~Christmas Pics and Cards~

Below are all the pics that I included in our Christmas cards. Everyone that got a card got 4 pictures. I did not plan on that many because I didn't think the family pic would turn out that good. I did some doctoring it up so it turned ok, so I decided to include it in.

We do our family Christmas pic in pj's. Many years ago Aundrea would not put on her dress so we decided to do our pics in pj's.

The dresses the girls have on were given to them by there MaMaw Stephens. The dresses are just adorable. The girls just look so cute in their dresses!!! I tried getting pics of them together in them but I did not get a good one when they were looking at me at the same time. So I had to go with individual pics. Another reason so many pics in the Christmas cards. I have not heard of any complaints so I guess everyone liked them.


Those who got our Christmas cards this year got them late. I just could not get it together this year.
I wanted to make all my cards like the one below. It turned out so pretty. You can't tell from the pic but that is red glitter. It is so beautiful in person. Just ask my Grandma. She was the lucky lady that received this one and only card. I didn't start making my cards till Sunday before Christmas. Nothing like waiting to the last minute.



I had to figure out a new card design that I could whip out in a hurry. The red glitter card was going to take to long to make. So the next two cards are what I came up with. I made 50 of them in about 2 hrs. I think they turned out pretty cute.
Simple and sweet!!!

Thanks for stopping by. Hope everyone is enjoy the holidays.

Have a Happy New Year.

~Christmas Day~

I have lots to share with you about what has been keeping me so busy and not blogging.

So I thought I would start with Christmas Day. The girls were up late Christmas Eve so they slept in Christmas morning. They got up about 8:30am. Thank God we have kids that like to sleep!! Of course the first thing they run down stairs to see if Santa came. I don't know if we will ever get pics of them coming down the stairs. I guess we would have to be up before them. Hmmm...don't know if that will ever happen?

Santa brought Aundrea...Polly roller coaster water park, Little Pet Shop Pet Daycare, and a MP3 player. Cassie... a plane, train, and baby doll. We could hear squeals of delight. I guess Santa did good!!!

Kevin hand made a jewelery box for Aundrea. He had been working on it for a couple of months and Aundrea had seen all his progress and even picked out the color of the lining on the inside bu she never knew if was for her. She was very surprised and excited it was for her.

I had found some scrap fabric in a quilt shop back in October that would just look so cute for a little girls blanket. But I didn't have enough to make a big blanket for both of my girls so I made a baby doll blanket for each of them. They were so excited and loved the blankets. It just makes my heart smile to see that my girls love handmade gifts not just the store bought ones.

A white Christmas... we had!!! We got a lot of the beautiful white stuff. When we opened the front door we pushed the snow, if drifted so much. We had 7 to 10 inch.

Here is where the snow drifted up against our back door.

Here are the girls playing with the easel that my mom and dad sent Cassie. Hours of fun!!

Another snow drift at the side of our house.

Kevin took the girls out back to built a snow fort.

The fort did not do to well on the grass so Kevin shoveled off the patio and built if there. Cassie came in but Aundrea stayed outside and helped her Daddy. We had a great Christmas day just enjoying each other. We had our big dinner Christmas Eve with friends (that will be in another post). So we had leftovers Christmas day which made it nice that I didn't have to cook but just enjoy my family. I hope you all had a great Christmas and are looking forward to the new year.

Thanks for stopping by. Many more posts to come.

~15 Years Ago Today...~

I married the man of my dreams!!! We were high school sweethearts.

We met in the back set of a car.

Pause.

Get your head out of the gutters. My parents read this blog.

We met during drivers ed class in the back set of the car.

What were you thinking? LOL!!! I just love telling that story. Hee!Hee!

We married at the age of 20. Yea we were young but we would not change a thing. We have learned a lot over the years about life and each other. Our love has grown stronger and deeper.

I love that man of mine. Not only does he take care of me, puts up with me, he even cleans and cooks. Now that is what a girls needs. His Mama raised one heck of a man!!!

