Gingerbread Trains

Stephen was working on a project this weekend with a friend of his who has an adorable little boy Bailey's age named Isaiah. What does this mean for me you might ask. It means my plans to go see Twilight with Jeannette and posse are out because I'm babysitting. So I decided it was a good time to make some gingerbread trains. They turned out pretty cute. As cute as can be expected with me being the only adult with Ethan, 2 two-year-olds, lots of icing and candy.

Christmas Time!

We got our Christmas tree put up a few days ago. I love it!! I love Christmas! I'm afraid to put up my other decorations because I don't want to put any holes in our brand new walls with nails. But I guess it'll happen sooner or later so I may as well just do it. We still need to get our own star for our dainty little tree but it looks pretty. We've added a few more ornaments since this picture too-I can't believe Stephen actually let us put his keepsake Star Wars ornaments up this year! I even have all my Christmas shopping done,except Stephen. I can't decide on what to get him. But I'm happy to know that we got to Christmas shop on Best Buy this year (we had so much money leftover from what they had to pay us to repair our walls and floor that they damaged from installing our refrigerator-SWEET!). I really wish I had an advant calendar for Christmas. If anyone has any good ideas on a homemade one I would welcome the thoughts! Well I hope everyone has a great Christmas this year. I know I can't wait for mine!

Cute Girls

Just try and tell me they aren't the cutest girls ever. They like to do the "naked dance" after they get outta the tub, this time I got their pants on before they had to start dancing.

catching up

Since I've been slacking so much on blogging lately, here are some pictures from the past month or so.

Happy Birthday Stephen!

Stephen turned 32 years young today. Happy birthday Stephen!!! And he's still so handsome. Although, we did spot 2 gray hairs even though he denies their existence. We had some friends and family over to eat and have cake, it was fun. Stephen got what he's been wanting forever for his birthday...a PS3 and Fallout 3. So he was a happy camper. Well, happy 32 honey!

Happy Halloween!

I LOVE HALLOWEEN! We had a lot of fun. Bailey was a super cute witch, Maddi was the frickin adorable duck that Bailey was a few years ago, and Ethan was a clone trooper. Oh, and don't forget Stephen, the woopie cushion. By the time it was my turn to get a costume we were out of time and....well....mom just got shafted. So I just had a shirt with skulls all over it. The kids got a lot of candy but now the hard part....I have to try not to eat it all. And no that's not just a funny thing to say...I am really going to be challenged here. We had bought a bunch of candy to hand out but ended up staying in Tucson til about 8:00 so we didn't make it back home in time to hand out any candy. So now I have to try not to eat that candy along with all of the kids' candy. Ugh, I think I'll just go get a piece. :)

We're in!

So we moved in on the 17th!!! We love our house more every day! It's so strange that we aren't just visiting and that it's really ours, for real. We are all loving having our own space again since we were cramped a bit at my mom's. Ethan especially is loving having his own room that Bailey has to stay out of. We have pretty much no decorations up so far but we did paint in the main living areas before we moved in. Here's some pix of the paint job-I like it a lot so if you don't-keep it to yourself!

Ethan kept dripping on the floors so he got fired and had to play with his rocket instead.

This blue/green color is in the kitchen and dining area.

This is the great room.

MY kitchen

Dining room
Shelley directing our work.