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From top left:
1.  Morning errands with my girls!
2.  I did my decorating before Thanksgiving this year...the kids were so excited!
3.  All she wants to do is TOUCH the ornaments...can't wait to put up the big tree!
4.  Gettin' in the spirit with Santa hats and Christmas Mickey and Minnie!
5.  Some days just eating lunch is exhausting!!
6.  My in-laws sent us this beautiful cornucopia arrangement for Thanksgiving!  So fun to get flowers!
7.  I had to take a pic of my grocery receipt...I spent $253...but I SAVED $340!!!  60%
8.  I whipped up these cute invites for Thomas' birthday!  Invitations are my new favorite thing to whip up!
9.  When I'm consumed with the computer...this is the kind of mess that Tatum makes!

So Curious

We'd better keep an eye on this one and dirty snow!!

She was definitely a fan of eating the snow!

How do you teach a 1 year old to stay away from yellow snow?

Oh and she calls it "Bow"!!

Obsessed

Mimmie!!

That's what she calls her and can spot her a mile away!

Seriously...OBSESSED!! 

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A little from this week and a little from last week!!

From top left:
1.  Seriously this girl...she is a decent mixture of sweet and sour!!  She was sweet this fine morning!
2.  Finished up editing The Tavenner's Family pics!  Love this family!
3.  Tatum's favorite thing to do lately...get into all of my ribbon!  
4.  Thing 1 and Thing 2 patiently waiting for their blizzards!
5.  If I am being honest I told them I would take them for a treat because I wanted one for myself!
6.  We baked my hubby a cake for his birthday!  Best part...licking the bowl!
7.  For the first time in FOREVER we got a babysitter and went out...where to? The casino of course!
8.  I wish I could just buck up the money and buy all new ornaments...I love all these fun colors!
9.  She said NOT to put this on my blog...SO I DID!!

Just Me and My Munchkins

Missing AZ is lightened by the fact that we absolutely love the street we live on.  My kids have made tons of friends and I am happy to say so have I.  The kids play outside almost every single day.  Honestly the only time they are not playing outside is when they are grounded or it is TOO cold (that has only happened once).  It's great!  EXCEPT... when I think about how they have no desire to be around me anymore.  I knew this day was coming, but I hadn't anticipated it being this soon.  I basically have to bribe them to do anything with me and then it really isn't worth it because all I hear is "When are we going home?"

Last Saturday Tom was working and the weather was beautiful, so before they could sneak outside I got everyone ready and told them I was taking them to the zoo.  Just the four of us!!  To my surprise they were excited.  We packed lunches, the kids took paper and pencils to write about everything they saw and we headed off.

It was an absolutely amazing day!!

No fighting!!

No complaining!!

Just me and my munchkins enjoying the Denver Zoo!!

And even our little Tatum ventured out of the stroller and experienced the zoo like a big kid for a while!

It was the perfect day and a just the reminder I needed of why I love being a mom!!

Championships

I haven't been a great blogger lately as my sister so kindly pointed out yesterday.  She's right, so I am not even going to bore you with my lame excuses.  I will just jump right into catching up...

Thomas and Taylor both finished soccer and football a couple weeks ago and unlike AZ...they won't be back at it until the end of March.  Apparently REAL winter weather prevents outdoor sports during the months of December-March.  One of the many things that make me miss sunny AZ! 

Anyhoo...

I took very few pics this season, but figured I better share the couple I did take.  I blame this entirely on Tatum and the fact that the kids' games were always at the same time, so Tom and I were rarely together.  These were from the last games of the season.  The Championships to be exact...Thomas' team was playing to stay out of last and Taylor's team was playing for first!

Before their games started the head of i9 sports announced each team and the kids got to run through a fog machine and break through a banner...unfortunately I did not make it in time to record Thomas, but I did get Taylor's team!



It's always fun watching Thomas play football, but it was really fun this season getting to watch them both.  And Taylor is really excited for the next season...too bad she has to wait a while.

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Another week come and gone!!

From top left:

1.  My friend JoJo convinced me to try Blue Bell ice cream finally and OMG!!!  If you haven't...you should!!

2.  Did a little thrifting this week and found this cute little moose to add to my collection!

3.  I always see fun kitchen items during the holidays, but think it is not practical to spend money on bowls that I will ONLY use during Christmas...but for $2.99 who could pass?

4.  Dollar Tree does it again!!  Fun candy canes that I hope to use along my walkway.

5.  $1.00 off my gas and I was almost under $2 a gallon...

6.  Which meant...a cheap fill up!!!!  WOOHOO!!

7.  Helping a friend with some birthday party favors!

8.  I took the kids to the zoo on Saturday by myself so this was the only picture with me in it.

9.  She is trouble!!

Words With No Pics

Why is it that I do not remember being picky as a kid when it came to what my mom fixed for dinner??  Were there things I refused to eat?  What did my mom do if I didn't eat?  I have no recollection of any of this.  Just another thing that gets locked in the vault of our childhood I guess.

Where am I going with all of this??

My kids!!!  My kids of course!!  And their distaste for practically EVERYTHING I fix.

Seriously!!  I am not kidding!  

The things I put in front of them to eat are not things that should cause such dramatics, yet I really need to get out my video camera to document our dinner routine.  Tonight I made Cheddar Potato Soup with cheesy bread and a fruit cup for them.  I'll give you one guess what they ate?  Nope not the bread AND the fruit...JUST the fruit.  Yea...they didn't even eat cheesy bread!  I fixed all three their bowls and then fixed my own.  I finished a bowl three times the size of theirs and two pieces of bread before either Thomas or Taylor had taken two bites of their soup.  Initially I do not expect them to eat every single bite, but once the complaining starts and Thomas throws in a few gags...well you can imagine how my blood starts to boil.  Then it's eat everything or else!!

Well tonight I served dinner at 6:00pm and at 6:17pm...Thomas and Taylor were both in bed!!

I am so sick of rotating the same four meals throughout the week because my kids are such picky eaters.  If they're hungry they will eat what I fix or they can eat nothing and go to bed.  Pretty sad when the baby of the family stays up and hour later than the other two.  It's quiet around here though...that's a plus!

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Another week in photos...

From top left:
1.  Watching Thomas play football!
2.  Our neighborhood is awesome!!
3.  Tatum loves to pet Riley, but only on the butt!
4.  The squirrels have been eating our cornstalks...bulking up for winter!
5.  The second she sees the camera she does her cheese face!
6.  Been working on editing pics I took of the Tavenner Family while I was in AZ...so cute!
7.  Taylor's Halloween haul!
8.  Thomas' Halloween haul!
9.  My hubby surprised me with a little rose bouquet! Always nice to get flowers for no reason.

Seussical 2013

If you walked in my house the only sign of Halloween 2013 is two trick or treat buckets on top of the refrigerator.  Halloween 2013 was another great year...a little colder than we are used too and missing our usual trick or treat neighborhood, but still a great year.  I'll skip the chit chat and just get to what I know you want...

Have you ever seen such cute Dr. Seuss characters?!  I highly doubt it!!

And here are the pics from our Halloween party last weekend.  Another big success, but boy am I glad to be shutting the book on Halloween 2013. 

Until next year!!