The exception, not the rule.

January 9, 2013

Christmas

Ok, I'll be mostly caught up after this post and things will be more recent from here on out. ;)

Here's our sweetheart at his Christmas program at school.

I love this picture because he is literally YELLING, "Gram & PaPaw, are you coming to my house?" And yes sweetie, they are/did. :)

Hudson, Kaile (used to be his teacher, but is our steady babysitter and we LOVE her!) & Spencer

Love this boy!

Stephen came down for Christmas and him and Spencer had more fun. Poor Stephen could not go to another room without Spencer following him and/or wondering where he was. Spencer is so lucky to have such awesome brothers!

left-right, top-bottom:

Christmas Eve fun

2 mugs of milk "because Santa is going to be really thirsty"

Thor

Thor & Hulk (aka Stephen)

brothers

Thor tuckered out with his brother

Woody

Buzz

reading with Gram

Have I mentioned how much Spencer loves costumes??? You have NO IDEA. NONE. All Spencer wanted for Christmas was a Thor & Hulk costume. If you asked him if he wanted anything else he would say, "Nothing."

And we woke up to a white Christmas!

That melted the next day. ;)

We had a fabulous Christmas (as always). I love my family!!!!!!

January 8, 2013

Santa

The BEST Santa picture ever was my son in 2009! Hands down, the best you will ever see.

But, these couldn't be any more precious this year...

"I want a Thor costume & a Hulk costume."

January 7, 2013

Polar Express Party

We have the Polar Express train here and wanted to take Spencer and one of his friends. We checked into it and long story short, it was going to cost around $200 for 4 of us. Uh, no.

Rick got the bright idea to have our own Polar Express party at our house. We invited Spencer's friends Hudson & Braylee to come over. We also invited his friend Sawyer, but she couldn't make it that night.

I made these invites and sent them in the mail to the kids.

I also enclosed this ticket and I backed it with shiny gold card stock.

I didn't take pictures of a lot of the things I did for the kids because I figured I wouldn't be blogging about it anyway. :/ We had pigs in a blanket and grapes & strawberries to start off with. I made hot chocolate in the crock pot which was the best hot chocolate I've ever had. We put the hot chocolate in mugs I had our art teacher write on for me (no pictures at all - sorry). Each one had their own personalized mug that had their name and on the other side said "Believe". Braylee brought some cotton candy and I had already made cups like this to put popcorn in, so we used them for cotton candy instead. I also made these chocolate dipped marshmallows.

Oh my gosh they had a blast!!

After the movie, it was time to play doctor...

Family Pictures

We finally got family pictures made! Get this, we have NEVER had pictures made together as a family. None. Zip. Zero. I have no idea why, but I'm so glad we did.

Heather with Caroline Grace Photography did an AMAZING job and I can't wait to get more done by her! We didn't get any of just Rick & I because it started to rain (and some of the following pictures it was raining but you can't even tell). Here are a ~~few~~ some of my favorites...