Sunday, December 19, 2010

Christmas Sunday 12-19-10

Birthday Night Out with Friends

Birthday Night out with Friends

We went out to dinner to celebrate birthday's in December. Mine is 12/22 and my sweet friend Kerry's is 12/21. We ate at McGill's and it was yummy. We had the best time talking and catching up. December birthday parties are very hard to work in, so I was grateful to get sometime to celebrate. Our great hubby's escorted us to dinner

Me with my handsome guy.


Good friends/neighbors: Kerry & JohnBirthday girls

Birthday Party for Jesus




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Birthday Party for Jesus
12-17-10

ARK Community at Asbury

Every year one of our favorite Christmas Traditions is to attend a birthday party for Jesus. I really try to emphasize w/ my kids that it is Jesus's birthday and that is why we celebrate. Our Sunday School class starting have a birthday party to honor Jesus's birthday (cake and all) a few years ago and we LOVE going. This year the party was in the gym at Asbury and we had inflatables, pizza, and cake. The Christmas story was read for the kids to hear. Our kids had a ball playing with friends!
Laken enjoys CAKE

Friends: Katie, Kristen, Christina, and Aimee


Andrew, Landon, Ryan


Ella, Lauren, Abby


Erin & Lauren



Ella and Lauren dance as Abby plays piano



Serious Twirling

Friday, December 17, 2010

Christmas Season 2010

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Christmas P.J's

Christmas PJ's I just love to get the kiddos matching (or coordinating pj's) for Christmas and they love to wear them. I have tried to hold them off wearing them until Christmas Eve but they get so much joy out of their new pj's that I just let them bust them out in late November. And really, it is funnier to wear them before Christmas. This year I wanted to get a shot of the kids by the tree and Laken actually held still (for about 8 seconds) and said "cheeeeeeze".

Love my babies







Big BRO & lil bro

GOG Christmas Party 12-16-10

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LAUREN TURNS SIX!!! (12-15-10)

Lauren turns SIX!!

We celebrated Lauren's birthday with friends (12/11/10), with her cousin Aidan (whose bday is 12/21) an family (12/12/10) and with just her family (12/15/10) so I would say this December Birthday was NOT overlooked!

Guest included: PaPa and Grandma Gomez, Grammy & PaPaw Bookout, MeMaw & Pa Lynn, Uncle Adam and Aunt Michelle, cousins Aidan and Gavin, Uncle Matt, Mommy, Daddy, Landon, and Laken

Present Highlights:New PINK coat from grammy and papaw
Matching outfit for Lauren and her American Girl doll (She wore to school the next day and received "tons" of compliements)

The easy bake oven she begged Aunt Michelle for (since Mommy did not want to mess with it or store it at our house). Aunt Chell gave in!
This is what the new ones look like (mine was yellow back in the olden days)


The beautiful things you can make...........
Lauren talked grandma gomez into busting out the easy back before her party was even over. I walked into the kitchen to find a big mess...........



Cousin Aidan

I made him this cool cape with an "A" over a lightning bolt and he immediately put it on and went into SUPER HERO mode with hands on hips and then flying through the living room. I think he loved it!