First Snow 11/24

We had our first accumulating snow storm on Nov. 24.

Oh it was soooooooooo beautiful ;o)

I loved how silent it was...watching the flakes fall to the ground...

Not enough snow for a no-school snow day...lol...

So the girls had to wait at the end of the driveway for the bus ;o)

After school, Haley made a couple of mini snowmen...

cute, huh? lol

The Rockettes Christmas Spectacular

The show was A M A Z I N G !!!

It truly was beautiful and was oh so Christmas-y ;o)

Dave's niece was so kind to give us 4 tickets to the opening show on November 11th.

Of course Dave didn't want to go, so I brought my mom with us (me and the girls).

Here are some pics of the magic...

All of their outfits were super cool. Very glamourous...

Well, except these costumes...lol...they were just cute ;o)

THE BEST part of the show was that they incorporated the REAL meaning of Christmas into their Christmas Spectacular!

The Angel's visit to the shepherds to tell them a Christ Child will be born and the Birth of Jesus, our Lord & Savior!!

The visions were truly amazing and brought tears to my eyes. I was in pure amazement...

Happy Birthday to me!

I turned 32 on November 9th. It was a good day. Anyday is a good day when you spend it with the ones you love ;o)

The night before my birthday, we all (me, Dave and all my siblings) went out to where my youngest brother was DJ'ing.

I thought it would be nice to get a picture of all of us together, since it's rare that we ever are all together.

A friend of my sister in law's took the picture for me...

Erik Me Sarah Lee Angie

I love my brothers and sisters soooooooooooo very much. They mean so much to me, more than they will ever know ;o)

I got a pic of my 2 brothers, too...

Then the next morning (my birthday) we met up for breakfast and my brother and sister bought our breakfast for us for my birthday...aren't they the sweetest??? lol - it was very yummy!

Before we left the house, I got this pic of the grandkids. My kids and my niece and nephew...

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Aren't they all beautiful kids? Well, OK...I have to say Leland is handsome...I don't think he would like being called beautiful! LOL

Happy 2nd Birthday, Jackson ;o)

On November 7th, my baby boy turned 2.

(yes yes...I know...I am super behind on my posts...)

Time has been flying by so fast and we are cherishing every moment with him. We thank God for giving us this wonderful baby boy and he surprises us every day ;o)

On his birthday, Dave and I took him to Chuck E. Cheese. Jackson LOOOOOVES pizza and of course, loves fun...lol.

He had lots of fun going down the slide and hanging out with the 'Tubbies.

After the girls got home from school, and after dinner, we gave him his gifts from us.

He got TONS of Cars stuff. HE LOVES The Disney Cars movie...he watches it at least 4x per week ;o)

The next day was his birthday party. I didn't get many pics because I was busy enjoying myself with my baby boy...I hope ya'll understand...lol

BUT I did get one of his cake...can ya guess what was on it???

Happy Birthday, my sweet boy ;o)

Sometimes I feel creative ;o)

Yes, I sure do...but it has to be easy creative, know what I mean?

Anyway--for my birthday, my mom got me these nice, white flowers and I put them in the only vase I had, a red one. These flowers lasted a WHOLE month! (And I didn't even put that flower food packet in the water)

OK--back to my creativity...

The flowers my mom got me finally died a few days ago and I just loved the way they looked in the red vase. You know...white flowers...green stems...red vase; pretty Christmas-y. So, I went back and got some more. BUT I was perusing the Christmas section and found some other things that might turn my plain white flowers into a nice Christmas arrangement.

I have to say it turned out nice!

Here is the final result:

I bought the flowers $5, the plastic silver bulbs $3 and the red, glittery wavy stick things (sorry-don't know what they are called) $1 --

So this whole pretty arrangement only cost $9 plus tax, since I already had the vase.

I could put more of the bulbs on, but didn't want to overload it.

Nice, Fall day

**I will be updating like a mad woman in the next few days...I have soooooooooooo many pics to get up here...It's just caa-rrazzy!**

On this day... Nov. 4, 2008, it was pretty nice out...kids didn't even need jackets! Now...well, you can't even see the grass, it's covered with a 20 inch blanket of snow!

OK on to the pictures...

Here's our Jenna...

I was shooting on Manual and didn't have my W/B adjusted correctly so I had to adjust in PS...I think it turned out pretty well ;o)

Haley...I really love this pic of her! So crisp and clear and her eyes...so pretty!


And Jackson...our stink-o-tin ;o)

He has the same eyes as Haley...a deeper, sparkly blue.

Here are the 3 of them together...I have this in an 8x10 hanging in my living room...I am in LOVE with it ;o)

OK...I had to add this one in here...lol...I just love the expression on his face...hee hee ;o)