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Here you go Ju! Can't wait to see you guys! Wahoooooooooooooo!!

7 TV Shows I Love To Watch:

1. The Office
2. Chuck
3. Heroes
4. House
5. Amazing Race (sad it is over)
6. Survivor
7. So You Think You Can Dance (when it is on) and Friday Night Lights (soon!) Sorry that makes it eight, OH and I am loving any Christmas show right now! Alright, I am finished.


7 Things That Happened Yesterday:

1. Went to the Library for Story time
2. Went to Costco to buy more luggage and for the samples
3. Went to the dentist to get my teeth cleaned (I love clean teeth)
4. Did laundry
5. Made dinner
6. Put Kenslee to bed early
7. Cleaned up poop and pee, I won't give details or which child exactly, maybe it was both!? This was actually the day before yesterday, but I was just really lucky yesterday.

7 Favorite Places To Eat:

1. Indian Palace
2. Thai Restaurant in Boston, I miss it!
3. Pei Wei
4. Cafe Rio - when we are in Utah
5. Macaroni Grill
6. Spaghetti Factory - Utah again
7. Culver's - yummy burgers and concretes

7 Things I'm Looking Forward To:

1. Christmas
2. Trip to Utah
3. Two weeks with Billy and no work (well for most of it, hopefully)
4. Seeing Kenslee's face while opening presents
5. Cades blessing
6. Having everyone meet our new addition to our family
7. Our adventure to Sweden

7 Things On My Wish List:

1. No more debt (it is a good wish)
2. Sleeping through the night, we are so, so close!
3. A pair of new jeans, I am getting closer to being able to make that purchase
4. Kenslee being potty trained
5. Living closer to family
6. Becoming an awesome cook, and loving it, I think this will always be a wish of mine!
7. All I want for Christmas are my two front teeth (or something close to that), it seems like I have sung this song before!!

7 People I Tag:

Who ever wants to do it!
Have a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Jolly Old St. Nick

It is Christmas time...Yahoo!
It has been a great holiday season so far, we have done fun activities and I have a list of more to come.
We learned one thing this year about the kids and Santa Clause. The first time is a charm, only have your kids sit on Santa's knee once a year. We got to see Santa Clause twice this year. The first time, Kenslee and Cade loved him. Kenslee was smiling and told him what she wanted for Christmas (toy make-up, what a girl), and we got a very cute picture of the two kids.
A couple of days later we went to another party and Santa was there (with a professional photographer). I put Kenslee on his knee and she was ok for a second, then she started to cry. We gave up and just had Cade sit on his lap and he wasn't happy either. I was hoping for a cute picture of the two kids and Santa, but what can ya do!

Santa #1 and our happy kids
Sitting in Santa's chair
Listening to Santa Party Time! Santa #2
Sad GirlCade screamingSmiles now that Santa isn't any where to be seen
Decorating our Christmas Tree
Kens is proud of our tree, she says "we did a good job, it looks beautiful"
Daddy and the kids watching a little football together. He is also setting a good example by eating cheesy chips and letting Kens have crumby crackers on the coach, no harm done, just need a handy vaccuum. (We are in the process of potty trianing, that's why Kens is half naked...I am looking to hire someone...Potty trainer WANTED!!)
Cade is lovin' football
The two boys

Valkommen till Sverige!

For the few of you that don't know Swedish, that means "Welcome to Sweden!" Our little family is on its way to Stockholm, Sweden for 6 months starting mid-February! Billy is doing a transfer to the Stockholm office for his job, so they're moving us out there for 6 months. It's really a great opportunity and benefit that his job provides, and we're very excited. While we don't know Swedish, we hear that most people there speak English as well, so we should be in good shape. Apparently we also need to get used to eating reindeer!

February is likely to be a bit colder in Sweden than it is here in Dallas, but hopefully our trip home to Utah for a couple of weeks this month will help acclimate us a bit. If you're going to be around in Utah anytime between Dec 19th and Jan 6th, let us know so we can get together!

McGuire Look-alike Meter

MyHeritage: Family tree - Genealogy - Celebrity - Collage - Morph

I have seen these on a few of my friends blogs so I thought I would give it a whirl. I don't know maybe my kids do look equally like Billy and I(I think they are a pretty good mix), but I swear on any of the ones that I have seen it always says it is equal or just a couple of percents one way or the other. I am starting to wonder if it just doensn't want to make you feel bad that your child doesn't look like you. It was fun to do anyways!

