It's been a long time...

It has been a really long time since I have last posted. My only excuse is that the time between Thanksgiving and New Years just flew for me! For some reason everything crept up onto me this year. The month was really good but REALLY busy. I am going post all the updates in separate posts because I have tons of pictures! Have I said how much I love my new camera. I adore it....The only issue is that I take so many pictures and it takes me forever to sort through them all.

My little pilgram....

We were suppossed to go to Ohio for Thanksgiving but Matthew came down with a bug. We thought that it was the beginning of the flu but luckily it passed by mid-day Thursday. I was sad to not get to go home but it was great to have a few days that we didn't have to run around anywhere. We just had a relaxing few days, which was wonderful! We didn't do black Friday this year but we went on Saturday and got almost everything on our black Friday list! It was great, I love the fact that they basically ran the sale for two days. I would say that I am about half way through Christmas shopping. I am trying to get it all done in the next few weeks, so I can enjoy the season with my kids.
Here are a few pictures from the Thanksgiving celebration at Elizabeth's school.

Pictures from last weekend

Here is one of the ways we celebrated. We spent the day walking the greenway in Murfreesboro. I swear taking pictures of your own kids is HELL. If Elizabeth ever looks at me it is a miracle! She likes to think that she is fooling me but her eyes are hardly ever looking at me. Not to mention Ethan...run, run, run far away is his moto. We had a great time!

Six years and no capital crimes!

This weekend was our sixth wedding anniversary. I thought I would celebrate the day by posting some pictures from the day. The pictures are grainy because they are the ones that my mom took at the wedding. I didn't feel like breaking any copyright laws by scanning in the offical ones. I choose the song Highland Cathedral for the slide show because it is what I walked down the aisle to. It still send chills up my spine.

We celebrated for the whole weekend as a family but I'll share all of that in my next post.

Cowboy week

Last week was cowboy week at Elizabeth's school. They spent the whole week studying cowboys and how they lived. On Thursday a parent in his class brought a few horses to the school so they could learn about how to care for them. Friday was the grand finale where the kids could dress up as a cowboy for a parent lunch and a rodeo. I am not sure if I have mentioned this but each kindergartner has a 4Th grade buddy who helps them with different projects. I think that they meet once a week but I am not sure. Elizabeth's buddies name is Sydney and she adores her. For the rodeo the buddy teams made stick horses. The 1st race was a relay with the kindergartners racing across the field followed by the parents. All I have to say is thank GOD Matthew was there. It was such fun though. The second race was a relay with the buddy teams. I was a great day!

Elizabeth and Sydney


Mrs Natcher in the middle of the race.


Elizabeth with her pony.


Ready to Race.


Daddy and Ethan racing.




Ethan had a great time. He loved the horse.

Cake

So I agreed to make my neighbors Sweet 16 birthday cake. I used her invitations and came up with a few sketches. After she picked one I had two weeks to sweat it out. It was my 1st cake covered in fondant but I think it turned out pretty good. I had a few inexperience mistakes but over all I am happy with it. You'll have to excuse the pictures as the cake was in the garage. The one sucky thing is I have no voice. I have sinus drainage so my voice is gone...Last week was cowboy week at school and I will post pictures from that in my next post. Have a great weekend!

Christmas.....Already????

So yesterday morning as we were getting ready Matthew reminds me that we only have 50 days until Christmas. WHAT? Where has the year gone? It seems like yesterday I was whining about not having a Christmas card design and it is already that time again. (Just in case you were wondering..UGH no I haven't started my cards yet) So I ordered 5 Christmas gits on-line. It's a start right? Elizabeth is the hard one for me. She wants everything she sees but she is not really drawn to anything. Right now she says that she wants this princess chair. Now I haven't seen this in person but it is $70.00 for a plastic chair... Santa is cringing. SO now Matthew and I have the dilemma of, do we buy the chair that we are almost certain is junk so that Elizabeth gets what she asks Santa for or do we spend the next few weeks trying to talk her into something else. It was much easier before I had to fill Santa's huge shoes. So that is where I am with Christmas Shopping right now.

Now the one thing that I would do tomorrow if I could is start decorating. Now of course that would require a clean house. Which I am certain that I won't see until my kids are in college but I still would love to put the tree up. I already have a list of new decorations that I want to make. Hopefully my creative brain comes out of hibernation this year.