Venom

Annie was so happy that Mac received a new red and blue spiderman outfit for Christmas because she hads inherited the old Venom black outfit Mac no longer cares for ... she has no interest in her princess costume. not any. none

Snowed in and getting creative ...

Dern the sideways picture!! O well onto the post ... Last week Gainesville saw the most snow ever since I have lived here .. We had a good 6 inches plus a half inch of ice on top of that!! So what else to do on a snowy morning?? Rex and I decided to make some cookies .. he likes being the taste tester dont ya think??
The snow was fun for a while ... Zach and I actually ended up in the local newspaper(apparently the photographer wanted to pick the most flattering picture right?) ...

Then the snow felt more like being trapped .. so I painted to ignore the children going stir crazy around me ... sorry yet again another sideways pic ...

Then I had to get really creative .. this is the setting for at home date night .. if ya cant go out and you need to break up the snowed in monotany this was actually fun ...

Mac got tired of all the coloring books and started coloring his body ...

All in all the snow was fun but we were stuck for far too long with 3 kids under 3 in the house ... come on spring we are ready for you!!!!

White Christmas

So this picture was actually taken a few months ago but I forgot to post it .. It's funny because his poppy sits EXACTLY like this when he is watching tv .. haha .. now onto Christmas ... It was such a busy morning besides video this was the only picture I got ... Mac got a new red and blue spiderman outfit(he had been rockin the black venom outfit since september .. and when I saw rockin I mean he was wearing it as his regular clothing in public at least 4 days a week .. the people at mellow mushroom asked me last time we went to lunch there if he wears it everyday because that was the only outfit they have ever seen him in .. ), a buss lightyear tent, football, spiderman blanket and a few other odds and ends ... Annie(though she too really wanted everything Buss Lightyear I opted to steer her more in the girly direction) got a princess costume, tree tent, elmo slippers and a purse ... They were thrilled .... Thankfully nothing had batteries except for Rexy's toy .. his one and only toy that I dont even have a pic of him with .. :(

Snow fell on Christmas day for the first time since 1947 in Gainesville ... nifty .. and the kids enjoyed it too :)

Celebrating ..

So its been a busy couple months ... It all started out early November celebrating Mac's 3rd birthday ... My sweet first born is 3(feels like he should be 20 just sayin .. ) I love him to pieces he is extremely obsessed with everything Spiderman and Buzz Lightyear ... loves legos, anything chocolate, playing in the garage with his daddy and sneaking into our bed almost every morning around 6:00 ....
Then we celebrated Thanksgiving(sorry for the lack of pictures .. you should be used to my poor documentation skills by now) .. followed by Rexy's first trip to see Santa ... after this "standing in line pic was taken no others pics went quite as smoothly so we will leave it at this ...

Then we celebrated Annie's potty training .. hey its a big step!! Here she is taking a break from changing her own babies diaper ....

Then the celebration of Rexy graduating to big boy food!!

And drumroll ... Our Christmas celebration .... Here is our 2nd annual Happy Birthday Jesus Cake !! I will post more Christmas/ snow pics but this is all the pics this post could handle ...

Cute cousins ...

We had a mini photo shoot this afternoon in our yard .... These cousins are cuuuttteee ...

Watch the blog for birthday pics to come later this week ... I will have a 3 year old!!

A love-hate relationship ...

I have a serious love-hate relationship with photos .... LOVE when friends take good ones like this while we are out playing with kiddos picking out pumpkins and going on hayrides .... LOVE when I actually remember my camera on an outing at the mall for moments like this ...

LOVE pics of a boy so very happy to be eating some ice cream ...

HATE that these are the only 3 pictures I have to show for the last two months ... literally the only 3 ... wow

These kids crack me up ...

Rexy likes to wake up a bit earlier from his afternoon nap then the other two(I think it's because I kinda force him to nap when the others do and he might not be quite ready to go down but he has to for the sake of my sanity) so after waking this week he got his first ride in the swing .. And then there's this one ... he wanted his Gigi to paint him green like the hulk ... and she did ...

And Annie girl had her first lunch out with the girls this week ... all prim and proper ...

then there was dinner later ... not so prim and proper ...