An Attempt to Organize Chaos: 2009

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Thanksgiving weekend

I love Thanksgiving! It is my favorite Holiday of the year. Don't get me wrong, I love the Christmas spirit and all of the decorations, but Thanksgiving just makes me happy. I think that it is so nice to get together with family and enjoy one another. I also love the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade. I would love to go to it one year with the kids. I also love that there is no pressure for anything but quality time on Thanksgiving. I am so thankful for my amazing family. Everyday my children are growing and learning and just amazing me with all that they are able to do. I love to watch them and experience life through them all over again. I love their little smiles and big hugs and the way they are confident that Daddy and I still have all the answers. I love the way they smell after bath time and the way they fit just right when we cuddle. I love everything about my children, even when they are trying my patience. I just adore them! I am thankful for a wonderful husband who loves me more than I ever thought anyone would. I love that he is so good with the kids and he would rather be with us than anywhere else. I am so thankful that he goes to work everyday and works so hard for his family. I am thankful that we are so different because we bring out things in one another that we would not experience with out one another. I love him so much and I am so happy we are raising this family together.

I am thankful for our home. It is nothing extravagant and has a lot that needs to be done to it, but it fits us just fine. It keeps us sheltered and warm and it feels homey to me. I love that our kids have a stable place that they can call home and know that they are safe and loved in.

I love that I have a strong faith in God and his son Jesus Christ. I know that I have a long way to walk in my faith, but I know that our heavenly father loves us very much and is watching over us. We are so blessed to know that we have him.

I am grateful for all my amazing friends. Some of them I don't talk to or see all that often, but they are all wonderful and I am so lucky that they have all touched my life. I am thankful for all of my new friends and that we are able to support one another through things that we are all going through with our families or us personally. They are all such amazing people that I don't know what I would do without.

I think that I also love Thanksgiving because I love the anticipation of the Holiday season. I love the sights and sounds and smells. I love the warm feeling that I get when we are cuddling together at night reading Christmas stories next to the tree. I just love this time of year!!

Sorry this post was so long and on going... I am thankful for all of you that I keep in touch with through this blog too!!

Monday, November 2, 2009

Halloween

Halloween was so much fun this year. Turner went as Batman and he asked Daddy to go as Robin, and Daddy being the trooper that he is he did it! Reese went as Sleeping Beauty, and I went as Merryweather, the blue fairy. Grandma and Pj came to trick or treat with us along with Aunt Sue and Aunt Alyssa. We all had a great time!!

Our Family

Robin and Merryweather

Grandma and PJ came as a Matt Stover field goal!

Woah... hold up there Batman!

Close up...

Trick or treating!

Well, Hello there Bumblebee!

Halloween parties

The kids had a great week last week with all the Halloween stuff. Reese loved her party with all of her kids, and they all dressed up! Turner dressed up as Batman and his best buddy Sophia dressed as Batgirl. It was really cute! Our camera died after the first shot at Turner's party, but Sophia's mom took some that I will post when I get them!

Reese eating snack with her friends

Reese's buddy Michael

Class picture

Turner and Sophia! So cute!!

Cute

Some times my kids can be really cute. They do really cute things, like their art from school which we love to put all of the fridge, but they also can pose really cute waiting for a pic!

Our own gallery

Turner's drawing and story of our few days with the class bear Winnie!

Reesie-roo

Turner loves video games

So cute!!

Playing with the camera

My kids love to play with our camera. Santa brought Turner one last year, but that is not nearly as cool as ours. I am constantly telling them to not touch it, but through it all they have started to take some decent photos. Now only if they would let the people know who they are shooting to smile it will be better! Here are a few. We also have a ton of photos of the tv which is all of Word World, their favorite show... but I did not really feel the need to keep all of them!

Smile Mom

Hello Mrs. Mary

Smile Dad

A Picasso Close-up

Disney on Ice

Last Thursday we took the kids to see Disney on Ice: Celebrations with our friends Ky and Larry, and their two kids, Madison and Paul! We all had such a good time. Disney does an amazing job and I will definitely be making sure to get tickets to more of these shows. Also because Ky is awesome friend, and she was down town, she picked up all the tickets and for only 81 dollars we got 4 tickets for our family in section 108. We were in the first row of that section!! The seats were amazing for the price that we paid. Our kids went full out dressed in Disney gear! I love seeing life through their eyes... everything is so exciting and fun. I think that Ryan and I have more fun watching them then they have!

Here are a ton of pictures of the fun night!!

Turner and Reese before the show