Merry Christmas!

We are having a fabulous Christmas!  The kids actually slept in until 7:30 AM.  It was a wonderful gift to Michael and I.  :)

We looked at Chritmas lights last night and Leah loved it.  She squealed with delight every time she saw a house lit up.  We read the Christmas story and had a good night's sleep. 

We are so grateful for all of our gifts.  We are truely blessed!  We wish we could be with our families for Christmas, but settled for phone calls, skype, and messages.  We love and miss you all!

We are also having a white Christmas!  Awesome!  It is the best way to celebrate Our Saviour's Birth!  We hope you are all having a Merry Christmas!  ps Leah picked our the hat and put it on. 

Work in Progress

We are working on reorganzing and redoing our room situation.  Michael just finished making the bunkbeds below.  We are adding a loft on tomorrow, so I will update if all goes well.  ;)  The boys slept on the beds all night and they are still standing!  Michael is impressive!  The boys loved them!  We were both super tired after this project.  Michael painted the room as well.  We are getting stuff done this Holiday break! 

 

 

 

This is our finished product!  Yeah, I am so proud!

Gingerbread Trains and Fish

 

Michael won the gingerbread train kit at work as his white elephant gift.  The kids had fun decorating it.

 

I also found a really good deal on a fish tank. It is just a 10 gallon one.  Michael loves fish and so I had Tony help me get it.  I couldn't very well hide a fish tank until Christmas and I certainly couldn't move it by myself so he got it early.

 

 

The kids love it as well!  They have named the fish Simon, North Electricute, South, Santiago, Bumblebee, Optimus, and Wade.  The names cracked me up.  Santiago has a mustache so that is even more funny.  :) 

 

Christmas Around the Corner

 We have been busy this Christmas season.  We set up our tree after Joshua's Birthday.  The kids had a good time. 

 We bought this tree when we first got married and Michael didn't think we would still have it 7 years later.  ha ha!  Some day we will have a bigger one, but I like our little tree.

We also went to the lighting of Downtown Garland.  It was fun.  There were fireworks and the kids loved it.  Joshua said it was better then the 4th of July because they weren't as loud.  The kids also got to go snow tubing.  They loved it.  I guess you can say it was Texas style!

 

 

Happy Birthday Joshua!

I can't believe my boy is 6!  He is getting so big.  We celebrated by going to the zoo and invited some friends. 

 

 

Joshua doesn't get to hang with his friends all that much, due to school, so it was fun to get everyone together.

We saw lots of animals and playeda the playground.

 

On Sunday we had family over.  We ate pizza and cake.  Joshua also got to open his presents.  He was very blessed. 

I attemped the Transfmormers decal on his cake.  It is hard to tell, but it was still tasty.  He seemed to have a great day!  He is doing really well in school.  He loves to play and is very independent.  He is a great brother.  We are so glad you are in our lives Joshua! Love ya!