Christmas and Adrianna's Birthday!!!

Well the holiday season this year was full of exciting things. From having Christmas parties with Mackenzie and my play groups, to the older girls coming out, to decorating cookies and gingerbread houses with the grandparents, my birthday, and of course Christmas! The holiday season started out on the 19th when the girls went over to my parents house and spent the night and decorated Christmas cookies and a great looking gingerbread house with my younger brother and Mackenzie of course had to help with the cookies!Then on the 20th my best friend threw me a birthday party and let me tell ya that was very interesting. From the decorations being GHETTO to my cake looking so funny I couldn't believe I was the one that made it!LOL! Then that night she took me out with another friend who just had her birthday and let me tell you Sunday was not a nice day for me! :) Hangover city... thank god Gary was home! So on the 24th my actual birthday the girls, Gary and I all went over to my parents house and had a dinner of my choice that my mom makes for me each year! (Thanks mom!!!) It was fun being around all the family and just hanging out and having a great time! CHRISTMAS was so much fun! All of us woke up together and had a blast opening gifts. Mackenzie opened hers like a little lady and had so much fun with the dump truck w/ lego's that Santa brought her. :) Then of course we went right back over to my parents and I helped my mom (somewhat) cook dinner and we opened gifts there and I got my awesome electric skillet I wanted (lol) and some other awesome things.... and of course Mackenzie got some really cool things from Uncle's and grandma and grandpa but duh what else would she have received! But just like tradition has it we ended the night with a long game of poker and then headed home! So today (28th) we took the girls to the airport to head home! :( It seems like its gonna be forever till we see them again! But only till the end of March and then they will be right back YAY! But all in all it was a wonderful time having the girls and Gary home at the same time! :) Lots of help around the house and with the monster baby! Well here is a slide show of our holiday events! Enjoy!

Big Sisters and Santa Claus!!

So this past week the older girls came into town (YAY) we are all so excited to finally have them here for the holidays. We also went awhile back and got Mackenzie's pictures taken with/by Santa Claus... she is deathly afraid of him and I just don't know why! I guess some kids are just like that! When we were on the Polar Express she even freaked out! Oh well! :) Enjoy!

Starting to cry cause she doesnt like him!
She didnt wanna be around Santa but she got the cookie afterward!
Playing with chalk with her sisters!

Well there will be more photos to come of the girls and there little sister. So be looking out for them!

1st. Christmas Party!

Well today Mackenzie had some of her friends over from one of our playgroups and had so much fun! We played and ate and ate and ate, we also did a fun ornament craft (thank you Karen for providing everything for it!) we also did a book gift exchange and the kids had a blast doing it! Mackenzie received "Merry Christmas Curious George". Here are some pictures of the event!

MERRY CHRISTMAS QUEEN CREEK MOMMAS!

Kids Playing

Mackenzie and Madison

I didnt get that many pictures its hard to play hostess and to get pictures of all the kids. But we all had a great time and thank you so much for everyone that came, Mackenzie and I had a blast!

Cheerleading....

Well our oldest, Ariel, has decided that she loves to cheer, she is on the Cadet squad for the junior high kids. Just wanted to share a few photos of her recent competition!

She is the one on the top right...

Here she is top row second to last on the right side...

Ariel is on the far right side holding the girl up in the air...

Over all in the competition the girls took 3rd place, which in your first competition is really great!

So Proud...

I am so proud to say that our middle child,LOL, was on a commercial back in Indiana for helping with a toy drive. Victoria is seen in the picture on the bottom left. She has always been into helping people and Gary and I couldn't be more proud of her. I just wanted to share what an awesome thing she did in helping other children get a GREAT Christmas!!!

Thanksgiving and the Polar Express!

Well this past weekend was Thanksgiving as I am sure all of you know! LOL! Well we did the craziest thing ever, we put seven people in a car and drove to Albuquerque, NM for the holiday weekend. It ended up being so much fun! We all had a blast with the snow and just being somewhere all together was the best thing of all.
We had a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner at my grandparents new home... they just finished building it and moved in the Saturday before! It was awesome. On Friday we had the chance of a lifetime, we all went up to Durango, CO and rode the Polar Express! It was a great experience for the children that knew what was going on but I think that Mackenzie was just to young to even understand it, (and she freaked out when she saw Santa Claus)!


But other than that now we are all getting ready for Christmas. Our older girls fly in on the 17th and we cant wait for them to be here. I also have my birthday coming up here pretty soon and thats exciting! So we are going to yet again have another busy month!