Christmas Morning!!

I need to write a blog about Christmas morning so when I go to scrapbook it, I won't have to rely on my faulty memory, haha!

Sabe and I could hear the boys waking up around 6:30. Jamesen had passed out on me the night before at 6:30 pm so we knew we were in for an early morning. We had planned to not let the boys do presents until at the earliest 7 but we figured we were close enough. We then spent the next half hour just listening as they played in their room and slowly made their way out.

Seriously they took FOREVER! The living room (so the kitchen we set up, the tree, the stockings, all the presents...) is right outside our bedroom door and they always come into our bedroom in the morning so we knew they'd eventually come our way. We didn't want to rush them over to us by calling them, but we sure were getting antsy in there, waiting for them.

They finally made it into the living room and we could hear them rustling around. We had left some cookie on the plate for Santa and we knew that would be the first place they went to. Then we heard Marcus go, "Oooh, mommy! Kitchen! Look, kitchen!" and both boys cross in front of our door. Sabe and I were trying to be quiet to see what they did and Marcus kept poking his head into our door whispering, "Pssssst, mommy! Kitchen!" it was so funny!

Sabe and I got up after that and we started on the stockings. They had no idea what to do with them at first, haha! Jamesen got stuck on the candy cane full of M&Ms but with some pushing he got through it.... after we pried Marcus' Chuggington Train from him, haha! He was happy to see some Cars 2 cars in his stocking and we ended up just dumping them both on the ground so they could see what all was in them.

After stockings we opened presents. I've been working on taking turns with things (like making cookies) and it went perfectly with opening presents. Jamesen got the first one and Marcus was practically screaming, "OK!! MY TURN! MARCUS TURN!" so funny! He was so cute. Jamesen did really well opening the gifts. I was afraid he would get bored before he would get his presents open, but he did really well.

We did have a melt down though... Jamesen wanted Marcus' toys and understandably, Marcus didn't want to share. We hadn't had breakfast yet though so I'm sure that contributed. Mom I really have a ton of respect for you and how you were able to make a huge breakfast for 9 people... I have a hard enough time doing it for 4! I finally got everything finished and we've all been breakfasted. Now we're watching Marcus' Scoobydoo movie that has a bunch of volcano action in it and he's stoked, haha!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Christmas and what not...

We've had a lot going on since my last post. Thanksgiving went great! We went to one of my friend's houses (the same friend we went trick or treating with). Our kids get a long really well and we parent very similar so it's just natural for us to be friends! Our hubbies get along pretty well too so it's been nice to have them as friends.

Our store has been flourishing for the last little bit. A lot of hats being ordered with this cold weather! I doubt it's continue past Christmas, but for now we're doing pretty good. I'm using all my money from it to pay for stuff for Gemma's room, so I hope it continues! It's the only reason I've got money for her stuff, haha!

A week or two ago we had some pretty freezing temps here. It was cold enough to have some snow flurries in the wee hours of the morning, so I snuck some hats in for the boys in case we went anywhere. We didn't end up going anywhere because I had to wait for repair guys who took a million years, but at least they've got hats no just in case it gets that cold again! They didn't want to have anything to do with them until I took them into the bathroom so they could see themselves in the mirror. After that they put them on just long enough for me to take a couple pics and then they were off again.



We put up our Christmas tree right before Thanksgiving. We'd been searching for the perfect tree for a little bit but couldn't find any in our price range. We wanted to get a nicer tree that would last us for awhile without spending an arm and a leg for it. Finally after searching everywhere, we found the perfect tree at the PX on post. It was even on sale! We snatched up really fast! Of course I had to put it up right away. It was "pre lit" (I use that term loosely) so it made it a bit easier. The "pre lit" was that lights were already strung on it. I ended up having to add to it to make it look ok so the lights were pretty spaced. Oh, I think it's great looking now!

The boys had an absolute blast decorating it! I can't wait until they're older and have a few more ornaments in their boxes to put on.



Our next endeavor was to put lights on the house. This is the first year we've put lights onto a house that's ours. We've either lived in apartments, someone else's house or Sabe wasn't around to put lights up wherever we lived before. It's been really fun and to decorate our house! I know we'll be here for a few years so I don't feel bad decorating. The boys have loved it too. This house really feels like home to us! Anyways, the boys thought it was great watching Sabe put the lights up. Marcus was Daddy's big helper and handed him the hooks. Such a cutie!



I wish we had some pillars to decorate... or money for a few more lit lawn ornaments or something, but for now, I'll take it!


I wanted to get some pics of the boys in front of the tree. The back of our house is really dark so it was hard to get the nice quality, but I did what I could! I got a couple cute ones of them smiling really good.


They're getting to be such hams for the camera. I was trying to take a picture of an order to put on my fan page a few days ago and Marcus kept hopping in front of the camera and saying, "Cheese!" with a huge grin on his face. It was cute for the first few pics but got a little frustrating after a bit, haha!

We're battling pink eye in the house. It's been frustrating and annoying. I got it first. I was told it was "allergy induced pink eye". I've also had "allergy induced bronchitis" here in Georgia as well. Georgia just doesn't like me! Anyways, my eye allergies are pretty bad in the first place, so when my eye started to get irritated, I didn't think anything of it. Finally I woke up one morning to my eye stuck so shut I had to soak it open and it was pretty obvious that it was pink eye. I tried my hardest to keep the boys from getting it, but Jamesen caught it yesterday. Luckily, Sabe and I have been on the look out for it so we caught his pretty quickly and it doesn't look nearly as bad as mine did on day 2. We both have it in both eyes, but hopefully it'll go away fast since we caught J's eyes and my second eye pretty quickly. I've managed to keep Marcus from getting it so far, but I'm guessing it's just a matter of time now that Jamesen has it. Sabe doesn't have it either.

Anyways, that's what going on on our end. I'm turning 23 weeks this week and don't know where the time is going!