Can you believe Christmas is over....

I can't. I have been trying to put away all of the Christmas decorations and Jake keeps putting the Santas back out saying SEEEEEEEEENTA. What a fun Christmas we have had!! We started off by going to the boys Christmas program at school on Thursday night. Yes our little Jake, not 2 yet was a part of the program. His class sang 3 songs before the play started. He started out with Jingle Bells and he shook the bells. The next song was about Mary and baby Jesus, he stood there and picked his nose the entire song. The last song was jump and hop, which is really funny to watch because he tries to jump so hard. Then came our big guy Luke. The pre-k class gets all the big parts. Luke was a shepherd. He sung his heart out. I cannot believe he is in Pre-K and had tears in my eyes thinking next year he will be in kindergarten.

We have had 3 Christmas' since then. The boys have had so much fun, but are wiped out. One fun neat thing we also did this year was special in Prosper. FBC Prosper had Christmas Eve at the barn. The kids cooked smores, decorated cookies, saw animals. It was really fun and relaxing. Once again, I love Prosper.

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. Happy New Year.

My favorite time of year!!

Have I told you how much I love Christmas. This year is awesome. We are having so much fun. Two of my favorite traditions we have started are baking goodies for our neighbors and going on a sleigh/hayride to look at lights. We started the cooking tradition 3 or 4 years ago. I love it. My parents come over and we bake all day. We make cookies, candy, and treats for about 30 families. It is so much fun. Last year we started the tradition to go look at lights on a sleigh ride. We had more go with us this year, so we did a hay ride instead. It was so much fun. Have a very Merry Christmas.

A MAC advertisement

So my busy little Jake decided this morning he wanted to wear lipstick. Of course he decided to wear my MAC long lasting lip whatever that does not come off. Seriously, it is like paint. We tried everything before church to get it off. I would not even kind of come off. So Jake and I did not attend church. About 5 this evening it started to wear off. So if you need a good lipstick. Try the MAC extended whatever lip gloss.

I love Prosper. Last night we went to a Prosper Country Christmas. There was a mini parade, vendors, singing, and shopping. The boys have so much fun. It has gotten bigger every year. This year we did not know most of the people there, which is totally opposite from when we started growing. I wish Prosper would stay little.

I also wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. This is the best time of year. Jake gasps at every Santa, light, snowman, or anything Christmas. The other day someone told Luke Happy Holidays. He looked at me and said "she said the wrong thing..she is supposed to say Merry Christmas." That made my day. He loves playing with nativity scenes. I am very blessed to have my boys.

Jack Sparrow and his student

Yes, I am alive. I have had the busiest October ever. Will blog about that later. Just thought I would send pics of Jack Sparrow and his student. That is what Luke thought Jake should be. Hope everyone had fun trick or treating or whatever you did.

Go Tigers

Luke had his first soccer game ever Saturday. We thought by watching practice he was not being aggressive enough. I told him to be mean, Scott said aggressive. So I bribed him with a toy. We told him if he made a goal, he could pick out a toy. Well to our suprise he made 5 goals. That's right 5 goals. We were so excited. He picked out the most annoying toy ever, a Transformers mask that changes his voice. Please help me have patience. So until next week... Go Tigers.

My Baby is in Pre-K!

So Tuesday was our first day of MDO. Luke started Pre-K and Jake is in the young two's. He is only 18 months, but he was way older than the younger class and so they moved him up. Seeng him be a big kid is crazy, but it is good for him and he has great teachers. Now Luke going to Pre-K that is a different story. I am so glad he has an October birthday and missed kindergarten this year. I am going to have a major melt down next year. He is doing great and loves his new class.

Texas Tech Football is Here

Well the count down has been coming and I am officially a football widow. All 3 of the boys are fans. Jake can put his guns up and they learned to say GO TECH, while breaking the huddle. We listen to fight songs in the car and watch every football game possible. Luke even wants to watch highlights. What am I to do. Anyways, I was trying to get a good pic of Jake with his GUNS up, but my camera was too slow. Happy Football Season and GO TECH!!

Brother Comparisons

I thought it would be fun to compare Luke and Jake. Luke is a several months older in the pictures. He was closer to two.

The Pattersons

Our friends the Pattersons came to town last week. We were so excited to see them, it has been almost a year. They used to live in our neighborhood and moved to the Houston area a couple of years ago. We miss them. Andrew and Luke are a couple months apart. Then comes Jack, Jake, and Emma. The boys had so much fun.

Soccer Practice

Luke had his first soccer practice last week. He loves it he really takes it quite seriously. Here are a few of his comments.. If I get tired, I will tell my coach I need a drink. I will go into the tunnel, get a drink and run back out. He thinks he is going to play professional sports and the players run out of tunnels.

At breakfast the day before practice, this was our conversation...

Luke: Is tomorrow my first practice

Beth: yes

Luke: I am so excited, are you going to watch me?

Beth: of course

Luke: I am only nervous about one part of soccer.

Beth: What part is that?

Luke: The winning part.

He wants to win at practice as well as his games. I don't even know how he know what nervous means. He is so funny!!

National Night Out

Tuesday night, we had a National Night Out party last minute. A few of us girls had a girl's night last week and decided to do a party on our street. It was a lot of fun. Jake loved McGruff and we all know what Luke thinks about the fireman. He is determined to be one when he grows up. We are so blessed to have such wonderful neighbors and friends.

Tricia's Baby Shower

We are all awaiting the arrival of Baby Katy. We had a fun baby shower for Tricia last Thursday night. Friday night I stayed up all night watching guard over the big garage sale that happened on Saturday to raise money for my 3 day walk. We had so much fun hanging out all night, even though I ended up with 40+ mosquito bites just on my legs. We raised almost 5K to go towards our walk. There are 12 of us walking this year. we have to raise 2200 each to even participate. I was pretty tired after the gsale, so we did not do anything Saturday night. Sunday night we went to a couple's shower for baby Katy. We can't wait to meet baby Katy, only 3 weeks left!!

The Roughriders

Not too much has been going on around here. Luke and Jake are having a good summer. Luke went to VBS at my parents church this week at night time. Thursday night was Hawaiin Falls night. We were there for 1 hour before a major storm came and we had to leave. Saturday we took Jake to his first sporting even, the Roughriders game. It was fun, but he wanted to walk around everywhere. The boys are playing so good together lately. What fun two boys are!!