Happy Birthday Jesus!

Layna has been so excited to celebrate Jesus's birthday.  We had a cake and sang happy birthday to him on Christmas day.  What a day we had....a day filled with family and friends....the kids had so much fun.  After the craziness of the weekend, Layna and I enjoyed our nightly walk together and she wanted to stop by the nativity scene at the church by our house.  She wanted to see baby Jesus in his manger since he had been missing from it all of the times we visited before Christmas.  When we got there Layna says "Happy Birthday Jesus, your my best friend."  This melted my heart....I responded "He's mommy's best friend too."

Childlike faith
He called a little child and had him stand among them. And he said: "I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven."   Matthew 18:2-4

My sweet bedroom.

So in my frenzy to update my house....I decided to do a mini makeover on my bedroom. The mini makeover cost me about $100.00 but made a huge difference! We love it. Before it was light blue boring, old looking and basic. Now with a little paint, stencil, spray paint to paint accessories....here's is what I got!  Again excuse my crappy photos....saving for a new cam. 

Love the Moroccan stencil but I may never stencil anything ever again. 

Yes, I need some throw pillows and window treatments.

You can kind of see the stencil here. 

I don't know how people stencil in contrasting colors....its a pain.

Snow in October.



A week off from school the first week in November because of a snow storm.....PRICELESS. The kids loved it and we didn't mind the mini vacation.

No Santa!

That's what is happening right now in my house. Layna says she doesn't want Santa to come in the house on Christmas Eve and Hunter just doesn't like him. What a crazy thing us mothers do to our kids just to get that one photo of them with Santa. We hand over our children to a STRANGER dressed in a funny costume and expect them to be thrilled. Its a weird concept. Well every year my parents have Santa come to their house on a firetruck. Its pretty cool. The firetruck is lit up and Santa comes out to bring the kids gifts. Our friends, The Gaudets joined us this year which made it extra fun. This is what happened when Santa came

Adrianna and Ava

At least Mommy and Daddy were happy

Layna and her Belle

Layna: "I just love you so much Belle".  Too cute!



Thomas!

The girls

What an awesome tradition.  Maybe next year we will all be smiling in our Santa picture.

Happy 3.5 Birthday to Layna

Layna's school is celebrating her birthday tomorrow on her half birthday because she is a summer baby and wouldn't be able to celebrate it with her classmates.  Her request for snack time was for me to make rice krispie treats....yumo.  So I did and she thought it was so awesome.  I just love this little girl.

She is just so thankful for everything I do.  I am so thankful for her.

Fall scramble

The lovely season of Autumn brings the busiest time of year because of football season.  My husband coaches so he is not around most of the fall.  That is one reason why I haven't been able to post.  Therefore here is a picture collage of the fall scramble. 

For Halloween this year we had a pretty cute Tinkerbell and an adorable Eli Manning. 

Thanksgiving was so much fun.  The kids had a blast playing with Nolan at Grandma and Grandpa's house.  Then we went to NaNa and Papas to finish off the day where Hunter played football with the big boys and Layna enjoyed making bracelets with Katlyn. 

Stud muffin

My little diva

My favorite room.

Ahhh....my beautiful table from Ballard's Design.  My very first piece of nice furniture.  I just love it.  Before I had a round pedestal table (that I still love)  with small chairs that were not comfy at all.  Very cute set up but not inviting.  The table was in the center of the room with the chairs around it.  My vision of the dining table off to the side with a bench and chairs actually looks perfect.  We swagged the light fixture and now it feels bigger, comfy and inviting.  We love to eat dinner here.  My daughter says "Its just beautiful mommy.  Thank you for doing this."  She's my biggest fan!

View from the kitchen

Art for the wall is coming.......Ill post about it when I am finished!

View from the living room

The bench is custom made from an old bed.  Cool huh?

I always wanted to paint my dining chairs a funky color and I love turquoise.  I am so happy I did it! I thought even if I didn't like it, its only paint right?