Sweetheart Dance WPA

 Noah has his first formal dance tonight. He looks mighty handsome if you ask me. Love you Noah! I am so proud to be your mom!

Happy birthday to me!

So for my birthday I got snowmagedon 2014 and the boys got a 6 day weekend! With a foot of snow outside, we spent the day warm and safe at home.

Birthday flowers.

The boys sweetly signed me up for eharmony. So come on over and help me sort through these matches!

Eli and Lucas helped with the shoveling again! I thought it was NEVER going to stop snowing yesterday!

But they did have a little fun in the snow too! 

Lucas buried in his snow chair throne. And eating snow!

Noah and Lucas cooking me dinner!

Yummy!!!

Peanut butter pie for dessert! All and all a great birthday!

Christmas break

 The boys and I had a great Christmas break. It was nice to be off work for two weeks but before life gets to busy- I thought I would post pics of the non holiday celebrating we did. 

Bowling

Lucas is always moving

Can't remember why Eli was making this face but love it.

Lucas and I played a game while Noah and Eli went to play pool.

Gingerbread village

I didn't do any holiday cookies except the Oreo balls below. 

I did make several kinds of breads which all of the kids enjoyed. One of my favorites is this cinnamon swirl. Made delicious french toast.

We got some yummy granola from my sis Julie so we experimented with that.

Yogurt parfaits

Pumpkin muffins! Yummy! Now we are busy with work, school, weights and lessons! Hope 2014 is a great year for everyone!

Christmas/New Year

We celebrated our Christmas over New Year's this year. Lucas loved saying we doing Christmas "next year!" Noah on the other hand was not thrilled waiting 4 days to open presents. Most every day he asked "so why can't we do Christmas now?" That boy loves presents!!! So our Christmas/NY eve was spent like this.

Beverages- check

Movies- check

Tovi- check

Games- check

Eli beating me three times in a row - check!!!!!

Presents all ready- surprisingly Noah actually went to bed without shaking one gift!

Stockings ready! Fingers crossed Noah doesn't wake us up at 6am!

7:30 am Noah woke up the house! Yawn!!!

Legos

Clothes

Football scrapbook- Noah loved it!!! He even tweeted about it!!! Woo hoo!

Eli is crazy!

Noah lifting his new weight bench!! He definitely had the "heaviest" presents!

Lucas is the most compliant about getting his pic taken!

Mom fail- gave him a book he already had! :(

Xbox stuff - just what he wanted!

A keurig!! Yeah!!! Thx Santa!

More Legos!

Tv/gaming stand- unfortunately Eli has more than 12 games. But it does help with all of his Xbox stuff!

The aftermath!

Now to put together all the stuff!

Lego time.

So tidy now!! Kinda a gift to me too!

Noah enjoying his water speakers while he napped! Christmas wore him out.

Yummy dinner!

Tovi is worn out!!! Now the Christmas decoration are down and the house is back to normal. We are ready to see what the New Year brings! Happy 2014!

Family Christmas

We had Christmas with the whole family on Monday. It was loud, chaotic and lots of fun! I always love watching the whole family together! I am so thankful that my family is so close and so flexible to move holidays around my work and kids' schedule. Love you all - you crazy bunch!!

Older kids are trained well- as soon as the grandparents arrive they get ready to open gifts.

Stockings are fair game! Kids always want the grown ups to hurry with the stockings!!!

Princess Victoria dishing out all her mother's candy to the crowd! Sure hope you got it all back Jen!!!

Princess Cassi waiting patiently!!

Grandpa sporting his new scarf I made him.

Didn't realize how blurry this was but Trevor seems to like the angry bird ornaments that Eli made for him for the cousin exchange.

Cassi sporting the hat Lucas made for her! So proud of him- he did a great job!

Look what my grandparents gave me!!!!

Cassi loves the box her hat came in!

Princess Victoria doesn't understand why oh why she has to wait to open her gift!!!

More gifts!

Jordan likes the drawing Noah did for his gift.

Noah did a great job and Autumn colored it. It turned out awesome!

Now it's time to play with the gifts!

Homemade pizza and Christmas cookies were great gifts too!!! Only probably is mom said we could only have one plate of cookies!!!! But once the cookie plate was in the bag- there was room for so much more!!!

We celebrated the November/December bdays!

See we are loud, poor Ty!!!

It was a great day! I brought my oldest nephews home for a sleepover- so our fun continued well into the night!!! :) hope you all had a Merry Christmas!!!