Christmas Pictures~

We had Christmas eve dinner with Gregg's cousins~we had a great night eating and playing board games.

We got the Xbox 360 with the Kinects. It is soo much fun but we are all sore today! Lots of good games with so much action ;) New meaning to family game night!!

I had to work on Christmas eve, Christmas day and the day after but in between we had magical moments of time! The boys got everything they wanted and more...Logan has a little more belief in SANTA :) Happy New year!

almost Christmas

We are soo ready for Christmas this year! To Logan it is new and exciting which is making it magical for all my boys this year. We aren't sending out Christmas cards this year we just couldn't get it together with all our busy schedules ;(

I LOVE Oklahoma!!!!! It was a wonderful 70 degrees just a day ago and yesterday it was snowing!!!

It was a beautiful snow that didn't stick or last long but while waiting for Max's bus we all played in the big beautiful flakes.

My oldest made the paper as STUDENT OF THE WEEK~ we had the article clipped out and when he want to the bank they had it laminated. The article is also posted up at our church. We are so very proud of him.

It has been hard realizing this is the LAST Christmas all my boys will be living under my roof. Getting Zach's Senior pictures and preparing for things like PROM make me go straight into denial mode (this isn't happening, this isn't happening). But it is time, IT IS HAPPENING and I couldn't be more proud of who my baby has become. Zach and I have overcome many things and it is beautiful to see him flourish. Did I mention I was PROUD??~ well I am overwhelmingly proud and can't believe that in a few more months he will be leaving me to go to college.

Merry Christmas everyone!!!!

friends and family

My friend Crystal came out for an extended visit over Thanksgiving break

So happy to have her here~we are having a ball eating, drinking vino and telling childhood stories. It makes me miss Brianna and we wish she was here with us laughing about old times.

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner at the house. I was so happy to have a relaxing weekend with friends and family. Gregg's cousins came over, my friend Crystal and the boys~We had a huge feast~it was awesome

I am working lots and trying to get everything ready for Christmas~This week we are going to have our photo shoot for the Christmas cards~ TIME is flying I can't believe it is already December~

gettin ready for some all nighters

Trying to get my body prepared for some all night shifts at work~ One of the guys who works the over night shift is going on vacation and needed his shifts covered. I said "I could do it!" this was several weeks ago~ the 1st night is coming up tomorrow 9PM-5AM!!!!~For those of you who do not know~ I go to bed like clock work around 9:00-10:00 EVERY NIGHT. I have been trying to nap during the day and moved my workouts to the evening but still I go to bed at like 11:00~ WHAT WAS I THINKING???~ I have not stayed up all night since my 20's and even then I was partying with my friends so it was easy to be UP~

On another note~ I caught 2 thieves on Sunday!!! One was a girl trying to get a pair of head phones out in her 1/2 eaten Cheetos bag and the other well... he stole a 1/2 used bottle of hand sanitizer that we keep up front~YES he lost his job over a 1/2 used bottle of hand sanitizer!! I must mention these are TEMPS we hire this time of year~ the actual employees won't risk their jobs~ but I am on the look out~ Happy to catch the PERPs

my shift starts tomorrow night~Hope I am UP for it!

Halloween Prep

I have been working lots over the last month~ been working out almost everyday, working 40 hours at the new job, teaching Sunday school and WWJD on Wed. nights. We are looking forward to Halloween and LOVE sitting outside by the fire pit in this fall weather. The leaves are changing and it is sooo beautiful out here in the country.

Today is my day off and it is PAY DAY so... we are all going shopping!!!!! Haircuts for the boys, I AM GETTING MY NAILS DONE, buying everyone new underwear and we are getting some last minute Halloween stuff. We are planning on having a TRUNK at our church Halloween party "Trunk or Treat" and Thursday we are going to a cool OPEN HOUSE at Best Buy. The boys will be able to see the HUGE warehouse and see where Mommy works~ it is a rare opportunity and I am excited to show them off to my co-workers. Happy we can attend all these things because there won't be much trick or treating out here in the country! Zach is having a HUGE Halloween party with all his friends they will prob. stay up late,watch scary movies and eat junk.

This year Logan will be a NINJA (he has been wearing his costume for the entire month of October), Zach will be a Evil Jester and Max is going to try and find a costume today!!!

Workin' GAL

I am NOW currently employed at Best Buy Warehouse here in Ardmore. My town is too small to have an actual Best Buy store but the main shipping warehouse is here. I am working as Loss Prevention Officer or Asset Protection (My Dad who always wanted me to be a cop is thrilled at my new POWER) I really lucked out getting this job, most of the people I work with had to work at this company for YEARS to get this position. I was originally hired just to work Saturday and Sunday evenings but I have picked up several hours for training and have a feeling it will be more of a full time gig especially during PEAK season which is coming up.

I pretty much search EVERYONE who exits the warehouse,watch them walk through the metal detector and wand them if they continue to make the machine beep,watch over 60 surveillance cameras and eventually I will be checking semi trucks in and out of the facility.

I was sort of resistant to going back to work at first, feeling like I would be leaving my boys and not doing my MOMMY duties. Gregg however has worked so hard for us over the years and just can't work as hard as he used too do to his recent neck surgeries. Once I started back I REALLY LOVED IT!! I love working with ADULTS again~ I am so used to volunteering at the church with kids and dealing with my lil guys going to all kid functions, I almost forgot how to have an adult conversation. I still felt guilty that first night I worked but when I got home the house was still in tact, kids were fed and everything was good.... they barely missed ME!!! Ok I thought to myself they will not be able to function when I take on all these hours next week~THEY FUNCTIONED. They really love being home with Daddy and he is a great Mr. Mom. He packs my lunch , does laundry, cleans the house, makes the beds , takes the boys to football practice and even went to Max's parent teacher conferences.

This year has been so different and I don't know why I fight change~One of those major changes is my teenager ~Zach is a Senior and doing all the things I remember doing NOT SO LONG AGO, I can hardly think of it with out being in tears but I am slowly embracing the new changes like working again. I am grateful to work for such a good company in such a good position.

Mom's visit

Mom and Lyla came to stay for the weekend. Bawpa Chris took Max and Zach to 3 Yankee Baseball games in Dallas. So we had a girls weekend ;)