Christmas 2008

We had a great Christmas this year!

Ok so let's start with comparsion pics just because I LOVE to do this...although this year I did not get really good pictures. So anyways....

2007


2008




Matchin PJ's....Avree wouldn't post for our picture! LOL!!




Here's the best I could get of Avree:




Here is what Santa brought:

My Cooking Blog

I finally started a cooking blog!! YAY!!! Go check it out!

www.whatscooking8.blogspot.com

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!

I just wanted to peak in here and say MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! I hope everyone has an awesome day with thier family today!!! I will be back shortly with TONS of pics!!!

Angelina Laurejandra Ramirez

A Mom in my local Moms Group lost her child last week. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers.
Angelina was 16 months old. Her life ended when a TV fell on top of her. They were able to save her organs and donate them. A 10 month old baby received her heart and a 7 year old boy received her liver. And another recipient received both of her kidneys. A miracle has been able to happen out of this tragedy.
Angelina is survived by her parents, Jessie and Miguel and two siblings, Yesenia (5) and Elena (4). I can not even begin to imagine what they are going through right now.
Please say a little extra prayer for Elena, the 4 year old sibling. The accident happened on her 4th birthday. Angelina was rushed to the hospital and survived till the 10th. It was on that day that they feel they lost her, but the hospital kept her "alive" till the 12th so they could use her organs.
Donations to cover the cost of the funeral can be made today only by calling (tomorrow is the funeral)
12649 Lake June RoadMesquite, TX 75180(972)288-4663info@laureloaksfuneralhome.com
Angelina Laurejandra RamirezSeptember 19, 2007 - December 12, 2008

Christmas Edition of "Get to know your fellow bloggers"

Ok well I wasn't tagged but I wanted to play.... *giggle*

It is the Christmas Edition of "Get to know your fellow Bloggers". How this works...I will answer the questions and then I will "Tag" a couple of my fellow bloggers for them to answer these questions on their blog. And then they will tag someone else, and so on and so on. So here we go.
1) Wrapping paper or gift bags? Both
2) Real or Artificial tree? Artificial
3) When do you put your tree up? Weekend after Thanksgiving
4) When do you take your tree down? Usually after New Years!
5) Do you like eggnog? Nope
(6)Favorite gift received as a child? The first thing that comes to mind is my bike I got one year!7) Hardest person to buy for? My dad's and my FIL!
8) Easiest person to buy for? The girls
9) Do you have a nativity scene? Yes
10) Mail or e-mail Christmas Cards? Mail
11) Worst Christmas gift you ever received? LOL!!!
12) Favorite Christmas Movie? It's a Wonderful Life
13) When do you start shopping for Christmas? The day after Christmas
14) Do you hang mistletoe? No
15) Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? This is a really hard question cause I like it all!!! LOL!
16) Lights on tree? YEP!!
17) Favorite Christmas Song? O Holy Night
18) Travel at Christmas or stay home? We used to travel EVERY SINGLE YEAR.... now we stay home!
19) Can you name all of Santa's reindeer? Nope!
20) Angel or Star on top of tree? Star
21) Open the presents Christmas Eve or Morning? Usually ONE present gets opened on Christmas Eve and the rest on Christmas Day!
22) Most annoying thing about this time of year? Rude people
23) Favorite ornament theme or color? I love all the home made ornaments my girls make!
24) Favorite for Christmas Dinnner? HAM
26) What do you want for Christmas this year? I actually just got my present that I've been wanting tonight...DH just couldn't wait to give it to me and I was really surprised that he got me a Wii Fit!!!! YAY!!!!
26) Who do you Tag to answer these on their blog? Cortni and Melanie

Avree is 2!

I can't believe I forgot to post about my baby turning 2!!!!!

Two years ago on December 6 about 2am I went into labor with my precious Avree Joy. I gave birth via bath tub at 11:15am.
Since I never did a slide show last year of her first year...here is one from her last two years.....

click the picture...


My Montage 12/8/08

Trip to the ER...

So I was cleaning the house up on Wednesday and I walked into my room and stepped on a loose part of my wicker laundry basket and it lodged INTO my foot...and oh boy did it hurt like crazy!!!!

So I tried to get it out and it wasn't budging...so I called David freaking out!!! He came home and by the time he got home it broke off...and after that, there was NO getting it out! So off to the ER we went!

