For the love of Chocolate!

No other reason...just to have fun!  Chocolate fountain beginning to brew...

Looking for the perfect Christmas Card picture!!

I keep thinking that one day it will be easy to get the perfect picture of all my kids together!  Until then, I will just be happy that they are all IN the picture!!

Braces come OFF!

Hard to believe that a year and 1/2 has gone by so fast.

June 2011

December 1st, 2011


One kid down...4 more to go!

Ushering in the Christmas Season!

This year I went all out to start the Christmas season!  We had pulled out the dining room Christmas tree and decorated it and the dining room yesterday.  So it was time to have fun!  The kids saw me set up this for the next morning breakfast...

 I added little gifts after they went to bed...

 Then overnight, a little visitor came by and helped himself...

 This was the best breakfast ever, Mom!  Sugar, sugar, sugar!!!

Thanksgiving Week

This year for Thanksgiving, we were very blessed to get to go to Pigeon Forge, TN for a family vacation.  I friend of mine has a house in Pigeon Forge that we were able to rent for the week.  It is an awesome house at a reasonable price--especially for a big family!!!  If you are headed that way, let me put you in touch with her!!!!  

We enjoyed a few mountain hikes...

Spotted some wildlife...

 JM took the older 3 kids ziplining and on a ropes course...

 We did some downtown sightseeing...

 Any of course we visited the Mountain Taffy shop...

 Then we had fun on the big slide ride at Ober Gatlinburg...

 Happy Thanksgiving from the Mountains!

 A little MagiQuest on Thanksgiving morning....

 Tyler got 2nd place for the morning!

 It was a very relaxing week.  We did something everyday, but we spent most evenings at the cabin just being a family.  Ahhhhh!  Just what we needed!

Thanksgiving Chapel

The girls sang (red bow & navy bow on the top row) at the Eastwood Thanksgiving Chapel this morning.  Actually, it was the chorus class that sang.  They did a great job.

 After the Eastwood Chapel, we went to a Thanksgiving feast at Lyndsey's preschool.  First, the class sang a song for the parents.  CUTE little Indians!

 Ready to feast...Lyndsey's favorite thing to do!

Friends!

November 10-13--One of the highlights of the month of November was going to Maryland to visit 2 sweet friends, Susan and Robin.  Susan and I both got to meet the newest addition to the Workinger family, baby Ethan James.  He was absolutely adorable!  It was so much fun to get to visit with my dear friends!  Robin insisted on cooking, cooking, cooking for us!  She is the best cook, so we ate very good during our stay in the countryside of Sudlersville.  I love these ladies and I cherish the time we get to be together and catch up!  It does not happen often enough!

November 16th--Tonight I was surprised by a bunch of friends!  Beth invited me to dinner to celebrate my birthday.  I knew Susan was coming since we had discussed the time and date at the gym over the last few weeks (when I showed up to workout).  When I arrived at Zoe's, there sat a table full of friends to wish me Happy Birthday!  It was a fun evening that I will never forget! Thanks, friends!