Reindeer Food and Christmas Houses

We did our Christmas tradition of making reindeer food for Santa's reindeer. It is super easy and the kids look forward to it. You just mix oatmeal with glitter. That's it. easy easy.

Next we had foam Christmas houses for the kids to put together. Must easier than a gingerbread house and less messy. Plus I can keep them year after year.

This is Sara's unfinished house....she is a girl of little patience, little diva!

Emma did a great job. She is really growing up so fast!!

My new Christmas Shoes

Had to share my new Christmas shoes from my mom. I love them sooo much! I wore a red shirt for Christmas that would have matched perfectly.... but since it decided to snow like crazy here, I couldn't actually wear them. Ahh well, there's always New Years!!

I have to say that both girls LOVE to walk around in them at home! I need to get pics of them because they are too cute!

Random Christmastime Pictures

One the way home from picking Aaron up from work we stopped at the Southlake town center where they had a little Santa's Village set up for pictures with Santa.

Even though it was after hours they still had all of the Christmas lights on so we stopped and took some pictures of the kids.

Here is the Christmas tree for the girls room. We will be in a bigger house next Christmas and I plan to have a tree in every room!!

Sara's 7th Birthday

My baby Sara turned 7 on December 11th! We actually didn't have a party for her this year because we have all been sick (and we still are sick)!

How do you like the button crown I made for the occasion? Sara loved it so that is what matters most!

She loves art so we got her a Tinkerbell Art Station.

Happy Birthday Sara!!

Thanksgiving 2009

Oh man has it been awhile since I have been at a computer and able to blog. I miss it so much...someday soon I will have it back again.

Anyways, we spent Thanksgiving this year at Kristen and Daniel's. There had to be at least 50 people there, but it was a lot of fun. Soooo much food! They had 3 turkeys and a ham. I brought some appetizers that were gone in minutes, everybody loved them. yay me!

Here is me and my sweet hubby.

Daniel actually built this table for 12! Awesome. Kristen did great decorating the table.

Here is Daniel.

And my Sara Bear. How do you like her hand print turkey shirt? Both girls wore one.

Kristen and me.

Emma playing with the dog. I call her the Animal Whisperer because she loves all animals and they love her too. Seriously, I don't know what it is about her, but animals just love her to death!

Kristen's dad Mike deep frying a turkey!

Here is Daniel's dad Daniel (hehe) with Emma in the background.

Kristen's daughter Katie. She didn't want her pic taken but I got it anyways!

Aaron and Anthony.

Kristen's brother Steve (he introduced me and Aaron to each other) and his girlfriend Trixie.

We had a lot of fun and we felt really blessed to spend the holiday with our awesome friends!!

my new shoes

I love boots, but I am just not a boot person. I love fuzzy fur shoes though and my mom bought me these today. Aren't they adorable? I am going to wear them over to Kristen and Daniel's on Thanksgiving. Love them!

Girl Scout Mother Daughter Tea

Yesterday was Emma's Girl Scout Mother Daughter Tea event so I took both girls. It was a lot of fun. There were several troops there and Emma was part of the color guard at the beginning of their GS ceremony. I'm so proud of her. She really loves Girl Scouts.

I didn't take a lot of pictures because I completely forgot I had my camera in my purse.

They had cute little croissant sandwiches and tons of tiny sweets for the girls. Both of them had sugar cookie tea which was pretty good and did taste just like a sugar cookie!

Celestial Seasonings actually have a lot holiday teas that sound good. Candy Cane Lane, Sugar Plum Spice and Nutcracker Sweet.

Speaking of Nutcracker....I'm taking both girls to see the Nutcracker ballet in the beginning of December. We are going with Girl Scouts, so that should be a lot of fun. I love The Nutcracker and it's been a couple of years since I've taken Emma.

Our New Family Member

We decided to get the kids a new pet for Christmas. We have had hamsters and didn't want to go that route again so we looked into rats and guinea pigs. I actually like rats better but I fell in love with a particular guinea pig at Petco and had to have him. Right now!!

I was afraid that if we waited someone else would buy him and he was so adorable, I just couldn't take that chance! We actually went to the pet store 5 times in 3 days before we finally bought him.

So here he is, our new family pet,

Scotty Ann Furhair Bagby!

I love him so much. He is the sweetest little guinea pig. He loves to run and he has several different noises he makes. He purrs, wheet wheets, sings, chirps. The cutest is when he is happy and purrs. When guinea pigs are happy they definitely let you know it! And they do these cute little jumps called popcorning when they are happy.

Even though he is supposed to be a family pet, he is my baby and I look forward to seeing him every morning. He sits on my lap and watched tv with me. lol

I would definitely recommend a guinea pig as a pet, they are so sweet!

Halloween 2009

This year we spent Halloween over at Kristen and Daniel's. We all took the kids trick-or-treating together and then threw a Halloween party for the kids and adults.

Here is Jeff and Heather all dressed up. I love Heather's costume, she looked so cute!!

My little witch Sara.

My mom and the girls made the cupcakes and Kristen made these awesome peanut butter cookie things that were soooo good!

Daniel made sure the liquor cabinet was well stocked! lol

Sara, Katie (Kristen's daughter) and Emma, my gypsy.

All of the kids right before trick-or-treating.

Who could this be?

Anthony!

Nurse Shannon.

And her patient Fletcher...he had a bad accident at work that day.

Put on Thriller and the kids started dancing. The room was totally dark except for the black light.

Me and Daniel!

Me and Chris.

Me with Jen.

Me with Kristen.

Kristen was a cherry pie and Daniel was the cherry pie eating contest winner. lol

Me and Jeff.

Jen and Shawn.

All of the guys, except Aaron because he got there so late.

All of the girls.

Aaron finally got there!

Kristen and her brother Jeff.

My mom was there and took the girls home with her that night, Anthony spent the night at Kristen's with lil Daniel, and somewhere around 4:30 am I went to sleep in the guest room, and Aaron and Jeff crashed out about 5 am.

It's been a long time since we stayed up that late at a party!! We are too old for that! lol

It was a lot of fun, probably one of the best Halloween's I've ever had!