Simply Having a Wonderful Christmastime

As for the song ... it came preset on this particular slide. If you don't want to hear it, just don't click the volume option!

Like many people, we had several Christmas celebrations. This is just one of them. More pics to follow from our other Christmas festivities.

Long Lost Pumpkin Patch Pics

Once upon a December

Our Christmas Picture

This is one of a very few usable shots from a disastrous 2-day photo shoot. Gigi remembers and probably still has nightmares about it. Every year we come up with a Christmas card design, and every year, we let too much time go by to do Christmas cards. We're a lot farther in the process this year, but in case you don't ever see one from us, here's the picture:

The only way to eat cereal.....

...so daddy says!!!!

It was a toddler day!

Well what do you expect, Mom? There *are* 3 toddlers in your house!! I know, I know. But sometimes it's even more evident that there are 3 little curious people in this house. Here was their agenda for today:
1. Empty mommy's purse and rip stuff up. Check.
2. Bring Charlie's water bowl downstairs and dump the water. Check.
3. Drink the coffee mommy left on the table. Check.
4. Get into the laundry basket and put CLEAN unmentionables around our necks. Check.
5. Open the box of wipes and scatter them. Everywhere. Check.
6. Empty mommy's OTHER purse ALL over. Twice. Check. Check.

And that was just this a.m. Who knows what I'm in store for after nap time. I wish I could find their daytimer!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It would make this whole process so much easier. Hahaha!! What's scarier is that NONE of this is planned and that all these antics are off the top of their heads.

Friday night fun and chaos with mommy

Daddy was gone this weekend, so we watched Frosty the "Moman" on mommy's bed (Don't worry; I covered the current comforter with an older comforter). We had a lot of fun!! The kids LOVED both the popcorn and the experience.

Here's some of the fun....

...more fun...

...funny faces...

...fun Frosty...

...relaxed fun...

...Bastian fun...

...and Bella fun...

...and though it doesn't look like it, Sophie fun, too...

...where's Mommy fun...

...and silly Bella moves fun...

...and sharing popcorn fun...

...and CHAOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I promised some chaos in the title of the post and here we are to deliver! As the evening wore on, the kids got increasingly hyper over the excitement of popcorn and movie night! And though mommy left the room several times during the more calm part of the evening without the Sherflets so much as moving on the bed, by the end, this is what errupted when mommy left the room one last time. The culprit? Well just look at who's making his not-so-clean getaway!!!!!!

Goodnight kitchen sink

You're curious, aren't ya? This isn't a post about our kitchen sink. It's actually about my kids and something adorable they're doing. Go figure!

So we spend a lot of time in our basement playing with toys, reading, and generally wreaking havoc! We make a big deal out of going upstairs for naptime. We take turns on who turns out the lights, and we always say goodnight. To EVERYTHING! Today we said, "Goodnight Paula (one day I turned on the t.v. and Paula Deen was on. Ever since then, we say goodnight to Paula, even when the t.v. is off like it was today!), goodnight strollers, goodnight blocks." We pretty much said goodnight to everything except the kitchen sink. And I'm sure that's not far off now!