YUCK!!!

I hate taking Christmas down!!!! My poor house went from pretty to sad.. and It takes forever and Its just sad!!!

Lets go fly a kite!!!

Did I mention I love this weather?? So, after church the boys played outside while I did a few things inside then we picked up Harley and Hailey and went to fly a kite and hang out at KIDS KASTLE. Did I mention I love kids Kastle??? It was great they were outside from 12:30 to 5:00 Yep that's right we were at Kids Kastle for 3 Hours! Did I say 3 hours yep 3 hours.. The funnest (is that a word) anyway the Funnest part for the kids was watching mommy chase the kite across the field when they let go. Did I mention it was very very windy like 25 mph wind and I take 4 count them 4 small children out to fly a kite, yes you can go ahead and order me a straight jacket. I think I would be a long length.. Anyways all kids got to fly the kite. They had fun mommy had fun and there were TONS of people to have real life adult conversation with at the park. It was like an ant mound. Not so easy to watch the kids but fun either way. BTW the last pic is the kite after Luke had his turn.. SO much for that career as a pilot!!!

January 5th REALLY

Ok I know its Texas and I am soooo NOT complaining but... REALLY.. The kiddos went outside and 10:00 this morning and came in at 5:00 only b/c it was getting dark. Oh how I miss summer. It is so nice to throw them outside and throw some food at them every once in awhile. There is just something about wearing shorts on Jan 5th. I think I would be well suited to live in Hawaii.
On a completely different note. The spinach brownies did not go over well at my house. !in 4 kids liked them. not the biggest hit,especially for the time and kitchen destruction it took. We will try a few more recipes before I hang up my apron but we are not off to a good start.

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cookies for Santa

believe it or not we do more than bake around my house. Anyone who knows me knows cooking is so not my strong suite but I can bake you to death. I think I have passed this tradition along, b/c I have 3 boys who love to bake. Schyler is 15 and will get bored go into the kitchen and find some random thing to bake. Landry loves to make cookies.. cakes .. anything ooey and gooey and Lukas now hears the mixer and is in here wanting to crack the eggs (Yeah me who gets to dig out egg shell) or pour something. So here we are making cookies for Santa. Santa really enjoyed them. So did Mrs. Claus.. That is why Mrs. claus will be spending the next 3 months at the gym ..

random suburban converations

Landry and Luke having a your younger no your younger bit going back and forth

Landry to Lukas: your only 4
Lukas :your 3
landry: nahuh your only 1
Lukas : your zero
*** ok this is where it gets cute****
Landry: Yeah your still in Gods arms and he hasn't even put you in mommys belly yet!!!!!

AWWWW

Ice Skating 101

Our Family tradition is the day the kiddos get out of school for Christmas we go Ice skating.. I know CRAZY!!1 Traffic .. mall traffic.. Its insane but we do it and love it believe it or not there are not many people out actually Ice skating. Well this year Lukas tried to ice skate. I thought sure why not . Thinking ok this is going to last 5 minutes. He did great!!! I couldn't believe it. He walked on them fine . He got on the ice and held on to the side and then let go and would go about 3 feet and hold on again. he held my father and my hand and went all over the ice. He even said he wanted to try to go backwards and held the side and attempted to go backwards ( not much success there) We had to drag them off the ice after 2 hours. WHO KNEW!!! He was standing watching the Zamboni and jumping up and down in Ice skates.. I can barely walk int he things and hes jumping!!! Landry did great too but he's been doing it for a couple of years. ok 2 a year for a couple of years, Hes gone a total of 4 times in his life. He's gone he's out making laps while I'm going along with Lukas. It was a great time!!