God bless us every one

Merry Christmas!

I'll post pictures later but I wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. If yours is 1/2 as good as ours, then you are very lucky.

Last night we were up until 2 am putting together a train table and finishing his book shelf that we started before he was born. He went to bed very late for him because he took a late afternoon nap yesterday and we went out last night but was up at 7:30 this morning, bright and early, ready to see what Santa brought.

It has been a great day though. Round one has come and gone, we got a cruise on Lake Travis and an awesome gift card to Class Cinemas and a hard drive to back-up all the pictures. Not to mention we got accused of stealing my grandmother's car. And Jack of course cleaned up well too.

Next is round 2 when Jonathan's family comes over, and we have lots of left over alcohol from the early crowd so it should be fun! And of course, more presents!

My Jack-O-Lantern

Jack had a good Halloween!

He didn't quite understand the whole, ring the bell, get a treat thing, but he did have fun socializing and seeing everyone.


And I mean, EVERYONE!



This is him with princess Cassey (and daddy). Cassey always comes out to great us when we go check the mail and is a very sweet little thing.



We hung with the neighbors for a bit and then of course he had to swing. He though it was pretty cool that he got to swing in the dark.



And after his bath he was checking out the loot, which was the first time he was interested in the bucket! While he was eating dinner I went to the neighbors houses and handed out little toys for them to drop in his bucket instead of candy. He would have been fine with collecting candy and then handing it over, I don't think he would have noticed a thing, but it was good practice for us for what to do next year when he is more interested.

All-in-all it was a good evening. It was fun to socialize with the neighbors and this was the first year that we have run out of candy from having so many kids come by. It was super fun though and I know that next year will be even more fun!

Happy Mother's Day

To all the mother's out there:

Thank you for permanently altering your body to birth an infant that looked more monkey or alien than you would have anticipated. For enduring hemorrhoids, clogged milk ducts, mastitis, and thrush. Thank you for the sleepless nights that morph into interrupted sleep that will last until our children leave the house. For putting your wants, desires, and often fashion and hair styles on the back burner. Thank you for wiping boogers, kissing owies, changing diapers, wiping poopy butts, snuggling hurt feelings, being the rock when another kid hurts your kid and having the restraint to not kill them. For letting go when you needed to, even when it rips your heart out.

Who would have known that you would have become expert artists, cooks, budgeters, nurses, scheduler, cleaner, referee, therapist, fort maker, driver, and doing all of it while constantly multitasking and planning with at least one kid hanging on you every step of the way.

For Mothers Day, know that the only people who truly get it and appreciate what you do are other mothers. So from one mother to another, thank you for all you do.