V-Day Banquet

Kim and Jeff invited us again this year to their church's Valentines Day Banquet. Every year we are either gone or have something else going on. This year we were actually able to go. And a nice bonus is that the church provided babysitting too! Here's a couple of photos!

Grams

Today the kids had their Valentine exchanges. This is the first year I haven't gone to take photos. I'm still not feeling the greatest and also didn't have times for when they were doing them. Oh well. They all came home with lots of Valentines and candy!! One thing that I really liked that the PTO did was Carnation Grams.
We all remember Candy Grams when we were in school. It was so fun to send them to our friends and wait with anticipation to see if we would get any. Growing up, my parents weren't huge on these. I remember only being able to send one or two which I should have been grateful for.
Since I remember what a big deal it was to get one, I had sent in the form last week. Each of the kids were so surprised so get a beautiful red carnation. I just couldn't let me kids feel left out and it was a thoughtful way to tell each of them that we love them! Thankfully, they are too young to ask to send one to all their friends. But I know that day is coming! I better start my list of ways for them to earn money lol!

Storms

I love when a storm system rolls in. Sometimes we see rain and sometimes the mountains look so awesome covered by the clouds!

February????

I cannot believe the month is almost half over. Guess it doesn't help that it's a short month to beging with. I know I've been a very bad blogger and haven't posted hardly at all. Life has just been crazy the last few weeks. Hubby is home again and on the one shift we cannot stand! Adjusting to him being home and his new hours has taken some getting use to. The kids are doing well in school and keeping busy with all their homework. I think I have finally found a homework routine where I don't feel like banging my head against the wall. I have lots of photos to get up, but here is one of my and Tony before the ballet!

Christmas Season

It's time once again to get out all the Christmas decorations and start preparing for the big day. I got things out late once again this year. Life has just gotten so busy and I couldn't find the time. I did make sure to take our family photo which I think turned out really nice!!! I got all the Christmas cards mailed out which I'm very happy for. Presents are almost done and I just have to get them wrapped and together. We are heading to NM at the end of the week. We're going to see hubby and stay for the kids' winter break. So that means everything has to be done. And his room doesn't have an over so no baking this year. I must also pack a ton of things to keep 3 kids entertained while in a hotel room. I'm hoping it won't be so bad. I'm hoping to get some photos up of the tree and decorations, we'll see if that happens before I leave lol.

Family Photo

I love that Village Meadows Baptist Church takes a photo at the Halloween festival! We have been doing it for many years! Here is our newest one for 2009

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Apple Annie's

We headed to Wilcox today for our annual trip to Apple Annie's. We got there later than we usually do. But we still had plenty of time for all the fun! We did the corn maze which Victoria was not happy about. For some reason she didn't want to do it. Then we did the hayride to pick pumpkins. Afterwards we had some pie!!!

Great Game

Tonight Gabriel's team had their 3rd game. Wow is all I can say. We all stood the entire game. I have no pictures because I never really did pick up my camera. The first quarter Gabriel got hit by the ball so many times I lost count. He was so aggressive and boy did he pay for that. He got hit in the eye, arm, head, face, etc. There was this one girl on the other team who towered above all the other players. And man, she was good. At one point it was her and Gabriel going for the ball and not sure what happened, but they fell and she landed on Gabriel. I thought for sure he would be out. But now way, up he went and continued on. He scored the first goal and that just helped spur the team on. They all played so well together. They passed and looked for opportunities to help each other out. Eight goals were scored total and by the end of the game the coach just had our team passing to each other. That was great to watch in itself because the kids have improved so much so soon! One thing is for evening games we need jackets and pants! My friend did say she would vouch for us in case Gabriel wakes up tomorrow with bruises all over. lol