Christmas 2010

This year we were all sick before Christmas so I was a little worried that we wouldn't make it home. Brian and I were better before we had to leave but Breckin seemed to get worse when we got there. He rested most of Christmas day but seemed to take a turn for the better that evening. I was so thankful. We started out in Pryor at my parents house with my mom's side of the family.

Our little family on Christmas Eve



Breckin with his cousin Mason


Aunt Abby and Kyson


My sweet boys!


My Dad with my nephew Myles. I just love this face. I promised my sister I wouldn't post it on Facebook but she didn't make me promise about the blog!


My cousin Angie and her youngest Chayton


My cousin Angie's older three Chelsea, Cooper and Preslea



My Uncle Gary and Aunt Janine with their son Travis and grandson Samuel


My sister and my Nanny



My sister bought us all matching pajamas. I don't think we have worn anything matching since the time our mom put us all in candy cane striped dresses with a painted picture of a fireplace on them. They also had bells on the shoulders. They were pretty sweet!


Myles opening his presents


Breckin got Transformers and loves them!



Grammy's boys...Breckin wanted to play instead of take a picture.



Kyson got a harmonica...Santa must have thought I was a bad girl to punish me like that.



After we opened presents and Christmas morning and had the best biscuits and gravy ever (my dad is a great cook) we left for Tulsa to spend Christmas with Brian's family.

Breckin with his new OU sweatshirt...at least he was happy about that.


Brian's nephew Xavier


Brian's Dad


Brian's Mom


The only thing Kyson asked Santa for and he loves it!



All of us getting ready to eat Christmas dinner



Brian's sister Rachel and her boyfriend Allen


Brian's sister Abby



I think Christmas wore him out. He was so cute sleeping with his Thidwick that I had to take a picture. Hope you all had a great Christmas and were able to spend it with family.

My 30-something Birthday Party

My friends were kind enough to throw me a 30-something birthday party this year. We had SO much fun! We started with dinner at Bonefish which is my absolute favorite place to eat. If you have never had Bang Bang shrimp before I highly recommend it! After dinner we went to McB's for drinks and dancing. We had such a great time dancing I think my legs were sore the next day! I have the best friends ever!


My wonderful husband and I


I made him dance!




Heather, Jac and me



Royce and Nikki! Love this pic of them.



Me and Liz! I love this girl!



Aaron and his wife Jillian



James, Jenny and April



Heather and Cassie



Me and Alan



Me, April, Liz and Nikki dancing.

Christmas in Branson

Every year we head up to Branson to see the lights at Silver Dollar City. I LOVE it there. We have been going since before the kids were born and now it is fun to take them to see it. My parents went with us and my Dad really wanted to take the boys on the Showboat Branson Belle so that was the first thing we did when we got to town.

The Boat


The boys eating their dinner on the boat.


On the top deck









The next day we headed out to Silver Dollar City to enjoy the lights and the great Christmas atmosphere.








It was such a great family trip. I would post pics in here of my parents but I am still afraid of my mom and she would probably kill me if I did that.

Kick off the Holiday party

My friends decided we needed to get into the holiday spirit by have a "Kick off the holiday season" party. I think we can find any excuse to get together for girls time. We all went over to Liz's and had finger foods and wine and some of us attempted to make gingerbread houses. It really was a fun night with a great group of friends!

Erica and Liz


Nikki's Gingerbread House




Me, Nikki and Liz



All the girls!



Liz's Tree

Breckin's Awards Assembly

Each month at the beginning of the month Breckin's school has an awards assembly where they present a couple of awards for each class to kids that are great helpers, or have great reading skill or math skill or have improved in spelling or sight words. Breckin got one for the month of November for knowing all of his sight words. I was so proud of him. He really likes trying to sound out words and reading books so we can get a personal pan pizza from pizza hut. I was one very proud mom!

Halloween 2010

The kids had a great time at Halloween with multiple parties. We started with one in Breckin's class at school. I am the home room mom so planned out the activities for the kids. They had bags to decorate to put candy in, we did Halloween tattoos and made little monsters. We had apples and grapes with caramel dipping sauce and fruit dip. The kids had a great time. One of the kids favorite teachers had a Halloween party and we didn't know until that day it would be the last time we would be at their house. They were moving to Texas and Kyson really misses seeing his Rosie everyday.

Getting ready for Rosie's party!



Kyson with is little friend Onika. She is so adorable!


The next day we took the kids to Bella Vista park where they ran a 1K. I was proud of both of them and they were so proud of themselves when they crossed the finish line and got their medal.







That night was Liz's Birthday/Halloween party for the adults. We all went to Aloft and had a great time! Some great costumes.