Greyson's Blessing Day

We blessed Greyson on December 30th in Burbank and had a wonderful day. This kid is very loved.  We had 10 people in the circle and 48 other family and friends who came as well.

Im no photographer but I snapped these of Greyson in his blessing outfit. Seriously can't get enough of this kid.

Happy New Year!

We are truly blessed to have a great family. I love hanging out with either side its always a great time. This year we spent New Years over at Brandon and Brittany's house and we gorged ourselves on home made root beer, bruschetta, cheeseball etc. So yummy and we even got a game of settlers in.

We were kinda lame this year and hurried home to put the kids to bed at 10:00pm and we stayed up watching Supernatural until we rang in the New Year, just the two of us.  We are excited to work on our New Resolutions and to see what 2013 will bring us. It will be a big year for us of firsts I'm sure of it! :)

Cool Right?

My sister-in-law told us about this tutorial on how to tie your two toned ties so Darren gave it a try....

Pretty cool right?

Ugly Sweaters...

We decided it would be festive to have some great ugly sweaters this year for Christmas so we searched and searched and only found some for the girls so I took matters into my own hands and doctored up some sweaters for us.  It was a lot of fun and I think it might just become a tradition for us.

In case you didn't get it here is our Christmas card we sent via e-mail this year...want one next year? Please just leave us your e-mail!

Smilely Baby

Kind of a bad attempt but here are a few shots of my happy baby.

Christmas Projects Revealed

I didn't do as much as I have in the past this year, but here they are......

I made this ponytail hat for my dad, he has always wanted one so last time I chopped my hair off I saved it to make this.  A little strange and weird I know but fun anyway. This was my second attempt at making this hat, the first time I lost all the hair before I glued it, such a disaster so I had to regrow my hair out.

For my girls I crocheted a lot of food, this is Sydney's box...

Jayda let me take a picture of her tic-tac-toe box I made one of these for each of my nieces and nephews (that it was age appropriate for of course)

Sydney has a mad crush on Shaun the Sheep so I made this for her

MORE crochet food and the baker hat and apron I made to go along with it.

I made Greyson some Ninja turtles

I made this dr set for Kloee as well, I was too lazy to find all the peices in the toy room to take a picture but it looks just like this.

Sydney sporting her apron and baker's hat.

Great Grandparents and Patrecia got one of these "blessings" counters my friend Sarah helped me make.

And Jodee and Jayda got these PJ Monsters


I made these for my dear sisters and sister-in-laws! :)

Just a fort...

The girl loved playing in this fort Darren made for them it provided hours of entertainment, this was always fun when I was little. my siblings and I would make some pretty intense forts some of my greatest memories.

Christmas

This year Christmas was spent with the Allen's we enjoyed being all together (missing Sharee and Melissa and their families sadly) for Christmas Eve we ate a delicious feast and a nice Christmas program with a little bit of gift giving mixed in there. We did a white elephant exchange between the adults which is always funny.  Im still REALLY wishing I got to take home Grandpa Parker's Chirping Bird, sad, all well can't win them all.

These pictures are a little out of order but I think you should be able to get it.

Santa came

What did he bring

So excited

Kendra got into is as well

Kloee passing out presents

Thank you aunt Brittany

We did end up with a white Christmas

Sydneys Sean the Sheep, SHE LOVES HIM

Greyson just chilled in his swing...

Waiting for Kendra to get up....