Would you believe...

That I got sick on Black Friday!! I know! I woke up in the middle of the night not feeling well at all. When my alarm rang at 3:30 am (no, it wasn't a mistake, I was considering meeting my mom at Kohl's when they opened at 4), I turned it off and went back to sleep! I slept till Sarah woke me up at 8! So, there you go. No big deals to report, no doorbusters for me. Isn't that sad? I did get out and go to a few stores even though I still wasn't feeling 100% better. I just couldn't NOT shop at all on that day. We did meet up with the rest of our group & have lunch at one of my favorite places, Celebrity Bakery. From there, we relaxed at my mom's house, then headed home & all took naps. I'm going to have to have my shopping marathon another day.

Fun day with family

We've had fun visiting with Grams, Aunt Julie, Jamie & Joey this week. Yesterday we spent the day in Grapevine. We went to Grapevine Mills to shop and eat lunch at the Rainforest Cafe. Adam had fun at the new Thomas the Train store. He got to go on a train ride! On our way home we went down Main Street and checked out the Christmas decorations.

Happy Thanksgiving!

I am thankful for my little cutie pies, my sweet husband, our wonderful families, all of the delicious food we ate today, and the shopping day tomorrow! Happy Thanksgiving!

One week from today...

One week from today is the BIG SHOPPING DAY!! I'm so excited! My mom and I get up early & go shopping every year on the day after Thanksgiving. We don't like to call it Black Friday, that sounds depressing. Plus we are seeing red & green on that day. Anyway, we get our ad's on Thanksgiving morning. We casually glance through them. Later in the day we will go back through them and make an insanely organized list. Seriously, organized- by store, price, time we need to get there, most likely highlighted and color coded, It's serious. Anyway, this year a few of our favorite shopping buddies will be joining us. We just couldn't be more excited!

Thanksgiving Fun at Preschool!

We've had so much fun this week celebrating Thanksgiving at preschool!

We made these cute tortilla tee-pee's.


Today we had a feast. All of the classes at lunch together. Look at this cute turkey made of lunch meat, cheese, fruit & pretzels!


And the dessert tree (Swiss rolls & cookies!) was a hit!

The kids were all so cute dressed like Indians & eating on place mats that they had made.

We are so thankful for our school! We have so much fun there!

So Sweet!

Is there anything sweeter than freshly bathed babies in snuggly winter pajamas? I just don't think there is! Sarah is now starting to love books. For the longest time she was too squirmy & busy to sit still and look at books. But, now she loves to be read too. And just to make this bedtime routine a little cuter, Adam likes to be the one to read to her. I know! So sweet! He can recite the whole book, Brown Bear, Brown Bear. His teacher mommy is very proud. It's just the cutest thing to hear him reading! And to his sister! And in their snuggly pj's! TOO CUTE!

Daddy's Little Helper

Cute Messy Faces

Tonight we had "gespetti" for dinner! It was messy as always. Sarah liked it so much, she licked her plate when it was gone. :)

Funny boy

Here's a piece of last night's conversation with Adam while he was trying to delay bedtime...

"Mom, can I go to a party? By myself?
I can drive there, when I get bigger.
After I sleep I'm going to grow bigger.
It's for my friend Chase. (I don't even think he has a friend, Chase, maybe at school, but I don't think so).
He's having a birthday and cake. It's at Jason's deli.
If any bad guys come, they might throw the cake in the water.
Then we'd have to make him a new one, okay Mom?
He likes chocolate. Do you know how to make chocolate cake?"

He's so funny. The sad thing is, he's growing up so fast. It won't be long and he really will be asking me if he can go to parties by himself & drive himself there!

Our Lazy Weekend

I got some comfy new pj's & have spent most of the weekend in them. Jacob & I both have today off, so we are still in weekend mode around here. We've been so lazy! It's been so nice! Of course the bad news is, if you look around the house, you can see we've done nothing all weekend!

The Rockstar Brother

Here's Adam (playing the golf club) singing his color songs that he's learning at school. In case you can't understand him he's spelling "O-R-A-Angie-E" and "R-D-D, red, R-D-D, red, I can spell red!" He is so entertaining!

My Walking Girl

Sarah is really walking everywhere now. Over the last week or so, she has just taken off. Now if she starts to crawl, she quickly realizes what she's doing & stands up & starts walking. She was so proud of herself showing off her new skill at school. Here are a few short videos I got of her walking. In the back you will notice the silly brother trying on Jacob's clothes (oh, and just ignore the laundry pile!) :)

Our Fun Halloween

We had fun celebrating Halloween. We had ghost toast for breakfast & mini pumpkin pizzas for lunch. My mom made a cute Frankenstein cake. We painted our pumpkins & read lots of Halloween books. Finally it was time for Spiderman & Minnie Mouse to get dressed. There was a party at our neighborhood park. We went to that & played a few games there. Then we went to Grandma & Papa's to trick-or-treat and to see Sammy, who was also Spiderman. Then we went to Trunk or Treat at our church. All of the trunks were so cute with different themed decorations & games. The kids had fun & of course got lots of candy! Happy Halloween!

(Slideshow to the right, click to make the pictures bigger!)