McGuire Look-alike Meter

MyHeritage: Family trees - Genealogy - Celebrities - Collage - Morph

Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We were lucky enough to have my mom here again for Thanksgiving. My dad surprised her for her birthday with a ticket to come down to visit us. It was so much fun having her here. It was such a fun day having my mom help me with Thanksgiving dinner and then having her and some friends to share it with. I am so thankful for such amazing parents and for my own little family.
Our Oreo Turkeys Nana and the kidsThanks again mom for all of your help in the kitchen! Popsie, you were missed very much!

"Go Team Edward"

Ra ra ra...Go Edward!!

Some of my girlfriends and I are very dedicated Edward fans and we sacrificed a good nights sleep for him! No, we didn't go as far as a lot of girls, like wearing the Edward shirts and getting there at 6, but we did go to the first showing at 12:00 am. It was SO much fun! If you haven't seen it yet, all you Twilight fans, it was great and you will definitely be an Edward fan after.

Little Ones

These two little ones make my day (and my hubby of course)!

Kenslee is such a sweet girl and loves her baby brother very much. We have had a few intense tantrums since baby brother has arrived but she seems to be getting better. I guess the last one was only last week! She loves looking at him (an inch from his face), and she gets so happy when he smiles at her. She is very good at entertaining him and telling him stories. She does not like to hear him cry. If he is crying she will cover her ears and run over and pop his binkie in, she will usually get to him before I can. It has been nice because now we have a prince for both of us, the princesses, we switch from daddy being her prince and baby brother is mine or the other way around. She has a very fun imagination, I love it.

Doing her make-up while mommy was getting ready. She looks gorgeous!
Silly faces
She loves her new monkey slippers and hat
Baby Cade is such a good baby. He is an amazing sleeper (can I hear it for 9 pm to 5 am!) and LOVES to eat! He is very smiley and has his daddy's cute dimple. He is our "Mini Billy"...LUCKY BOY! It is so fun to see him smile at us, and especially when he smiles at Kenslee, to see her excitement when he does. I love to see his little personality start to shine.
Trying to eat his lion
His famous crooked smile
Funny faces...we call this one "bird lips"
We can't wait to come home for the holidays! Baby Cade is excited to meet all of his family and friends!!

Halloween

We went to the Pumpkin Patch again with Billy, it is such a fun place.

Kens was entertaining her baby brother while I was making dinner. She kept bringing him toys and would show them to him and then put them by him. He was surrounded by some fun toys! She is a great big sister.



We had so much fun this Halloween! We had a Halloween dinner for family night. We made yummy pumpkin pizza's and for dessert...spooky Black Cat Cupcakes. It was a lot of fun to make this together.



Kenslee made 3 cupcakes and she would have kept going if we would have let her, she loved making the black cats. I thought that 3 was enough for her to eat.


Kenslee helped me design her pumpkin face and carve it and then she was on her own with painting, she made her pumpkin beautiful! It actually looks pretty creepy, but her intention was to make it very pretty and she did great!

Billy didn't want to paint his pumpkin, but Kens didn't let that happen. She helped him out and made it look so much better.

This is our sweet "Princess Witch". You couldn't just call her a witch because normal witches are too scary, so she was a "princess witch".
Billy loves that I always make him wear some costume for Halloween. When I told him I made him a shirt, his reply was "Can't you just let me be". No way... what fun is that!

BOO...my handsome ghosts!









I love this one, I think they have had enough with the pictures!
Cute little "Cade the Ghost"...I love squeezing this little guy.
For Halloween we got together with some of our friends and had a blast! We took the kids Trick-or-Treating together, then we had some Chili and cornbread for dinner. It was great watching the kids together and trying to keep up with them as they ran from house to house.
Kenslee had a pretty tramatic fall at one of the houses. She was the first one running up to the house and there was a skeleton that started dancing when she ran buy. It scared her and some how she face planted and lost both of her shoes, her hat and her pumpkin bucket, candy was everywhere. Being the mean mom I am, I was trying not to laugh because there were people around that were really concerned for my daughter. She was fine and just a little startled from the dancing skeleton. Once we got her shoes back on and picked up all of her candy she was off to the next house. It was very funny and I am still not sure how everything went flying!