Merry Christmas!!!! We had a wonderful Christmas this year! We were lucky enough to have Naunie and Grampa at our house this year and it couldn't have been more fun! Well, unless we could've changed our 80 degree weather for some snow!! It is still so weird having Christmas when it is so warm! But despite having to air condition the house it was pretty awesome! Christmas Eve day was a little hectic and the kids didn't even get to bed until 10PM! But we still managed to do a few fun things!


Since we have changed opening our Christmas pj's to the night we put up the tree. This year I bought the kids some really cute bears at Hobby Lobby and they each got to stuff them. We all stuffed and Grampa played and sang us some Christmas carols on the guitar. It turned out to be pretty fun!


Then we sprinkled our reindeer food everywhere.....

Then we put out Santa's cookies!!


Then hung up the kids AWESOME stockings!! Lex and Indie got their stockings from Paul's Nana before she died and then Paul's Mom carried on the tradition and worked her butt off doing Tadhg's and Olive's! They are all hand sewn and stitched which take HOURS and HOURS of work!!! And we love them! So thanks Granny Sarah!

Here is Christmas morning!!! The kids woke up around 7am and they waited on the couch while we rounded every one up and camera and all. I think Gramps is still a wee bit tired!


My mom and I were up until 5AM!!! We didn't start wrapping until well after 10PM!! And we had to wrap for 8 people! We had a lot of fun though and it was the best Christmas present for me to have my mom here with me!



Lex got a Ripstick G and was very excited! Tadhg asked Santa for a big fat wolf! I have no idea where that came from but I love the picture above cuz you can see Tadhg in the back rolling around the floor hugging his wolf.

Indie go a scooter for her American Girl doll......

Of course Tadhg got some cars, his favorite thing in the world!
And here is a close up of Tadhg hugging his big fat wolf!!

Lex got every Spy Wear (or gear, whatever it's called) known to man!

Indie's new American Girl doll, Josephine.

Olive was SO stinkin cute this Christmas! She caught on very quickly to the unwrapping business! Every time she would get a present she would walk over to grampa and have him open it. It was adorable!




This Christmas Lexie, my sister, came up with the plan to do a scrapbook for Grampa and Naunie. We ( me, Lexie, Aaron, and Angie) did it through Shutterfly and it turned out awesome!! They really loved it and I think we might have to make it a tradition!?? What do you think guys!?

We want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!! And we hope this year finds everyone happy and healthy! Despite all the craziness that is bound to bring some hard times ahead!

Olive and Tadhg play so well together.... even if Olive occasionally likes to trap her big brother in a rubbermaid!


I love my babies!

This is how Tadhg fell asleep today...... real comfy!




I can't believe how big she is getting! She started saying "daddy", "NO!" and "Bye" but with a southern accent as she waves.

My cute girls! Indie loves taking care of Olive! It is so nice she will take her in their bedroom and play for hours! OK, not hourZ but one time it was two hours and it's usually a pretty long time! I of course keep the monitor on to spy!

I love my little Wee-Woo! He is so much fun, I just love spending everyday with him! He says the funniest thing.... which are usually lines from Nacho Libre. The other day we were at the Doctors getting Olive's shots and he was wrestling with another little boy in the waiting room. They were rolling around pinning each other and then Tadhg jumped up and said, "Take it eazzie!!" With an accent of course. I think he has the whole movie just about memorized! He and daddy love to watch it over and over!

What a goofy boy! He is such a good big brother! Tadhg gets so excited to see Lex after school. Lex is a good playmate....as long as you play his way that is! Oh ya, and don't touch any of his stuff!

This picture cracks me up because she actually got stuck in this cupboard. Her butt was just a little too big! Well, that and the mufftop spilling over her diaper! She finally shimmied her way out. And I know her hair looks red, or orange rather, in this picture but it's just the lighting and my flash.... though she does have a reddish tint exactly like mine!