I went to Rockwall Presby and I had the best experience!!! They were so nice and accomadating to us!!

The doc had to cut my foot a little bit to get to all of it so it's pretty sore today...and I took it easy last night but today I was back at getting all my laundry and house cleaned! LOL!!!

Here is a pic...please beware this pic may be a little graphic....

Thanksgiving, Family, Food, and EARLY SHOPPING

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with our families this year....I AM STUFFED!!!! We went to my mom's house at NOON for a yummy Thanksgiving Lunch with our family! We stayed there and hung out and visited until about 4:30 and headed to David's Aunt and Uncle's house for Thanksgiving with his family! So yeah we ate....AGAIN!!!!! But it was soooo YUMMY!!!!






















On Friday morning my mom and my sister talked me into going shopping for some good deals on "Black Friday" I got some really awesome deals and I AM D O N E shopping for Christmas....boy let me tell you how NICE that is!! I usually don't get done until a couple of days before! YIKES!! It feels good to be done. We headed to Walmart at 4:00am this morning and waited. We talked to and met some really nice people. I really wanted to post about my positive experience because I've been hearing about all the horror stories which is why I've NEVER gone until today! We did run into a few rude people but that is too be expected...it was really no big deal. While waiting for 5am to roll around I talked with people I've never met before! It was really fun. After Walmart we went and got breakfast at Chic Fil A!! Then off to Target. Then JC PENNEY and BEST BUY, HOBBY LOBBY, and HOME!! Boy was I glad to get home, I WAS TIRED!!!!

I hope that everyone had a FANTASTIC THANKSGIVING and enjoyed visiting with family and friends!

100 Days

As some of you know my Aunt has been in the hospital for quite some time now. My mom wrote this on her blog and Ihave to say she writes very well so I just copied and pasted. Please be in prayer for my aunt and uncle and family. I am sure this whole ordeal is going to be even harder as the holidays are approaching.

By Brenda: my mom

It's well after midnight and into the 100th day of Vicki being in the hospital and fighting this horrible disease that has taken this young, beautiful and vibrate woman into what I call the Twilight Zone. Although it is real and true, and Vicki and Charlie have lived it everyday since the first day of 100 days ago. Since day 1, so many things have happened to the lives of my sweet and wonderful brother in law Charlie as I call him and his sweet loving wife Vicki. She began complaining of a simple back ache. No big deal, we've all had them. A strained muscle or a pinch nerve. Just living life and getting aches and pains. Well the back ache was much more than just your everyday run of the mill back ache. After weeks and weeks of getting miss diagnosed, the final diagnosis was Neuropothy Vasculitis. A debilitating and the most painful disease you can ever ever imagine. How she has endure all of this, is beyond my belief.

The disease is the inflamation of the blood. It effects every portion of your body and all the nerves. Just the touch of a human finger or a prick of a small tiny needle is so painful that it sends her whole body reeling of pain. From the tip of her head to the tip of her toes. Vicki has lost all function of her body, she is litterly paralyzed, she can't move her body. She has been through every test imaginable 3 or 4 times, stuck, prodded, evaluated and then to just do it all over again. It took what seemed like a life time to just have them finally diagnose her and begin her treatment. I can't even begin to tell you how many doctors she has had or the specialities of each of them.

But Charlie can tell you from day one what doctor she had seen and what her diagnosis was and the prescribed medicine that was given to them for her to take. How many wrong diagnosis that they had to go through before finally finding the true and right one. He has never given up not one time. Sure he has been frustrated, discouraged, aggrivated and helpless. But he never ever left her side for one moment. He has had to endure many opticles himself to fight for Vicki and keep everything straight. He doesn't have a pen and paper to write this all down, he has lived every moment of everyday right along her side. And all of this has been stored inside his brain and locked up like Fort Knox.

The future doesn't look bright, which was finally conveyed to Charlie this week. But we still believe in miracles and know that God is incharge and it his will that will begin another chapter for Vicki and Charlie. Or end the chapter for Vicki and begin another chapter for Charlie. Although we would rather think of the positive, and pray for a miracle, he must face his hard decisions ahead to get all the affairs in order.

Charlie has endured many mountains, peaks and valleys through this whole ordeal. He never waivered in his fight for Vicki to get better not one bit, and he still fights today and everyday until it will be the last. He is a true Prince among men riding on that white horse that anyone would want to be saved by. For he is a dedicated and honorable man who dearly loves his beloved wife and has done everything in his power and will continue to do so, for Vicki.

