Merry Christmas

Christmas Morning....ok it is taking way too long to download all of the pictures from Christmas morning so you get the jist.....they were happy and excited and in Tristan's case sleepy! Hope you all had a very Merry Christmas!

Berlynn's new ds

Austin's scooter

Audrey's ipod touch

Hunter asked for an electronic free Christmas....aka no wii games!

Carleigh got this Bitty Twin Which she named Snow, from Mimi and Papa and Mimi made matching outfits for them. Carleigh and Berlynn LOVE dressing like their dolls.

Christmas Eve

Christmas Pajamas

On Christmas Eve we open all our presents from Aunts/uncles/cousins and grandparents. We also find out who our secret buddies were. The kids are getting very good at the whole secret buddy concept and it has become one of their favorite traditions. We also finished all our Christmas books that we had not read leading up to Christmas. We normally act out the nativity, but ran out of time this year and just read it. This was the first year that we didn't have any family here to celebrate with so we facetimed and talked on the phone with all our family.








Cookie time....Santa loved them!

Welcome to the terrible 2s

Austin has been acting 2 for a few months, but we officially made it there on December 17th. His birthday like most other events in December sneaked up on us. I am promising to be better prepared next year!

Happy Birthday Audrey!

Audrey had a very fun Birthday with mani/pedis with a friend. This was not a party year for her ( I know I am a mean mom, but there are 6 of them!!!) but it was fun. We played Twister,thank you Aunt Nessa and Uncle Zack. Had cake and cupcakes, pizza and Audrey got TOMS!! It was great....and she is looking forward to double digits. Why do they have to grow up so fast.
Birthday breakfast

the cake



the cupcakes

yes my kids are goofy!

Thanksgiving

I am going to attempt catching our blog up to date. It has been so busy at our house and blogging had to wait. So here is a quick look at our fun family times! This year Thanksgiving brought us Mimi and Papa, Uncle Don and Aunt Gwen, Tyler and Bryan.....and an amazingly delicious Turkey!

Happy Halloween...late!

Tyson has been so busy with work the past few weeks, so we never made it to the pumpkin patch. We did get the last 2 good looking pumpkins at Kroger on Saturday night! Not quite the exciting pumpkin picking we had in mind, but 2 pumpkins is quicker to carve that 5!

This is what Austin was doing while the other kids did this...

the finished product...we didn't start until 7pm and church was at 9am. We couldn't be late because it was the primary program....(which was awesome!) so we did basic carving this year.

Austin was suppose to be Buzz, but it was 80 degrees on Halloween. I called my mom at 3pm and told her it was too hot for his not breatherable pleather, she was quick thinking and found animal print material she has had for years and he was BAM BAM instead. He loved it and used his club ( lunch bags with walmart bags to fill it)to knock on doors. It was so cute!

Trying to get all 5 looking at the camera was impossible. It was also a preview of what was to come the next day for family(minus Ty and I) photos. Holy Cow is all I can say! But I think we got a good one.

Audrey wanted to be a Heath Hawks cheerleader, that is our High School, I was hoping to borrow a friends uniform but I ended up making this one. I think I did a dang good job!

Soldier Huntizle

Beautiful Vampire Berlynn....not sure why she wouldn't smile.

Lemon Meringue ....Strawberry Shortcake's friend