Just like their mother~

My children are just like me when I was a kid. I used to love to stand on my head.(I still do it at times.)

Kaylee and Connor's Gingerbread House!:)

Sean's work party

Sean had his annual work party last night at a hotel in Seattle. We had a great time and we were so happy to be able to get away for a night. (Thanks to my parents for keeping the kids.)

They showed a slide show of everyone at work and this was one of the slides. The funny thing is, I don't even know how to text so it's not me who is texting him. I do talk to him about 10 times during the day. I think it is so sweet that he will call just to see how I'm doing.

Sean got an award for 5 years of service. Here is his boss presenting the award to him. Because of the all the diverse people that work at his work, the guy to his right is translating everything in Spanish and the guy on his left is translating in pun-jaba(I know that is not right but that is how it sounds) It was very interesting. Luckily the speeches were short or we would have been there all night.

We were served a very fancy dinner that would be enough to feed a bird so we stopped at Mcdonalds afterwards. We got 3 drink tickets each and we put those to good use getting Sprite and then Sean gave away a few.

So the hotel that the party was at(can't remember the name) was very expensive to stay at. Sean got a discounted rate and with the discount it was close to 200.00 so we decided to stay elsewhere. We had a free stay at a hotel that I got at the beginning of the year at the kids auction so we decided to stay there. It was in a town called pu-all-up. Have you ever hear of it? I hadn't either so we decided to check it out. We thought it would be like any other Best Western and were so amazed when we opened the door to find a beautiful room. We had a living room, a dining room, a kitchen area and then a full bedroom. We also had a beautiful bathroom with a jetted tub(if you know me, I was so excited) that Sean and I could fit in side by side.(sorry-TMI)

Anyways,we had a great time and was so glad we had the night away from life. We also celebrated our 9th wedding anniversary which isn't until next week but took advantage of the time while we could.

I think I will go back to that town of Puyallup when I want to get away again! We even got robes to use while we were there!:)

Santa Breakfast

This morning was the Santa breakfast at our church. We had donuts and fruit and then we got to see Santa. I think Brooke was the most excited, she told Santa she wanted a Nintendo DS. I hope Santa pulls through!:)

Parent Helper Day

Thursday was my parent helper day at Preschool. I get to go about once a month and I really enjoy being there. I learn a lot from Mrs. Spencer. She has a great teaching style that really works well for Brooke. It was amazing that not once did Brooke suck her thumb at school. I am sure Mrs. Spencer told her this wasn't something 3 year olds do and so she doesn't do it there. She still does at home though. Oh well, we are making progress.

I got to help with the art project which was making Santa's with cotton balls.
Brooke always enjoys playing with the playdoh with her friend Kaylee.

All the kids were mesmerized by the Christmas tree book Mrs. Spencer read.

Brooke got to bring show and tell and she chose a doll. She didn't say much but she sure looked cute doing it!: After preschool Kaylee came over for lunch and some playtime and then they got dressed in their princess attire to go to their friend, Callie's party. They had a great time and Brooke was ready for bed at 7.

It's beginning to look alot like Christmas.....

Thanks to my dad!(again) My mom and dad came over today and put up our Christmas lights. Actually my dad did and I assisted and my mom watched all the kids in the nice warm house. It was a little chilly outside. I did go on the roof once and my mom held the ladder for me. It was a little scary and I didn't even go to the highest point. The good news is that I got the bird poop off the window that's been there for months.

My mom and I discussed what we would do if my dad fell and I think I would have to tried to break his fall but then he probably would break my back and that wouldn't be so good either. Luckily he didn't fall and the mission was accomplished!

While I was coming down the ladder I had my camera around my neck, so I thought I may as well take a picture of my beautiful mother holding the ladder for me.

Here I am working hard to get the lights straight.

Mr. and Mrs. Claus are looking a little droopy this year. I think I may need to restuff them.

And they are all working. Yahoo! I hope none stop working because it will be me up on the roof and not Sean. Did I mention he is afraid of heights and won't go near a ladder?

O' Christmas tree

The kids were so excited to get our tree on Friday. Personally I wanted to wait another week so it wasn't dead by Christmas but there was no talking them out of it so we went and found a nice tree and we actually had a nice time decorating even though I was going on a few hours of sleep, due to my morning shopping madness.
Sean had to hold onto to it through the sunroof as he drove so it wouldn't fall off. (your probably asking yourself why I wasn't holding on to it since Sean was driving. Well, that wouldn't be any fun, would it??) Cierra wanted to contribute too, so she held onto the rope that was holing the tree on. She wasn't very happy because we didn't get the tree she wanted but it was a 5-1 vote so she lost. She decided she liked it after we got home.

No repeat of last year with getting the tree to stand up. It went a lot better since we got a new stand and Sean was all smiles.

Connor's name was drawn out of a hat to put the star on. They all wanted to do it so that was the fair way and suprisingly everyone was fine with it.

The kids did most of the decorating and I would have liked to move a few things here and there but I didn't because I knew that is was done by them and they liked it and that is all that mattered.

And the stockings were hung by the chimmney with care........by Kaylee.

I need to take a picture in the dark so you can get the full effect. It looks a lot better.

My fears were confirmed when as soon as we got the tree up our dear lovely cat decided it was a great place to hide and climb in. She has since learned I don't approve of it and if she does she will be spending the whole month of December in the garage.