Thankful!

They love holding hands! Melts my heart! Funny thing is they know it does and now every time they hold hands or hug or do something sweet together, they say, "Hey mom, look at us!" :)

My favorite people!

Love that our library is so close!

Tea party with Kinley & Luke!

Friends!

Movie time!

Courts for Kids auction! So thankful we have friends and family sit at our table with us!

Maco was happy to purchase his first ever live auction item! He and Jordan will be going to Michigan in 2015 to see the Ducks play!

Mia started gymnastics this month and is loving it!!

I was so proud of her because she joined a group that's been going for months and just jumped right in and did everything she was asked!

We love Coach Fox!

Kyrie keeping himself busy at gymnastics! Taking after Sissy with drawing!

 

Waiting in line for the Craft Warehouse Christmas fun night with the Mckenzies! The kids were actually really good for 45 minutes waiting in the cold! They killed time playing ring around the rosy with a new friend! And I even won a gift card! It's weird how lucky I am!

Craft time fun!

Mia loves crafts!! She made her very own cast!

Wrestle mania!

Mall & pretzel time with the kiddos!

Not a great picture, but this is just one reason why I love subbing! I got to "teach" cosmic bowling! Lights off, disco ball, twinkle lights, fog machine.....doesn't get much better than this, people! Not sure how I can go back to "real" teaching!

Library story time!

Love spending time with my little guy!

Kyrie had a blast at Chuck E Cheese celebrating our friend Tate!

Of course he loved the basketball games!

First non-conference game vs Concordia! Team is 5-1 right now. Best start in 15 years for the Bruins! 

Sittee and our boy!

 

Slumber party with some of our besties, the Inversos!

Birthday month twinsies!

Kyrie's second visit to the dentist! He got all his teeth cleaned and was such a big boy!

Kyrie wanted to dress like Mia and do ballet!

Happy 2nd birthday, Kinley Ann!! 

Hungry Caterpillar style!

Butterfly snacks!

The birthday girl doesn't like her picture taken!

Auntie Kelly put on a fabulous party at Little Cups & Grownups!

Turkey day! Daddy made the turkey again this year! It was delicious!

Kyrie & Auntie Jane!

Maco & Aunt Alice!

Kyrie said the prayer this year! After we all told him what a great job he did his reply was, " Thanks, guys!" in his little sweet raspy voice! The cutest!

No kid table for us! We all eat together with breakable dinnerware and all!

Kyrie loved his giant glass of milk!

Beautiful sisters!

Chillin' with my gorgeous man!

Time to decorate for Christmas! I've condensed down over the years to only about 9 bins!

Decorating the kids' tree half naked of course!

Mia really wanted Kyrie to sit on her lap for a picture!

Advent calendar from Yaya & Papa!

 Aynsley & Tate helping out Mia with her pasta math HWK!

Ready to cut down our tree with their hot chocolate!

This was Mia's choice for our tree!

Our favorite tree topper!

We found our second perfect tree! The first one we found someone cut down while we were checking out others in a matter of 5 minutes! What are the odds of that with 2 families on the lot and thousands of trees?? :)

The roof rack on the van definitely came in handy this year tying the tree on the top! No going in through the windows this year with twine running across our heads while driving!

Our little elves!

Mia and her friend Heidi helped decorate our tree this year!

I loved how the bottom half of the tree had sooo many ornaments! I may or may not have moved around some ornaments after the kids went to sleep! Shhhh.....

Part of my mom's village collection!

Some of my Christmas decorations are my Grandma Eaton's and my mom's! 

My mom's Santas and four years of Santa pictures! Apparently Mia didn't see Santa her first Christmas! Or at least I was too frugal to buy a picture!

 

The lights on the house so far....we'll see if any more get put up this year!

The evidence of having a son! We hadn't even decorated the tree yet and Kyrie had already broken 6 ornaments! Let's see the he said he was trying to shoot the basketball into the hoop and he thought the fairy could fly....who knows what was going on with the other sports ornaments! This just made me laugh! Thank goodness for super/hot glue!

Mia made us yummy treats with sprinkles, dried cranberries, and bunnie cookies! She loved it and I totally ate them after she went to bed! Wink, wink!! :)