My favorite people

Here are a couple of recent pictures of my favorite people!

Dane, Tyler, and Joelle getting into the Christmas spirit.

Dane, Joelle, and Cody all stuggled up together. The boys have been sleeping in the same bed together for the last couple of nights. I think they are just so excited about Christmas. I'm just happy whenever they are not trying to kill each other! :>

let it snow

Let it snow...let it snow...let it snow! It wasn't much but it was snow none the less...we'll take whatever we can get down here in North Texas. This was from a couple of weeks ago. The boys were so excited that morning when I looked out the window and shouted "Boys! It's snowing!" I may have been even more excited than they were. It was fun while it lasted.

Cody Christmas party

Here is Cody at his preschool's Birthday party for Jesus. He sang loud and did all the hand motions just like he was supposed to, and even added a few of his own, then he gave me a big wave and a "there's my mommy" shout out... I couldn't have been prouder.

Dane's program

Dane's Thanksgiving program was awesome! Here he is waiting to go into the gym. He was pretending to shoot a bow and arrow.

Here he is walking past us in the parade part of the program with some art work that he had done.

Here is a really bad picture. This is only half of the kids that performed. It was all of the kindergartners. There are six classes.

Here is Dane after the program with his teacher Mrs. Willborn. He was so proud of his costume that he made me fold it up and save it for next year. They sang this song called "Any Turkey can Tango" and it was so cute. I have Dane on video singing it and if I can edit it a little bit I will try to get it up on the blog.

Cody's program

Here is Cody "singing" in his Thanksgiving program at preschool. You can see him in the middle of the picture pointing at me. You could hear him above all the other kids saying "There's my mommy!" So cute!

The "eye's" have it

I just loved Joelle's eyes in this picture.

A family to be thankful for

A family to be thankful for.
Here is our little gang on Thanksgiving day. We took a bunch of pictures of the kids. I will try to get them up as soon as possible.

My adorable Clone Troopers

Leaves

There's just something great about a big pile of leaves!

Mom! Come see...

The other day, Dane wanted me to help him build a fort with his blocks. I was busy so I told him that I though he could probably build a great fort by himself. He complained that he didn't know how and so I encourage him by reminding him that he has a great imagination and he needed to use it. After a long time I heard him yell "Mom! Come see what I did!" Not only did he build a fort but he used his entire army men collection to decorate it. He asked "Did I do a great job with my imagination Mom?" I told him that he did such a great job that we just HAD to take a picture of it.

Jack-o-lanterns

This year Tyler carved a couple of pumpkins and I carved a couple after he left for work. I felt bad for him because Halloween is his favorite holiday and he didn't get to stay home and enjoy it with his kids this year. Cody just loved our Jack-O-Lanterns. He would ask to go out front so he could see "his pumpkins". He was devastated when we finally had to throw them away.

The haul

Here it is...the haul! Look at all this candy! So much for my "no processed sugar" diet....like I could really resist snitching a few (or more) of my favorites....I don't think candy effects your triglycerides on Halloween night...or for at least a week after...I can only hope! Ha ha! The great thing about having all of this  candy around is that it is a great bargaining/bribing  tool. For example..."Ok boys...I'm going to set the timer, and if you get this whole room cleaned up before you hear the beep, you can have a piece of Halloween candy!" Works like a charm!

More Halloween pics

Cody as Buzz Light Year from the Toy Story movie. He was even saying "To infinity and beyond!!!" Too cute!

Dane as Commander Rex from the Star Wars-The clone wars cartoons. He was so excited about Halloween that he even has next year's costume pick out!

Joelle our little miss Witch. She got to weat a hat...she was happy!

We went trick or treating with Jake and maddie from across the street. Look at Cody...he is yelling "To infinity and beyond!"

Halloween night

The Thomas family's Halloween traditions.
#1 Eating Beanie weenie

#2 Carving Jack-O-Lanterns

#3 Dressing up

#4 Trick or Treating with Mom

Hats

Joelle just loves wearing hats, hoods, and bows. We could tell she was feeling really pretty the other day when we put her hood up. Tyler got this great picture of her.

Thank you

Thank you Grandpa and grandma Thomas for the cool Halloween package. Joelle carried her new pink kitty with her wherever she went...all day long! The squishy spiders where a big hit with the boys...what boy doesn't love a spider he can squish the guts out of!  The Ice Age movie has been enjoyed by all, and it just so happened to come on the morning of Family night...perfect timing! Dad made some homemade popcorn and we had a great movie night. Thank you!!!