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Merry Christmas 2012

From the ultimate Christmas movie, White Christmas: May your days be merry and bright, 
And may all your Christmases be white... okay, well if you're from the desert like us, you can pretend there's snow.

Happy Halloween 2012

There once was a beautiful young princess...

who had the cutest shoes.

Her enemies, The Dark Knight...

and Cole, the black Lego ninja...

battled for the Golden Scythe.

The black ninja conquered, and all was well within the Kindgom.

The trio became friends.

That's the end of this Halloween tale.

 

First day of school 2012

Coleman, 7 years old, 2nd grade

Carter, 5 years old, Kindergarten

Amelia, 2 years old, daycare

All ready to go!

Legoland Trip

We went with my brother's family to Legoland about a week before we went to Missouri. I'm just now getting all the photos organized. We rented a condo on the beach and it was the best thing with five kiddos. They were able to have some space and we were able to cook a little and play some games!

This slideshow is a little over 80 photos, so sit back and soak in some summertime fun (even though it was not sunny out and quite cold, hence all the jackets!). I know my summer is fleeting.

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SouleMama‘s {this moment} – A Friday ritual. A single photo – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment.

So how was your week?

There's just been a little too much excitement at this house this past week.

Last Saturday, there was Coleman with his very first stitch. Why do they always need to be on the face?

Today he just got his stitch out and it looks good.

On Sunday night, there is this guy-

who got an intestinal bug and was not able to go at all (two separate issues, two different meds).

The meds worked and he is all better.

Thank God one of my three was doing good- here is Amelia showing off her new skill from yesterday.

 

She still scream-talks alot but has learned a few signs. We signed with Coleman around this age to help with the frustration of them not being able to communicate and to help our own sanity. So far, she knows signs for milk/juice, all done, and more. Some other important ones I would like her to learn are: please, food/eat, clothes/get dressed.

When I grow up

The other night Carter decided that our couch was a garbage truck. Um, we are still cleaning up that mess two nights later.

Then we had a great discussion at the dinner table about future job prospects.

 

Around the house

Lately the boys have been into playing football. They wanted to show off their endzone moves:

 

 

And Amelia, well, she just wanted to "talk" to you:

 

 

Christmas in August

The other day I caught a major deal at the Metrocenter Toys 'R Us in Phoenix- they were having 40-60% off of everything in the store (thanks Dad for the tip)! The store is relocating and apparantly it was cheaper to sell it off at a major discount than to move all the stuff, which meant major savings for me.

I was able to purchase:

• 3 birthday presents
• a temporal thermometer at half price
• Amelia's fav food at 30% off
• a few school supplies to donate in the boys' classrooms
• the best part of all- Christmas is done for our three kids, stockings included!

Since I work up until December 23rd this year, this is a huge time saver! Kind of hard to spend the money right now but I'll be loving it in a few months. Maybe now I'll have some time to bake instead of shopping in long lines trying to get good deals this year. I'll be making my rockin' rum cake!