Katie & her baby

 

This is Katie with her Bitty Baby, they are so cute in their matching pajama's & she loves taking care of her baby doll. Thank you Mimi & Papa!

Happy New Year!!

 

 

 

We spent the weekend of New Years at the lake with the Hughes Family. We had such a great time, all of the kids got a long great & played all weekend. Not long after we got there Friday night we went outside for a fireworks show. Brad & RJ shot the fireworks & the kids would run up to them until they were lit & then take off running back to the house. They had so much fun running around the yard. They also had a few cans of silly string that Jennifer got them & loved spraying each other. Saturday all of the kids just played inside because it was raining & we had some great New Year's day food, hopefully it will bring all of us some good luck & money in 2011!! We had a wonderful time & Katie was exhausted for the next few days & it took her a while to get caught up on her sleep. Thanks again for having us & we look forwad to coming back when it warms up.

My Birthday

 

I'm a little behind on blogging so hopefully I can get caught up today. Two days after Christmas was my bithday & in the two days after Christmas I was very sick! I ended up spending my birthday going to the Doctor & getting 2 shots. I was running a fever & felt horrible, probably the worst I have felt in years. Brad took off work to take me to the Dr. & sat in the car with the kids while I went in. After the Dr. appointment I felt good enough to go to lunch, we ate at Chuy's & I couldn't eat it all before I started feeling bad again. Hopefully next year I will have a good birthday, since the last two haven't been that great :(

Christmas Day

 

 

 

 

Both of our families came to our house this Christmas, we cooked dinner & had ham, dressing, all of the sides & desserts. We had so much fun opening all of the gifts, I believe Katelyn was overwhelmed because of all of the presents she received, there were alot!! We even had to open Will's because he slept through it all. Brad & I also got some great gifts & we are so thankful to be a part of such great families. Thanks for everything you all did, we had a very Merry Christmas!!

Christmas Morning

 

 

 

 

 

Priceless!

 

 

 

 

 

We had a wonderful Christmas this year with the exception that I was sick from Thursday until today. I felt horrible but made the best of it & of course Katelyn made it so much fun! She was speechless when we woke her up & told her that Santa came to visit. Of course she got the bicycle she wanted & couldn't wait to ride it. Also you can see she couldn't wait to dress up in her new princess costumes, check out those shoes with her pj's & her belly hanging out of her Belle costume. Will had a great first Christmas even though he slept through most of it. Santa brouhgt him some much needed toys!

Making sweets!

 

 

 

Thursday night we made peppermint bark, white chocolate & candy canes, & Katie had so much fun beating up the candy canes. Then on Friday night we made cookies for Santa, I got to use my new plate from the pottery party I had made, the Christmas trees are Katie & Will's footprints, I love the way it turned out. Katelyn had fun rolling out the cookie dough & decorating with icing & sprinkles. Santa must have loved her cookies because he almost ate them all & Pete even took one for his long trip back with Santa. This is something I look forward to doing with her every year at Christmas, I can't wait for Will to join in on all of the fun!

Family Pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We had these done a while back by Kristy Pruet Photography & I had to wait until after Christmas to post them. I think they turned out great, thanks again Kristy!!