Reading

Cheers to growing up!

I love that I can walk in a room to find Chase reading to himself.

(well, looking at the pictures) There was a time...oh, around the whole first year of his life or so,

that I thought he would never stop crying and just be pleasant. Lucky for me he grew.

I love my sweet, feisty little Chasie-baby.

The obligatory Santa pictures:

I'm not a huge fan of Santa, I prefer the Christ side of Christmas and focusing on the family togetherness of it all but I had a surprisingly good time taking the kids to see jolly old St. Nick and they enjoyed it too. On the drive over Jack and I had a talk about sitting on Santa's lap. He was not interested. So I had to give him a pep talk about standing next to him and when if anyone asks him to sit on Santa's lap he can just say no. It worked out pretty good. When he was asked, he promptly said "NO, thank you" and didn't freak out about being in the picture. Chase was still pretty wary.

"Can I push it?"

The naughty-or-nice-o-meter. It said 'nice'...if you were wondering.

Jack's letter for Santa. We wrote it just before we got in line,

"Dear Santa, I would like a Buzz Lightyear. Thanks- Jack"

I then handed the pad over to Amanda to write her kids letters.

"Dear Santa, I am happy for Jesus' birthday. Love- Clay and Claire"
Thanks for putting me to shame Amanda!

Cute Moments Captured!

I love having a real camera! The best part about it is being able to catch all the cute and funny faces my kids make...not the face that comes a second after the cute one that my other camera always captured. These little gems for example:

"Hi Camera!"

This is Chase winking. I love winking at him and getting this 'wink' back!

"I love Cereal!!!"

"Oooooo"

Notice the lower lip!

"Tuck that thing in son, your lible to catch it on a trip wire!" -forest gump

(the camera even caught the milk in mid-drip!)

To Infinity and Beyond!

Another wink;)

Jack has the smooth dancin' moves

Just plain cute:)

The classic 'underwear-on-the-head' shot made even better!

Annoyed

I just found out that the kids Christmas party for Quinn's Squadron is on Sunday afternoon. Lame! They have always had it on Saturday in the past and the 1 year we were able to go (can you believe that Jack has had 3 christmas' and 2 of them Quinn was gone?!?) it was really fun. Crafts for the kids, food for the parents, Santa arrives on a C-130 and gives each kid a real gift. So, I am just annoyed that we can't go. Any thoughts?

Oh, also...the adult party that we can go to since it is on Saturday (Quinn's Birthday!) costs $50 a person! Is it just me or is that insane? I asked Quinn if we all get diamond earings with our meal.

p.s. I havn't posted since we lost our camera, I just hate posting without pics. Luckily Quinn just bought me this for Thanksgiving:

More to come...