We went and saw Old Saint Nicholas on Saturday! Indie was the only one brave enough to sit on his lap! He gave her some bubbles and Tadhg drank them!! Yikes.......
They also had a little train the kids could ride and Olive was so upset when the train left with her brothers and sister onboard!!! It was one of those cute but sad moments!


This is how I found Indie doing her homework..... strange.

This how I found Lex Saturday morning. At first I thought he was dead! I was watching him and I think it was about 20 minutes before he moved! Now to explain what the heck this new contraption Lex has come up with is! ..........A bird catcher! As you can see in the above photo he has a plate with bread crumbs and that is on a piece of cardboard. Next comes the green thing, which happens to be that little thing that goes under our raingutter so it won't pour in one spot. Then the rubbermaid and with him ontop holding the screen to our window, then the rubbermaid lid ontop. I tell ya, this boy has such an imagination!! He never seizes to amaze us! He is alwasy inventing some sort of a contraption! As much as I hate the mess he makes or when he takes something apart to aid in to what ever he is building at the time. I love seeing his little mind work and figure things out!

Tadhg decided painting with his figures was a whole lot funner than using his crappy brushes!

She is getting so big!! She is always so happy! She likes to look at books, and she even notices when the book it upside down. She flips it over the right way. It's pretty funny. She runs all over the place, getting into trouble of course! She says "wuz dat" and " I wanna bit"! All the time! She likes to bark like a dog and pull out all our DVD's because she karate chopped the fiberglass that held them in the entertainment center in half! Cute and crazy... that's how we raise em!

Just a few pics!

Mommy and Olivetta!

One cool dude.........

and a few silly kids! One night when daddy was out of town, we found ourselves looking for some entertainment! The kids came out dressed like this! The wanted to see who looked the silliest! They both look pretty goofy to me!

The other night I couldn't find Lex and this is where I found him..... on the couch reading his scriptures! What a good boy! He is so cute and has really taken a liken to reading the scriptures! It all started last week when we had our Primary Program. After church I couldn't find him anywhere! I finally looked in the car and I found him in the back seat reading his scriptures. His part in the program was in 2 Nephi and that is where he decided to start reading, it really sparked his interest! I told him what I was reading about in the scriptures (1 Nephi.. trying to get him to start from the beginning) and he said "Well, you should hear what I'm reading about! That's where you should be reading!" When Paul came home from being gone all week the first thing he said was "Daddy, Daddy!! I read my scriptures all by myself and nobody told me to! And I was reading about when Christ comes and about all the wicked people and the buildings will fall upon them and earthquakes! It was so cool!" He was so excited and so interested, it was really great to see him so excited about reading the scriptures! He is SUCH a great kid! Man, we love our little Dude~!

Olive hates HATES to wear bibs! This one has a button so she can't slide it over her head. I was talking to Paul on the phone and came in the room and this is what she looked like. She thought it was so funny! I would pull it down and she would pull it back up and just stared at me......

Paul was out of town again last week for almost the whole week and the kids had Monday and Tuesday off so I let them turn the TV room into one GIANT tent!! Literally..... the entire room!



We love having a fireplace! Ok, you're right. It isn't cold enough for a fire here, yet! But they just couldn't resist it any longer! We had all the windows open and fans blowing everywhere! It was fun and isn't this picture adorable!

The kids love to sleep in my bed when Paul is out of town. I went in to check on them and this is what I found..... Indie had fallen of my bed onto Tadhg and they were inner twined!! It was so funny!


Olive was on my lap and I was taking pictures of Daddy and Lex and then showing her them on the viewer. She thought it was amazing! Or maybe just amazed that her daddy and brother could look so silly!

This is what happened one day about 30 minutes before I had to go pick up the kids from school. This is in Lex's and Tadhg's room and if you know Lex then you know how anal he can be about his room and how everything has to be exactly how he places it or he just might have a melt down!! Well, he obviousely put a few too many books on this wire shelves!! Long story short it turned out OK and Lex did a good job NOT freaking out...... though I did have most of it cleaned up by the time he came home.