So much fun!

We have had a blast these last few weeks. It has been crazy busy but also so much fun!!

There was the Browns vs. Miami football game which the Browns won after a very sad battle but hey you know it was Miami and Cleveland so what did we expect LOL. Many thanks to Shannon for watching the kids that whole day for us. We dropped them off at church for Sunday school (Shannon is their Sunday school teacher also their babysitter when needed) and then she took great care of them for us the rest of the day with the help in the afternoon of Logan and McKenzie two more of the kids favorite people from church. The kids had so much fun that day with them because not only did they get to play with Shannon here at the house but she took them back to church in the afternoon for the Christmas hanging of the greens and Happy Birthday Jesus party where they got new teddy bears from a very nice lady at church who donated them to all the kids who came. The kids helped set stuff up for the party and just said they loved it. Joe and I picked them up when it was over :)

We have made many many Christmas cookies and froze them for when all the family gets here so there will be plenty of yummies for Anna Banana to snack on. Jeni and Jarrad had us over with Jhenna and Jon and their adorable son Ethan (we missed Austin!) for a Christmas party that was so fun!!  Oh my goodness the kids just love them. Casey Bug asks me now very often how much longer till baby Logan will be out of Miss Jeni's tummy she can't wait to meet him.

Our poor kitty is now spayed and I am very grateful for that as she went a little nutty since we waited just a tad too long for that one! I also may have conceded on the whole "I have to have a real tree in the house for Christmas" thing because of my adorable cat. Since the tree has lost some needles she now has decided to start to climb it...I clean up broken glass every day now and she is just always wet from me spraying her with the squirt bottle LOL For some reason most cats don't bother fake trees from what I have heard so I am thinking about it...THINKING about it. I haven't decided...I really like real ones.

Disney was last weekend! It was so fun the kids were so much fun to watch. I just love it! They actually sat for 1 1/2 hours really really nicely waiting for Fantasmic to start. Casey learned how to do the wave during that time she was quite excited about it. Caden did it too but he wasn't as excited about it as Bug. I really didn't think that they would sit there and be happy for that long I was prepared to have to bribe, walk around, reprimand, remind them how old they were, you know normal things for having a 4 and 3 year old hyped up on sugar outside at Disney being told to sit for that long. But we didn't have to do any of those things they were awesome. They show was really great too I recommend it highly (as long as your kid doesn't get nightmares from the Disney villains if they do wait for them to get bigger).

Joe spent the weekend working working working because he is the best man ever. He could have come up Saturday afternoon after he got of work but decided not to miss another Sunday of church since he teaches and that he needed to finish his families Christmas gifts. This is his last work week of school before break though so we are excited about that!!! He will only have to work nights for the next 2 weeks : ) : )

December 1st!

25 Days till Christmas!!!!

When the kids got up this morning (well really it was a bit after they got up since they usually sit on the couch chatting and wait for Joe and I to finish getting ready in the a.m.) I asked them if they knew what today was and Caden smart boy that he is knew it was the day we start moving the jingle bell! We have a hanging count down to Christmas that he has been eyeing for a while now and he knows that he gets to move the jingle bell one space each night before he goes to bed starting Dec. 1st. He also was very excited to say that today was the day that he goes to Grandma's to open the first advent calendar door and get candy out and put the first piece on the Nativity scene. Casey Bug is very excited about that too and wanted to go right then but chickens had to be fed first of course.

I have all the presents that we have gotten wrapped and put under the tree already which a big deal because usually I don't have anything yet and am freaking out a little. I still need to get my nieces and nephews some presents but I know what I am getting them so that is good it could mean that I am gonna get my in-laws their box before Christmas!!! We have been working very hard to stay in budget this year and we are doing homemade gifts for the adults that Joe is making I think they are fabulous he of course finds faults in them because he is way too hard on himself. I know everyone is going to love them because he is doing what he loves and giving them to the people he loves. Now staying in the budget doesn't mean these are cheap because they weren't but I took on a babysitting job to help pay for Christmas this year and God is soooooo good it paid for the presents so we only had to pay a little over what I made!!! Which was awesome since I just realized I need to pay for Casey's ballet recital costume by the 6th so that means I have to pay it tomorrow when I take her to class LOL good thing I looked at the date!

Oh on a different note I made pumpkin waffles with apple cider syrup...YUMMY!!!!! I am addicted Caden is too. Joe and Bug really like them too but Caden LOVES them he keeps asking for them :)