December 2011

As always, December is filled with fun activities and we try to cram everything in before it's gone in a flash. I have been wanting to go snow tubing in Downtown OKC for several years and we finally got the chance to go thanks to my mom's company. The tubing takes place at the Bricktown ballpark where they have two slides covered in ice -one big, one small. My mom's company Westquip rented out the place for the evening and fed us dinner. My mom, dad, me and the boys (Jeff had to work) bundled up in our snow gear but soon realized it was unnecessary since it was almost 70 degrees earlier that day. Plus, carrying those tubes up and down the steps really heats you up. It was hard work since the boys weren't strong enough to carry their own so we had ours and theirs to lug The boys had a blast and even little Jorden was fearless enough to ride in the tube all by himself. I got a few pics but it was hard to get a good shot because of the reflection of the snow and everyone moved too fast.

My dad coming down the slide

Handsome Jensen enjoying himself

Jorden being a big kid

My Momma sliding

We got to see Santa on a Segway

WEEE Jensen

Me coming down the slide and yelling at everyone to move Jorden so I didn't knock him over like a bowling pin!

We babysat the girls so we made a gingerbread house with them. I had to try very hard not to be too particular about how they did it since I really wanted it to look like the picture on the box. With 5 eager kids I quickly gave that up and just let let them have at it. Jeff added his own decoration.....a leftover cheeseburger stuck on the roof (who knows why!) The kids thought it was hysterical

Displaying their finished house that lasted 3 seconds before they said "can we eat it now?"

Grandma with her babies

We had our old big screen tv for 9 years so it was time for a new one. Jeff got this 65 inch one on sale right before Thanksgiving. It looks much better and takes up much less room

Jensen and Jorden LOVE staying all night at Mimi's house and they help her bake fun stuff like these cupcakes

Behind but will catch up soon!

Sorry I'm so behind on blogging! I haven't even done Christmas yet and here it is almost Feb. Well, hopefully I can catch up in the next week or so. Jeff built us a newer, faster computer so I haven't had access to my pictures in a long time. Hope all is well

November 2011 Random

Two boys in a box

Jorden has to do homework with brother at the kitchen table

Jensen found a roll of green tape at Grandma and Grandpa's house and made a big spider web that took up the whole room

Putting up the Christmas tree

Hanging ornaments

Jorden unrolled the paper towels while mommy was in the bathroom

Jensen's 6th Birthday!

Jensen turned 6 and he chose to have his party at the gymnastics place again with a monster truck theme. He had 14 friends come to play in the foam pit and jump on the trampolines

Nerf Gun

Parachute Play

 

Jumping into the foam pit

Jensen and his friends at Bart Conner Gymnastics

Monster Truck birthday cake

Birthday boy with mommy Mommy and Daddy

 

Opening presents from his friends and family

crazy kid

Pumpkin boy and Turkey Boy 2011

Since Jensen was born right before Thanksgiving we have been taking a picture of him with the turkey every year so when Jorden was born right before Halloween we deicded to do his with the pumpkin. It's fun to see how big they get in comparison

Jorden 2009

Jorden 2010

Jorden 2011

Jensen 2005

Jensen 2006

Jensen 2007- I think Jorden looks a lot like him at this age

Jensen 2008

Jensen 2009

Jensen 2010- The first year he was too big to sit on the table

Jensen 2011

Halloween 2011

We had such a good October with lots of Halloween fun. Jensen decided in August that he wanted to be the black angry bird from from the iphone app he plays all the time. I ordered the costume online in mid-Sept but they were already sold out so I decided I would try to make it myself which is hilarious if you know me! Grandma got Julia, my niece, a Minnie Mouse costume so I thought it would be precious to have Jorden be Mickey. I got the material and my mom came over to help me make the angry bird cotume and it turned out fantastic and Jensen was thrilled.

Black angry bird costume

Our MOMS Club had a little Halloween party and all the kids looked so adorable.
Here is Jorden and Julia together

My Momma hard at work on the costume

Jeff and the boys carving a pumpkin

Boys with our finished pumpkins

On Halloween we decided to stay in our neighborhood to trick or treat instead of going to the grandparents' houses. Before we started, the Outon boys from across the street came over to say hi

The girls came over to go trick or treating with us. Jenna and Jilllian were two different witches and Julia ended up wearing a unicorn costume that was warmer than Minnie

We brought Jamie's wagon so the littles could ride between houses
and Jorden especially loved getting in and out of it

My dad went to watch the Steelers football came and they had a costume
contest so he dressed as one of the players

It was a really warm evening and we stayed out quite a while so each kid got about two buckets full of candy. I got addicted to all the chocolate and almost had withdawls when it was gone

Jensen with his friend Spencer from two doors down who dressed as a squid

Jorden was so precious saying "trick or treat." At first he was saying it after he got the candy but he finally figured it out