6 years ago

was it really only 6 years ago that I was asleep in my hotel room waiting for my wedding day....and now we have had 2 house, 3 cars, 3 kids, 2 roomates, 4 jobs later, and here we are. Time flies when you are having fun. 1 phrase sums it all up..."I'd do it all over again!".

Santa, a Ninja, and Hanna Montana came to visit!!

I'll have to come back and add some more text. We've been fighting our internet all day so I haven't had time to post and now it is time for me to go to work. But here are some pictures to hold you over. We had a wonderful Christmas. The kids must have been VERY good because Santa sure did drop off a lot of stuff.

Mackenzie making cookies last Tuesday. This was a batch she made all by herself. This was her first time getting to hold the mixer all by herself - she felt so grown up!!

Christmas Eve - maybe it was the cookies that got Santa to leave so many presents!!!

Christmas morning in front of all the loot - can you tell momma hadn't had her coffee yet. Daddy must have realized by now that is a deadly combintation because I got a coffee maker!

There are no words for this picture!!

Turner and his BIG T-Rex (aka Sharp tooth...ROOOAAARRRR)

Mackenzie will be all ready for baking next year! This goes with her Easy Bake Oven...

The kids with all their loot...hopefully Santa won't get ALL the credit.

Future Santa????? Isn't this just soo adorable. My baby's first Christmas!

"Mom, Santa forgot a few cookies, don't worry I'll finish them off!" Caught in the act while everyone else was focused on presents.

A Ninja swept through - that must have been who made this mess!

Austin riding his Zebra (mommy's $5 garage sale find from this summer!)

And Hanna Montana stopped by to strut her stuff.

Christmas Letter

If you click on the images, it will open them bigger so you can read.

Just a short post today. I'm exhausted. Left the house yesterday at 6am, didn't get home until 10 pm. long day, no kids, not much husband.....I'm ready to go home, lay down on the floor and just let the kids climb all over me. I need to feel them, touch them, hear them, kiss them, hug them....

But I did get to see them all this morning, make them breakfast and take Mackenzie to her Christmas Party at school. Here is a pic of Me and my Baby Girl.

So I've always thought that Austin looked just like Aaron, but after another look, I think he does take after his momma!

When i take picture like these, I totally think of how they will look on a big screen at his high school sports award banquet or wedding video. I know, I'm such a mean mommy! lol Better be nice to your momma kids, I've got some dirt on you!!!

This is a picture of Turner yesterday when I got home. Austin's pants, Mackenzie's mittens, and 1 sock - I guess I don't have to remind everyone that they are home with daddy during the day! lol

And this is a picture I took of Turner last night in the bath - this is such a classic Turner face - see the sweet mischievous look there?!

And for the Grand Finale for this post......Drum Roll Please......Look Who's WALKING!

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Mackenzie

Here is a picture of Mackenzie after her Christmas program. I had stopped and gotten her a dozen roses. I mean this was her first performance after all! She of course loved the flowers, she always loves when I get them from Aaron. Gosh how I love that little girl!

So things about her these days.....

-She is actually pretty wild herself. Sometimes I think maybe she is more the instigator of Turner's wildness!

-She still loves her brothers. Talks to Austin like she is a little mommy.

-Still sleeps with Chou Chou every night, but otherwise she doesn't play with her too much or have to take her with us everywhere during the day.

-She loves wearing dresses, will only wear "soft pants", no jeans because they aren't comfortable.

-She is so excited to be getting close to the age of loosing her teeth. We get updates on anyone who has lost a tooth in her class.

-She is teachers pet. We just switched her to a new class (since she is only going T/TH class only now) and the teacher was ecstatic that Mackenzie was coming to her class. She told Aaron that Mackenzie is her little girl at school.

-She is starting to read and can sound out 3 letter words with the short vowel sounds.

-Is always wanting me to hold her these days.

-Loves doing her gymnastics and is now working on back bends and assisted walkovers.

-Thinks that we are lying to her when we tell her Mommy and Daddy do magic. (the other day daddy was trying to convince her that we were magic because we can make babies, and she said no God made me, and Aaron said, God just gave us the DNA, but we put the DNA together to make you - hmmmm daddy and his science/sex ed lessons!)

Of course there are times that I get frustrated or she gets in trouble, but Mackenzie is as perfect of a daughter as I can imagine. She is close to a carbon copy of her mommy in her disposition, and is very sensitive. She is so sweet, and big hearted. She will do amazing things for this world, I am certain.

Gosh I don't even know where to begin. I can't think back to yesterday, much less all the way back to my last post. Well, I'll just start dumping stuff out and maybe more will come to me. first, I got tagged by another blog to do this.

The object of the picture tag is to:1) Choose the 4th folder where you store your pictures on your computer2) Select the 4th picture in the folder3) Explain the picture

So here it is....

And look it isn't even me or my family! This is a picture of Fran and Sean when I went up to the hospital to visit on his "birth"day! And Fran...don't even yell at me about posting this - you looked beautiful!

Last week....well Aaron was home with the kids all week as he is staying home with the kids now that he isn't working. He is having a great time with them and they are loving having daddy home all the time. We have talked about the whole job thing, and there is a possibility that Aaron is going to get his teaching certificate for HS so he can teach and coach. it has always been a dream, so this is a great time for him to pursue it. I'm behind it 150%. I think he would make an excellent mentor for kids that age. He has a knack with them and went through so much himself that he could bring to it. I can just picture it so clearly it just seems right. And seriously, do I not just scream “coaches wife” or what! Lol And really I just keep thinking of Friday Night Lights movie, and the daughter out there screaming at the boys to get it together – so Mackenzie! Just so Aaron is ok with it being a family effort! Lol I don’t know, it just feels right. So wish us luck. I know it isn't going to be easy financially for the next couple months, but well worth the price of a dream.

Friday we had Mackenzie's Christmas program. It was SOO adorable. I didn't get many good photos or real good video. I hoping they sell a video of it or something like that, but at least I have something. I did however forget my camera at home today though so I don't have anything to upload. Mackenzie was a wise man!

Friday night the big kids went to a "parent's night out" at a local church, I had to go in to work for a couple hours, and then got off and went home real quick and shampooed the carpets before the kids got home. Feels so much better to have them done - our carpet was getting pretty grody. Saturday day was busy finishing up the bedroom carpets, having a mini-meltdown about finances - and then off to work I went. Got home about 10:30, watched Aaron and Cam jam out to Guitar Hero, and then back at work at 8 yesterday. Got home, finally took the kids through the local light display, grabbed dinner out, then the night was over and 4:30 this morning came very quickly. Gotta say, I'm a little exhausted. I do fine going along just staying busy - but then one day it catches up to me and it is like - BAMMMMM - running into a brick wall. I turn in to a blubbering idiot, and then it is over usually within a day or so and I'm all good until the next one! Well, this weekend was my "blubbering idiot" stage, so hopefully that has passed!

It is so hard right now. It is just an internal struggle right now with "am I doing the right thing", "am I being a good mother", "how long should I keep this up"........but right now it is a necessary evil and I really enjoy working at NY&Co so at least I enjoy my time there.

Well I think that is about all I got. Hope everyone had a great weekend, and if you are local got through the bad roads ok today. I narrowly missed being in 2 accidents this morning because of the icy roads - YIKES. But I made it safely.