Christmas TAG

Lindsay tagged me this time! The is the Christmas survey I guess. Watch out cuz here I go!

1. do you like wrapping paper or gift bags? I do like wrapping paper better but, I have used bags as an easy alternative.

2. Real tree or Artificial? Artificial, but ideally I would like a real one when the kids are grown.

3. When do you put up the tree? Well it's always up by Thanksgiving and this year is was up on Liam's birthday (nov. 10th). Yeah, shut up, it's NOT too early!

4. When do you take the tree down? about a week or so after new years.

5. Do you like eggnog? I look forward to egg nog the whole year long! It's one of my Christmas highlights. I mix mine with half milk though and my dad used to mix his with half sprite. It's great either way. I have tried it with half rum as well and that is a doozy! Not recommended...

6. Favorite gift received as a child? There were so many! One year my dad got me this generic barbie doll that I loved better than my brand name barbies. I wish I still had it. Even if it was naked and missing a leg....and her hair was like stuck straight up and it was kinda reddish...okay it was a weird little doll and I loved it.

7. Hardest person to buy for? Jeremy's dad. Never encountered anything like it...seriously, there is nothing we can even remotely think of. Every year. :)

8. Easiest person to buy for? Cedric Vaughn Kelley. We could wrap up a stick and he would love it! I might do that this year to see if it actually pans out!!

9. Do you have a nativity scene? No, I need to get a new one. I mean yes we had one but not yet this year.

10. Mail or email Christmas cards? cards. But whether or not I actually mail them is the real question.

11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? Oh man! I can't say a clear cut favorite on the worst gift. Ummm, one year my mom got me a tweety bird t-shirt though, that some sales girl had assured her that I would love, and I hated it! I couldn't even hide it. Sorry again mom. not your fault though. If any of you have seen pics or were actually there to experience my high school fashion capabilities, you will understand why 1) the tweety bird shirt would NEVER go over and 2) why it wouldn't have mattered anyway!

12. Favorite Christmas Movie? White Christams for sure. But Mr. Krueger's Christmas is a close second.

13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? This year we started this summer. But, the real shopping happens on Black Friday.

14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? I think so.

15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? egg nog. And custard pie. Ham! Christmas cornflake wreaths.

16. Lights on the tree? Oh yes!

17. Favorite Christmas song? O, Holy Night

18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? A little of both.

19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer? Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen and the most famous reindeer of all Rudolph. yep, cuz, Linday already had them typed here. I would've known them anyway though.

20. Angel on the tree top or a star? Star

21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? One present the night before(usually the pajammies). REst in the morn.

22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? Going to 42 Christmases on Jeremy's side. I am starting to get used to it though, after almost 10 years.

23. Favorite ornament theme or color? WEll, I have an ivory, red, and gold theme but we also have all the kids ornaments and everything from when jeremy and I were kids on the tree. So more like the star, graland, bows, florals, and some ornaments are ivory, gold, and red. The rest is multi-colored including the lights. I'll post a pic once I think about it.

24. Favorite for Christmas dinner? Ham and the trimmings. Basically the same as thanksgiving only with ham.

25. What do you want for Christmas this year? don't know. having issues this year.

Now I tag, Charlene, Kim, KEvin, Tacy, Jamie, and Joanne

DO IT! Ya, know ya want to!

Liam's 4th Birthday

This is Liam and his friend Isaac, they had a ton of fun!
This is Liams good friend, Truman! Truman was awesome because he just picked his cake up and ate it, no fork,nothing!
Liam's Thomas the Tank Engine cake! Thanks Christi!!
Yes, we went to Adventure Zone again. All the boys love it there and it was just easier. I can't believe Liam is four now!!! And that I've had two more since he was born!! Crazy.

Cullen update

Today Cullen had his two month check up. He is growing very good. He weighed in at a healthy 11lbs. 13oz. and 22 and 3/4 inches long! He's really changing so much every day. I just love the baby stage!
Tomorrow all the kids are off from school and I think I will bake all day. and clean. oh the joy. can you feel it??? Hopefully, I'm not getting too sick. Today after taking Cullen to the doc, I got a SEVERE migraine and felt my sinuses clog and UGH!

The Silly Faces of Liam

Halloween...I know it was a month ago...whatever!

Asher was our little Elmo this year. I wish I had a better picture of him in this because he filled it out nicely:)
This is Liam after trick or treating at two or three houses and he shed his fireman costume in protest of something...we never did figure out what. He screamed and cried until we decided to drop him off and grandma's house.
Baby Cullen had a cute little bear outfit on.
Tristan was Obi Wan Kenobi and Cedric was a Clone Trooper.
Liam at the beginning of his fit!!! He threw his helmet somewhere too!


The kids made a killing this year with the candy. Good grief. Maybe next year Liam will be in a better mood. We did take him out a little bit more after the other boys were done but he still didn't want to do very much.

OOOhh, can't wait!!

