Logan's 4th Birthday (party pics)

I can't believe my baby is 4 today! What a wonderful celebration we had with all of our friends:)

Oliver, Logan, Hannah, Carter and Braden had a BLAST!!

My friend made these cookies for the kids~they all had Sheriff badges and Logan got a special one with a shot gun ;) He really wanted a shot gun cake but.....he got a chocolate and vanilla marble cake with chocolate chip icing~ the cookies turned out wonderful ~ He just loved the shotgun cookie what a hit~

Happy Happy Birthday to my baby boy! WOW what an amazing day with some amazing friends!

thankful for family time

So happy to have my Mom, Chris and Lyla come visit for the week. Glad that God has everything worked out in HIS perfect timing. Hearing bad news of my friends death on Tuesday brought back alot of breathless emotions~ I was so grateful to have my Mom here so we could mourn this loss together. We are heart broken that we lost another young woman~ but so thankful that I got to spend quality time with both Brie and Crystal before their passing.

We celebrated our lives with wonderful food, wine & birthday cake. We celebrated early for Logan (4) and Max's (11) Birthdays coming up soon. We had white cake with chocolate icing and finished off the night with PRESENTS!!

Pardon the lack of make up ~ we have been laughing and crying all this week

days off

My schedule at work has been more steady. I usually work on weekends and one day during the week. I am enjoying the 3 days I have in a row to spend with my boys. I day dream about spring, the chickens that will be coming soon to our lil hen house, the trees I will plant and the possibility of getting a goat.

Our fire place is now working and love when I can stay home on the cold days and sit by the fire with my man and watch endless movies on Netflix

I tried and tried to get Logan to take a "SWEET SMILE" picture and he would sit nicely and smile soooo sweet then, he would hear the click of the camera and make a crazy face!! He is growing up so much... so fast~ He loves to wear Max's shirts (which come down to his knees), he sneeks in and puts them on and he runs in the room excitedly and says "IT FITS! IT FITS!" so we usually let him wear them.

I am enjoying TODAY and can't wait for my Mom and Lyla to visit our funny farm next week. I look forward to seeing Lyla bear, eating great food ,drinking wine, & crying THERAPY we have when we come together.

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!