Merry Christmas!

 

stocking dumping fury!!!

 

cash super excited about his new drum

 

christmas morning at kays, going on 18? yrs now

 

 

mid morning break, too many presents to open, this diva needs her rest

 

this does NOT look like a sharing face to me...what do you think?

 

Dorenda came to visit me! and hold my child like a sack of potatoes! We miss you Jiff, visit us more often :):)

 

Construction workers make pirate faces....I read it somewhere.

As usual, Christmas was a blast! Thank you for everyone involved, whether you cooked, cleaned, wrapped, bought, pushed shutter on a camera, laughed, or opened a gift we loved your company. We are thankful for you in our lives.  We didn't get to see all of our family but hope to before the year ends. Yuliya and Cash love their gifts! Especially the hats :)  I got an awesome robe! Chris a new texans camp out chair. We narrowly escaped a few meltdowns, just feed them more of Chris' quad chocolate chip cookies...that'll fix it right?

Please keep it G rated

Under the massive branch of mistletoe.

Twas the night before Christmas....

 

And nothing is ever quiet in this house, but WE ARE READY! Bring it on Saint Nic!

Grandmami meets Miss Alyssa

Grandmami is in town! It's been a while since she's been back to the states, all of the grandkids are riled up. Even Miss Alyssa opened an eye for her. Lots of playing to be had, and mischief to be made.

George Michael

We heard her singing in her room for about ten minutes before we figured out what she was singing, and had her come out in the living room and sing it to us. Every time I turn on a camera she gets a little shy though, so here are the lyrics.

Last Christmas, I gave you my heart
But the very next day, You gave it away
This year, to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special

Cash "again" so cute!

no fun

my kids  hate slides  example a.

Santa at Tracer

 Heather and Yuliya make a fort under Heather's desk

 Apple mouth, it looked like a massive dog tongue

Here bro, have a cracker. Evan coming to share Cash's crackers

Santa came to work again but as usual this was the least exciting part for the kids. They love racing around the building, eating fists full of cookies(thanks heather) playing in our fish bowl, thank goodness for glass walls, and building forts with heather.

Christmas tree

Yuliya drew a christmas tree :)

Grand Entrance

 

 

This is my sister Amy, she created life today, an art of gods, we get to create life, love, nurture, and cherish these tiny beings we grow inside of us.  Welcome to motherhood Amy, it's our gift, and the gift we give the world. I know it was painful, but hey, if it weren't people would be having kids like we buy donut holes.

  

this is me, I can't look away from my new niece, can you?

 

This is my sister tara, she didn't have a baby today, but she has three! And they were all perfect little newborns too :)

This is Matt, how long did it take him to fall in love with his daughter?

Not very long at all

Happy Halloween!

 

From a fairy princess and a Garden Gnome

Heather made his garden gnome hat/beard from scratch, with tiny little mushrooms on the side. I think its super cute....heather will you make me one pretty please?

WARNING: this is what a sugar crash looks like

Halloween

Gnome and a princess for Julian's Halloween birthday party at a kid gym. They had a blast, a ton of great kid activities.

Dewberry Farm

 

frankenstein pumpkin

We went to Dewberry farms, played games, rode on the little train, and picked pumpkins :)  We came a little too late in the year this time, so there were few pumpkins to pick from, either rotted or just plain picked already! But we were able to find a few that we liked, more pictures ahead on carving them :)Thank you Miss Diana and Houston James for coming with us!

Let me see your eyes

For some reason Yuliya thinks when you open your eyes wide you open your mouth wide too. haha

St. Jude weekend

cash was really enjoying his bread

St Jude benefit with the Dean's. We went to support the benefit and the cook off, Brent is an amazing cook :) We also had fun just lounging, swinging and visiting the lake. They raised over $40,000 that weekend! Such generous friends.

Tutu for mackenzie

Yuliya modeling a fall themed tutu I made for Mackenzie

In 2 minutes!

a bee that yuliya drew
painting today

yuliya painted, while cash drew with chalk(and ate it)


This morning the moon was sleeping again.

When I picked the babies up from daycare today, I have cash about an inch from my face poised and ready to be plopped into his car seat.....and he sneezed in my face! Oh the joys of being mommy, you get a nice juicy sneeze less than an inch from your face.

On the way home, Yuliya has started an "I'm sick" routine, so she can get medicine. So I have started a, "the only cure for sick, is to sleep" routine.We are going through this today and she tells me "Momma, I'm not sleepy, my naptime is ALLL gone! I go to sleep in TWO minutes!"

What I've learned today-
Yuliya has picked up on 2 minutes is never really 2 minutes away, in fact it sometimes means never.

learning how to work my dad's old camera