St. Nick, Candy, Graduation and More

On December 10th we attended the annual Breakfast with St. Nick at my parents' church. I love these pjs I got from Kohl's. Since they looked silly with tennis shoes I had them wear their rainboots. 

After breakfast my mom, Melisa and I did our annual candy making day from 9am-7pm.

These sweet boy joined us for part of the day and we didn't mind the distraction.

Good thing he is cuter than his photobombing momma! Ha!

Sunday I went to mass early by myself and then went to Walmart to pick up our order. This was our first time to use this service and they gave me a goodie bag. This was super convenient and we will definitely be doing it again. The only downside is savings catcher and ibotta don't work for online orders.

When I got home Cooper worked on homework and then both boys made cards for Uncle T. Too bad Casen used his card to practice his scissors skills.

And before we left Casen and I had a little snack of spicy popcorn. I am ADDICTED to this stuff. I warned Casen that it was spicy and he said 'it's not too bad.' I laughed hard because this is what we tell him about food.

We enjoyed watching Uncle T walk across the stage. And the boys were good except for Cooper having the squeakiest chair in the auditorium.

Us and our circus

We are so proud of Tyler! And didn't Kyle clean up nice!

These boys love their uncle

When I got home I worked on goodies for my team. I shared this picture on Instagram and my cousin's husband said #mealprep which made me laugh because this is what it looks like.

And these personalized coasters for my team and the boys' teachers. I came up with the idea and Jen executed. She is awesome!

These are the ones for my team tied up with bows.

And these goodies for my team lunch

It was late and I was ready for bed but saw this Christmas dog.

I look at this picture each time he wakes me up at 3am or I have to clean up after him.

Randoms from the beginning of December

I like seeing Casen playing with our Fisher Price nativity. Watching his imagination at work is very cute. 

St. Nicholas came to visit last week and the boys checked out their goodies before school. Somehow I didn't get a picture of Cooper but they both enjoyed the treats.

Casen got this metal lunchbox style thing and he said 'that anta clau and deer hunt.' He keeps calling deer 'deer hunt' and it is too cute.

I recently ordered jeans from Gap because my skinny jeans are from there and they ripped a month or so ago. I have had those jeans for at least 3 years and I bought them at a second hand store so not sure how old they really were. I ended up keeping these that I ordered Black Friday and got for $40. I tried them on with heels for work and boots to make sure I wanted to keep them.

I took this picture one morning thinking I would start doing What I Wore Wednesday posts, but that never happened. Still waiting to have Jen redo my frameless mirror so for now using the old one.

Casen got this Paw Patrol shirt from Babi and Grandaddy and he LOVES it. He loves anything with dogs.

We had our department Christmas party at work and it included a gingerbread house decorating contest. I thought ours was pretty cute but it didn't win.

And they had a yummy hot chocolate station with peppermint whipped cream. I didn't know they had that but it was the perfect twist.

And they had this drink station for the tea and I thought the labels for sweet and unsweet were cute

And then delicious Babe's was catered for lunch

Friday morning I turned on the light to Cooper's room to find this. Casen has gotten back into the habit of moving to Cooper's room sometime in the night.

And Friday I was off work. One of the things on my list was to add Christmas lights to our bushes to make it more fun. Kyle and his parents put the white lights on the house but the boys wanted more. I honestly think they would be happy with just the blowup stuff in the yard. The lights look a little goofy because I put them on during the day and they are hand me downs. They don't all match and there were entire sections that were out.  But I am hoping to find some new yard décor after Christmas on sale.

And then I saw these cute pictures of Casen at his speech school. They have two lizards named Sam and Pat as their class pets and Casen loves them. So much he wore one! Eek!!

Pictures with Santa

The builder we used to build our house hosted pictures with Santa at one of the local neighborhoods. We decided to do this because it was close, quick, and the Santa looked good.  I think they turned out great! Except the logo which is what you get for free and convenient.

Cooper's Last Soccer Game

Get ready for picture overload because I had my good camera and wanted to share all of these memories

Cooper had a great last game of the season. Unfortunately it had a rocky start because his soccer socks got left at home. I raced back home and got them but he had to sit out the first quarter because he didn't have them.

But here he was telling the coach he was ready to go in for the second quarter.

He was pumped for his last game

Always ready to guard that goal

I love the action shots

Some of he teammates cheering him on.

Love that intense face!

Game over and we won! Liam and Cooper congratulating each other.

Some of Cooper's cheerleaders making a tunnel

Our soccer stars

Lol not the pic I was hoping for but it is what it is

We didn't have team pictures so we took time after the game to capture some.

Back row is Jackson, Jeremiah, AJ, and Liam

Front row is Landon, Coby, Cooper, and Jayden

These boys had such a great season together and they all improved so much

And had to take some silly ones

So proud of our soccer star. We are already counting down until spring.

LOVE this pic!

Afterwards we had pizza, ice cream, and trophies

Excited to get his trophy

It's official- I am the crazy soccer mom and I love it! #blessedwithboys