Gross!

Wayne and I were in Mesquite for his work Christmas party on Tuesday. We apparently parked under the wrong tree. Seriously, we were there for less than two hours. How gross is this!

My first stop on Wednesday morning was to the car wash. I was so embarrassed to even drive this car around looking so disgusting!

Every year for their birthdays I take the kids to Brushfire to paint pottery. Hayden spent a good 15 minutes or more trying to decide what to paint....a plate, bowl, mug, Christmas ornaments......We usually paint plates, but this year Hayden chose a monkey mug. The monkey was 3-dimensional. His front side is on one side of the mug and when you turn it around you see his bum and tail. It's a really cute mug. Hayden is very good at paying attention to details. He took well over an hour painting his mug and I'd have to say that he did a VERY good job!

It was fun having Gavin and Amber join us this year. We all had a great night!

Well, we had a fun night last night until Genevieve took a dive into her chair and split her brow. Then it was a little scary. She held her breath until she got so weak that she just lay limp in my arms. She was so ghostly white. It really freaked me out. Tyler was a huge help running to get me a bag of frozen corn and then some tissue to clean off the blood. Then he ran back downstairs to get her some milk so she would lay still while I played doctor. Then he ran to get the phone so I could call Dad and the doctor's office. The nurse told me to see if I could pull it open and check how deep it was. YUCK! That made my tummy churn, but I did it anyway and noticed that it really wasn't that deep. So....no stitches or visit to the doctor were needed. THANK GOODNESS! I still didn't put her in her bed for many hours so that I could keep an eye on my sweet baby girl.

Why does it always look worse in person. I swear - with the blood and the bruise and puffiness - it looked ten times worse than it does in these photos.


This is Genevieve this morning. She woke up yelling, "owie, owie, owie..." until I came in to get her. She pointed to her eye to show me where she hurt. Poor baby!

It was about this time last year that she got a black eye from falling into our desk drawers. We'll have to see if this is a yearly thing for her. I sure hope not!

Turkey Time!

We're having fun getting ready for Thanksgiving! I was tempted to have them start Christmas crafts, but thought that we should wait another week. We'll just enjoy our turkeys for a little while first.

Their pine cone turkeys turned out so cute! Genevieve caught on pretty quickly. She just stuck the feathers in any gap on that pine cone. Every feather was stuck in upside down, but it kept her busy while I helped the boys with the hot glue gun.

Then we spent days on this Turkey Pinata we found on the Family Fun website. Thank goodness Grandma was in town to help out with the gooey paper mache part.

While we finished up the pinatas, Genevieve practiced using the scissors. I'd have to say that she's doing really well!

Get ready for some Christmas crafts in a little while! I'm so excited!!!

Flag Football

Our life is slowing down a little bit now that football is over. We only have one more week of wrestling then we will really be able to have more free time. I'm totally looking forward to it! As much as I love watching the boys try new sports, I really love being able to hang out at home playing games and watching movies together. Anyway, here are a few photos of Tyler and his team.