November 09

Well what can I say, November has never been a favorite month of mine......Santa Ana winds, freezing cold in the morning, hot in the afternoon, a day of nothing to do but sit around and wait for the turkey to be ready, and then sit around and complain about how full we all are. November is now different for me since my lil girls came along. There is something about every holiday no matter how big or small that makes it so magical watching it through the eyes of children, especially your own children.

This year Kaylee and I created pine cone turkeys, hand turkeys, macaroni necklaces, and hats for Thanksgivin dinner. It has been a wonderful month. This year Thanksgiving was at our house with Mom, Chad, Ang, Melissa, JC, Kaylee, Macie, and I. It was a challenge preparing Thanksgiving dinner with a baby that needs you constantly but I managed to pull it off. Kaylee made macaroni neckaces for everyone and we had the necessary tools for everyone to make their own hats; Pilgrim or Native American.

The day after Thanksgiving we loaded up the kids and dove up the mountain to Lake Arrowhead to join JC's parents, sister, her kiddos, Aunt and Uncle, and cousins in their annual Thanksgiving in Arrowhead. It was very cold when we got there but with no snow in site. We had a great time around the villiage and a nice feast with the whole family before we headed to the tree lighting and Santa. We got to see Santa getting ready and when Kaylee yelled, "Santa!" he leaned over the balcony to give her a nice big wave. Tore at my heart strings a bit to see her get a special wave from Santa himself. We didn't end up making it through the tree lighting seeing that it was just too long of a day for the lil ones.

We had a nice thunder and lightening show very early Saturday morning and when we woke up, we woke up to a beautiful snow filled winter wonderland. The kids went out and played in the snow making snow balls, angels, and JC made a mini snowman on the table. It was a great morning an we couldn't have asked for any better!

Halloween 09

Halloween 09 started off with mom making chili as I do every year and carving our pumpkins out front. JC made a jack-o-lantern with its tongue hanging out as requested by Kaylee. She was quite the helper with the pumpkins.

Almost time to trick-or-treat and our lil mermaid is ready to go. Kaylee was so eager to get going that she wul not sit still for a picture. I am VERY lucky to get this one.

The girls. Ashlee and Katie with my baby girls getting ready to trick-or-treat. We have a tradition of trick-or-treating around the neighborhood together and this was the first year that I didn't have all my girls with me on Halloween. I knew that it was going to change sooner or later but I was hoping for the later ;). It was the first of many Halloween's that Ash and TT had a party to go to. Time is going by too fast!

This is my favorite because Macie is giggling at Ashlee.

Kaylee and her BFF Jenna. Jenna lives next door and is 6 months younger than Kaylee. They love eachother and trick-or-treated together the whole night. It was so much fun watching the girls together. It was a glimpse of what is to come.

Trick-or-treat!!!

Kaylee loves these scary guys. This one reminder her of the one at Target for so long. Everytime we were at Target we had to go see the "scary man".

Macie tried her hardest but just couldn't make it.

How cute are these two!?

Party Time.....Halloween Style

We finally were able to host our halloween party this year. Last year I wanted to so badly but was too sick with morning sickness so I had to cancel. This year Halloween was kicked off with a party at the Bloeser house for Kaylee and her friends. I made chili as I do every Halloween along with mac-n-cheese for the kiddos. There were games of strawing for spiders, spider ring toss, and decorating your own halloween frame. We took individual pictures of the kids as they walked in and gave them their own picture to put on their frame.

I am lucky enough to have great neighbors and organized a little pre halloween trick-or-treating for the kids. Five of the houses on our street were great enough to hand out candy to our little party goers as they trick-or-treated up and down the street.

All the kids had such a great time trick-or-treating and we all ended up back at our house for more fun and games. Halloween is my favorite time and having Kaylee love it as much as I do is making for many fun Halloween's in our future! We can' t wait for our party next year!!

Monster Slide!

Kaylee going down the huge slide at Pa's Pumpkin Patch!

Let the Halloween fun begin!

For those who do not know, I am a Halloween Junkie!! The pumpkin patch opened here on Friday October2nd and we were there!! I have gotten Kaylee to love Halloween as much as I do so she was so excited to go and play. She got the sit on the pumpkins, ride the ponies, go on the carousel, ride the flying elephants, chase the lambs around the peting zoo (poor lambs), go on Pa's train, and go down the enormouse slide. SHe is so brave when it comes to fun rides especially slides that she was so determined to go down this huge inflatable slide that even I wouldn't dare go down but she did it and had a blast!!

Our girls today

Our girls are getting so big. Macie is now 4 months old and Kaylee is 2 1/2. Time is going by so fast and we are trying our hardet to take in every moment with our babies. Kaylee has turned into such a ham and keeps us laughing all the time. She is such a sweet, nice girl that my heart melts with any look of hurt on her little face. She has a best friend, Jenna who lives next door an is 6 months younger so they play everyday outfront together and Kaylee loves to stand on her bed and yell out her side bedroom window, "Jenna where are you?!" It is definatly a sign of days to come with those two.

Macie is getting so big and is the happiest little girl I have ever seen. She wakes up with a huge smile every morning and all you have to do is look at her and she is smiling or laughing. We are so entertained by her on a daily basis. Her personality is coming out so much and I can tell she is going to be really fun and she and Kaylee are going to have a blast together. Kaylee is very anxious for that day to come.

Friends

How lucky am I that I get to stay home with my girls while they grow up and have fun play dates with friends! These are the kids of friends that I was lucky enough to know through working at the Fish Tale all those years. We all ended uphaving kids right around the same time as one another and that brought us back into eachothers lives. The kids have so much fun playing together and we have a blast having everyone over for swim days!! Poor Maddy has been the only boy so far but now there is Leighton who is a couple weeks older than Macie so he is finally not alone! We will work on getting you another boy to play with Maddy!! ;) Kaylee, Macie, and I say thank you daddy for working so hard so that we can be together and have so much fun!! :)

A Little Birdie Told Me

Ok....here goes nothing! I have started my own shop on Etsy.com! The direct address to my shop is www.weeg002.etsy.com. I am still getting it together and only have this one mobile listed thus far. I am making another one tonight, hopefully, and will have it posted. I am waiting for some more shapes to get to me in the mail so that I can make more that are not butterflies and some that are boyish. I can make them though in any color scheme so if you know someone who is expecting or a little girl who would love one let me know or check out my Etsy shop! Kaylee wants me to make her one for her room so they aren't just for babies! I am having fun making these and I hope that someone out there likes them too, enough to buy one ;)! Wish me luck!! Now I just need a camera to take better pic's of my mobiles, better yet I will have Shawnna do it :)