Christmas Morning

I am finally getting to take a minute to post. We had a great Christmas this year. Christmas eve we ate Waffle House with my parents as it was one of the only places open at 5pm. We woke the kids up around 7:30 Christmas morning they opened all the presents from us and santa then Heaths parents came over at 8:30 and they opened up a bunch more presents from them, Heaths aunts and uncles and Heaths grandma. They were most excited about the trampoline.
We had lunch at his grandmothers then we went to my parents to open up the gifts from them and all my family and had dinner. We are still trying to figure out where all the presents are going to go.

Buddy & Parties

Wednesday Brooke had snack day at school so that meant she brought Buddy Bear home which is one of her favorite things. He got to go to the Birthday party for Jesus with her Wednesday night. Thursday at school they had a little program for parents. Heath and I enjoyed that. Saturday night The Hansons had their Christmas party. They had train rides and you could sit on Santas lap. We had a great time. Lara and the kids came up from Charleston and the Morgans came from Alabama. Brady and Heath are golfing right now and Brooke is Christmas shopping with my dad. I should probley get back to cleaning. I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas!!

Our Angel & Santa

Sunday Brookes choir did their performance in church and she was a sweet little angel. They did a great job. After church Sunday night we went to the train guy with my parents and some people from church. We took a hayride and Brady sat on Santas lap. This Santa did not say a word, did not ask what he wanted, did not say hello or ho ho ho. It was really wierd but atleast we got a picture. We have a Christmas party at California Dreamin tomorrow night, a party for Jesus Wednesday night at Awanas, Thursday we have Brookes Christmas Party at school and two Christmas parties on Saturday. I will try to post some of those over the weekend. Hope everyone is enjoying the Season and the true meaning of Christmas. If you ask Brooke she says the best part is the presents. My dad is so proud, lol!!!

Crazy Hair Night & Horse Ride

Last Wednesday night was crazy hair night at awanas. Heath also helps but is way to cool or so he thinks to participate. We had our church Christmas party friday night and had a great time.

Saturday night we went and ate with John, Laurie and the kids at Wild wings and rode the horse at Sandhills. We stood in line for almost two hours and we were lucky enough to be the last ride of the night at 9:15pm. I am glad because the kids would have been pretty upset if they wouldn't have been able to ride. I tried to take some pictures of the kids Sunday for our christmas cards. I went ahead and made an appt at Portrait Innovations for the 20th since I couldn't get them to look at me and smile (a real smile) at the same time. That was the first after school appt they had so I might get the cards out on time this year or not. Hope everyone is having a good weekend and getting excited about Christmas despite this crazy weather.

What a Week!!

Well, the kids and I were in an accident last tuesday that was my fault. I pulled out in front of a girl that actually goes to my church. I did not see her and well anyways thank goodness the kids were alright. Its also a good thing I started working at a body shop a few weeks ago.

We were actually on the way to James Ervin to look at a Tahoe since the lease on my jeep is almost over. Ofcourse nothings gone wrong in two years on the jeep and right before its due back I wreck it. This was really hard on me at first because it was Brookes door that got hit and I keep thinking what could have happened but God truly had a hedge of protection around us because it could have been alot worse and the kids were not injured. ANYWAYS,

Our good friends the Morgan leave for Alabama in the morning so we had a girls sleepover friday night and Brooke and I had a great time. It was Brookes first sleepover and she made me lay with her until she fell asleep but it was still worth it. We went to see the lights at Saluda Shoals friday night & went to Kaylas birthday party saturday morning at Build a Bear. Laurie took all of the "CobbleStone Kids" pictures together one last time before they leave. We also had a pot luck for them as well last night. Luckily Ana had to create a blog for online classes and now is going to make one for all the girls to keep in touch, right Ana????? Hope everyone has a good week!!

