Well its almost Christmas

Christmas is my favoriate time of year :) every year me and the kiddos do soo much to get ready for santa to come. This year things were done a little different. Last friday their grandma took them to see the Christmas lights and Santa as it was my birthday and their daddy took me out to dinner. But we did take them a couple weeks ago to see Santa after our local Christmas Lights Parade. Every night we have watched the 25 days of Christmas on ABC Family. Today we rearraged the whole house and cleaned the house for Santa and family to come. Tomorrow night we will be making some Christmas cookies :) (But will save some to make Christmas Eve for Santa). Wednesday the kids will make Christmas Cards for the family. Thursday we will mainly relax and watch Christmas movies. Friday we will start cooking desserts for Saturday when Rynes mom and brother come for Christmas dinner and gift exchange, after all that I will do the dishes the kids and daddy will write a letter to Santa then we will make cookies for Santa, and watch A Christmas Story after that we will set out cookies and milk for Santa and I will try and get the kiddos to bed. Christmas we will be going to my moms and dads for Christmas where we will enjoy time with them and I will also be there for my precious nephews first Christmas :)

It's Been A While

Well it sure has been a long time since I have blogged :( Life has been pretty crazy here lately. My husband and I ended up splitting up and getting a divorce but in the end we ended up back together :) Maybe one day we will get re-married but only time will tell. Everything happens for a reason and only God has the answers. There was also another birth in my family, my step sister gave birth to a handsome little guy in July. After 2 long years of not being able to find a job my step father finally found a great job :) I am really going to try to post more often :)

Vacation Planning Again

Well it is time again to start planning our vacation. This time we are doing this a little better I do believe. We are planning another trip to Orlando,FL. This time we are going to try and make it kid free due to the fact that, my husband and I have been married for 3 years and still have not had a honeymoon. But we are not going until September 2012! Yes this is some time away. But at least this time we will plan out days better and plan our time better. We are hoping for no children but we can never be sure! So this time we are making sure in advance the babysitter will not back out at the last minute and if something does happen where we do have to take the children or one of the children(for some reason its easier to find a babysitter for our boys than our daughter), we already have someone on call saving money to go with us. Last year we took a friend of mine that turned out to be a BIG mistake! This time we are not planning on going to Disney World, as it was fun and we did enjoy it, we just seemed to have a better time at Universal Studios! Ecspecially since Harry Potter World is there!!! I have a huge Harry Potter fan and just loved that part of the park! We also enjoyed going to the Halloween Horror Nights. As I normally do not like going to Haunted Houses or anything like that, I must say that I enjoyed there night time theme!

Some things we do to save money on our vacations are:

• we book our hotel on a website such as book-it or travelocity, ect.
• we also try and get a hotel room with a kitchen in the room or a kitchenette
• buy our own food to make at night
• book a hotel with free breakfast
• book a hotel with free theme park shuttle(as we learned last year parking at the theme parks can get kinda pricey.
• research where the cheapest gas prices are normally
• take our own drinks and snacks(this is a MUST when you have small children as we do)

Thankful Thursday

I have so much to be thankful for. I am thankful I have a great husband. I am thankful that my youngest son is doing so much better in school, my oldest son is doing so much better now that he is going to his new school, my daughter is learning and growing up so fast. That I have my two very best friends back in my life, with what has gone on in my life in the past couple weeks I do not know what I would have done without either one of them.

Need Some Ideas.

Normally every year on Christmas Eve we just make cookies for Santa, and make sure house is cleaned for family to come over, well this year I was wanting to do other things besides this, to make Christmas Eve go by a little quicker for the kids and to make them a little more tired so we dont have as many problems with getting them to to bed.

Autumn in her Minnie Mouse Costume

I had this costume made from adivasdesign.com for Halloween

and pictures are done from Leslie Johnson Photography and you can visit her at

http://www.facebook.com/#!/lesliejohnsonphotography?ref=ts

Mamarazzi Monday:Back To School

Today was back to school for my oldest son. This morning while getting ready for school he realized that he will not have the same teacher as he did last year and it was possible that none of his old class mates would be in his class. So when we got to school and found his class and his desk he was very excited to see a familiar face walk into the room. Who is this other boy you ask? He is my "nephew". And one of my sons best friends.

This is my son and my nephew on their first day of school.

What A Weekend

This Saturday we had a skating party for my 2 sons. It was a late birthday present from my brother in law. It was a great time, sadly I had to leave early due to I broke my wrist skating. The one who did the best was my 2 year old daughter surprise surprise! She even won the limbo contest! This was all 3 of my children's first time going skating they all did pretty well though. Pictures will be posted at all later time due to my hand is killing me just writing this post.