Charlie you will always be my HERO! Just know I love you very much.

The past two weeks.....

have been crazy! About 2 weeks ago Kalee got really sick with a what I thought was a cold....I finally took her to the doctor and it had developed into a sinus infection...I also took Gracee at the same time cause she was sick with fevers of 103for two days! Gracee had a virus. She finally got better and Avree got sick! FINALLY get Avree better and *I* get sick!!!! All of this while I was painting and reorganizing the girls rooms...it was crazy! But I think we are all better, I am on the mend..I was pretty miserable! Hopefully daddy escapes it, we will see though!!

I hate the sick season but it's here and in full swing! I hope everyone gets through this season without getting too sick!!!!

Halloween 2008

My girls had a blast!!

Lily from Hannah Montana
Gracee the Little Mermaid
and a Little Lady Bug

NKOTB

Yes, that stands for New Kids On The Block and YES I went to thier Reunion Concert!!!
It was the most fun I've had in awhile and it was DEF the BEST show I've EVER SEEN!! I was so super excited!! My sis Jen, her friend and I all went and we had a blast. I had SEVERAL friends go as well and I got to talk to them via TEXT MESSAGE....it was FUN!!!

So here are some pictures from the New Kids Concert I went to back in (gasp!) 1990!!



And a slide show of the 2008 Reunion Show!!!

4 Answers

My friend Jamie posted this on her blog and I thought it would be super fun to do too!!

A) Four places that I go to over and over:
B) Four people who e-mail me (regularly):
C) My favorite places to eat:
D) Four places I'd like to be right now:
E) Four people I think will respond:
F) Four TV shows I watch all the time:


Here are my answers!!



A ) Four places that I go to over and over: Kroger, Walmart, Soccer Fields, Church



B) Four people who e-mail me (regularly): Kristi, Mom, Natalie, Heather


C) My favorite places to eat: Olive Garden, On The Border, Chic Fil A, Red Lobster



D) Four places I'd like to be right now: in bed SLEEPING! in Hawaii with my hubby, in Colorado skiing, in GA visitng all my old friends!


E) Four people I think will respond: hmm....Helen, Cortni, Heather, Dawn

F) Four TV shows I watch all the time: Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice, Ghost Whisperer, Army Wives


Now repost it on your blog!! :)

Family Pictures!

So we got our family pictures done and they turned out really good!! Take a look here:


http://heatherfamilyphotos.com/sessions/100403/

Gracee's Dinner Prayer

So the other night it was Gracee's turn to say the prayer at dinner and all of her prayers are so awesome and cute but I just had to share this one...

Dear God,

I love you and thank you for all the animals and my mom and dad, sisters (insert like 20 other things here) and all the grass and trampolines. I love you Jesus. Amen.

Here is another one from a few days ago too:

Dear God,

Thank you for everything. And THANK YOU SO MUCH for making my dinner...I KNOW it's going to be so good. I love you Jesus. Amen.

Homeschool and Field Trips

We've have been super busy with our work and field trips the past two weeks.

Kalee is doing very well homeschooling and she loves it. We've been working on fractions a little bit but mostly addition and subtraction facts. We are working on Addition and Subtraction Lapbooks to help her out.

I finally found something Gracee enjoys. She has been a bit of a challenge. She is so eager to learn and wants to do everything big sister does so she gets to do some of it with us. But we started on an Alpha bugs lapbook. I will have to take pictures to post on here. They both LOVE doing lapbooks. So far we have done "A" for Ants and we learned all about the different kinds of ants. We did the Butterfly for the letter "B" and loved looking at our butterfly books and all the beautiful butterflys out there. She is really enjoying it! This week we are going to start on Cricket for the letter "C" She is excited about that. We are also starting on a Halloween Lapbook for both girls! So we are busy busy busy!!

In September we went to the Arboertum to the Mommy and Me day! The girls got to pet some animals, see a pumpkin patch, do a craft and sing and play. We missed out on getting our faces painted because of not so great adverstising. But we made it up to them with ice cream and they seemed happy about that! :)

Last week we went to the Ft. Worth Zoo for "Homeschool Day" and we got to see some baby lions and tigers...they were so cute!!!! Here are lots of pictures from both trips!

Arboretum:

























Ft. Worth Zoo: