It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year...

This year we tweaked our Christmas tradition just a tad bit and its most likely gonna somewhat stick with my sister in law having got married and moving away. This year Christmas was on a Sunday. As if Sunday aint a busy enough day LOL. But we made it work and it actually went fairly smoothly. We used to host dinner christmas day but hubby and his daddy decided to switch it up since Amanda and Anthony got married and its easier for everyone to get together and spend christmas day together. They were at our house in time to celebrate Christmas Eve dinner so it was fine and dandy with us. Truth be told I actually like that we are doing Christmas Eve now instead of Christmas day with hubby's birthday being the day after Christmas. I get a day in between there LOL. Anyways, Hubby came home and cooked dinner after he got off work and the in-laws came over and we had our "stocking christmas." We chose Christmas Eve a few years ago after me and the hubby got married and moved out on our own to exchange stockings on Christmas Eve with his family. We loved our stuff. Nene LOVES her hippo haha. Her momo and papaw got her a stuffed pink hippo. Ever since she was really little she has been fascinated with hippos. I have no idea why. She got so excited. With her hippo she got a brush that her and her papaw picked out together at walmart. And she was brushing the hippos hair. Jr and nene got some stuff as well. Me and the hubby got some nice stuff as well.

Christmas Day. Instead of setting out the gifts the night before we told the kids that we would set out cookies for Santa and Chippey (elf on the shelf) that morning and that if they were really good at church that maybe Santa and chippey would bring their presents when they got home from church. Me and the hubby decided that it would be best to do it that way since Christmas was on Sunday morning and we felt that it is not fair to the kids to teach them that Christmas is about Jesus' birthday and not even show up for His Party and skip church. Jr was the best he has ever been at church. He was soooo good. The hubby cooked breakfast for us that morning just like we normally do on christmas morning and we ate together as a family. (we dont normally cook breakfast at breakfast time only on christmas morning and every once in awhile) Then off we went to church. There wasnt very many kids so me and my mother in law combined the kids and Ms. Donna taught the 2 toddlers. it actually went really well. After church we came home and SURPRISE chippey and Santa came to visit.

This year Jr is at that age he knows exactly what to do and nene too. Bird well she was a bit slow and kept wanting to play with the toys as they were opened so i helped her out. But Jr was so funny he ripped the paper off the presents so fast that paper was flying everywhere. He was SOOOO excited. Thankfully hubby has a camera that takes pictures fast HAHA or we might have missed getting pictures of him opening his gifts LOL. Nene was just as excited but she took her time and enjoyed opening the gifts...a happy medium between her brother and her sister. Nenes favorite toy from me and her daddy was her mini la la loopsie. She carries her around everywhere. I didnt even know that she knew what La La Loopsie was until we were in the toy aisle and she asked for a lala loopsie for her purse. she wanted the little one so she could take her places in her purse so we bought her a mini one. Jr's favorite toy is his drum set. He said he is just like Jon Sr (thats what he has been calling his daddy ever since jonathan taught him that his name is Jonathan Sr and Jr's name is Jonathan Jr so that he knew what his real name was and his daddys name. not bubba or just Jr.) His daddy has rock band and has a drum set that he likes to play so jr was so ecstatic about his drums. He loves them!!!. Birdie's favorite toy was Her purple baby and her purple baby stroller. She has become quite the little baby sitter. She loves to take care of her dollies. They had other toys and clothes as well those were their favorites from us.

