Hazel's Christmas Program

Hazel Had a Christmas program on Wed. At her Preschool. They sang songs and did actions to the songs. Hazel has never been a big singer, so it is a lot of fun to watch her get into it. She has been singing so much more since she started preschool this year. She is also coming up with some crazy new words. She says that everything is hopeless and in the car the other day she asked me if Layla had an off switch. She leaves us smiling a lot. Here are a few of the pictures from her program. They sang Rudolf and up on the house top. That one had the most actions. Santa made a surprise appearance at the end. Urban did not enjoy his lap time.

Hazel's Birthday party

  

So I didn't post on Hazel's actual B-day (the 5th) because Her party was coming up, and we didn't really celebrate on her birthday. Her party today was a lot of fun. It was her first friend party and she enjoyed it. She specifically asked for a pinata, decorations and a pool cake. I figured I could handle that. She had 4 friends show up and they had a good time playing. Here are the pics of her party and a few of her actual Birthday.

Urban is 2!!

I feel like I am only blogging Birthdays. It might be because that is all we are doing at our house lately. It is our busy quarter. Urban had an uneventful Birthday. I had a lot of shopping to do in Madison, so he stayed with a friend. I didn't think it was nice to torture him with shopping on his Birthday. Later that night, we did cupcakes and presents. He loves Lightning Mcqueen and Buzz right now. I was able to find lightning cupcake stuff, so voila. He was very happy with his presents, as were the girls. I think they are dying for Christmas. It will be here soon enough. Here are a few pics of our little evening.

Cupcakes were the way to go this year.

The girls were also super happy that we did cupcakes.  They each downed as many as they could before mom and dad noticed.  Much easier to sneak off with than a piece of cake.

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One year older...

and wiser too, Happy Birthday to you! Layla is 6. Wow!!! can I say it again? WOW!! It is crazy how fast the time flies. Each child and year that passes, it seems to go by even faster. My sweet baby is six years old. She goes to school all day and has a lot of friends. She is very social! She acts like she is 16 already.  She mostly got clothes and shoes and she was thrilled to get them.  When she wants to be she can be the best sister and daughter, but if she doesn't want to she has a will of steel. She is absolutely beautiful. We have been told several times that we need to get her modeling.  She is growing up to fast. If we could only slow the clock a little. We love Layla so much and are so proud of her.  Here are some pictures of her actual birthday and her friend b-day party. (On her Birthday she requested salad for dinner and pumpkin pie. And her Party was a Witches brew tea party. We had 15 little girls there. It was a blast.)

The LONG Awaited...

I know that pics of the house are long over due. It is just really hard for me take take and post pictures of a cluttered dirty not finished or decorated home. But I figure it might take me a year to get it all done. So I ask as you look at these that you not judge me and my organization skills.  I also have tons of pics from summer and soccer and the first day of school, that I will try to catch up on. We love and miss you all!!

                                                                       Master bath

                                                                          Kids bath

                                                                      Girls room

                                                               Urban's room

                                                                 Family room

                                                                       Kitchen

                                                      unfinished backsplash, but you get the idea.

                                                                  kitchen, pantry and garage door

                                                                     front door and room

                                                                Front room

                                                                 Half bath main floor

                                                             Kids TV area in bsmnt

                                                             toy area in unfinished bsmnt

                                                                  Front of house

                                                                   back yard

                                                                 view from front yard

wall in between kitchen and fam room