Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Christmas '09

We had a great christmas this year....and I'm always sad to see it go! We had our Gardner Christmas party on Wednesday where a very special visitor knocked on the door! The kids couldn't believe that Santa would come to OUR party! They all took turns sitting on Santa's lap...even Jed...where he was told he had been much too naughty to get the motorbike he had requested...phew thank goodness! We played a funny game named QUELF...funny...gotta try it!Grandma & Grandpa Bracken were caught working together really well onthe kids sticker books....I guess we know what to get them next year!



Then Christmas Eve we were at my Mom's where we had all the kids act out the nativity...it was so neat....until the "DONKEY", played by my brother, started making the donkey noises...then we were all laughing and being very irreverent. However the kids stayed in character the entire time. I couldn't believe Brayden was so straight faced and took it so seriously. Such a fun thing to do! Then we read some Christmas stories and had a visit from the PJ Elf who leaves us jammies and a christmas movie on the door step!

Christmas Morning

The boys must have been good all year, because they got just what they wanted...
a NINTENDO DS and much ...much... more!


And NOW....
this is what you will find them doing....ALWAYS!


Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Ninja turtle/Super TURKEY

My Mom gave the boys these Turkey hats at Thanksgiving....I have tried throwing them away several times...been caught every time! Lately Brayden pretends it's some kind of mask and runs around fighting bad guys.

He cracks us up!

Christmas Cookie Time


Me and the boys made cookies the other night. I am slowly letting go of all my semi-OCD traits and I let them frost and sprinkle their own cookeis..... They don't look edible, but they are BEAUTIFUL!

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

GRACIE Lane PALMER

Beautiful girls!Drew & Gracie
Gracie




Tuesday, December 8, 2009

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Snow Day!




Broc conveniently picked "build a snowman" out of his jar of things to do on the snowiest day yet! The snow was so pretty and it was fun to get all bundled up and go out and play in it.....although we missed Jed's building expertise....I'm not so good at rolling the snow balls...especially in my state of fattness! Broc did an awesome job...and when he went around back to find eyes and arms....I was trying to help....and dismantled his awesome snowman....we will try again when Dad is home to help!

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Broc's jar...

The other night...Broc decided we should do something "Christmasy" every night. We did something similar last year, but this year Broc made out the list....typed it up...cut them out..and found a jar to store them in....He cracks me UP! His lists included things like....drink hot chocolate...go look at Chrismtas lights....the Christmas Oranges story (he loves chocoloate oranges)...snowball fight....build a snowman....and on....he did really well with his ideas! I bought this gingerbread train at Target...so cute...and we made that today. I am terrible at this kind of stuff...so it's a good thing they are just interested in building it...and then eating it!

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

DECEMBER Desktop Freebie



Go HERE to get this cute FREEBIE!

Monday, November 30, 2009

AND....


We have bunkbeds!!!

We have had these things stored in our garage since September...just waiting until Jed had the time to assemble them. We opened them up on Wednesday before Thanksgiving and discovered they had given us 2 of the same box of parts and one of the dressers was badly damaged! So we had to drive out to the warehouse for a second time and get it all straightened out. The boys were SO excited to share a room and sleep in bunkbeds.

It has taken a few nights to get Brayden used to it. He makes a few more trips out to our room for different requests. Hopefully in a few more nights he will be doing better.....Broc tends to get annoyed with him going up and down the ladder and flipping the light on and off.....but he eventually falls asleep!

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

The NEW "stinky gankies"...

The other day I found Brayden hoarding a new "stinky gankies". He found the new pink minky that I bought to make a "gankies" out of.
He was getting a little to comfy with it, so I had to explain
that it was for the new baby and he couldn't have both...PLUS it's pink! He eventually got over it, but I thought it was cute...
I wish I would've bought enough minky to make him a new
"UN-stinky gankies"!

Thursday, November 12, 2009

funny.


Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Sweet Gracie Lane~

Gracie Lane Palmer
8 lbs. 9 oz. 21 inches
My brother Kurt and Kim had their baby girl last night!
{What a sweetheart!}

Monday, November 9, 2009

We Shopped...

And we DROPPED!
We had so much fun this year....as usual!


The company and the bus ride are usually the best part of the whole trip!

The good deals and the food are also a perk!

Can't wait til next year!

Thursday, November 5, 2009

REMEMBER this!

We're off to go on our ANNUAL Shop Til' Ya Drop TRIP!
I've never gone being 6 months prego...so wish me luck!
Maybe I can get pushed around in a wheelchair...that would rock!
STAY TUNED:
FOR A FULL PURSE AND SUNGLASSES REPORT....MONDAY!

LESS THAN 100 Days LEFT....

UGH!
I just noticed that my pregnancy countdown says 99days left til this baby is born! I am already feeling out of breath...kicked from every angle....and FAT!
Oh the JOY of MOTHERHOOD!
{TWENTY SIX WEEKS tomorrow!}

Monday, November 2, 2009

Halloween



The boys decided months ago that they wanted to be Mario & Luigi. It was so easy to just buy the costumes and be done. I couldn't get over how cute they looked in their little outfits...Brayden wore his hat backwards all night and he really got into his character...he was going around saying "It's me Luigi" with a strong Italian accent!I joined in the fun and dressed up
as a prego skeleton!We also had a little Halloween party and did a
few spooky tricks on the kids and played some fun games.
We had such a fun night!