I have no idea where they get it?

I realized I hadn't blogged in FOREVER, so I sat down to look through pics to post. I found this: 

 Then the next four subsequent photos were these:

Love these crazy people! Their sillies definitely come from him :)

A little Christmas Cheer

Man do I ever have so much to be thankful for! 

God is good to us. Oh so good.

 I have three perfectly beautiful and healthy children. 

 I have an amazing husband who diligently put up the Christmas lights on the tree and helped "fluff" the branches with me. 

 We have a nice cozy warm house (well at least it is now that the heating guy came and fixed the heater!)

 I have a full belly and food in my fridge. So does every person under this roof. 

 I have a heart full of love and feel thousands of love from all the people we are blessed to call family and friends

 But most importantly I have a Savior whom we celebrate this season. He loves me even when I am unlovable. He forgives me when I am unforgivable. He holds me when I am lonely and sad. He is there for me in ways that NO one on earth can come close. He is my best friend and I am His. He chose me. Like seriously, on purpose, chose ME. 

 My heart is full. Hopefully my cup will begin to overflow again. I am thankful for those whose cups 'ranneth' over for me when mine felt empty.

 I love nativities. I have since I was little. I have 7 up this year. It happens to be the perfect/complete number. I think mine are perfect :)

 The kids love love love playing with theirs. 

 It delights my heart.

 Seriously. I think it does hers too!

2nd and 5th Birthday Party

We have a lover of all things Mickey Mouse (I think it's funny she was the only one NOT at Disney World last year).

 And, probably like most other 3-100 year olds, the most fave Princess for Creighton is Rapunzel!

 So we had a combined family party this year. It was a nice time had by all.

 I bought a yummy chocolate chip cookie cake from Sam's and did the art myself....I was quite proud of myself...The girls were happy campers!

 We had some Rib Crib catering for din din...

We had a short dance party

 

 snapped a few family pics :)

 and opened up those awesome presents!

 She has a few Mickey Mouse friends, but she was super excited about this guy

 Creighton was mighty excited about most of her presents.  Love her looks!

 Cutest hat on the planet...she wears it so well (and often!)

 Love love love these two girls!

 She's talking on her phone and cuddling with Mickey.  She's precious

 Kinsley and Charleigh loved playing with all the fun new things.

 Creighton got ALL the princesses for her birthday...they are well loved

 The Table!

 Walmart does a great job for me...

 It's not perfect, but I was impressed :)

 Jessica's birthday is the day after Charleigh's so we celebrated hers too!  The birthday girls and their cakes!

 Devouring them

 Nonna and Charleigh

 3 generations of strong women!

 Love this one of my mom, Creighton, and I.

 That's thumbs up! :)

We have two priceless pictures of Pop from the party. 

Creighton and Pop

 Charleigh and Pop

 loving still on Mickey...he goes many many places throughout the day

A few weeks worth of memories...

My superheroes.

  My sister in law Lacy had a birthday and we had the sign out so we snapped a sweet (and sassy Creighton) picture of them and sent it to her via email....Happy Birthday Aunt Lacy and Uncle Clay's is coming up this week!

 my kids are PKs and so they sometimes get to spend lots of time here :) they're just random pics...but had to add them too....since this is all very random

 my kids were not going anywhere but just wanted to dress up with accessories! LOVE THIS STAGE

 This little peanut is ADDICTED to the ipad. She thinks it's hers and that she should be able to watch Tangled AT ALL TIMES. We have lots of temper tantrums because of it, but it is nice when we need to accomplish something because she will just watch it so quietly you almost forget she's there!

 Creighton wanted curly hair for picture day! :) I hope by the time she had the pictures taken that she still looked somewhat presentable.  She looked so big and grown up!

 Love my girls!

 My handsome man picked out his own picture day outfit!

 All my babies!  They are getting WAY too big for my liking!

 We had Grandparent's Day at the MDO program at New Beginnings.  Nonna got to join us and Charleigh sang her ABCs and sat through one other song.  :)  SHe was really tired as this performance is during her usual naptime.

 Creighton has made a sweet friend Lillian in her PreK class.  Yesterday we had Lillian over for a playdate and they had lots of fun.  This is at their jog-a-thon!

 Creighton with the other PreK ers

 Rae made it 14 laps!

 Jackson's K class did it later in the day. Jeff and Creighton went to support him.

  Jackson had a big day that day at school. He crunched into a cheese ball and LOST HIS FIRST TOOTH. He didn't seem overly anxious to tell Jeff, in fact, Jeff just noticed and then he showed him.  Nonchalantly he said he lost it at lunch! I thought for sure he'd be crazy about it...  But later that night he was playing with it (after I told him not to) and he lost his tooth (technically again :)) but oh well.  Not having the tooth fairy issues was nice.  He never even mentioned it (although he was VERY sad he lost his tooth and couldn't find it).

 THis is Jackson and his class at the Jog a Thon. (well part of them).  Sam is his best bud on the right side of the picture. Max and Sam are on either side of Jax and they are both super tall boys! I think they have lots of fun!

 Jeff and half of Oklahoma ran in the Warrior Dash Tulsa 2011.  Jeff of course loves any opportunity to paint his face and don a kilt :) My manly man looking so "manly" in his skirt kilt!

 Elmo and his 3 Ladies came to our house and Elmo and Jeff left together to go be in the madness. We came later to watch them cross the finish line.

 Starting off...

 We were entertaining the kiddos while waiting.  There was a huge crowd! Early in the day Debbie and Jessica had also run the Warrior Dash and had already finished. They stayed around to watch Jeff. When you race you get a Viking Helmet hat. Rae wore Gramma Debbies.

 Jackson thought Aunt JEssica's was TOOO SWEATY. :)

Matt's kids were there too, since he was racing! My kids love hanging out with them.  THis picture cracks me up.  Look closely at what Jackson is holding onto. :/

 There is Pastor Phil finishing... (jumping over fire!)

 Matt finished WAY ahead of everyone else from our group.  Matt, Phil, Mike

 This is Jeff finishing...yea! I was worried he'd broken something.  But he finished in less than an hour!

 His shorts weren't making the cut so they finished the race in his hands.... My word they are all so mess it's disgusting!!!!!

 Charleigh with Grandma Debbie! :) Love that full face grin

Happy Warrior Dashing all... and no, I don't think I will be doing that next year...