Christmas with the In-Laws came. We went across the street and ate a late lunch/early dinner. It was yummy too. My mother in law and father in law cooked. We talked and we laughed and just really enjoyed ourselves. Anthony has blended in with the family already (he became a part of it in August) and we love him to be around. Especially my kids. They love their uncle tony! they ask about him and nana both alot when they are gone. We are glad to have added him to the mix :) he makes a great addition. Well we split up the gifts from everybody and put everybodys in a pile next to the respective persons. And we started with the youngest and went to the oldest. So birdie went first and nana had to help her or we would still be waiting for her to open all her gifts HAHA. She got several gifts but i would have to say her top favorites were the baby food and little baby stuff and her baby swing from her MoMo, Papaw, and T and when nana opened the giraffe from nana and uncle tony she got soooooo excited! she was jumping up and down with excitement. HA nana had to open the rest of her gifts while birdie played with her baby and her giraffe. They did so great with what they got her. They play with all their toys now but those i believe were her favorite gifts. Nenes turn!! Her and T had a blast opening her gifts. Nene (my little 3 year old) put her T (her uncle) to work haha. She put him in charge of organizing and holding her gifts as she opened them. It was hilarious to watch. Every time she opened a gift she would show it to T and have him hold it and put it with the rest of her opened packages. Her top favorite tho was her T bought her a little stuffed la la loopsie. She was soo excited and she was telling him about it. he had to convince her to open her next gifts lol. then she got to the mini tea lala loopsie that her papaw and momo got her and she also got a lalaloopsie bus. Im telling yall this child is addicted to la la loopsie all from a commercial. but they are cute little dolls. She informed me that she wants a lala loopsie birthday party...so im gonna be a busy momma making her decorations and hunting down decorations thankfully my mother in law and a friend gave me a couple places to look for. What my baby girl wants she gets HAHA. Shhe is old enough now to know what parties she wants. and she is opinionated too. She also likes her rainbow dress from nana and uncle tony. She is one of those girls who wrestle with the boys and plays sports and loves football but she is gonna look good while she does it HAHA. Such a cutie. Jr wow he was hilarious. At first he only wanted to open the "pretty presents the ones with cars wrapping paper." but uncle tony convinced him to open up the presents wrapped in other paper as well. I guess he thought there was a lot of presents cuz with a straight face he looked at uncle tony and said "good grief" and started opening the non pretty wrapped gifts LOL we laughed soooooo hard. i still laugh just thinking about it. He is so much like his daddy he can make me laugh even if im upset. i love him so much He got so excited over his little blue handcuffs. He loves them. He said he is a policeman LOL. they also got him a a spiderman basketball shirt that he loves. I have a feeling that im gonna be washing that shirt alot. His papaw is gonna think he never takes baths cuz he always puts that shirt on right after i wash it. haha. Of course he is like a little fish and he begs to take bubblebaths. So thats not a problem. they got him several other gifts. He started jumping up and down when he opened up his basketball goal and basketball from his momo and papaw. he LOVES basketball. After we got him home and me and his daddy were putting away and putting together all of their presents his daddy set up the basketball goal in jrs room. they ditched me for a few minutes. The next thing i know they both snuck off to his spiderman room and they were playing basketball together. As much as i hated to break up their fun i was NOT putting all those toys together and away by myself haha there was way too many. But i am so glad that that is something they can do on hubbys off day when the weather doesnt permit them to be able to go outside. Jr also liked his wrestlers from T. Like i said they got a ton of gifts but i just mentioned their tops. Nana, Uncle Tony, MoMo, Papaw, and T did really great on their christmas. They loved everything.

Christmas afternoon after we cleaned up after the kids' christmas and opened all their stuff so they could play with it me and the hubby opened up our gifts from each other and of course the silly tradition that we started our very first christmas of buying ourself a gift and we had to open it up and not tell the other what we bought ourself. (it all started with our first thanksgiving we went to poplar bluff and we did christmas at thanksgiving with my aunt and uncle and they gave us each a gift card and told us that we had to spend it on ourself and we promised that we would buy something for ourself. Because we had no money to buy christmas we went shopping. We bought something for our self and then used the rest of the money to by gifts for the other person. thats how the tradition started. its something that we do and we love it. its definately different but its ours.) I bought myself a pair of snuggie slippers :) Hubby bought me a zebra bedding set and i got the one i wanted too!!!!! its black with zebra trim i love it. I also got a new phone!!!! he bought me a pantech matrix. i am still getting used to it but i love it. I also got a silver and black zebra phone case to go with it. I got some eeyore jammies and eeyore house shoes. COMFY!!! i got me 600 baby pictures that i can add to a little at a time. I have been begging for my kids' baby pictures for 4 years HAHA ever since jr was a little baby. I got some pink speakers so that i can watch movies on the computer when he is playing the game :) I also got some faith Hill perfume, a watch that i can wear its rubber and has no metal in it at all (i am allergic to metal so i have never been able to wear a watch) I also got mario cart and its as much as i thought it would be!!!! Yes he spoiled me a lot!!! At the in-laws i got a pink swiffer mop!!! :) a zebra blush set, manicure set, scrunchies, brush set, tuppaware bowls, waffle maker, donut maker, popcorn popper, cheese grater, slicer thing, and a drainer thing, a razor & body wash gift set, and some cds :) . that was from T, Squish, and Poppa Smurf. Then from Amanda and Anthony i got a pretty picture that goes in my kitchen (i hung it up as soon as i got home LOVE IT) a wall decor plate hanging that went beautifully in my room, friends picture frame, a laundry sign for my door, a dallas cowboys bag :) :) , :) and i know that i am missing some things but i didnt sleep well at all and birdie is playing loudly in the background but i LOVED everything i got. everyone did such a great job. and they were thoughtful and got me what was me. It was a fabulous 2 days. I loved the fellowship and family time and the food and the gifts that i got. :)