Park, Pow Wow and Thanksgiving

Since Brooke was out of school Wednesday and the weather was so nice I took the kids to the park for a picnic and then we went and joined the library. Brooke has to read for 15 minutes every night and so we were tired of reading the same books all the time. I also included her as an indian when they had pow wow day tuesday at school. The other picture is of them on thanksgiving morning before we went to Heaths grandmas for lunch. Trying to get some good pictures of them together before I order the grandparents calendars for Christmas. Hope everyone had a great thanksgiving. Sheri and I did the black friday thing and left her house at 4:30 am and didn't finish up till after 3pm but I did get alot done. We had a good but busy weekend so it flew by. The kids have been decorating the tree for the past two days so I will attach those photos when I get a chance. Hope everyone has a good week!

Parties

This new job is keeping me from blogging these days & I only work two days a week. Actually its just I hate taking the time to upload my pictures which is just lazy!!! I love the job.
Pictures are of Caroline & Jacksons party two weekends ago and Sadie & Coles birthday parties from that same weekend. We also went to a hockey game with friends from church. This past weekend the girls had the Operation Christmas Child party. With all the money from the lemonade stands and donations we were able to make 42 shoes boxes. The goal was 21 so we are very proud and very excited about that. Wach Fox came out to the party saturday night and the girls were on the 10pm news again. Brookes school had a book parade and they had to wear rain gear for the book Franklin & the Thunderstorm. She is the one in the ladybug boots. In the class picture shes the one with the butterfly on her dress. The real cute one, lol!! Hope everyone is having a great week.

Field Trip & Trunk or Treat

Tuesday we went to Hermitage Baptist Church for a field trip with Brookes class. The kids had a great time decorating a pumpkin, listening to a story, taking a hayride and having snack.

Wednesday night we had trunk or treat at church. I asked Julie to take pictures for me since I had to help get things set up. Well, I got a few pictures of the kids and a whole bunch of pictures of Julie with the kids, Julie with other peoples kids, Julie by herself. Sorry Julie but its the truth.

We also went trick or treating at Mrs. Poetas house.

We had over a hundred kids come to trunk or treat and had over thirty people decorate their trunks. It was a good night.

Last night we went to the Hansons to let the kids make smores and just hang out since there was no school today. I also started a part time job today and it went really well. I am only working two days a week and its only 8-10 hours a week and the pay is great so I am excited.

Its at Palmetto Paint & Body in Camden. I wasn't looking for a job but when Sara asked me about it and told me I could work whenever I wanted what ever hours I wanted I figured I would give it a try. My mom is going to keep Brady one day a week and Julie is going to keep him on fridays since she is off on fridays. I guess we will see how it goes. Hope everyone has a great weekend.

Carnival, Birthday Party & Singing

We took the kids to Blaney Elementarys little carnival Saturday afternoon. We got there an hour before it ended so they didn't get to do everything but they did get to ride a horse and just in a few of the inflatables. We also went to Calebs 3rd birthday party on the lake. We had a great time on the paddle boat & the kids enjoyed fishing and the baby turtle we found. Brookes little choir sang Sunday morning which is always very cute and entertaining. Also, Brooke is a pop corn winner which means she has learned all her popcorn words for school. She is like the 7th or 8th kid in her class to learn all forty something of them. I am very proud of her!! We go to the pumpkin patch with her class tomorrow then Trunk or Treat at church Wednesday night so should have some cute pictures to post. Hope everyone has a great halloween.

Bunco, Boo @ the Zoo & Buddy Bear

Friday night I went to Bunco at Rachels house. Although Sheri & I didn't think we were ever gonna get there once we did we had such a great time. I can not wait till Novembers. Saturday night we took the kids to Boo @ the Zoo & Heaths parents went with us. The kids got like 8 pieces of candy each but they did have a good time. I must say they were the cutest spider & flower I have ever seen, lol! Brooke had Buddy Bear from school this weekend that is what she is holding in her costume picture. She was so excited to have him for a weekend but that excitement had worn off by saturday. Hope everyone has a great week!