Daddy does my hair...

Today dad did my hair... I'm not sure what the look was he was going for but it ended up looking very '80s mullett!

Packrat Palace

Jeremiah's parents gave us a dishwasher several months ago. He asked me to clean out one set of cupboards so that he could install it (back in October). It is still not installed but Wren doesn"t mind. She has taken it over as her own pack rat palace. Whenever something goes missing the most likely place to find it is here. She also likes to play hide and seek in here and will close both of the doors and just lay in there and talk to herself. It is too cute!

Santa Picture 2010

Laura and I took Mercedez and Wren to see Santa Claus before Christmas and Wren was NOT impressed! Aunt Kathryn came with us and when we sat Wren on Santa's lap the only person she wanted was Kath!! I think she knew she was the only one who was going to save her!! It was very funny! I don't think that Santa would agree of course... probably not Wren either for that matter! But I loved it!

Here are the girls waiting patiently (and happily) in line:

and then the placing on the lap....

LOL!!!!

Christmas 2010

We spent Christmas with Jeremiah's parents this year. My family has always had a big meal on Christmas Eve and then spent Christmas day relaxing and just spending time with family. I decided that this is something that I want to continue with my family as well so we invited his parents to dinner on Christmas Eve. I made EVERYTHING this year (by my own choice). It took all week to make the food for these two days!

For Christmas eve dinner I made: Meatloaf, yummy potatoes, Deedra's Salad, cool whip salad, corn, lettuce salad and rolls.

For Christmas breakfast I made: Caramel Ring with fried ham and breakfast potatoes.

For Christmas lunch I made: Chicken salad sandwiches, lil' smokies, a veggie plate with carrots, pickles, cheese, celery, olives and ritz crackers and the left over salads.

I also made sugar cookies and magic cookie bars and won some really yummy caramels that I did not share with anyone but Valerie!

The Martin's came over for dinner at 3 they went home at 4:45 and we went over to my parents to eat some more and then opened some presents from them. Wren thought it was pretty fun!

Christmas morning Wren woke up at 10, we ate some yummy breakfast then opened presents. After she had opened her presents she and Papa Clyde played tea party, it was very cute. Clyde and Dixie then went home to have a nap at noon so we put Wren down also and took naps our selves for about 2 hours. Clyde and Dixie came back after that, we had lunch then watched Wren play with her toys. During this time she fell into her table and got a huge goose egg/bruise on her forehead. I was very worried that we were going to have to take her to the hospital it bruised and got swollen so quickly. After she had finished crying she walked over to the table, pointed right at where she had hit her head and said "I bonk! I bonk!" So, it turned out to be "okay" and we went over to Kevin and Kali's house at about 6 after the Martin's had left to hang out with them for awhile.

All in all it was a fun, memory building weekend especially because Jeremiah had 4 days off!! That was the best part for me!!!!

Grandma and Grandma Martin with Wren and the puppy they gave her on Christmas Eve.

Wren opening her Christmas jammies on Christmas Eve.

Wren being shy while eating her favorite food, "NANA's"!

Wren's Haul!

Wren's OWIE! It was sooo sad! This was only about 20 seconds after she had "bonked"

Thanksgiving 2010

Thanksgiving was with my family this year and sadly I took no pictures - what the heck??!!

We had a lot of fun though, we had dinner at moms and ate soooo much food that we were all sick! We played games and hung out all day, of course took naps and the kids watched some movies. That night we decided to go to WalMart to get some pajamas and got there at 11:30 p.m. They were supposed to be getting all of their stuff out at midnight but when we got there everything was already out, there were people everywhere and it was the most disorganized disaster that I have ever seen!! Apparently they opened their stuff at about 10 and just wouldn't let anyone check out until midnight! Happily we were able to get everything that we wanted and were only about 3rd in line by midnight. Of course, it still took about 45 minutes to check out and by then we decided we were just going to continue going all night.

We went to my house and picked up Wren, took her out to mom's and had her sleep there. Then we went to Kohl's, Shopko, Kmart and Fred Meyers. It was CRAZY!!! But so much fun! I'm glad that I went.

On Friday we went to the Dunbar church building and played in the gym all day. Kathryn brought some mattresses so we were able to take a nap while the kids were playing. That was nice!

All in all it was a fun weekend!

Harry Potter November 2010

When the previous Harry Potter movie came out (book 6) I told Drew that if he read the books I would take him. He read the book so I invited him and Jaxon to my house and we had an all night movie marathon of the first five then we went to an afternoon showing the next day. Jaxon fell asleep so I told him he was not allowed to go to the next one!

Of course I gave in and invited him to go to the next one and also invited Bella since she had seen some of the older movies and was having Valerie read her the books.

I asked Drew and Jaxon to make a list of the candy and pop that they wanted at the all night movie and this is the list that they made for me:

I love it! We all stayed up really late - I was amazed that Bella made it as long as she did! I'm pretty sure that she stayed up later than the boys - they took "power naps" during a couple of the films and we got through movie 5 before everyone went to bed! We woke up "early" the next morning and watched movie 6, then went to Drew and Jaxon's basketball game at noon, then went to the afternoon movie. It was a lot of fun, stressful, but fun! I'm excited to do it all over again when the next and final movie comes out next summer!

Halloween 2010

Halloween was lots of fun this year! Wren didn't really understand what all the fuss was about until we got to the mall and she started getting candy. Then she didn't understand why we wouldn't let her eat all of the candy that she was getting from all these nice people!!

My friend Laura Eames came with Wren's friend Mercedez, they were too cute!

Since we were starting out at the mall, Wren (and Mercedez) wore her Tinkerbell outfit while we were trick or treating there. Isn't it cute how they are holding hands?


After we left the mall, we went over to Kevin and Kali's church and did some trunk or treating there so since we were going to be outside, I dressed her up as a little Indian. I made that wig by the way! How cute is she??

After we were done trunk or treating we went out to Shelley and spent some time with Grandma Aldridge, that was also fun.