Happy Birthday Jesus!

What a fabulous day! I don't have the time to "really" go into it tonight, but it was so much fun!

The kids helped make this Birthday Cake for Jesus. We had a potluck at church for anyone who wanted to go. We go every year.

It is so wonderful how much God gives to us. He gave us his son. And on his birthday, we get to open the presents and play with them.

We sang Happy Birthday to Jesus several times today. How cool is that?

Christmas Eve

I am SO excited about tomorrow.

Here is a picture of the kids making cookies for Santa. They are fool proof cookies that 3 year olds can do all by themselves.

They are getting excited too!

They got to open 1 present tonight from us. And they are the jammies they are wearing. They have not had PJs with feet in them since they were babies. They thought they were really cool. Unfortunately, it looks as though Mason's is too small. It will be ok for overnight though.

Ashley in this picture is upset because she wasn't in the middle.

Well Santa came to our house and I still happen to be up to get the pictures. Here are the stockings he (she) stuffed. Santa didn't notice that he got 2 Mrs. Potato Heads and 1 Mr. Potato Head. Good thing Austin won't mind. (let's hope anyway)

And the last picture for tonight is of the Christmas tree with the presents under it. Oh I do hope they have a great time. And not fight over anything. Tomorrow, I will post the letters they wrote to Santa and the reply Santa wrote. They were so cute. They were asking for things that I hadn't heard them say until tonight. (eyeroll) But I think they will be happy with what they get.

Have a very Merry Christmas Y'all!

My Christmas Trees

This is my Christmas tree. You can see on the lower left is where Mason helped decorate. They were so excited to help. And they "helped" a lot until it was bedtime and i was actually able to get some things done.
















This little tree is the kids Christmas tree. They decorated it. Mason was my big decorator. He really got into it. This tree has the Froot Loop garland on it. Now the picture I really wish I could have gotten is when Austin leaned over and ate some froot loops off the tree, but I couldn't get my camera fast enough.

camera

I found it in my coat pocket. Weird thing is my coat was hanging up. :)

Oh the things they say

Ok I'm flipping out because I can't find my camera. UGGGGGH! Please pray that I can find it.

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On a better note: This is a cute story about Mason. We were driving over J. Percy Priest Lake and Mason looks out the window and says, "OOOOOOOOOOOhhhh that Lake is pretending to be an ocean."

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This is the conversation we had tonight. Mason caught me in the bathroom.

Mason: Are you pee peeing out of your Gina?
Me: (giggle) uh yes.
Mason: You're a Maam and I'm a sir.
Me: That's right
Mason: And Daddy's a sir and you're a Maam.

Mason: Me and Daddy are sirs and me and Daddy have a penis.
Me: That's right
Ashley: I have a Gina tooooooo.
Me: yep.
Mason: Ashley and Mommy are Maams.

My Christmas Card to You!

Behind the scenes:

We went to church and built the stable out of boxes they use in their JAM movies. The kids loved building and they ask if they can do it everytime we go back to church.

Ashley is sitting on a very high chair. She refused to sit on anything else. I was hoping that you could see the manger in the background, but no such luck.

Austin is standing on a stool. No he is not that tall.

Mason is the only one standing on the floor. He kept giving us funny faces. I think this one turned out really nice though.

I was going to put "For unto us a child is born" but then thought some of you might think I was pregnant. So I changed it to "O come let us adore him!"

I got Photoshop Elements for my birthday from my parents (Thanks Mom and Dad!). And I had fun trying to fix this photo up. I had no idea what I was doing, but it all came together. Greg changed the background. I added the star, halo, and writing. I wish I could take a class and learn more about this!

Froot Loop Garland

These are my MONKEYS! They have been bouncing off the wall ever since they got home from school! NO NAP! Ay Caramba!

So I decided to have them make a garland for the Christmas tree. I wasn't sure how people make popcorn garland so I called my friend PJ. She suggested using froot Loops. So that's just what we did.




Austin got into it and was doing a great job, but he got bored pretty quickly and decided to go get into other stuff that he wasn't supposed to get into.





Ashley did Excellent! She really got into it and was focused on making a nice long strand of froot loops. She LOVES doing crafts. Just like her Mommy.





Mason! Oh Punkin! He may have gotten 1 or 2 on the strand, but he was more interested in STUFFING his mouth full of Froot Loops. He was really making me laugh.










Here is a picture of Ashley showing off her strand. She quit when I finished a whole one and then she wanted me to finish hers. I was really proud of how well she did. Of course I was stuck finishing all the strands.




Then here is my Mason. It was bedtime and he was starting to get pretty cranky. He wanted to take the garland off the tree and I wouldn't let him. Look at that pouty face.











On a side note: I just finished watching the Apprentice and I have to say I am so disappointed with Randall. Rebecca only had nice things to say about him. URG! Man the whole night...I just new Trump was going to hire both of them.

Some pictures

The kids are dressed in their new Christmas outfits from Nana and Papa. I wanted to get better pictures, but it just didn't happen this time.








"Mommy, the sky is pink...the sky is pink!"

This is one of the layouts I did last week. I still need to put some journalling on it right there in the middle between the 2 bottom pictures. this picture just doesn't give it justice. My friend Angel challenged us to use a "golf towell ring" in one of our layouts. And I did. It is holding the frame onto the garland of ribbons. This is a layout of Greg's sister's wedding.

This is just an easy layout I did. I really love the picture of Greg and Austin in the lower right corner. The funny thing about this layout is that someone came by when I finished my layout and said, "Ah now you are thinking outside of your box". Angel and I just looked at each other, thinking that was a very strange thing to say to me.

sick

I'm sick. Will somebody come over and hold my head on so it won't fall off?

Reasoning with overalls

So today I said to Greg..."Can I make fun of you a little bit?"
And he rolled his eyes and said, "sure"

So I asked him why he put Ashley's sweater under her dress.

And he said, well I debated that. And she was wearing an overall dress. That means the dress goes over-All the other clothes.

ROFLOL

Exciting Day!

Today was a great day!!! I got 2 layouts done today that I am proud of. I'll have to take a picture of them and put them on here.

But Greg took the kids this morning to Breakfast with Santa. I left before the kids got up this morning, but I did pick out their clothes. So the funny thing is...Ashley has this beautiful sweater with candy canes on it. So when Greg dressed her this morning. He put it on under her dress. (oh poor man!) Anyway, it makes me laugh.

Ashley asked Santa for a BIG Christmas tree. Then when they were on their way out, Aussie said, "Oh I forgot to tell Santa I want a Train". Greg felt so bad, but they were really pushing people along. They had a huge line. So Greg told him he could write him a letter.

So THEN if that wasn't enough excitement for the day they went to see Miss Pattycake. They were so excited to go. Now this is one of those moments I said THIS IS MY GIRL! Yesterday, we were talking about them going to see her. And Ashley pipes up and says, "We have to take a camera and get a picture of Miss Pattycake with me"

That's my daughter!!!!! She's got her priorities in order. :)