Merry Christmas!

Well...I'm to exhausted to write anything but here are a few pictures...I'll write later! I hope everyone had a very Merry CHRISTMAS!!

Christmas Trees and Monster Trucks!

Can it really get any better for ALMOST 2 year old boys??? They were in complete Heaven over this long weekend. They got all sorts of attention from their grandparents, tons of good food, we got our tree and went to see the monster trucks. In the words of my boys...WHOAA!

Thursday was action packed with lots of eating but FRIDAY even more fun! As we do every year the girls went shopping! We are hardcore, up at 3am standing in line by 4 with Starbucks in hand. I honestly dont even go for the doorbusters its just fun to get out with the girls and of course to watch all the crazy people. I guess the police were even called to Toys r Us!


Saturday the boys and I played all morning and I tried to recoup from Friday. Later that evening we took them to the monster truck show. They were amazed by the trucks.

Preparing to go!

Sean explaining something about axles, blah blah blah!

Colter ran straight for this new camero! My boy has great taste!



Sunday we went to Nelson's Christmas Tree Farm! The boys loved it! We were all freezing cold so I found the first try that was half way decent and we cut it down. Hopefully, I can stuff enough ornaments in it to hide the bare spots, oh well! :)

Christmas Shopping!

The big day is almost here BLACK FRIDAY! I really don't have much more to buy but the shopping rush is always fun. Me, my MIL and SIL go together every year and my MIL runs circles around us.

I am DONE with the boys! I picked up their last present yesterday. I had been searching everywhere for the perfect powerwheel but didn't want to spend $400.00-500.00 bucks. Well...yesterday I was heading to the grocery store when there it was on the side of the road. I pulled over and it was PERFECT. It doesn't even look like its ever been driven. Its a little big so I'm hoping it will take them awhile to outgrow it. The best part was the price 100.00!!!!

I can't wait for Christmas morning. I am totally going to be one of those moms that videos the entire thing. I NEVER thought I would do that but we can edit out all the boring stuff I just don't want to miss anything. Its going to be SO much fun.

Happy Shopping and I can't wait to hear about all the bargains!

I took the plunge...

and got braces...yes you heard it right...braces. My teeth weren't horrible but they were a bit crowded and as silly as it sounds I had this little gap between my front two teeth that bugged the crap out of me! The best part is my insurance paid for almost all of it so I thought why not! Now I will only have to survive my husband making fun of me for 6 months!



I looked into invisalign but the dentist didn't think that was right for me. So we opted for the 6 month smile (ONLY 6 MONTHS) which are braces that are geared for adults who don't have any issues with their bite. See below:

My braces on the left and traditional ones on the right...

Hopefully I'll have some really great before and after pictures in 6 months!

The Loot!

Halloween wasn't like this when I was little...we got candy. My boys made out like little bandits! Candy plus all this other stuff! They are in LOVE with their monster trucks!

The boys have been in gymnastics for the last 8 weeks and absolutely LOVED it! They had so much fun!

Proudly sitting with their ribbons. :)

Since it was the last day they got out their bounce house!

We've been trying to take advantage of the warmer days!

ROAD TRIP!

We're heading back down to TN for another long weekend. I'm hoping the drive will be much better this time around! Last time we went (March) I seriously thought at one point I would get out and walk the rest of the way to TN just so I wouldn't have to spend one more minute listening to one of them scream!

I had the bright idea of driving after 7:30p (their bedtime)...thinking they would sleep all the way down...boy was I wrong. First problem we got stuck in traffic for 2 hours just south of Louisville, KY. They took a nice little power nap while stopped in traffic and were then ready to go, we ended up spending the night somewhere along the way because we were all tired and I couldn't take one more minute of the madness!

I have a few tricks up my sleeve this time and I'm hoping since they are older they will be interested in the DVD player.

A few ideas:
Snacks, of course!
pipe cleaners and Cheerios
books
magna doodles
and PRAYERS!

If you have any other ideas PLEASE leave me a message!

THANKS!

Weekend in Pictures!

I'm too tired to post after this incredible weekend!

Dinner with Daddy...Chocolate Pudding without a bowl or spoon YUMMY!



Our trip to the pumpkin patch!


Cale LOVED the scarecrows! He talked to all of them!


We visited Nan and Papaw's house...Sean loved this picture!

Last but not least we visited Auntie Ann! The boys had a GREAT time running around her house with Kennedy and Keaton!