HUBBYS 25th BIRTHDAY:
For hubbys 25th birthday i sent him on a clue hunt to find his family, pizza, and presents HAHAHA. He loves the ninja turtles a lot. I bought him the dvd set for him for his bday. we watched the first one tonight. We came up with clues that fit donatello, michalangelo, raphael, leonardo, and splinter and he had to go to each place that we set up around town to get his next clue until eventually he found us. 5 different clues. HAHA i wanted it to be memorable for him. And of course i couldnt just hand him the presents LOL. It was raining so we had to do our backup scavenger hunt instead of the ninja turtle one that i originally planned. but this one was more cost officiant and just as fun :). I am calling it a tie. LOL the guys completed their list first but there was a few kinks in there haha. But it was fun. that was the purpose of it not to see who was better. I had a blast. It was a great time. Then we came home and played mario cart and watched the first TMNT. Yes these last few days were great. now off to enjoy my stuff and spend time with my hubby he is off the next 4 days!!! YAY!!!! i love it when he is off. and i love spending time with my family. I also have some major cleaning up to do from this weekend. :) i hope everyone had a very merry christmas!!!

Jenny

I love Sr, Jr, NeNe, & ZZ Love

BLESSED :)

It's been awhile since I have blogged. The reason is cuz on my computer i have to go under a completely different internet then the one i normally use to sign in to my blog. which is also why i dont comment a lot on peoples blogs. I do want yall to know that i do read what you write. But on my hubbys computer i can go straight to my blog and sign in. Crazy. Hubby hasnt had the time to sit down and figure it all out for me yet cuz he has been working.

Well Christmas is coming up. Which means that the Children's Christmas Program at church is coming up soon so I have been busy stressing over it LOL. My mother in law is in charge of the over all program and she does a wonderful job. The teachers work hard to get their plays together and the kids get to shine. I think this is the first year that has really just stressed me out. so it must be a good one. Oh sure i have just the babies and toddlers but i want their play to be just as cute and good :) This years theme is Happy Birthday Jesus. I am so excited!!!!

To me Jesus is the reason for the Season. If Christ hadnt been born we wouldnt have CHRISTmas. But do we tend to let Him get overshadowed or pushed to the side for trivial not as important things? Say how much we spend on someone or how many gifts we give to our children. I know i stressed alot about getting all of my gifts for my family and I didnt think about Jesus being born as much while i was stressing. I was just thinking last night shame on me for doing that. Am I saying that we shouldnt do christmas gifts at all? no. Would i have bought anything different that i bought for christmas? no but i wouldve eliminated the stressing out and bad moods from the stressing out. So I am gonna try something...Everytime that I start to stress about something that concerns Christmas. I am gonna Pray and thank God for giving us His precious Son and giving us something to celebrate. Anyways that was just food for thought.

I am going to start selling Scentsy in January or February as soon as i get the money to get started. I need a way to help bring in some money for my family and stay at home for the most part with my kids too. This way I can. My sister in law is selling Avon because her and her hubby need the extra money as well. Here is her link if you could be a blessing to her :)

http://shop.avon.com/shop/product_list.aspx?level1_id=300&level2_id=341&pdept_id=667&cat_type=C

I have an unspoken that I am not willing to share at the moment but would much appreciate the prayers. I will share when the time is right but that time is just not right now. If you could pray for me I would greatly appreciate it.

I am so blessed. I really am. God has given me so much and keeps on giving to me. And yet II stray and run away from Him so much. I struggle in my devotions and Prayer life. And i didnt say not a word about it to anyone except my hubby that i would love to have a daily devotion book to help me get into the habit of doing my daily devotions. God heard my heart and He answered using a sweet lady in the Mom's Friendship Circle. Last night we Our Christmas Mom's Meeting and we gave our prayer partner a gift. One of the several things that I got from my Prayer Partner was a daily devotion book!!!!! i am soooo excited. plus i got 2 chicken soup for the soul books one for couples and one for familys. i LOVE those books but hardly am ever able to get one. I was sooooooo happy when i received my gift!!! Yes God is so good!

Well off to work on the Nursery Christmas Play

GOD BLESS YOU :)

Jenny Love