New Family Pics

Here are a few of our new family pics that we took about 2 weeks ago. My sister-in-law Mandy took them and of course I love them. They always turn out so cute! These are just a few of them. I needed some in time to make my xmas cards, so she just edited a few. But I will post some more, after Xmas, of the rest we took. It was a cold and rainy day, but we managed and Mandy did a good job editing them too. I also have some cute ones she also took of Crew a couple months ago. They were his 20 month pics, suppose to be his 18 month pics, but I procrastinated. They turned out super cute too! 

A Few Fun Xmas Things

Since Crew broke my camera a couple weeks ago, I have been in the process of getting a new camera and learning how to work it, so I have not got too many pics.And the ones I have got, were either on my phone or Corey's IPAD. So here are a few fun things we have done this holiday season so far. 

Taking Pics by MY grandparents graves and leaving some holidays decorations to honor them!

The 3 older kids making gingerbread houses. (We put Crew to bed. This is not a task for a young one. Last year Casen stuck a candy up his nose and it made for a long night.) Making this little gingerbread village was quite the task. I have found that I do not have as much patience as I get older. I about gave up on these little houses. Corey had to step in. They were falling apart and I was sick of doing them all myself. I threw a little tantrum saying "These are not even my gingerbread houses. Help me out a little." I don't even like gingerbread houses. They are hard. They are messy. We have no where to put them when we are done. And the kids just pick at them for 2 weeks and make a mess. I think next year, we will just stick to the milk carton gingerbread houses I use to do as a kid. Way easier! Do I sound like scrooge? Sorry I am still having flashbacks from that night and they are a PAIN!

This was the finished product and the next morning OUR LITTLE ELF, MR. PEEPS was getting into it!

I took my two older kids to go and see The Christmas Elf Play that they do up at the University. (It is put on by the Pickleville Playhouse) It is their favorite and mine too. It is so funny! One of these years, we will get Matt to go. But Cade sat on Santa's lap and told him what he wanted. Corey is TOO OLD. She gets embarrassed!

Just getting ready for play to start!

Excited to LAUGH!

My Little Stinker

(Pics of the little boys in T-Shirts I bought them, to show to Grandma Christy and Papa.)

  

I have talked about and posted funny things about my little boy Crew because he is a CRAZY

BABY. But even though he is a CRAZY BABY, he is the cutest baby. He really does get into everything and break a lot of my things, but he is really FUN too. Rocking him to sleep today and kissing his little Alvin Chipmunk Cheeks, I got sad thinking he will grow up soon and not feel like my baby anymore. I will miss having a baby around the house, so I need to cherish these times and cherish him. Here are a few funny pics.

20 month old pics

Disciplining Techniques. We have tried everything and this one seemed to work. This is where he spends time out. It drives him nuts to be tied up, but it sure works for the 2-3 minutes he has to sit there. We also just threaten him with "THE LEASH" and he seems to stop whatever wrong thing he is doing.

Packaging Tape on his diaper....so he won't take it off. This seems to work too because he hates the tape on there! So we just threaten him with "THE TAPE" and he runs away screaming.

My little buddy actually fell asleep on the couch playing the kids Leapster. This never happens, so I thought I better take a pic.

Crew just being silly and goofy!