Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree

As we have all noticed, I really suck at blogging now. Why is it so hard for me? What is my deal? Ugh! Well here I go again updating the blog. Cross your fingers and pray that I can actually stay on top of it from now on...

Well we had a blast decorating the Christmas tree. The kids love doing this and I took a back seat and let TJ and the kids go at it. I didn't touch it after and just let the uneven tree be. They actually did a really good job though. I love doing things like this and it made me so excited for Christmas.

Alayna was pretty excited about putting the star up.

This picture cracks me up. Look at Braxton just relaxing and doing his own thing.

We got a new camera so I was trying out the new features on it. Pretty cool.

They were pretty tuckered out.

I love this boys droopy eyes.

******Snowy Days******

My kids have LOVED the snow! A couple weekends ago TJ took the kids outside to play in the snow while I got the house ready to decorate for Christmas. This was Alaya's first time getting on the snow gear and going out to play. She was so excited and happy about it.




Here she is after being out there for about 45 minutes. She LOVED it. TJ finally brought her in because she had been out there for so long, not because she was done playing! Cute girl!
TJ was out with the kids this day and it was snowing so much. When they plowed the roads they left a mound on our street so TJ built them a snow cave. They had so much fun!



This was on the first snow fall that we had. Lauryn and Braxton were so excited to go out and play in it. The second Lauryn walked through the door from school they got all ready and played for over an hour out there.

*Thanksgiving 2010*

We had a great Thanksgiving this year. It was the Buckley family's turn. We started out making pies the night before with all of the girls in the family. I am so grateful for nights like this because I learn so much. I made a yummy martha stewart apple pie but I totally forgot to take a picture of it, sad!
On Thanksgiving day Grandma B had all of the kids make some cute turkeys out of crackers. They loved it! The food was AMAZING and we had a great time just relaxing, talking, and letting the kids play together.


Our Thanksgiving family picture.
Grandma B reading stories with Alayna. She was so grumpy and tired by the end of the night. Grandma can always calm her down though.
This is TJ's cute Grandma and Grandpa. We LOVE them!
This is the beginning of our black friday! We are hard core! I already look so tired. ha ha. We started at about 3 am this year and didn't come home until about 8 pm on friday. I get most of my Christmas shopping done and I got some killer deals.
This is Uncle Tyson. This is where we usually find him...with all the kids swarmed around him. They love him...and his iphone!
Uncle Tyson's the BEST!

Good Bye!!

Alayna had her cast taken off!!!!!!!! We were so excited to finally be able to give her a bath. I was so nervous for this appointment because she gets so scared at the doctors and I new she would freak out when the saw came out. She did a lot better than I thought she would but it still scared her. My sister Nikki came with to take pictures, thanks nikki!

Here she is so happy! Little does she know...Here's the saw. That thing is crazy!



And it's finally off!!!!
Here is the machine for that little saw. Pretty crazy.
She was pretty traumatized!
We are so glad it's off and that it healed so well! Yay!

Gingerbread Houses

We had our annual gingerbread house party. Tj's mom always sets this up for us and we love it. It is so much fun and always gets us ready for the Christmas season. We did this right before Thanksgiving because we take them to the Festival Of Tree's to be sold.
TJ made this snowman for braxton and was so proud of it! Good job babe! It's eye's and mouth is made out of pepper. He got pretty creative.




The final products.



We love doing this and the kids always get so into it. It's so cute! Thanks Grandma B!