Christmas Part II

Christmas Eve we laid low...watching TV, playing games and eating!

Our menu for the night was "Appetizers" and they were delicious...

Cheese Ball

Chicken Buffalo Dip

Sausage Balls

Barbecue Smokies

Turkey Bacon Pinwheels

Chips/Crackers

Peanut Butter Cookies

The boys even got to watch part of Home Alone while we ate.

After dinner, Jaxen read the Christmas Story to us!

I then made them put on jammies and take a few pictures in front of the tree.

We decided to let them open one gift on Christmas Eve...

Jaxen received a blue tooth speaker (which he was so excited about, as you can tell in the pics)!

Zane opened up a shark puppet - which he loved!

Funny story...

The night before I finished wrapping a few last minute presents.

Scotty saw this shark before I wrapped it and he started playing with it.

He was so funny... I took a few pics...

Well, the next day, Zane was looking at pictures on my phone...

and he saw this shark puppet with his Pepaw Scotty and started asking about it!
He wanted to know if he could play with the shark puppet
and kept asking Scotty where it was. 

We took his mind off of it, but you can imagine how excited he was when he

unwrapped Pepaw Scotty's shark puppet!

We ended the night staying up too late, playing "Marbles" (a family favorite)!

After everyone was in bed and the gifts/stockings were ready for the next morning,

I enjoyed a little quiet time with the twinkle lights :)

New Years / Christmas Part I

Well, the New Year has come and gone...

it was pretty eventful over here - but not in the way we liked.

Zaney-boo was pretty sick and we had a few days in the hospital....but all is well now!

He was a trooper through blood work, x-ray, MRI and 2 nights in the ICU.

 

He had cellulitis and is currently on antibiotics - but we have seen so much improvement!

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It will take some time, but I want to recap our Christmas...starting with before Christmas :)

This past year we lost my Mamaw...

and when my mom came for Christmas, she brought me a few things from my Mamaw!

This ornament.

I love it.

I remember it (and others that were similar) on her tree every year.

And now it's mine - and every year I pull it out, I will think of my mamaw,

who loved colored, blinking lights on a tree full of ornaments!

(I received a few other ornaments...but this is my favorite)

I also received one of my mamaw's rings!

I love this green ring. I can remember my mamaw's long fingers,

with painted fake nails, and lots of rings (including this one) on her fingers.

This ring fits me well, but I need to have it re-shaped.

The band is completely bent - She wore her rings out!

I am so thankful for this little treasure.

The boys have had so much time off for their Holiday Break,

which has allowed for us to do some fun things!

Friends.

They have enjoyed playing with their friends.

Jaxen make a blanket fort and him and his friend hung out in it, watching a show on his tab.

I had extra icing leftover from making sugar cookies so I thought it would be fun

for Jaxen and his friends to make Gingerbread houses.

Well, his friend was not up for that - so I let Jaxen decorate the one I made.

Zane decorated one square and then was done.

I ate that square (and a few more) - ha!

On Christmas Eve, I finally took them to Bass Pro - hoping to get a Santa picture.

The lines were ridiculosly long...so we did not get a picture with Santa.

Neither boy was upset at all - they just had a great time playing in the Winter Wonderland!

Stay tuned for more of our Christmas!

School Parties

The last week of school before Christmas break

the boys had class parties.

It worked out where I could take a little time off work to attend!

Zane’s class party…

craft time - making a christmas tree

game - to get a little gift from the teacher

snack - they had cute little treats

Zane did not touch the sweet stuff - we ended up giving that gingerbread cookie to Santa

Zane had a great time! I am so glad I was able to celebrate with him!

Jaxen’s 2nd grade party…

card making

game - giant jenga

snacks - Jaxen ate all the sugar

I only got to stay for a little bit of Jaxen’s party - but I think he was happy I was there!

I had him dressed really cute…with a sweater over that polo and his hair fixed,

but it was a warm day and he ditched the sweater and got sweaty - lol!