Getting ready for Christmas

Monday, R & I went to Target, so she could get some ideas for her wish list for Santa. Here are a few of her ideas :) ( We did this last year, went thru Target and took pictures of what she wanted with the cell phone! Great idea for forgetful moms like me!!!)

SIlly Hair Lalaloopsy Doll

A Horse w/all the 'horsey stuff'

And Christmas pictures were taken on yesterday! Glad to have gotten that done! Here she is showing off!

Happy Turkey day!

Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving. I am thankful for so much this year. Health, family, friends, our home, my church, J's new job, and much more to name!

We had Thanksgiving with J's family on this past Saturday. Of course I didn't hardly take any pics! But did get one of the cute Turkey my sis in law made! My oven is out, so my contribution was limited to a apple pie I baked at my mil's house!

New oven is first on the list after Thanksgiving!!! Gotta get it back, so i can bake some cakes! And other holiday goodies!

Christmas shopping is underway! I LOVE deal shopping!!! I have gotten some great buys already! I love that my list is getting shorter and not too bad on the pocket book!!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Not much going on around here..

One reason I didn't want to blog was because I hate when blogs go w/o being updated! And here I go! I understand now why people that blog, don't have something every day. Some days there is just not much to share!

Last Saturday, we got to attend J's company picnic. It was the first one they had ever had and it was a blast. TONS of stuff for the kids to do. YuMMy food, giant turkey legs, boudain, hamburgers, sausage, links, ice cream, cotton candy, popcorn, etc.. Cupcake decorating, wax hands, military dog tags, face painting, fun balloons, big jumpers for the kids and live bands. We really enjoyed it.

This week, I have been working at the book fair at school. I love getting to help out at the school! The kids are so cute and so sweet. Like the little red head this morning, that hollered out "HI Raegan's mom"! LOL, that is how they know me as!

Looking forward to this Saturday. Time with the family for Thanksgiving! Also, looking forward to NO SCHOOL next week! Whohoo! Christmas pictures and loads of fun next week.

No time to add pictures today, will come back and post later.

Have a great rest of the week!

Halloween

Happy Belated Halloween! Hope you all had a great, fun night! We did. So glad its over though! We have enough candy to last a few months at least!

Lots of fun starting on Thursday night. Homecoming parade. We got soo much candy and got to hear and see Cherokee!! Purple treat bags at school Friday for homecoming (all purple candy LOL) A costume bday party for a sweet sixteen year old on Friday night! Then to sister in laws church on Saturday night for a AWESOME Fall Festival. Lots of crafts, cake walk, trunk or treat, good food and fun. Sunday, I baked for the teachers. We had treats for the teachers at school. Then finally Monday.. Halloween Treat bags were sent home and  Trick or Treated Monday night.

For the treat bags on Monday, I made a couple ideas I had seen on Pinterest.. Have I said how ADDICTED I am to this site? OMW, its such fun! But at least I can say I am using ideas (cooked last nights supper from there!) and not just storing away ideas for a rainy day :)

Mummy juice boxes,  Scarecrow candy people and Peep Smore's in a bag. 

 Also made these, off of pinterest (for craft sale) Mummy oreo's on a stick!

Anway, back to Halloween... Rae was a Polka Dotted Witch. Turned out super cute I think! Got tons of compliments on her outfit. Mimi did a great job!

Playing a game at trunk or treat..


And just to show you how crazy R is.. here ya go..

Have a great rest of the week. Its November!!!!!! Time to get ready for Christmas!!!

Virus`

Not much going on this week except taking care of a sick kid. At times like these, I am VERY thankful to have only one child. Can't imagine having more than one kid sick with a dreaded virus. Poor R is very upset that she now longer has the chance at perfect attendance. She had made up her mind before school started that she wanted perfect attendance and then someone shared the great virus with her. She cried over this.. Poor baby ;(

Hopefully she is on the mend and be ready for this weekend.. Lots of things going on for Halloween. Mimi is mailing her costume to us today and should have it by Friday!! Turned out pretty cute from the picture I seen!

Hope yall have great rest of the week!

Busy as a bee...

Whew, craft sale is this week. Thankful for the cool weather spell we will have while its craft sale time! Just makes it feel more like craft sale time when we get a front! Normally it is pouring down rain on Thursday when we have to deliver everything, but have a feeling with the drought, we will be free of that this year!

 I got my little 2x4 snowmen complete. Thanks to J for helping me out! I think they are quite cute :) Of course, I love all snowmen. Ugly, cute, fat, short, skinny, bright colors etc.. My house and tree are covered in snowmen when it comes time for Christmas! This year, I have a Amish snowman joining the rest of the 100's I have. From Lancaster County, PA!!!! But back to craft sale snowmen, here they are:

Today I am making Mummy Oreo's on a stick! Can't wait to see how they turn out! Then as the week progresses, Giant Chocolate Covered Marshmallows on a stick, Giant Smores on a stick, Peep Pumpkin Smore bags, Fall M&M Magic Cookie Bars, Pumpkin sheet cakes and, and and... The list continues...This is all to be finished by Thursday by the way.
Thanks to Pinterest for all the awesome ideas.. Food and snowmen :)

On to Christmas. I got R's Christmas dress ordered this morning.

Sorry for the fuzzy pic! I took a picture of the screen with my cell phone LOL I can't wait! Now to get pictures scheduled.

On the Game On Diet, my 2nd round ended. Our team won again (me, Steph and Tori)! Whohoo! Just barely tho, by 3 points I believe it was! It served as a reminder that every point counts, and when you don't feel like exercising or eating correctly, then you just might loose cuz you didn't get your points in!

That's all for today! Enjoy this awesome weather we have coming in!

Happy 12 years to my husband!

So hard to believe that time flies so fast. It has been 12 wonderful years married to my best friend. We had a wonderful weekend together. On Friday evening we went to Houston. Stayed at the Galleria. When I went to check into our room, the young girl working behind the counter asked why we were there. I told her celebrating our 12th anniversary. She smiled and said she was going to upgrade our room to a King Suite and give us free breakfast!! Every time she seen us that weekend, she would tell us congrats again and again. I guess its few and far between these days to see couples stay married together rather than divorce. That evening we had dinner at Cheesecake Factory (stayed on my diet with a veggie omelet and no cheesecake!) and then to see Faces at the AD Players theatre. Very good, but we are both still a little confused on it ;)

Saturday morning, I actually slept past 7 o clock!! More like till past 8. It was so wonderful to sleep late :) Or what I consider late! After a nice breakfast (FREE) at the hotel, we ventured off to Galveston for the afternoon. We rode 2 seater bikes down the seawall. FUN FUN FUN! Got my exercise in for the day and enjoyed the gorgeous weather. The beach was beautiful (well as beautiful as Galveston beach can be!) Not too many people out and the water looked nice. For lunch, we had big ol' hamburgers at THE SPOT. We love this place. Homemade buns and add your fixin's to your burger. (This was my off day on the diet) Later we came back to THE SPOT for GIANT waffle cones of Blue Bell Icecream. Blue Bell equals LOVE! Wow, it was delicious.

Sunday morning, we got R and decided to take her to Kemah for a few hours. We enjoyed our family time. Saltgrass for lunch. Rode the Ferris Wheel and the train as a family, then more rides for R.

I am thankful for the husband that God gave me. Thankful he provides for our little family so that I'm able to stay home and do the things I get to do. PTA, homeroom mom, all the things R needs me to do, and that J needs me to do. I am truly blessed.