Merry Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas.  We celebrated with my family on Christmas Eve and with Ronnie's and Mamaw's on Christmas Day.  Kyle enjoyed Christmas morning especially!  He liked wearing his special "Santa p.j.s" to bed Christmas Eve. 

I used to love to lay under the tree when I was a kid.

Santa brought clothes and toys. 

Kyle really liked his dinosaur and trucks.

Katie was not wanting to sit still the entire night, so I only got this shot of her.  She had a lot of fun too.

Does this not look like Ronnie?  Wow!!!!

Hi Santa.

Kyle and Katie visited Santa.  Kyle did better than last year, but he still doesn't know what to say to him.  He was more worried about getting OFF Santa's lap after telling him "Hi."  Ashley made Kyle and Katie's shirts for this event.  Thanks Aunt Ash!

Happy Anniversary!

Ronnie and I have been married 6 years on December 11th.  Ronnie suprised me with a weekend trip to Hot Springs.  We visted the AMAZING Christmas lights at Garvin Gardens.  They also had an elaborate model train area.  There were about 4 different trains running through the terrain.  It was also starting to SNOW in some of these pictures.  It was cold, but very pretty!  Here are just a few pictures from that weekend.  I was still getting used to my camera, so the shots aren't that great, but you will get the picture idea.

Happy Halloween

Kyle and Katie went as a pair this year for Halloween.  Kyle was a farmer and Katie was his prized produce, a carrot.  There were so cute!  We went up to my grandma's house, so she could see them that afternoon.  She lives in the country, so she doesn't get any trick or treaters.  Then we headed into town to Ronnie's Aunt Sharon's house.  She usually has about 600 or so trick or treaters every year.  She loves passing out the candy to the kids.  Here are a few pictures from our fun-filled night.

Relaxin' on Great Mamaw's front porch before the big night.

I have a picture that is very similar to this.  I was sitting with my two Papaws on the same swing and porch.  This is the only grandparent I have left.  I love her so much, and I love seeing her with my kids.  She is so proud to be a "Great Mamaw."

"Farmer Brown Kyle"

This was in front of our "Fall Landscape" at our house.  I love Katie's face in this picture.  Did you see the "W" pumkin in the background?  I actually painted that.  I know...it suprised me too:)  I'm trying to get a little more crafty!

Kyle's 2nd Birhday!!!

We had Kyle's 2nd birthday party at our house.  We picked a construction theme for this party.  We had sandboxes set up in the yard with plenty of digging devices.  I forgot to take pictures of the cute balloons and decorations, so you will just have to look hard in these pictures. 

I love how these invitations turned out!  I ordered them from paperimpressions.etsy.com.  She did a great job:)

Kyle helping clean up the night before his party.  He loves the leaf blower!

Joanie made Kyle's birthday cake.  She did a GREAT job!  She is so talented!

The sandboxes were great!  I hid little bugs and toys in the sand.  The kids loved digging them up!

They also enjoyed playing with other toys and chasing each other around the yard.

Kyle loved opening his gifts:)  We are so thankful to have all of our family and friends there to celebrate with us.

All the kids got a hard hat to go home with a hard hat.  Kyle had a blast and the weather was not too bad either:)

Catching Up

I AM the worst blogger in the world!  Before you hang me, I do have an excuse.  I have TWO children under the age of 3, and they are wearing me out!!!  The end of school is near, so I think I will try to tackle this blog thing again.  I noticed it has been a little over 1/2 of a year since I posted last!  Please forgive all the catching up I am going to have to do over the next few weeks!  Let the posting begin...