Dallas's First Lost Tooth

Around Thanksgiving Dallas turned up with a loose tooth.  Every day I would say, "Dallas you're about to lose that tooth.  It can't hold on much longer."  And every day it would hold on a little longer.  It was so loose, it looked like it was just hanging on by a thread, but it would NOT come out.  We even tried tying it to the doorknob twice and it didn't come out.  

Finally, one Monday morning at school, he pulled it out.  I'm really sad that both of them lost their first tooth at school, but what can you do?

He put his tooth in his yellow tooth fairy pillow that he requested from Grandma Shirley (and that she rushed to make him over Thanksgiving because we were sure it was coming out soon) and the tooth fairy brought him $2 and a candy bar.

Cookie Makin'

 Ada and Owen spent a weekend at our house, so we all decided to go over to Mammaw Ogden's house and decorate her trees and make Christmas cookies.  She is living back at her house now and has a newly redone basement!

Christmas at Grandma Shirley's

 Here are the boys sitting on Santa's lap.  This year all of the grandkids decided to wear ugly sweaters so here are the ugliest sweaters that Goodwill had for kids.

Decorating

 This year Justin helped the boys make hand print ornaments to give as gifts.

 Here are the boys helping me decorate the trees.  We finally made the plunge and went to artificial trees this year.  I miss the smell of the real trees, but not the mess!  These are so much faster to put up too since they are pre-lit.

 Here's the supervisor.

Polar Express 2014

December 5, 2014

 This year we had a bit of a scheduling problem so Justin wasn't able to go on the Polar Express.  We really missed him, but the boys had a blast with Ellie and Jack.

 Dallas wanted to sit with baby Jack of course.  Jack is like his favorite person in the universe.

 Looking for Santa at the North Pole

 Ty told Santa that he wanted a remote control jet and the beyblade L-Drago.

 Dallas told Santa that he wanted a beyblade that you can tell it where to go and a turtle that grows big when you put it in water.

Here they are asleep on my legs on the train ride back to the station from the North Pole.

Thanksgiving

I'm thankful for these little boogers.  And their Daddy.

Miscellaneous Catch Up

I'm going to be playing a little bit of catch up here, since I have been so busy with the holidays I haven't had a chance to update pictures.  

 Owen's 8th Birthday

Mom and Mammaw's Birthdays

A funny story happened around this time that I wanted to make sure that I write down so I don't forget it in years to come. One day I had picked the boys up from school, and we were driving home.  Dallas had a bit of a cough at the time, so he kind of had a little bit of a coughing fit on the way home.  All of a sudden he started screaming and crying "I PUKED, I PUKED!"  I looked back and he had coughed up a bunch of mucous all over his blankie.  Luckily we were right around the corner from our house, so I quickly grabbed up the blankie and got it in the washer and got him all calmed down and explained that he didn't puke but just coughed up some of the yucky mucous in his lungs.  A couple days later he came into the kitchen and said, "Hey, Mom, remember when I had pukous?"  I about died laughing it was so funny.

Operation Christmas Child

This year we decided to do shoe boxes through Operation Christmas Child with Samaratin's Purse.  The boys really had a good time finding items to fill up their boxes, and I know that they will be lots of fun for the kids who receive them because I had an awful time trying to keep the boys out of them as we were filling the boxes.  One of our boxes went to Rawanda and the other went to Malawi.