Thanksgiving Highlights

We had a fabulous Thanksgiving filled with lots of family, friends, love and laughter. The feast was Delicious and definitely worth all of the many hours that went into the preparation and cooking. My mom is the best cook ever! It was great seeing family and catching up. Later that night, some of us stayed up late and played games. It was a lot of fun to get to do things that you don't get to do very often and to spend time with those you treasure and don't get the opportunity to see as much as you like. I am very thankful for Thanksgiving and for the opportunity it gives us to be with those we love :)

On another note, it is a tradition in my family to wake up early on Black Friday to go shopping. So, crack of dawn at 4am, my mother, sister and I braved the stampede at Walmart at 4:30am. It was cccrrraazzy,but I got some cool deals. Then we booked it over to Target at 6am and got some steals there too. People can seriously go nuts to get the things that they want. Fortunately, we all came out of it without a scratch (although Melinda, my sister, did drop a doll on someone else's head) and were done shopping by 8am! Fun stuff!

Grandma's Make Life Grand!

My mom is always pointing out that I have no pictures of her on heer, so this one is for you Mama! My mom LOVES her granddaughters sooo much and spoils them rotten. They are always so happy and excited to see her. Lily spent her first night over at grandma's last night. I was kind of sad (just that she is old enough now for sleepovers!) but she had such a blast! She loves spending time with gramma and having her undivided attention and gramma loves spending time with her Lily girl. Next to her hugs, kisses and cuddles, Lily especially loves shopping with Gramma because she buys her special treats. Last trip, she bought her a whole set of Christmas marshmallow lollipops and her very own Santa Clause bowl, plate, and cup set that she was just thrilled over! My children are soooo SPOILED!!! Thank goodness for grandparents!

Xmas Photos!

Bridget took our Christmas portraits a couple of weekends ago. I have just been too lazy to post them. The kids did very well considering and I was very happy that we got lots of adorable ones! Here are some of the ones I love. Sorry there are so many, but hey, I narrowed it down from over 200!!! :P


















P.S. I am counting down the days 'til Christmas already! Can't wait!

Meet Jake. . .

Our new little Lhasa Apso doggy that we rescued from the Humane Society today. We have been wanting to find a cute, small dog for the girls. Lily really loves to play with our friends and families dogs, so we thought we could try getting one of our own. . .again. I prayed to find one that would fit nicely into our family and small house! We got sooo lucky! He is 3 years old, very sweet and VERY mellow, which is so perfect for us and our small living quarters. He is already potty trained, what more could we ask for? The girls already love him so much and he LOVES to follow them around and give them kisses (this of course is really hard for me and I have to stop him at times. I am not a big fan of dog licks, especially on the face!) Lily loves to walk him and Alex loves to tug and pull on him. So far, he is very good with both of them and loves when they cuddle him. He loves to jump up on the couch and stretch out. He likes to stretch out on his back with his paws up :) Our cat, Spooky, isn't exactly fond of him at the moment, but he will at least be in the same room with him, just not too close. Here are some cute photos of the new guy!And just so Spooky doesn't think we are biased. . .

We love you both!!!

Michael's Birthday Day on Pikes Peak!

Michael turned the big 27 on Saturday. He sure is getting old! I like to tease him because for a few months he is 2 years older than me. Tee hee.
Anyway, for his birthday, my sister said she would babysit the kids so that Michael and I could get some alone time in ;) We decided that taking a drive up to the top of Pikes Peak would be fun and fairly inexpensive.

The drive up was so beautiful!
When we got to the top, we couldn't believe how windy it was! It was rocking our car back and fourth. I didn't really want to get out of the car at first because I knew it was going to be freezing and, honestly, I was afraid the wind might blow me over or off the mountain if I got too close to the edge. It was crazy! I'm telling ya! Anyway, we finally did get out of the car and it was unbelievably windy! We had to lean into the wind to walk. Haha. It was very humorous watching other people. It was especially funny watching people trying to put on their jackets in the ferocious breeze. Picture someone walking around with one arm in their jacket and the other reached as far behind their back as possible trying to grab the other side of the jacket that is blowing way far out of their reach on the other side of their body. Bawhahahaha! Anyway, here are some fun and incredible pictures from the top!

We took this video at the top to show how windy it was! Sorry it is sideways, but I can't (or don't know how) to fix it!


So, if the pictures are a little off or what, sorry. It was extremely difficult trying to steady the camera to take a picture in such blustery winds!!!

And, here are some photos from on the way back down :)
I love our snowman and woman ;)

It was a very fun, cold day! Happy Birthday, My Love!

Flashback Friday

I saw this idea on someone else's blog and thought it would be a fun idea to try. Every Friday is "Flashback Friday." This is a day to remember memories and moments from the past and recall them in a your blog.

These pictures were taken last October when my cousin Amanda and I took Lily to the Pumpkin Festival in Denver. We went unprepared without a stroller or wagon, but we weren't too concerned. I mean, how hard could it be to chase a one year old around, while carrying picked pumpkins that weigh a ton?! Yeah, picture this. . .Two huge pumpkins, and few decent sized gourds, trying to be carried by a pregnant woman, and an auntie who are both trying to corral a one year old, who has suddenly found herself "free," and dashing around the large pumpkin field like a crazy woman! (She sure looked cute that day, though.) Yeah, we ended up leaving the pumpkins, snatching the child, who in turn fell asleep in the car on our way to the grocery store, where we bought two fabulous pumpkins that we passed off as ones we picked. =) They were sure fun to carve! At least we got some really cute pictures though!