Oh that husband of mine....

he must love me more...because he built me THIS!he surprised me last Saturday by having my mom and grandma get me out of the house all day while he re-did my closet. Had I known he was doing it I would have taken before pictures for sure, but it was a surprise. Before it was a just a simple 5'x6' closet with two wire closet shelves for hanging my clothes, which meant the 43 pairs of shoes you see above were a DISASTER in the closet floor! He loves me.

Love...

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I love shoes. Like I REALLY love them. The three pairs above are some of my latest additions from Christmas and birthday. And I love them all! I especially love the closet pictured too, but unfortunately that is not a recent addition......sigh. One day!!!!

Merry Christmas!!!

I posted these pictures backwards, sorry. It's been a while since my last post, we've been bust bees lately. I was sick twice since Thanksgving and in between I was finishing up Chrismas shopping and in the boys' classrooms quite a bit with the holiday parties and planning etc. Here are a few pictures of the last couple weeks:
this was our disaster area after Christmas morning! the house is still a mess, but it'll have to wait until later this week!

We all got some great stuff from Santa and the boys had a great time opening up all their goodies... Maddox got a scooter he's been wanting since Jackson has one and so does their neighbor friend, Jackson got a big boy bike... the one he has been riding he's had for 2 years and has really out grown it!

Here's the tree after Santa stopped in!!!

On Christmas Eve my mom, eric, aunt dyan, carlos, cousins, grandma sandy, michael, and our friends Kendall and Adam came for lunch and to visit...here are the boys opening gifts that day:

The week before school let out, the boys had holiday parties at school, I went in and helped with Jackson's and then checked him out and we headed over to catch Maddox's little program he had, they sang a few holiday songs and had some sweet treats for everyone to enjoy while we were there....poor Maddox felt awful and left early with us when it was over, I took his temperature when we got home and he had a fever! I guess he caught what I had earlier in the week.

I made these super cute cupcakes and took in to Jackson's class party- aren't they adorable!?!?

Hope you all had a fabulous and restful holiday!!!! See you in the New Year!

Family Pictures

It's that time of year again!!! My family dreads it mostly (well Adam and Jackson do) but it's not so bad!!!! Besides... look at their cute faces

Just a little preview of a few of my favs! Hope you are having a good week!

Regarding the Pumpkins:

None of you guys voted because you "couldn't choose just one" so I believe at last count we had two tied..... pick one so we can have a winner!!!!!!! (for those of you that did choose one, thanks!)

Such a good big brother!

As much as I miss my babies not being "babies" anymore, and as much as they drive me nutty (a good portion of the time!) , I also love watching them grow into little people. Jackson is such a big boy now, he's like a real live person! Some of the things the both of them sy are so hilarious and and cute sometimes. But more recently I've watched Jackson grow up SO much. He is SUCH a good big brother, the things he does for Maddox are so sweet, like helping him buckle his pants, finding his shoes for him, sharing a toy or candy, pulling him in the wagon around the cul-de-sac... the other day I called Jackson in from the neighbor's house playing (maddox had already come home) and I looked out the window to see jackson struggling to pull both of their bikes up the hill. I asked him why he had both bikes and he said, "well Maddy forgot his when he left." I thought it was so thoughtful when could have simply left it for him to go get. A recent conversation between them went like this:
Maddox: "Jacknen, you my brudder Jacknen?"
Jackson: " Yeah Maddy, I your brudder"
Maddox: "okay Jacknen"

They are so funny, and Jackson is a good sport for putting up with Maddox; lately he's been quite the whiner!

Happy Halloween!!!!!

Last night was our 7th Annual Pumpkin Carving! The jack-o-lanterns are below...we had nine this year (11 including the boys' little ones)! It's one of my family's favorite things to do! We started around 4pm and finished up around 10. Ofcourse we stopped here and there to enjoy all the yummy food we had too!

This year we went hard core and got shirts made!

Here's the group shot... which one is YOUR favorite????