Our Christmas Best!

Here are the cutest kids in the world in their Christmas best!

I love this one - look at their cute smiles!
I thought this one was funny because they all three have their hands in their mouths. Why? Who knows??!!

The girls!!

Cowgirl Madelyn

Nana and Papa got Madelyn the much wanted and needed PINK cowgirl hat. She is now a complete cowgirl and has made many laps of the main level of our house. Good thing we live in Texas now.......

YEE HAW!!!! That is Pinto her horse.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

We had a full house for Christmas - although there was room for more -we missed you Ehlerts, Hansens and Sandbergs.

Nana, Papa, Uncle Greg, Aunt Sally and Uncle Brian all came to celebrate with us. It was fun having people all over the place. I think we did pretty good and not driving each other too crazy.
We got spoiled rotten as usual and loved every minute of it. Jacob got many more fun Thomas things - I knew Santa had done a great job, when Jacob was off and playing and we hadn't seen him in days.

Madelyn got some beautiful princess clothes, shoes and jewelry -and she has to wear them daily. She is a girly girl!! She also got her own scooter! These outside pictures were on Christmas day - look at us - NO COATS!!

Ella Bella got some great recycled toys - which her brother and sister love as well (why didn't they play with them this much when they were theirs??)

Early Merry Christmas!

We had an early Merry Christmas with Grammy and Grampy Street. The kids LOVED it! Who wouldn't LOVE opening presents early!

The children were THOROUGHLY spoiled and loved everything they got. Thanks Grammy and Grampy!

Random Photos

This was Ella's hair one morning when she woke up. There were three spikes of hair sticking out. You can't quite see the third. It was so cute!
Here she is later that day - we still had the main hair spike going. She has no hair on the front of her head. I decided that I could do a comb-forward (not comb-over) and it would look like she had more hair. She really looks like a baldy with the bow on the top!

We got Madelyn some PINK cowboy boots. She LOVES them. Here she is riding her horse Pinto. Now she just needs a real cowboy hat and she'll be set!

The future Texas Rodeo Queen with her admiring brother and sister looking on!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care.......(Jacob said he was folding his arms like at Church)

Ella was napping, but here she is all dressed up for church. Isn't she CUTE?!!

In hopes that Saint Nicholas soon would be there......

We got the kids their own tree this year. As kids, we always had our own tree in the basement that we could do whatever we wanted to with. Thought I needed to pass along that tradition to our kids. They LOVED decorating it.

Happy BARFgiving

It was a rough Thanksgiving this year. Madelyn, Ella and I all had the flu - the real yucky kind. Barry stayed home and did big time dad duty! It took Madelyn almost a week to get over it all. Ella and I were better a little faster. Glad that is done for the year.

We did finally have our turkey dinner on the weekend and it was GOOD! Not sure if it was really good - or if we were just so happy to be well that it tasted extra yummy. My turkey rivaled Martha Stewarts, could have been on the cover of a magazine I tell ya!

Barry carving the beautiful beast!
I carefully followed the directions on the cranberry sauce can and 'slucked' the cranberries out - whole and complete. I set that little puppy on a plate on the table (I was quite proud it came out so complete) When it was time to eat, Jacob came to the table and gasped and said, "Are we having roast can for supper?" I thought Barry and I were going to die laughing! It was great. Came to find out - Jacob LOVES cranberry sauce. We had to encourage him to eat other things besides the cranberries!