I'm going to Twilight at 12:00am !!!woot!woot!

Our Great 8

Ariane tagged me so here I go!


8 TV SHOWS WE LOVE TO WATCH:
1.The office- I think I just might give up the world's best job(stay at home mom) to actually work at the office, I would be in stitches daily!
2. The Tudors
3. Big Brother
4. Survivor
5. LOST, probably the best television show ever made on the planet
6. Heroes, yeah that's really good too.
7. Big Bang Theory
8. any science channel stuff


8 RESTAURANTS WE EAT AT:
1. TGIF
2. La Casa
3. Sonic- I'm kinda stuck on blackberry sprites right now
4. Mi Jalapeno
5. Martinis
6. Village Inn
7. there's really not alot of places to eat around here
8. can I put places I wish were here?

8 THINGS WE DID YESTERDAY:
1.finished getting the lights on the tree, it takes me forever because I make it look good!:)
2. went to quincy and bought decorative pillows that I don't like
3. found some more old COJ buddies!
4. 4 loads of laundry
5. read my scriptures
6. fed my baby a lot ( he was overly hungry yesterday...growth spurt?)
7. scuba dived (okay so I didn't really do this, but, my list is boring)
8. Ate spaghetti

8 THINGS WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO:
1. Thanksgiving with my family! woot!
2. shopping the day after with my mom-in-law and sis-in-law!
3. My 10th wedding anniversary (in may)
4. My 30th birthday in March (I don't know if I'm really looking forward to this)
5. Christmas!
6. changing Asher's stinky bum because it's making me nauseated!
7. eating lunch because breakfast sucked
8. tonight is Liam's pre-k family fun night!

8 THINGS ON OUR WISH LIST:
1. nice pair of running shoes
2. the fountain of youth
3. unicorns
4. my children to be well behaved every minute of the day!
5. sleep
6. daily massages
7. creme brulee
8. maybe a crepe or two

8 PEOPLE WE TAG:
1. joanne
2. Kate
3. sarah
4. Liz
5. laura
6. kim
7. jamie
8. timpani

The Diaper Shower

Walter's Cake (Misty's baby)
Joshua's cake (Laura's baby)
Cullen's cake
Nichole Ivie and Joyce King threw me, Misty, and Laura a diaper/wipe shower to celebrate our three baby boys all born within one week of each other! It was at Sister King's house...man is she awesome!! She had inividual cakes made for each baby boy with real fresh flowers on them!!! It was so cute! Anyway, even though we had some conflicting schedules, we had a ton of fun! I didn't get pics of Mary, Shonnie, Sis. Mathews, Wendy, or myself. Dumb.
Joyce and Misty
Becky and Nichole
Look at the diaper cake in the back. It was made for triplets! We each got one section of that! Thanks Nichole! You rock!

Today was awesome! I went to Carthage to our store and when I walked in Jeremy surprised me and had gotten me an hour long massage at the Tranquil Touch Massage place!! I was so excited. It was an hour long session and so freakin sweet! Lydia, the owner, gave me the best massage I've ever had! I highly recommend if you're in the area, which I know a good portion of you aren't...but anyway.
OOOhh, I can't wait for Thanksgiving. I've got one or two of my brothers coming in town and then there are the four of us that live in the area.
Holy Moley! It's 11:45pm!!! I thought it was like 10 or something! Okay, I need to go...wait I will post some pics first because I told my neice, Justine that I would.
Alright, Jeremy hasn't loaded them yet I guess...tomorrow I will post some new pics of Cullen, Justine. Goodnight all!

what the crap?

K, did I seriously just tear up at the end of Home Alone? Who knew I would grow up to be such an emotional basketcase! I'm sure my boys think I'm nuts!

My kids think this movie is hilarious just as I did when I was younger. It's not quite so funny now...I keep thinking of all the terrible things that could've gone wrong with a child that age home alone. EEK!

Have you seen this?

Yep, this is Eric Bana as the Romulan villian in the next Star Trek movie
And even better...this is Zachary Quinto as Spock!!! You may recognize him as Sylar from Heroes if you don't know who he is! Hasn't Sylar been even better this season? I really liked him as the future Sylar when he was good and cooking pancakes with his kid!?!?!! Awesome!

For Twilight Fans

Well, we only have 16 more days until Twilight is out in the theatres!!! I'm so excited, I hope they have done the book justice...I think they probably have! I'm going to be there for the midnight showing for sure!

The Cullens!... Cullen's first name namesake!

Don't Forget...

To Get Out and Vote tomorrow!!!

I'm voting for McCain/Palin all the way and I'm proud to say that! I really don't think that the people voting for the crazy man have researched into all the facts....he's a certified psychopath! Even if he wasn't I wouldn't vote for him on the single fact that he is all for killing unborn babies...even late term partial birth abortions....it sickens me.
Well, I could make this a very long political post but my baby is waking up behind me in his swing and will want to eat. So get out and vote! and if you're gonna vote, vote for McCain!