October!

the rain, the leaves turning color, football, hayrides, festivals, Halloween, baking yummy desserts & breads with pumpkin in them, mmmmm.... i can just smell it now!

One of the traditions I do on October 1st is surprise the kids with all their Halloween stuff when they get home from school. I decorated the house. Brought out the Halloween books, DVD's, & carving sets. Each year it gets more and more fun!

Adianna picked up all these acorns for me!

Science Project

Adrianna is studying about cells in Science Class & was assigned to create a 3-D model of an animal cell. She spent Sunday night working on her project & was in her element. She loves art and crafts! She used her pink Halloween hair dye to paint the nucleus, twix for the mitochondria, blue pom poms for the vacuole, wax paper for the cytoplasm, & a rubber band for the cell membrane. Here's the finished project...



She can't wait to take it to school and show her teacher!

Cheer Mom

We have been so busy lately with football and loving every minute of it! Adrianna is doing an AWESOME job cheering on the boys! Her cheer team got to perform a routine with the high school cheerleaders & they were so cute! I didn't get any shoots of that b/c Andrew was not on his best behavior! LOL When we left Adrianna said she wants to be a cheerleader in high school! I did get some pictures of the girls performing their dance @ a football game... GO APACHE CHEER TEAM!!

GNO

Cassandra & I went to Girls Night Out @ clear-channel metroplex. It was the first time in a while that we were able to spend time together. We had a fun night of shopping, eating, massages & getting tons of free stuff. We had so much fun... I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard!

This event was sponsored by Alice 107.7 {our fav radio station} so we got to see Heather & DC! Also, we seen performances from American Idol's Jason Castro, Safety Suit & Jessie James!

I wasn't very impressed with Jessie James orJason Castro BUT Safety Suit ROCKS! We were so close to the stage that we could nearly touch them. As they were walking off the stage the drummer threw me his drum stick!

Safety Suit rocking the metroplex

This guitarist is awesome!

He is the lead singer

Cassandra & Jessie James

Jason Castro

I've never seen a guitar this small before...

Cassandra & DC

Me & DC