Happy Birthday Grandma!!!!

                                           My wonderful amazing Grandma turned 80 this year.

This is at our family Christmas party where we celebrated her birthday. She looks fabulous!!

She received a book that had letters everyone had written to her. Family and friends. There were also drawings from her grand kids and great grand kids along with some pictures.



Christmas Eve 2011

We started a tradition a few years ago that we have Christmas Eve at my house. This year was no different. My mom, dad, Kati, Ashlee, Kacee, Sam, Ron and Grandma were all able to make it. We just have dinner and then hang out. This year we kept it pretty simple, soup, bread sticks, treats, and hot chocolate bar was what was on the menu.Kati started giving the kids pjs for Christmas and they get to open them on Christmas Eve. I think that is the kids favorite part. I love having everyone come over.



Kids in their Jammie's from Kati

Family Christmas Party

This year we had our family Christmas Party at the Alumni House. I think we all had an amazing time. My grandma sure puts in a a lot of hard work to make these get together so fun. The food was delicious. The Natavity scene was so cute. The kids all loved looking for the M&M in the ice cream cake. Stockden was thrilled when he won. Everyone just seemed to have such a good time. Thank you Grandma



Kacee and Jentrie

The Nativity

Stockden

Stockden and Grandma with his prize

Me and My Mom

BeHiNd

                  Oh my word I am not sure how I got this far behind but I have. WOW!!!! There has been a lot going on and I hate when I forget to write about it as it is happening. Here are a bunch of small posts to try to remember what we had going.
                  Just because I am thinking about it, Stockden turns to me the other day after a snow storm and says Mom we do not eat yellow snow.  Then another day he turned to me and said I don't have to be good anymore Christmas is over. Ha Ha what a funny kid. He has a really bad habit of not wearing socks and it drives my poor mother crazy. We went down to her house the other day and he walks in her house and the 1st thing he says to her is Grandma I'm wearing socks!!! The girls have been busy and crazy as ever. They are all liking school and making some good friends.

Playing Catch Up

Time is sure flying by and I am having a really hard time keeping up. It is getting closer and closer to Christmas and I am just not ready. The kids are getting really excited and Stockden is still just trying to figure it all out. We have had some snow and that has been fun. Stockden loves to go drive his tractor in it because it makes tracks.  I am not loving shoveling the driveway but oh well.

The kids all love going to Andres and Sarah's house they always have the coolest animals there. This last time Stockden was able to help Andres feed a bottle to one of the baby puppies.

He was so proud of himself. It was fun to watch. They also had a chinchilla that they had just gotten. Jentrie loved it. She had it on a leash and was trying to walk it in the house. She thought we needed one.

Jentrie has been such a funny girl this last little while. She found some glasses in the shed that had fallen out of one of the Halloween totes and has been dressing up as a nerd just to make people laugh.

McKall had her dance review on the 13th. She did such a great job. I did not get any pictures since she had a choir concert right before and actually had to leave in the middle to make it to dance. She loves the hip hop dances and it is so fun to watch her get into the dance like she does.
Staelie has been able to spend some time with Synara and had loved this. She loves to walk down to the pet store to check out the animals.

Here is just a cute picture of Stockden holding Gabriel. Stock thinks he is so big when he gets to hold the baby. Then here are just a couple of pictures of the baby.
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Patriot Program

Jentrie had a patriot program at school the other day and Grandma Bertha was able to come with me. She did such a good job. It was fun to watch and listen to her sing. At the program a man that helps save eagles came and brought a golden eagle with him to show the kids. That was really cool. I was not able to get the best pictures from where we were sitting but I tried. Thanks Jent for inviting me you did a great job and I was so glad I could go. Stockden was so funny while we were there, they had us say the pledge of allegiance and when we were putting our hands over our hearts he was confused about what he was doing and was putting it on his head. So funny to watch him try to figure it out. I did help him after a min.

Misc

This  is just a misc post. I have pictures I want to keep just not enough for its own blog post.
Here are more pictures of Kristy's sweet sweet baby. I just love him. They went out of town for Thanksgiving and I was beyond ready for them to come home I needed my baby fix. These are not the best it was hard getting them when he was holding still. He figured I should be holding him not taking pictures.

Stockden is a crazy boy sometimes. He was sure that a jacket was pants and he put it on as pants just to prove me wrong.

He then decided maybe I could be right and went and dressed himself. He was so proud and kept telling me I look good huh mom, my clothes match huh mom. I just didn't have the heart to make him change when he was so proud. He completed the look with his toy story snow boots not pictured here.

What a ham he is. He sure makes me laugh sometimes. He is just such a sweet boy. He drives his sisters crazy which means he is being the perfect brother.

Not the best pictures but here is me and Staelie goofing off in the car one day.