Tuesday, December 31, 2013

December 18 2013 - December 31 2013

12-18-13

Logan and Evan snuck into my bed at bedtime. They thought they were pretty sneaky, but I knew the whole time. I loved listening to their little giggles as they tried to be quiet. Sooo cute. Love when they do brother things together!!



And Brayden sleeping with his bum in the air, I love it!



12-19-13

Emily had reader's theater this morning











12-20-13

These boys are having a blast pretending to drive mommy's car. I don't think we'll be going inside for a good 15 minutes...


I got to go to the kids Christmas parties, here's the pictures from Kaitlyn's





We went to Downtown Frisco for a Christmas light show.  It was so beautiful and helped get this grinch in the Christmas mood!





12-23-13

Evan threw diapers off the upstairs landing. A while later we smelled fire. He got two in the light fixture, one was on fire...Dad was NOT amused.




We are so blessed we were home to smell the smoke!  This light is not one we usually turn on unless we are leaving!  So glad no one was hurt and we found it quickly!

I got Kaitlyn's invites made!


12-24-13

Merry Christmas Eve!  This year we get to go to the Dalton's!!

I went to a supper fun girls night and made this for Grandma D.  She loved it!


We had a beautiful program with all the Dalton cousins.  Part of it we watched the new bible stories online about the Christmas story.  It was very well done.  Here are some of the cousins watching it on Grandma's bed :)



As part of the program everyone presented something.  Ryan played his guitar while Collin played the clarinet and Cameron played the drums.  They did such a great job!


Kaitlyn and Emily did a dance with Aunt Katrina.  They had maybe 10 minutes to put this together because Aunt Trina lives in Austin.  She will kill me for posting this, but I thought it was adorable!


Mindy and I sang a song with the kids, but I didn't get a video of it.  It was a beautiful program and a great night!!

Then we went home (to our own house!!) & put the kids to bed.   After 9 years of marriage, tonight was our first night getting ready for Christmas in our own home. We've always been at our parents homes. It was soo much fun!! I can't wait to see how it goes in the morning!!! So excited to see the kids faces!!!

12-25-13

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

The kids get to open their stockings and then we have a big breakfast together!  Love this tradition!!

Christmas Breakfast



Then the obligatory pictures on the stairs :)





After that the kids get to go in the Christmas room and see what Santa brought!!


And then after all the presents were open they got to see what Mom and Dad got them :)


Then in the afternoon we went to the Wilson's for Christmas with them!  Here's what I made for my mom :)



Such a wonderful wonderful Christmas!!

12-26-13

Jess and Tiara came over and we took the kids to the church parking lot to try out their new car!!  


Ryan's Mom and Dad got him a HUGE surprise!  For Christmas and his birthday they got him a drum set.  He is in heaven!  He hasn't had one since before we met.  I'm not sure what happened to the video of him opening his present, but here's one of him playing.


12-27-13

I took the kids to the dollar theatre by myself! It went pretty well.  The oldest 4 were great!  Brayden and I spent a lot of time in the halls.  Haha.  The kids enjoyed it and I am pretty proud of myself.

Cuddles 



So I got this milk jug water bottle thing at an after Christmas sale, and it just makes me really happy.  Haha.  It's the small things :)


12-28-13

The big day is here!!!  Kaitlyn is getting baptized!  As per usual I was running around getting things ready and didn't get many photos, but luckily Kaitlyn took some selfies while we were getting ready to leave :)



Grandma and Grandpa D at the baptism


Dad and Kaitlyn



Kaitlyn and I



It was beautiful and I'm so proud of my Kaitlyn!!



Afterwards we took a few pictures with the family. Thank you to all who came to see Kaitlyn on her special day!

Wilson's


Dalton's


Tuesday, December 17, 2013

December 1 2013 - December 17 2013

12-1-13

The first Sunday of every month all the Wilson's get together at Mom's house for dinner (we go to the Dalton's on the 3rd Sunday.  LOVE having so much grandparent time!!).  Today Jess and Kaitlyn had my phone...

Kaitlyn and Emily





Jess and Kaitlyn







Jess even pulled Mom and I in for a few :)






Helping get dinner and dessert on the table


12-2-13

Sicko cuddles from my baby. I'm not enjoying them at all ;)


Evan climbed a stool to stand up there so he could start a movie. I could have done it for him, but I'm busy cuddling sick Brayden :)




12-3-13

Evan trying to hide from nap time :)


12-4-13


12-5-13

Logan's teacher asked for these pictures for school.



Spent the evening reading in front of the fireplace. Happy place. And no school tomorrow!! There's crazy ice out. Be careful if you have to go out in it!!

12-6-13

From FB: It's a jamies and sweaters kinda day. #noheat #firegoinginthefireplace #wearegood

Our power went out.  We were good for a little bit, but it got cold fast, so we went to my parents house!

Looks like Wisconsin, but we're in Texas. Crazy weather it was 80 on Wednesday!



Brayden was sad, so Aunt Jessica cheered him up by taking selfies with him.  Haha, it actually was pretty smart, cause his favorite thing to do is look at the pictures on my phone.





This is Jessie's best friend Alena.  We love her too :)


12-7-13

 They found the baby Santa suit. Evan's been wearing it most of the evening. Haha, it is waaay to small, but he doesn't care!




Got the Nativities and Stockings out today!! Putting up my nativities always puts me in a good mood :). Got a few new ones for Christmas last year, & now I have 13!


12-8-13

Earlier this evening we were at a friends house and the adults were talking, Logan comes up and decides to join the conversation. He explains what a wedgie is and then tells us yeah, I just pulled mine out. That's what I'm doing.
What?! Haha, I had to turn the corner I was laughing so hard! That's my over sharer for you! Gotta love him!

12-10-13

We took the kids to Allen and saw the Cresh (?sp nativities). It was so beautiful! I love nativities! And we
got to bring Grandma D with us. Love having family close by!! Such a wonderful evening!

12-12-13

Frozen blueberries for lunch :)


12-16-13

Took Kaitlyn to Aunt Jessica's to get her baptism photos taken. So excited to see how they turned out!!


Here are my 4 favorite from the photo shoot.  Thanks Aunt Jessica Dalton!




This is Kaitlyn's favorite one :)


So excited to see this beautiful girl get baptized at the end of the month!

12-17-13

Someone fell asleep on me, hugging his cars :)


Kindergarten is exhausting!


Monkey in the middle :)