Christmas jammies

we are spending Christmas with clarence's parents tomorrow. since we are waking up and immediately driving straight there, i thought it would be cute for the kiddos to show up in their Christmas jammies. they had so much fun taking these pictures. cooper is turning into quite the "poser".... just like his big sister!

From our house to yours: MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Christmas with the McClains

What a fun day!! we got to spend a day with some very good friends of ours. the mcclains. there was tons of eating and playing! we even got to decorate some gingerbread things (lexi did a house and cole did a tree). cooper just wanted to play and eat candy!! we all had super fun!

Here is Cooper.... he is SOOOOOO excited he got some fun new cars!!! he played and played with those things for hours!!

here is cole with his gingerbread train! he had so much fun decorating it this year! it turned out great!

here is lexi and her gingerbread house. she had a blast with it this year and definetely added her own sense of style to it!

Christmas with the Pattisons

I am very sad, but I forgot to take pictures this day! we had some friends over who have the most precious two girls. they are 4 and 3 and sweet as can be. the kids played SO great and we had a pretty good spread. the faves were the cheesecake balls and chocolate covered marshmallows on a stick! i promise to post pis of them soon! they are TOO cute!!

the elves have movie night

"sally" and "cooper the elf" got up in the middle of the night, AGAIN!! they made pallets on the floor, popped popcorn, and watched the "santa clause movie".

the funniest.... clarence got up at 4am to get ready for work and realized that the tv was on in the toy room (the movie was still on because i was up wrapping gifts until 3am). he stormed in the toy room and was getting on to lexi for sneaking and watching tv. apparently he was really letting her have it. he bent down to get her up, when he realized it was sally, and not lexi. we still laugh about that!!! so, from now on,.... he gets the old "heads up".

elves attack...

"Sally" and "Cooper".... the elves, got into some mischief the other night. They snuck into the pantry and got into the candy basket!!! What a sight to see! There were candy wrappers ALL over the floor!! Lexi woke up at 4am and realized "Sally" was gone.... she snuck around the house and found her. Lexi left her there.

The next morning, of course, Lexi was the first one up!!! She came and told me what those little elves did! She then told me,.... that the elves had brought them some "Christmas candy".... it was these cute little suckers in the shape of Santa and a Snowman. The words of Lexi..... "I think that Sally and elf Cooper were going to put them in our candy basket, but then they looked in there and saw all of the good candy. They just couldn't help themselves!".

We all got some good laughs!

elves

santa is having a difficult time keeping up with his "naughty and nice" list this year! so,.... he has decided to send some of his elves from the factory into some childrens' home. this way,.... he can get a report how the children are behaving at Christmas eve. i know,.... i am a genius!!! but, i must admit, it wasn't my idea. every few nights, the elves will get the kiddos a gift and move around the house.... get into the cookie jar,..... watch a movie in the toy room, etc....

it really is a lot of fun!!

here is lexi's elf. elf names are hard to say in "human language". her real name is: Eseek Sixela (lexi's name spelled backwards).... but lexi got to give her a "human name" which was

"sally lexi princess".

cooper has named his elf "cooper". it was a b!t@h finding an elf this year. so,... we found a licensed elf.... from the movie. lexi immediatly recognized him, so we have convinced her that "cooper the elf's" relative must be a movie star. seriously..... this is WAY more complicated than anticipated!! but,.... i guess the kids behave for one whole month, so it's SO worth it!!!

lexi is offiicial!!

lexi has become an official girl scout! her is her and her troop taking the offical "girl scout promise"

here is lexi, having to take the oath, all on her own, to be an official daisy!! she LOVES it!! one down-fall,.... they don't sell cookies!! maybe that's a good thing!

Thanksgiving

well,.... our thanksgiving SUCKED!! lexi was very ill and she and i spent the day at my in-laws. it was definitely worsefor her than me. she couldn't stop puking and all i had to do was hold her hair back and make sure she as drinking ok. later that night, we went to the er, b/c lexi was having severe abdominal pain ("like a knife was cutting her stomach open").... from 10:30pm-5:30am, we had tons of tests and the final outcome was.... take her to the children's hospital and let them remove her appendix b/c she had appendicitis.

well.... we didn't do that (thank goodness i listened to that "mom" intuition) and come to find out, she had strep throat!! believe it or not,.... this is the second time i've heard of this. so beware,.... of round rock medical center!!!

halloween

here are the kiddos before they went trick-or-treating! lexi had SO much fun and cooper HATED it!!! the only thing he liked, was getting candy! but, he wanted to eat it IMMEDIATLEY and got pissed when he couldn't!

cooper went as popeye. he refused to wear his "muscle arms". so, i painted an anchor tattoo on his arm. he was ok with that.

here is loo-hoo as a witch. i was a little surprised by her choice but was THRILLED it wasn't a "barbie, diva, princess". if you know what i mean!!

Lexi's tooth ordeal and more....

Here is Lexi with all of her teeth!

lexi had "oral surgery" and had 4 baby teeth removed to make room for her 2 adult teeth. she was SUCH a big girl and was heavily drugged!

my parents sent her flowers and balloons! she LOVED them!

Halloween 2006 - Adult Style

This is THE

very first year that I was able to get Clarence to dress up!! I went as a "brick house" and he went as a "brick layer". it was simple,.... but oh-so-fun!! i thinkwe were the hit of the party!! we had SUPER fun and we have some good stories to tell! it was fun to have some "adult fun"!!