Another Santa's Lap

So far our kids have seen Santa three times this year. Once at the Fashion Place Mall, on the fire truck driving through our neighborhood, and the latest at my friends Rick and Stacey's company Christmas party. I can name at least 2 mores times they will see him. At Peyton's Christmas Pajama Party Progression for dance and at the Bennett Christmas party. We have been very lucky with Peyton because she just loves Santa and has never been scared of him and Houston has been good so far but he is still pretty young so we'll see as he gets older. Peyton keeps telling Santa that she wants a 4-wheeler for Christmas. She ain't asking for much is she?

Sleepover With The Girls

This last Saturday night we had Hadley, Haylee & their kids, Shayne, Mandy, Raylee and friend Jackson, and Shawn, Kathy & their kids over to watch the final round of the NFR. After the rodeo we invited Preslie and Raylee to have a sleepover with Peyton. It suprisingly didn't take too long to get them all to sleep on the air mattress in the front room and they all slept through the night without a peep. After they woke up in the morning they all ate pancakes, bacon and eggs and then off to play some more.

What We've Been Up To

So we really haven't been doing much of interest lately. We had a great Thanksgiving. My mom was able to fly in and was here from Wednesday until Monday. It was really nice having her here and we got a lot accomplished as far our Christmas shopping goes. I am happy to say that my Christmas shopping is complete with the exception of some candy and a few gift bags. Bradyn of course will finish his up a day or two before Christmas. I am also happy to say that everything is wrapped as well. I wish my dad and my brother could have made the trip but I understand how busy they are with all the horses and just hope they can all come for Christmas or shortly after.

So since I have all my shopping done and I only work 2 days a week with the exception of my parents accounting and billing I do from home, I have had some free time on my hands so I have jumped into reading the Twighligt books. I finished Twighlight in 6 days which is good for me and I am a third of the way finished with New Moon (which I started at 11:00 last night). I loved the first book and am glad that I saw the movie first as I already knew from watching the movie what the characters should look like in the book. I know there were some people disappointed in the characters chosen for the movie after they read the book and already had their vision of the characters. As far as the second book goes, I'm unsure right now. I loved the beginning but am now confused. Those that have read the book know what I am talking about. I won't say much more as I don't want to give anything away to those who haven't read the books. But if something doesn't change soon, then I don't know if I will read the third book. I never thought that I would be into these books as much as I am. I have never had a lot of time for reading so I don't read novels much. But I can't seem to put these ones down. Bradyn keeps asking me if my middle name is Carolyn. It's an inside joke as my Grandma's name is Carolyn and there was period of time when all she did was read.



As far as the rest of them go. Bradyn is still busy with work and right now the NFR is going on so we have been watching that every night. Peyton is getting excited for Christmas and wants everything she sees advertised on T.V. She is also excited because Grandma Jill is coming back and she asks everyday "When's Grandma Jill going to be here?". Houston is doing good. Rolling all over the place, scooting a little and eating baby food. He goes in for this 6 month check up on the 19th so we will see then how huge he is.

Another Girls Night Out!!!

Last Thursday night me an my friends Tana, Valynn and Nicole got dressed in our comfy clothes and went to Olive Garden for a late dinner and then to the Gateway for the 12:01 a.m. Twilight premier. We had such a blast and I really loved the movie. I haven't read the books yet so I thought I might be lost and wouldn't really enjoy the movie but I followed along just fine and now am dying to read the books.


Nicole, Me, our waiter (who we thought looked like Edward), Tana and Valynn at Olive Garden


Tana, Me, Nicole and Valynn in the theater waiting for Twilight to start

Going Private

So I am thinking of going private probably along with a lot of other people right now. There is supposed to be a special during the news on I believe Channel 5 this coming Monday talking about the freakos out there that look at blogs and steal peoples family memories from blogs and post them as their own. Very freaky! I have noticed a couple of comments I have received from people that I don't know. I have set a Live Traffic Feed on my blog so that I can monitor where people are from that are looking at my blog. Please leave your email address in a comment for this post and I will be sure to add you so that you can still view my blog. Or if you would rather not leave your email address just call me or send me an email with your email address. I will put out a post letting everybody know when I have gone private for sure but plan to probably within a week or so. I will also be going private on my myspace so just to let you know if you check out that as well make sure I have you added as a friend.

Halloween

On Thursday, Peyton's preschool class had their Halloween party. She wore her costume, they had a parade and each kid took candy to hand out to the other kids. Yesterday for Halloween I took our kids trick or treating at my work. Later that night we went to Bradyn's parents house for dinner and then we went to my brother in-law and sister in-law Hadley and Haylee's house and Bradyn and his brothers Hadley and Shayne took the 3 girls, Peyton, Preslie and Raylee trick or treating in their neighborhood while me and my sister in-laws Haylee and Mandy hung out at the house with the boys Houston and Colter. After the girls were done trick or treating they started watching Halloween Town but just ended up playing. We had a lot of fun. Thanks Haylee for letting us all come over and spend Halloween with you guys! I forgot my camera last night so I didn't get any pictures of the other kids.

Carving Pumpkins

Last Wednesday my Grandma Carolyn flew back in town after being gone for 2 1/2 weeks visiting my Dad in Hobbs, New Mexico and then my Aunt Susan in Arizona. We had plans that night to carve our pumpkins so since she spent the night at our house, she helped Peyton carve hers. Houston's pumpkin went rotten before we carved it so only ended up carving 3.