Real men wear slings

and wear them well.

New Christmas Tradition

I came downstairs last week to find a letter that Andy had written to Santa and stuck in the tree. A few days letter Kenna followed suit. Unbeknownst to them they had started a new tradition. I have oh so cleverly shifted the focus from Santa to Christ or family members. Today I found three new letters in the tree, one from Andy and two from Kenna fora total of 5 letters in the tree.

Letter #1
I love Santa Claus I like the way your sled looks like.
Love,
Cuddly Kenna

Letter #2
Santa, I love the way that yore slay looks like.
Love,
Andelyn

Letter#3
Jese(AKA Jesus), I love the way you tech (teach) pepol and they lren (learn) from you.This yere I bet yole (You'll) tech more peopl that dont (don't) undrstand to(too). Love Andey

Letter #4
Dear bandit, I miss you. You were like a cuddly four legged friend. I am soooooooo sorry you died. I miss the way you grunt and wiggle.
Love your sad and happy Kenna

Letter #5
Dear Weston, I love the way you eat it's sooo funny. I love the way you sleep and laugh. You grunt in your sleep and you laugh with a voice like mom.
Love your older cuddly and adorable sister, Kenna

I think we will have a special box for the Christmas letters each year.

Thanksgiving Recap

-We had an awesome dinner at my parents, butI had to cut out early because of a sick baby
-Papa and the dads and all the grand babies played flag football in the front yard after Dinner
-My dad using Joleigh Mae as the football to score and also accomplish the "every little one touches the ball every single play" rule was definitely a highlight
-Family Festivities and game night over at Little Cheney's, I had to cut out early again because of the sick baby
-Uncle TJ "Jokerizing" everyone with his Camera
-Brandon waiting in line at Wal-mart for 5 hours to get his Christmas present and possibly becoming a victim to thepeopleofwalmart.com by making a chair/bed out of shopping carts while he waited
-Having a great time (although cut short at times) with family and friends

Complete Awe

When your baby who is usually a loud player goes completely silent, what do you find him doing? If he is my baby you find him in front of the Christmas tree in utter awe staring at the beauty. If there were any doubt if some of my traits were passed to him, they have been erased.

Porters Thankful Turkey

We made Thankful Turkeys for daycare art and craft time. I asked each child what they liked and what made them happy. Below are Porters answers.

I am thankful for:

1. A big airplane to fly me around the house
2. Secret treats under my pillow
3. Mommy Snuggles
4. Daddy Hugs
5. Food


Honorary Mention:
-Kenna
-Andy
-Weston
-Bugs

*** Update:***
-The secret candy has been found and removed from said hiding place under pillow.
-There never has been nor will be a plane large enough to fly in the house, we keep it up to code around here, most of the time.

Yard Day at Nana and Papa's

My parents invited the older grand kids (ages 4 and up) to their house on Saturday to spend the day with them. They spent the entire day outside doing some yard work, riding in the trailer pulled by Papa's lawn mower and exploring in the Forbidden Forrest (name given by Makenna who just finished book # 6 of Harry Potter). After the yard work was done they roasted marshmallows in the back over a fire and also cooked hot dogs over the fire. When Brandon and I pulled up to gather our two oldest they where playing chase in the HUGE front lawn area that my dad has restored. We barely pulled out of the sub division before both of the girls fell asleep in mid sentence.
While they played at Papa and Nana's, the boys and I (I was the only girl, weird) put up Christmas and ran errands. Not nearly as fun but Porter got special treats so he thought it was a blast! Weston could have cared less. I believe his exact words where "phlbbbbbthbt". There might have been some bodily function noises inter mixed with that but I will spare you the details. All in all I would say we had a productive weekend. Tonight is a GNO with my CDS girls. New Moon, woohoo!!

Have Courage

We were out tonight doing errands with all of the kids. We had dinner in the car and we were having a fairly nice time. During a lull in our conversations Andy speaks up. The following is what she had to tell us.

Andy "Mom, I have decided that we need to tell all the old people to just have courage".
Mom "Um, okay....why?"
Andy "Courage to stay alive, I think it is hard to stay alive when you are sooooo old"

That's my girl, the motivational speaker in a slightly morbid kind of way.