The Princess

This is my favorite of Princess!

I don't mind these pictures...except the lady put the purple and yellow flowers in a CHRISTMAS picture...now I am a purple & yellow fan (go Vikings), but not with red & green dresses at Christmas!

Because I cannot pick my fav...

You get to see them all!

My kids are such DOLLS!

Literally!

The Princess received this awesome dollhouse or as she calls it (dollie house) for her birthday and they love playing with it!  As of this point we have not allowed all the Pumpkins at the Patch to play with it, so it is still the 'special' toy! 

It only took them about two months to figure out they fit in there!  One night while I was cooking and Handsome was folding laundry he spotted this!  Too cute!  They were having a blast!

*Photos taken by Handsome*

Big Boy Bed for Boo!

Back in the beginning of November we thought that our Boo was ready for a big boy bed.  He had commented on wanting a big girl bed like Sissy's several times and, well he is almost three!  I had bought a bed for him was back in January (when Princess started sleeping in hers!) but it just didn't seem like the right time for him then.  Well, I am not so sure that this was the right time for him either...but he is there none the less!  We had a difficult time with getting him to stay in his bed rather than get up to play in the middle of the night.  We tried EVERYTHING and it just wasn't working.  He was getting more and more grumpy from lack of sleep, and the Patch kids that normally sleep in his room were not getting their naps.  But just in the last few days we tried one last thing and it seems to be working...for the most part!  He does love his bed, and his new bedding!  It helped to make it more of a cowboy feel to his room!  We are proud of him, though he did sleep VERY well at Grandpa & Grandma's at Thanksgiving in the pack n play there!  But now he is ready for Baby O to come and sleep in his old crib...with almost three year olds you move from one battle right into the next!

Thankful Thursday

Another ~actual~ Thankful Thursday post!

Today I am thankful for the fact that I can hear!  I know it is something that many people {including myself} take for granted, but lately I have realized just how important it is to your day.  For whatever reason I lost my hearing in my left ear several years ago...case still under investigation!  Well, after I fell in March ~actually I slipped on the ice and knocked myself out~ my hearing in the left ear started coming back here and there.  It started with ringing that would come and go, then this summer I started actually hearing things here and there!

Then the week before Thanksgiving I managed to loose my hearing in my right ear, thankfully within a few days my hearing in my left ear started working pretty well for me.  But I do not hear soft toned voices very well.  After being so patient for about a week my Handsome finally persuaded me to go to the doc and get things checked out so that Thanksgiving wouldn't be miserable for everyone involved.  I went, they flushed {both ears} and left NOT HEARING A THING!  The flush trapped water in my ear that made it impossible for me to hear anything for the rest of that day and into the next.  Though, I did get a perscription for drops and while I have not used them as faithfully as I should...we have come to the conclusion that it must be water trapped in my ear somewhere.  When I wake up I can hardly hear a thing after laying in bed all night...but by evening, my hearing is much better! 

So, I am thankful for being able to hear 'I love you' and music and babies and every.tiny.little.thing! 

What are you thankful for today?

Our Christmas Ornements

The start to our Ornament collection...Handsome got it for me while he was at Myrtle Beach and sent it to me while I was in college!

Our first Christmas together!

2003

2004 (from my Mom, aka~Grandma Pancake)

2005

2005 Ornament exchange at church!

2006

2006 ~ the Princess' first Christmas!

2006 ~ for Princess, from Grandma Pancake!

2007

2007 ~ Boo's first Christmas!

Princess (2006)

2008

2008 ~ Princess

2008 ~ Boo

2009 ~ Princess

2009 ~ Boo

1992 ~ To from Grandma Jeanne

1994 ~ From Grandma Jeanne

2007 ~ Meshach, our Pomeranian

2007 ~ Nema Jaylee, our Mini Doxie!

We this year decided to only put ornaments that have a story or are one of our 'special' ones on the tree!  This is most of them, and we did get one for us as a couple for 2009...but I do not have a picture of it yet...it wasn't on the tree when these pictures were taken!  How fun to have a Christmas tree full of so many special memories, rather than just being pretty!

There will also be two more added to the tree later today, the ones our kids made at daycare yesterday.  They are red ball ornements that we used white paint to put their handprints on and we turned each finger into a snowman!  Pretty cute they are!

Christmas Tree adventure 2009

Starting out the walk through the snow to find the 'perfect SMALL Christmas tree!"

Happy to be in his snow boots and snow pants in the SNOW!

We found it!

Seeing Daddy carry it down the hill...excited!

Very excited!

It's a good one!

Loaded up to head home!  The kids thought it was the coolest thing to have the tree 'up top the stuburban'

All decorated and PRETTY!

Checking things out...I used to do this and fall asleep under the tree when I was a little tyke!

He would have stayed there for hours if we had let him!  He loves the Christmas tree and puts his hands in front of his mouth and says, "Oh my word...OH MY WORD!" often...it is going to be a fun year!  The next morning when they woke up to presents under the tree it was wonderful...except they thought they could open them right then, but nope...they have to WAIT!