End of 2013 - Part 4

September 2013

 We started September with a bought of head lice.  This was our first time ever getting them.  It was ridiculous and I cried many times as I was having to go through their long blonde hair to dig the little suckers out.  I ended up chopping Kinsley's hair off.  It was her first haircut.  

 8 Weeks pregnant and my baby looks like an alien tadpole...LOL.

Katie's first spirit day at school.

October 2013

 We've waited 3 years for The Bears to play the Indians near our house.  We may be Bears by day, but we're Bulldogs by night and Indians by blood.  My kids were so confused on who to cheer for.

 Katie with her sign.  The Bears won and daddy's heart was broken.

 Carving pumpkins and stickerin' them up.

 Storybook Character Parade at school.  Katie is Little Red Riding Hood and I'm Skeleton Hiccups.

 Halloween at school was ridiculous.  We had a bad storm blow in and were under a tornado warning.  We spent 45 minutes under our desks.  Not fun!

 Getting ready for Trunk or Treat at church.

At church playing games.  I swear Katie never smiles in public.

November 2013

 My girls got to take professional photos with their cousin, Britton.  Thanks Grammy.  

 50th day at school.  I was Lucy and Katie was a car hop.

 We got to find out what our bundle of joy was going to be.  This is the survey my co-workers did at school.

 It's a boy!

 Eben and I sharing the reveal at our reveal party.  I will never forget the screams and hollers.

 We got Luke's bear in the mail.

 Our family of 5 stockings.

 Time to put up the tree!

The day after Thanksgiving, my family got to see Dustin's headstone for the first time.  I was so honored to have a part in creating it.  My hubby did a fantastic job.

The back of his headstone is beautiful!

December 2013

 Brode Christmas party.  The girls (and Luke) talking to TaTa via Skype.

 Brode Family photo.

 Katie's first school performance.  She was an elf and the first day of Christmas.

 Grammy and Sarge drove a long way to watch our big girl perform in her Christmas play.

 Cousins' Night 2013.

 Thank you for the trampoline, Grammy and Sarge.

 Michael Jackson pulling a prank.

 Pajama Day during Polar Express.

 Celebrating Maw Maw's 50th birthday.

 Katie and her BFF at her Christmas party at school.

 Our failed attempt at making a Gingerbread house.

 Hard at work.

 Messy, messy, messy!

 Luke says hi!

 Waiting for a surprise from momma.

 Hot cocoa, cookies, and new blankets to go look at Christmas lights.

 Making cookies for our Christmas lights trip.

 Ready to go!  Kinsley lasted 10 minutes.

 Our advent calendar is now complete.  It's Christmas Eve!

 Cousins at MiMaw's house.

 Our family.

 Santa stopped by with lots of new toys!

 Christmas morning at Maw Maw's house.

Luke's gifts from MiMi and Paw Paw Terry.

MIA Post - December 2012

Woohoo!  December finally made it.  I L-O-V-E December.  I love everything about it.  It finally starts getting a little colder here in December, unfortunately for us, it didn't get cold that much.  One day it would be in the 70s and the next in the 40s. 

My living room looks so cozy!  I love Christmas decor.

Getting the presents wrapped and under the tree.

I've always wanted an Advent calendar.  I finally got one.  Not the colors I would have wanted, but it's the theme I wanted and all of the pieces are magnetic.  The girls would constantly take all of the pieces out.  Gonna have to find a better place for it next year.

No mischief going on here.  Just praising the reason for the season.

Lying in bed watching Christmas movies.

We had a bad thunderstorm roll through bringing some colder weather.  The thunder scared Kinsley half to death.  When I turned the corner, she was hanging on to the wall.  Of course I had to break out the camera.

Michael Jackson turned the milk blue.

Katie doing her homework.

Cousins' Night was the 2nd weekend in December. We had so much planned for them to do. In fact, we had too much planned for them to do. Next year, we plan on doing less. Less is good.

Ava's first Cousins' Night.

Abby's birthday was that week.  We got her a gift.

The kids were playing Just Dance 4 while my mom and I took pictures of eachother.

Of course I had to get it on the action.

The first time in 7 years that my mom and stepdad and my grandparents came.  The men fried fish and anything else that could fit in the fryer.

We went to the Live Nativity at one of the local churches.  Perfect weather for it.

After the show, you can go in and pet all of the animals.  This camel's face cracks me up.

We had a special visitor stop by when we got home from the Nativity.  I think someone should have told Santa that his fluffy things are supposed to be at the top by his knees and not to wear black socks over his boots...it looks corny.  Katie said, "Momma, it's Daddy."  I said, "How do you know that?"  She replied, "Because he's wearing his yellow bracelet."  I then had to kick Santa.  I told Katie that a lot of people wear that bracelet.  Daddy's not the only one.

It was then time to put on our night clothes.  These two remind me of me and Brenna.

I'm going to have to get a bigger couch.  We had to take our Cousins' Night picture before we played any games.

We played Minute-to-Win-It Games.

They had to shake their booties to get the balls out of the Kleenex boxes.  They had one minute.  After the minute was up, the one with the fewest balls was declared the winner.  Breanna was the winner.

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Game

We put a dab of vaseline on their noses.  They had to swing the pompom to make it land on their nose.  Breanna won again.

This game was a little more difficult for the little ones.  They had to shake the boxes to determine how many bells were inside.  They were then supposed to put them in order from the least amount of bells to the greatest.  Lindsey won!

This was everyone's favorite game.  They had to use only their face to get the cookie from their forehead to their mouth.  It was hilarious.

Of course the momma's had to get involved.  I couldn't stop laughing.

This was funny too.  They had to draw what I told them.  A fireplace, stockings on the fireplace, a tree, a star on top of the tree, etc.  Lindsey won!

Boys will be boys.  He drew 1/2 a mustache on his face with a Sharpie.  Being the naughty aunt that I am, I drew the other half....hehehehe.  Sharpie marks come off by using baby wipes.

We had got to play too.

Cousins' Night lasts well into the night or until everyone starts passing out.  Next year we won't be playing the games.  We always have a dance party on Cousins' Night and we didn't get to do it this year.  I felt like I was running around like a crazy woman trying to get everything ready and/or cleaning up messes.  Next year, I will relax and enjoy watching all of my babies play together.

See Part 2 for the rest of December.