I love decorating the house at christmas

Brothers and Texoma

Isaac and Jackson are becoming quite the force to be reckoned with. By themselves, they each demand a certain degree of your attention that, if not given, utlimately creates a catastrophe that could (and have) involve paint, nakedness streaking down the street, and butcher knives to open go-gurts. They are also becoming best buds; somewhat of a dynamic duo. It is great to see them play football, do karate, or wrestle in the front room. Jackson hates to be left out of "big boy" stuff. He has to be right there doing whatever Kayla and Isaac are doing. He is fearless in trying anything once. "If they can do it, I can do it" seems to be his motto.
Isaac and Kayla are great about including him in whatever they are doing and Kayla is especially helpful as a big sister with whatever Jackson needs. He is still the baby of the family and I think that with his early challenges, Kayla and Isaac truly have a soft spot for him.
These pictures are from our hike last month again at Lake Texoma. We went last year and it was just as fun this year again. Isaac and Jackson got in the lake to build some great sand piles. One of them is the tail end of a snake that we saw that was warming on the rocks. That cut our cliff jumping time short once we saw him. He was at least 4 feet long. Uncle Dusty, can tell what kind of snake it is by his butt?

Kentucky Park

Jeremy took the kids to the park with Mike and Charla (jeremy's brother and sister in law) while Jackson and I were at the doctors. Jackson had an ear infection:( Isaac gave Evan a piggy back ride until he dropped him.

Great Grandma Logsdon

Great Grandma Logsdon is still alive and kicking:) We went over to Grandma Logsdons to visit. It was nice for the kids to see her.

Grammy's preschool class

We went to Grammy's class and surprised her at work. It was a lot of fun for the kids to see what Grammy does for work. Grammy is such a wonderful teacher and blesses the lives of so many kids.

Bounce houses are always the bomb

We went to a birthday party in Ky, but missed the bouncing part because we were running late. The kids were pretty bummed so we took them back the next day during open play time. Bounce Houses are always the bomb.

Uncle Mike had the hook up

Jeremy's brother's boss has a beautiful vacation home on some land with a pond. The boys were able to go fishing. Jackson caught his first fish and Isaac caught one that got away with his bobbin and line.

The home was beautiful. It had a pool, stocked pond, hot tub, and pool table. etc...

Hunting on the Farm

Hunting season ran a little later into the year so Jeremy was able to head down to the Farm with his lifelong best friend Matt and do alittle hunting.

Memphis, TN

We visited BB King's and Graceland. Graceland hadn't opened yet:( maybe next time:)

HELP JT OUT!!!!

I don't think, well - I'm sure, that none of you know my good friend JT Henderson. Although JT and I haven't spoken in probably 10 years or so, he is truly a great guy. We worked together at UPS back in the day and I always loved to work with him and play ball after work. Those Waffle House trips at 4 am were pretty awesome as well. I think he still owes me $8 from one of those. Maybe I owe him.

Anyways, please visit www.5millionminus1.blogspot.com . Him and his wife are selling hand painted Christmas ornaments to raise money to bring home a child they have adopted in Ethiopia. HOOK THEM UP!!! I haven't met his wife, but I know the kind of person that JT is, and their child will be blessed to be in their home. The ornaments are $5 - so order as many as you can.

Plus, I don't know someone else that enjoys Tommy Boy as much as I do than JT.

more sleeping arrangments

I'm so excited for thanksgiving and Christmas. I can't believe it's just around the corner. I'm itching to put up my new Christmas Tree:) and all the other fun things I bought on clearance after Christmas last year!!!

All the kids want to sleep in the same room. No one wants to be a lone. I think tonight we're going to put the bunk beds in Isaac's room. There will be three bed in there then and they all can sleep together and still have their own beds. We'll see how that goes. It means we'll have an extra room. Maybe we'll make it into a guestroom, or craft (sewing) room, or weight room, etc...... the possibilities are endless.

New Floors!

