A Christmas PUPPY!

CHRISTMAS EVE PAJAMAS!

Family tradition says that everyone gets to open one present on Christmas eve. It is always new pajamas and everyone is always sooo happy.

Save me Uncle Marion, Daddy said No!

Surprise visitors!

Grandma, Grandpa and Marion all surprised us all with a visit. It is wonderful to have them here with us for the holidays. I had been telling the kids and Kyle that someone was coming to look at the house so we needed to get it cleaned. When the grandparents showed up the kids all figured it out. Kyle was still at work so when he got home he thought that it was housing parked in the garage until he came in the house and saw his mom sitting at our table. This is what he looked like when things finally registered.

I am so glad that it was a surprise for everyone. It has been a wonderful having them here.

CHRISTMAS BAKING!

Josh is hard at work making snicker doodles for our neighbor gift plates.

The girls are busy working on two types of fudge!

Jenna and Hailey are the official taste testers!

I am so grateful that I have had the opportunity to make these memories with my children this year. They really are great kids and I love all of them sooooo much! ( how could I not just look at those little faces aren't the the cutest?) I really appreciate the opportunity to help the kids get into a giving to others spirit. I hope we will be able to make this a family tradition for years to come. I wish you were all here so we could have shared our treats with you.

WINTER FESTIVAL!!

All the kids did a little musical program for the schools winter festival. They preformed on two different days and the only pictures that turned out are the pictures from Aubreys' performance. She was a candle for one of the songs. She really gets into it when she sings. Eliza preformed both nights and did great. Josh looked like he was having a great time with the kid next to him (it actually looked like they were play fighting and singing at the same time.) In the program on the special thanks portion Eliza was one of three people to be thanked and she loved that. She is on the student council and she helped to paint all the decorations for the program on her free time.

This is Aubrey with one of her best friends Dymond.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KYLE!

The kids didn't think that all the candles would fit, then they weren't sure that dad could blow them all out. Dad wasn't sure himself after about three tries he finally got it. (Oh, I forgot to mention they were trick candles oops!)

Playing outside in DECEMBER!

I was talking on the phone to my sister-in-law April when I looked out the window and saw this... both kids dripping wet playing with the hose. And in December to boot, gotta love AZ weather!

First pair of glasses!

The girls got their first pair of glasses and boy are they excited. And might I just add they look so cute in them.

This makes everything worth it!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Kyle is trying to rest and watch a movie with Jenna. You know how that ended.

Josh and Aubrey built this water thing to fill the big letter "D" that they dug. "D" is for Dad. They were so proud of how well it worked. Eliza is talking to her friend Sarah over the fence.

Our new puppy Hailey!

The kids decided that Hailey should be our new puppy. They tied a rope around her waist for a leash and then tied her to a tree. Aubrey was so proud of herself.

Is it Christmas yet?

I have been wanting it to be December for the whole month of November. Kyle has to work nights all month which means he has to work Thanksgiving and with no one coming I don't want to cook a huge meal just for me and the kids. So I decided that we were going to skip Thanksgiving and go straight to Christmas so now my whole house is beautifully decorated for Christmas. I just have to wait until December to get my husband back. Maybe I will make Thanksgiving dinner the weekend after Thanksgiving. Anyway HAPPY THANKSGIVING and MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!

Saturday morning at the Jeffery house!

The kids where getting ready to set sail in their beautiful blue ship. Its a good thing that Aubrey and Jenna brought along some candy, they might have all starved.

Captain Josh felt like it was a good time to lay back and catch some rays on the deck of the ship before meal time.

While the kids were busy sailing around world before breakfast their chef was in the galley hard at work preparing a feast of sorts. (Isn't he great cooking breakfast for everyone, I am so lucky to have him for a husband.)

STUDENT OF THE MONTH!

Josh was the student of the month this month. We are very proud of all his improvements in school. He is a very good boy and I am so grateful that he is part of our family. We were lucky to have daddy there also. He has been working nights so he was home that morning to go to the assembly, as you can see he is ready to crash. As always the little girls are excited to go to the school to see their brother for any reason. Hailey is a little distracted by the pig they have for the Principal to kiss.

GREAT JOB JOSHUA! WE LOVE YOU!!

A dog?

For the last few months Josh has really been hounding us to get a dog. I guess one of his friends at school has a dog that just had puppies and she told him that she was going to give him a puppy for his birthday. Well we told him that people don't just give Lab puppies away but he kept insisting that she was going to give him a puppy. So last night he spent 20 min on the phone to his friend, after he hung up he came to me and said "momma I need to borrow $400 dollars to get the puppy. You can pay with cash or a check." Of course I told him that I didn't have $400 to spend on a dog. "I'll pay you back" he said. I told him that I still didn't have $400 for a dog. He was crushed, all night he mopped around and cried. Just before bed I caught him coming out of my room with a hand full of Halloween candy. I asked him what he had, he showed me and said "I got it so I could calm down". Anyway I guess the question now is should we get a dog?

Backyard Fun!

I am so grateful to have a fenced backyard that the kids can play in, and because we live in Arizona they can pretty much play outside all year around ( happy days for me for sure). So here are some of our backyard play pictures I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.
Hailey always has to be doing whatever the big kids are doing.

Scouts!

Josh had an all day scout activity on Saturday, when he got home he was all tuckered out. He had a ton of fun! They made these CTR shields and they got an arrowhead necklace. He really loves them. He wasn't too keen on me taking pictures though.

FREAKY EYES!

Jenna is always going on about how Eliza has freaky eyes (thank you Sarah). So one day I asked Jenna to show me what freaky eyes look like and this is what she did...

We thought that was pretty funny so every now and again we would ask her to show us freaky eyes. Of course babies watch everything and pick it up too so one day when I asked Jenna to do freaky eyes Hailey did this...