Scripture bags

My oldest daughters have been asking for a "church" bag that they can carry their books in so while I was at the dollar store I found some polka dot place mats and made them some scripture bags. They thought they were WONDERFUL. Indi said, "Momma you're the best sewer EVER!". I wish I were but she doesn't have to know I'm not.

























Here's a picture Zoey, just cuz she's so dang cute!

Christmas pictures

I have been so bad about blogging which means I'm very behind. Here's some pics from Christmas morning. Everyone had a great Christmas and enjoyed all their presents!


Zoey got some new sunglasses that she wore all morning:


















Jaed is checking out his toys from Santa:























Kaia didn't know which toy to look at first when she came down the stairs and saw her chair that Santa put her presents on:
























Zoey was sooooo excited to see her Dora Kitchen. She giggled and giggled while she touched it and played:
























Indi got several chapter books for Christmas. She has become quite the little reader and loves to read at night before bed:


















Josie is showing off another pair of warm pajamas she got from Mom and Dad:
























Here's the girls showing each other what they got:


















Zoey is determined to get more candy out of her stocking:


















Josie is showing off the clothes I made for her new doll:
























Here are the girls modeling the crowns and capes that I made each of them:



















My girls really wanted American Dolls but buying each a doll for $100 or more wasn't really an option for us so I found these dolls at Costco and the girls loved them. The girls call them their American Dolls and we don't correct them. Here's Josie holding her doll and while they are both listening to their new mp3 players (oh, and notice her make up job with her new make up):
























Here's Indi with her new doll:

Christmas Dresses

I have been so bad about posting and I'm hoping to be better! I wanted to post some pictures of the Christmas dresses my sister bought my girls. They are so beautiful and they are dresses they can wear throughout the year! She even bought them necklaces and helped me make bows for their hair to match.

I have no idea what's going on with Jaedons face. He looks so mad in all this pics. He really wasn't.....that I knew of. Oh well! I was so worried about making sure the dresses were straight and looking nice that I didn't even pay attention to what faces were being made. Lesson learned!!

Family Fun!

We went to visit Bass Pro Shop when my brother and his family were here for Thanksgiving. The kids loved it!! It had tons of real looking animals and a HUGE fish tank. It was a fun family outing!


Here's our family:



















Here are the kids with their cousins Marquis and Malia:



















The kids were able to sit on huge 4 wheelers to "test" them out:

(Jaed and Marquis)



















(Josie)
























(Indi)
























(Kaia)
























And just a cute picture of our baby Zoey:

Christmas Eve

Now that Christmas is over and things are settling down I have a little time to post some new pictures. We didn't do very many "traditions" this year and I'm not sure why. Maybe because Christmas came so fast and Thayne and I didn't seem to be full of Christmas spirit. We normally do Gingerbread houses close to Christmas, we do a lot of baking on Christmas eve, we usually have a special Christmas eve dinner, and much more but we did none of that. We actually had pizza for dinner Christmas eve. There was no complaining from the kids so I guess everything turned out ok. One tradition that I did do this year is new pajamas for Christmas eve.

I don't know why Josie and Indi have to be so dang goofy every time I want to take a picture. I'm always saying, "Could you please act normal!", but I obviously forgot to say that this time!

Zoey rocked herself to sleep