Tuesday our living room floors got replaced. Amazing how our toilet flooding has turned out great:) Now hopefully we can take good care of these floors. Our bedroom and closet are still yucky cement floors. They'll be replaced in a few weeks. The carpet we pick is on back order.

HaLlOwEeN

I love, love, love Halloween! It's my favorite holiday. I had so much fun making Jackson's costume this year. If you haven't heard Jackson is obsessed with hot air balloons. So when I asked him what he wanted to be for Halloween, he said a hot air balloon. I was thinking "A WHAT?"

Anyways it turned out O.K. it was a little wobbly all night but he loved it. He didn't want to take it off and asked if he could wear it inside. He made out like a bandit. When people saw him they loaded him up with candy.

Makayla was a southern bell zombie, and Isaac was a ninja.

Makayla thinks her candy is going to last all year, but she forgot about the mommy factor. Oops. Maybe this year I'll control myself a little better.

career day

Today at school was career day. As you can see, they dressed up like dad:) Awhile back I made them Preventive Pest Control work shirts. They haven't really worn them, so it was fun that they wanted to be like dad. Makayla wore a pair of Isaac's pants:) They even have flash lights on their belts like dad. Dad even drove them to school. How fun it that?!

preschool halloween party

Jackson's preschool group had a Halloween party for the Letter "H" this week. They were able to dress up. I'm not completely done with his Halloween costume and I didn't want it to get ruined, so he went through our Halloween box and wanted to be a doggy. He was so cute. He was acting like a dog all morning. If you all remember, he went for around for about a year or so crawling like a dog and acting like a dog (doctor's, grocery store, church, etc.)

Uncle J

Uncle Jason come to visit last week. It was really nice to have him visit. The kids loved it (even if Isaac couldn't remember his name) He kept calling Jason "Uncle James" Sorry Jason. I think he got it down before you left.

Jeremy and Jason went Bungee Jumping last Wed. Jason was trying to be all cool about it. Like he wasn't scared at all (what I heard is that they had to push him off and then he wet himself)

We took him to IHOP for the first time; it was momentous.

He was here for about 10 minutes before the toilet started over flowing so I'm sure the visit was memorable.

THANKS FOR COMING TO VISIT!

Let the Flood Gates Open!!!!!!!!

Yuck! Our Master bath toilet overflowed into our bathroom, closet, bedroom, hallway, laundry room, and garage. I can't believe how much damage one stopped up toilet can make. Yuck!

We had to borrow a neighbors wet vac and buy a new one to replace it after it stopped working. Jeremy took all the carpet out of our closet, and half our bed room, and I ruined all my towels:( Some of the hardwood, drywall, and carpet are going to need replacing. For now (three days) we have about 8 or 9 industrial fans going all day to dry up all the moisture. It's so loud and they're so big and in the way. Life is going to be crazy for a few weeks:(

sleeping arrangments

Since Tre's left, we haven't used his room. We still call it Tre's room. So, Jackson sleeps with Makayla (to be her protector from all things scary) and Isaac sleeps in Jackson's room. He's a little bummed that everyone else has someone to sleep with. However, no one wants to sleep with him because his energy level doesn't go down until around 10 or 10:30 :(

This is Jackson's best friend Bella. Jackson has begun to discover bugs and worms. On this particular day he discovered worms and Bella showed him how to cut them in half:) Yaaahhh, for boys who have girl friends to show them all kinds of gross things.

Isaac and Makayla on Picture day

Isaac dressed himself for picture day. He was so proud of himself. I didn't have the heart to tell him that church dress shoes shouldn't be worn with white athletic socks and shorts. Poor kid, he had no idea.
Doesn't Makayla look beautiful:)

SUPERMAN Jump'n in the Backyard!

We got out our Halloween stuff the other day. Jackson had a good time trying on costumes. He wants to be a hot air balloon. I'm not sure how that will turn out. But I think it's funny. It would be so much easier if my kids would just use the things I already have. My first mistake is asking them what they want to be. Makayla is going to be a southern belle zombie, and Isaac will be a ninja. I love Halloween!!!!