Lexie

Doug brought home this super cute coat for Alexis and it fits perfectly.

She can be so angelic at times

I've been waiting all year for her to wear this dress.  She calls it her Tinkerbell dress for some reason.

Cutie pie

I love this girl sooooo much.  Sometimes though I forget.  She can be trying (I have a head of gray from her), but I love just the same.  I hope she always feels my love as I try to be a good mommy to her.

Church Christmas Party

Last weekend we had our church Christmas party.  There was plenty of food and dessert.  The best part about it was I didn't have to cook unless I wanted to take a dessert.  I love eating food that I don't have to cook.  I love my food too, but even mediocre food can be good when you aren't doing the cooking.  The kids sang in Santa and then got to sit on his lap.  A fun and relaxing evening.

Look at that belly!

Ben and Chris went too but I wasn't able to get a picture of them.  Chris was too fast and after getting Peter down I was too slow to capture Ben.

I'm a big boy now!

Last week Peter started doing this:

And with help from daddy he played some peek-a-boo too

Music Time

We have been so busy this month.  Doug coming home, school concerts, school parties, church parties, gift purchasing and so much more.  I guess I need to catch up on the pictures and events.  So....here we go!

Last week the boys all had their school choir concerts.  Evan and Christopher were in the morning and Ben's was that evening (he being in select choir and not regular choir).  They were all good and the actions were cute.  Evan was very excited to see us up in the stands watching him.

Chirs was a little more reserved, but still happy

And I had to make faces at Ben to get him to smile.  He was very reserved and when everyone else was given permission to do silly poses he just stood there and shook his head at me.

My kids are growing up so fast, too fast if you ask me.  Ben is in fifth grade and chose to join band.  Yesterday was his first concert.

Amazingly it was very good for the first one - no ear plugs required hahaha

Christmas Pictures

Well I finally got the kids together and dressed nicely to take their yearly photo.  Not much time to spare, but they are adorable.

Lex and Peter

Alexis

Peter

Evan

Chris

Ben

Snow Day

Sunday was a snow day for us.  Yes, I admit here and now for all the world to see that we skipped church.  Now in my defense the snow was piled high and there was no way my van would have made it out of the driveway let alone down the road to church.  Instead I let the kids go play in the wet white stuff for about an hour.  They've been wanting to do it since it started especially Lex since I haven't let her out in it yet.

I'm stuck!

I should amend my saying to most of the kids got to play in the snow.  November was Ben's month to shovel snow and so he had to work first.  I think he got the end of the stick on this.  Here it was the last 5 days of the month and 25+ inches of snow falls.  Next moth is Chris' turn wonder how much he will have to shovel?  I did help out just in case any of you were wondering.  I don't believe in total child labor :)

After dinner it was snow cones (or in this case bowls) for dessert.  This is also something that the children have been wanting forever, at least since last year.  Most times I take it easy and just add flavored syrup to snow but if I'm feeling fiesty I add cream and make ice cream.

As you can see they love it.  Not sure he really tasted it.  He ate it too fast and then had seconds.