the B family....

is he not about the cutest thing....

thanksgiving.....

i can't believe that thanksgiving is over and christmas is right around the corner...when i was young it seemed like you would wait forever for christmas to get here...now as an adult ready or not it alway's seems to creep up on you...we had a fun thanksgiving this year....ate lots of yummy food, traveled, visited with family and played with the kids....i am so thankful for the awesome family i have and even though i don't get to see them enough it is fun to hang out with them...i can't believe that i didn't take one picture of thanksgiving this year...

baby baby....

what a sweetie

HAPPY THANKSGIVING.....

baby jax.....

this time of year makes me thankful for everything i have been given, especially my children.....

little dude is so excited for christmas.....i am really hoping that santa comes through for him...

have i ever told you how much i love you....

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When the good lord was creating mothers, He was into his sixth day of overtime when the angel appeared and said, "You're doing a lot of fiddling around on that one." And the lord said, "Have you read the specs on this order?"
She has to be completely washable but not plastic:
Have 180 moveable parts....all replacable:
Have a lap that disappears when she stands up:
A kiss that can cure anything from a broken leg to a disappointed love affair:
And 6 pairs of hands:
The angel shook her head slowly and said, "Six pair of hands.....no way." It's not the hands that are causing me problems it's the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have. "That's the standard model?" asked the angel. The lord nodded, one pair that sees through closed doors when she asks what are the kids doing in there when she already knows, another here in the back of her head that sees what she shouldn't but what she has to know, and of course the ones here in front that can look at a child when he goofs up and says, I understand and I love you without so much as uttering a word. Lord," said the angel, touching His sleeve gently, "Come to bed. Tomorrow..... "I can't," said the Lord, "I'm so close to creating something so close to myself. Already I have one who heals herself when she is sick....can feed a family of six on one pound of hamburger....and can get a nine year old to stand in the shower." The angel circled the model of a mother very slowly. "It's to soft," she sighed. "But tough!" said the Lord excitedly. You cannot imagine what this mother can do or endure. Can it think? "Not only think, but it can reason and compromise," said the creator. Finally the angel bent over and ran her fingers across the cheek. "There's a leak," she prounounced. I told you you were trying to put too much into this model. "It's not a leak," said the Lord, "it's a tear." What's it for? It' s for joy, sadness, disappointment, pain, loneliness, and pride. "You are a genius," said the angel. The Lord looked somber. "I didn't put it there."

so cute....

isn't this little girl as pretty as her mom...

so does it always seem like when one thing goes wrong everything follows....that really seems to be the case at our house right now...first it all started with our basement flooding oh but don't worry about that our insurance decided that they were not going to cover our water loss due to the fact that it was a slow leak...needless to say we ended up gutting out a room and losing carpet in two rooms...when i went to the mail the other day we had a really nice letter from the insurance company telling us that they were real sorry they were not able to help us but that they hoped this ten dollar gift card would help relieve some of the stress....what a joke insurance companies are...friday i went to get in my one year old car and it wouldn't start nothing not even a click luckily derek came home we forked over some more money and got it fixed....sunday morning i go to fridge to make some breakfast and it is dead everything was warm let's just say that's what i get for cleaning it out...i would rather have it dirty and working....well i hope our broken problem moves on to somebody else, i told jaden tonight that christmas morning he was getting a new fridge with a big red bow around it....he is at the age where he did not think that was funny at all...

love these kids.....

so my little sis and her cute little family came down with the swine flu....poor little sis has been sick for a few days....i feel really bad that i don' t live closer so that i could help her out with her kids...hopefully they are on the downhill slide and will start to feel better..love you sis hang in there..

card....

cute family...

baby t....

what a sweet baby...

jaden man....

what a handsome little man...he is such a funny kid, the last couple of weeks he really started eating and sleeping a lot and i'm thinking to myself finally he is going to grow....he must have been thinking the same thing because when he got out of bed this morning he says, i think i am in a growing expert (growth spurt)...i just laughed and he say's seriously mom don't put that on your blog....should have known better bud...love the pic..

jaxen my little scarecrow baby everything about you makes me smile...your chubby little hands picking up your halloween candy out of your sack that you drug around until you got a hole in your sack and your candy started to fall out...that fact that you loved your scarecrow hat and didn't want to take it off...the way that you loved to knock on doors and then tell everybody bye like 100 times as we were leaving houses...you are such a spunky little baby...

little pirate....