Sorry about the bad pic. I just took a pic of our wedding pic on the wall.

We don't have any big plans to go out tonight since it is a school night but Kevin has planned something for us this weekend. Our babysitters are high school age girls and I don't like to have them out late on a school night.

Look what Cassie did for our anniversary. She colored a beautiful picture for us.....
ON THE DOOR, BANNISTER AND THE WALL!!
What a lovely gift. Kevin found our little present last night just before we went to bed. So that is what I had to look forward to this morning. Cleaning crayon off the walls. Happy Anniversary to me!!

I could not get a good pic of the walls because they are a dark green. As she walked up the stairs she used a red crayon to make a mark on the wall, all the way up. WD-40 worked wonders!!! We both thought she should help clean up some how. I didn't want to chance her putting her hands in her mouth with WD-40 on them so I made her sit next to me as I cleaned. But she did use a wippy to clean off the table. I love the way she holds her mouth to clean. She takes that after her Daddy.

Cassie is not the only little artist in our house. Aundrea did the same thing when she was a bit younger than Cassie. Here is a scrapbook page I did for the event.

For all my hard work I'm going to the premiere of NEW MOON tonight with some friends.

Yeah, I can't wait. I hate that it lands on our anniversary but Kevin and I discussed it and well we could not go out tonight anyway so he said he would stay home with the kids so I can go. I tell ya, WHAT A MAN, WHAT A MAN, WHAT MIGHTY GOOD MAN.

A MIGHTY MIGHTY GOOD MAN!!!!!

Plus, he can't stand crowds and there will be crowds. Mostly screaming women. He would not be able to stand that. So he is taking one for the team.

Thanks Hun!! You are the best!!

~Fall Fun 2009~

First I have to thank you so much for all the wonderful comments!!! The girls loved hearing about them. No, Donna I have not thought ahead to Christmas, but you have me thinking!

This is the view from our back door. I love the beautiful colors of Fall. Now most of the leaves are gone. It has been so windy here.
I just love this picture. I really shows what a great big sister Aundrea is with her protective arms around her little sister and her first best friend, Elliott.

Kevin got out the leaf blower and piled up some leaves for the girls to play in, so I took the opportunity to take some Fall pics. They are such hams.

I love how I can get action shots with our awesome camera.

And of course, a family pic. Hope you enjoyed more pics of my family.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.

~Happy Father's Day~

Happy Father's Day to all our Dad's out there!!

Here is the girls giving there Daddy his gifts. They decorated Popsicle sticks for him and Aundrea made a book back in school called What Daddies do best! The picture is hazy because I had just brought the camera out and it is so hot and humid here that it fogged up. As soon as you walk outside you are dripping wet.
I bought Kevin a blower vac combo. We don't have many leaves at this time but he can use to blow the grass off the drive way till fall. We get tons of leaves.

Yes it is Father's day but my hubby does not know what it means to rest. He is such a hard worker. It's one of the things I love about him. He had to rehang this thing that holds our garden tools and such. It fell off so he fixed it. He is now, as I type this, hanging shelves over our 3rd garage door to store more junk that we don't use all the time. I will have to post picks later when he is all done.

While Kevin is hard at work. The girls are enjoying the pool.

Well I hope everyone is enjoying there Father's Day. I'm going to go put my feet in the pool before the girls pour it all out. They are on a mission to get the whole drive way wet.

Have a great day and stay cool!!

Be sure to see the post below of Aundrea and her cast. Two post in one day. Woo Hoo!!

~Happy Easter!!!~

Christ has risen today!!!!

Just wanted to send out Easter greeting today!!

I just thank God for his sacrifice for us and pray that everyone will know His gift to us in Jesus Christ and rejoice in it!!!

Here are some Easter pictures for your enjoyment. Since we could not go to visit family we are having friends (no family in town of there own either) of ours over to celebrate. We have plans for an egg hunt, a craft and food. What could be better.

Hope you enjoyed the pictures.

Have a great Easter Day!!!