Christmas Eve 2010

On Christmas Eve we went to Grenada to have Christmas with my family.  All I can say is that our children got so many presents I hope they were not too disapointed with Santa... Below are a few pics of the kids playing together. 

Sweet girls!

Cute cousins

She loves Christmas trees

Playing on Nana's new swing

And we can now call it a day and head home....

Camden Turns 2!!

On Saturday, December 11th we had a small but wonderful birthday party at our house for Camden.  It was perfect and she had a blast! Below are several pictures from that day (thanks to Stacy!).  I can't believe she is already 2 years old!! Today we watched some videos from when she was just learning to walk and it feels like time is flying by so fast!! I just want to rewind it sometimes so she can be a little baby again.
 I am so glad I get to spend everyday with them, I know we are extremely broke and will probably never "get ahead" like some couples.  But we have a roof over our heads and food on our table and when we are older we will have so many wonderful memories of spending time with our children.  Material possessions and social status' are at the bottom of my priority list and I am so thankful to have a supportive husband who is willing to let me live my dream of staying home and raising our children.  It is really tough at times but more times than not I feel more fulfilled than I ever could sitting behind a desk.  So enough of my useless babbling....enjoy the pics!!

"ta da!"  Isn't she precious?!?!

Lily enjoying the party!

She still adds "ornaments" to the tree everyday

Four sweet girls having a tea party!

Camden's cake!! I love the way it turned out, Melissa did an awesome job.

Ella wanted to be a big girl too.

Ginger and Neil (he was rotten by the time she left)

Easton was out numbered but loved all the balloons!

opening gifts

She finally got a bicycle thanks to Nana and Pop Pop!

Breakfast with Santa

Saturday morning our church had a pancake breakfast with Santa! It was great, they had crafts for the kids and the kids got to have their picture made with Santa.  Camden agreed to stand next to him as long as he was holding Neil (who was screaming his head off).  But we got a picture and she got to make some ornaments for her tree at home with one of her friends.  I thought it was great but next year we will let her watch the other kids go up there and sit with Santa before taking her.  I wasn't sure she had fun because she was quiet but when we got home she wanted to put her ornament on the tree and she talked about getting to see Santa all that day, so I am really glad we went.  When I went to watch her hang her ornament I was suprised to discover that she wasnt near the tree but I found her in her room and she told me it was going on "her" Christmas tree!

Craft time with her friend Rachel

Not the greatest picture but could have been worse...

Getting ready to put her new ornament on her tree

Thanksgiving 2010

Wow!  It has been a very busy couple of weeks!  Between Thanksgiving with several families and trying to keep up with the sewing and ironing, and now wrapping presents for Christmas and Camden's upcoming birthday, who has time to blog?  Well I wanted to post a few pictures and hopefully in the next few weeks I will be able to make blogging a part of my weekly schedule once again. Not going to recap the past few weeks because no one wants to read the novel it would be.  I will give a quick update on the kids though.  Camden will be two years old on December 9th!!! I can't believe she is that old already :(  She is growing up so fast on me! She no knows her entire alphabet and a few words to represent each letter, she can count to 10 and recognize the numbers on paper as well.  She knows Philippians 4:13 and about 20 of her story books by heart (really all I do now is turn the pages for her and she tells me what it says).  She loves Christmas music and all of the decorations and lights.  Of course she has a pink tree for her room and she calls the stars at the top of the trees "twinkle, twinkle stars".  She adds a new "ornament" to our tree everyday and it's interesting to see what it's going to be.  So far we have a milk carton top, a clothes hanger, a pearl necklace, several toys and she tried to put a book in the tree but it was too heavy.  She still loves Neil, just not when he takes her toys and she told me the other day that "he cries a lot".  Neil is doing great as well but he really wants to walk and it makes him mad that he can't.  I have a feeling Camden is going to be in trouble once he starts crawling and even more when he can walk.  He is all BOY!! I am still getting used to all of his messiness :)  Overall they are keeping me on my toes and I would not want it any other way, especially with these extra pounds to lose!

Some of Camden's decorations on our tree

Decorating her pink tree in her room

Nana and her sweet babies

My Family!

Being silly with Pop Pop

He really wants to walk!

Always on the go

Our dogs new house that Marvin built!!

My sweet little helper

Newest Christmas Shirt

Thanks to Stacy for suggesting a brighter pink for the star and ornaments on the Christmas Tree Shirt.

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It official! My shirt business now has a name and a real logo!!! Thanks to the extremly talented Marley Sullivan my business is on the road to becoming a "real" business! Check out my new logo that she designed! And I hope to have a public Facebook page up and running over the weekend.

Christmas Shirts for Sale

My camera isn't that great but here are the 2 Christmas shirts I am selling....

Kids

I cleaned off my camera and found a few cute pictures of the kids....just thought I'd share.

My Ballerina playing in her room.

Always smiles :)

Say "Cheese!"

Practicing her letters

Happy baby going for a ride.

Big sis is helping

My two favorite guys 

All worn out from playing with Nana

Playing in our bathroom

Putting on makeup like Mommy

Fall Festival

The day before Halloween our church had a Fall Festival and the kids got to dress up and play games for candy.  Thankfully Nana was here before we left to go and she got some real cute pictures of the kids (our pink cat & monkey).

Turkey Shirts!

I am trying my hand at making and selling children's shirts to help pay the bills and keep me at home a little while longer.  Below are the two shirts I am selling for the Thanksgiving holiday.  Long sleeve and short sleeve, sizes 12 month - 5T if anyone is interested!

Boy Shirt

Girl Shirt

"Giggle Giggle Quack"

Thanks to Lindsey, Camden got invited to go to her first play at the BPAC in Cleveland.  I was concerned she would be too young to sit through a play but she was great!  It was geared towards pre-schoolers and she loved every minute of it.  I kept thinking she was alseep because she was so still once it started but she was just taking it all in.  And as soon as we got back to the car she started singing some of the songs and talking about all the characters.  I am so glad Lindsey arranged this and I can't wait for the other ones we are scheduled to see!  Not many pictures but I had to get a few.

Getting ready for the play to start.

Chloe and Camden before the play

The actors/animals