January is Birthday Month!!

Well our house is very busy this month. I can't believe the month is almost over!
The crazy cycle began two weeks ago as we started to send out invites for the parties. This year I decided to go easy and just have a little friend party for B this past Saturday and a friend party for K next Saturday. No big family/friend party at our house too like usual. It gets crazy and to much!
So B's party went really well yesterday. It was very loud but went off very smoothly!
K's will be really NUTS but I think I'm ready!?! Can you really ever be ready for a large group of giggly and loud girls in a confined space?!?
Then there's Jason's birthday at the very end of the month! By then I'm exhausted and I pretty much give him a kiss and say Happy Birthday:)

K started a new activity last week at church. Our church has a puppet ministry for children. They perform for the Sunday School classes and in nursing homes. K's seen them perform many times at church and in November they announced they were inviting children to join again. So guess who signed herself up? Yup, K! We waited until the new year and her first week was 2 weeks ago. She loved it! There are about 10 kids and the first night they started a new play and gave everyone parts. She jumped right in and did really well. (I had gotten there early to pick her up so I was able to see them practice). I'm glad she's not afraid to get up in front of crowds and speak. I was never good at that and NEVER volunteered. Jason either. So we are happy she is learning that skill early and gaining confidence.

B loves his gymnastics and having fun! He's had a few tough days at preschool, but we are working on his behavior. He loves to "debate" what he's done and why he didn't really do it!!! Oh he's a character!

A Few Funny Things heard around the house.

I told Katie I'd be up to her room/loft in a few minutes to play.
Katie says, "Ok, wait a few minutes, I have to go clean it up first. Whenever you come up and it's not picked up we always have to start a major project!"
Well, then KEEP YOUR ROOM PICKED UP!!!!


Ben announced while Jason was using matches to light the fire,
"Poppy always wastes the matches because he uses so many to start the fire"
WoW...there goes Poppy again...Thump,Thump,Thump...under the bus

Ever since we got the skin tag removed from under Ben's nose we tell him not to pick his nose or it will grow back. Getting it removed was torture for him and ME!!
So last night we catch him AGAIN and he says,
"I'm just scratching. Seriously, LOOK no boogers!"

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Great Christmas!

We had a wonderful Christmas!
We spent Christmas Eve at our house with Jason's family and had a great evening. Marcella & Paul, Bonnie & Phil, Ryan & Amy and Noah all came over. We enjoyed yummy food and drink, fun conversation and a rousing Yankee Swap. The coveted swap gifts were the bottle of Rum from somewhere in the Caribean and Amy & Ryan's Lemon alcohol thingy. Good Times!

Christmas Day we spent at Lynn's parents house. The Conroy family were there and we enjoyed a fun filled day! The kids all did great and there were no major fights or drama! Wow...they are getting older:)
The HOT items were the new annual trip to NYC for the girls & Barbie airplanes, thanks Nana. For the boys...Ben loved his Ninja turtles and guitar. Liam & Brody were siked for their new basketball sneakers.

Happy New Year!
We spent New's Eve celebrating Ryan (Jason's brother)and Amy's marriage. Katie was the flower girl and we had a GREAT time! It was a lovely wedding and WOW what a party to follow!!! It took us some extra time to get there, we got hit with a BIG snow storm that day. Everyone made it safely and a good time was had by all:)

Katie gets her hair curled...so adoarable.


We did our Mommy/Daughter Dance, no we didn't embarrass ourselves:)


Party Girl



Dancing w/her Daddy.


Dancing w/Aunt Marcella

Tonight

CAUGHT!

Uh Ben what are you doing...



"Drinking orange juice with a straw."

Funny Stories to BIG for HeSaid/SheSaid...

So Jason, Walter, Ben and Gary went out to Bill's Seafood for dinner Friday night. They were having a good time eating, listening to jazz music and talking. So there was a lull in the conversation and Ben says to Grandpa Walter...
"You gonna eat those g.d d...m fries?"
Gary was laughing so hard...Walter didn't hear him and Jason didn't know what to say!!
We really do try to tell Walter not to swear!

Walter and Max

So I'm telling everyone at dinner how my hair dresser, Ron, may be on Extreme Home Makeover, they are taping in CT. Ron works for Party Lite and they are donating things for the home. Well he is the STAR seller for the region so he was asked to represent the company!!!
Jason says, "Geez is there anything he doesn't do?" (Ron is always busy...)
Lynn: "Well he doesn't do his plays anymore."
Katie pops in: "Well he doesn't drive a race car!" We laugh.
Katie: "Are you going to have to get a new hairdresser?"
Lynn: "NO!"

Catch Up!

I had no idea that so many people read my blog! I've been getting emails asking where are the updates!

Well here we go....
Nothing to exciting! HAhahaha!

Seriously, we had a very nice Thanksgiving down at my Uncle Chris's house w/Lisa, Christopher and Avery. Walter came to and was the hit of the gathering at the dinner table. He flirted with Lisa's sister in-law and kept the wine flowing!!

We've enjoyed a few Christmas events and even got a dusting of snow the other night.
The kids are getting excited for snow, getting a tree and of course Santa. We are helping them remember that Jesus is the Reason for the Season!

So here are a few funny HighLights to our crazy life...
Ben gets a hold of the camera without us knowing and this is what we find.








First of all I forget he knows how to operate the camera.
Secondly, how freaky are those pictures. I was FREAKED OUT!!! My dad said he likely switched the dial for mode and the flash did something weird, I don't know. I guess I'll just say he's really artistic, yeah, he's artistic!

Next we put up our Christmas villiage.
Funny side story, we had to recently (after these pics) had to hide our gingerbread house in the village, Grandpa Walter was trying to sneak the candy! It's hidden in Santa's Village now!!!



We had fun meeting Santa at Santa's Breakfast at Katie's school. The highschool seniors put it on to raise money for their after graduation party.


"I want a LONGSHOT nerf gun"

"Let me think..."

Then we went to the Westbrook Christmas Tree Lighting Parade. Katie marched with her Brownie Troop. It was sooooo C-O-L-D!!!!


This past Sunday we made a Ginger Bread house. Katie, Nana and myself had gone to a Ginger Bread making thing and thought the idea was so easy we decided to make another one at home with Ben and Jason. They took boxes (oatmeal, cracker boxes...)glued them to bases and then you used the frosting/paste to stick the graham crackers on the base! So much easier. Well here are some pictures of the one we made as a family.


Starting the process.

Yes, that's frosting in my hair, Thanks honey for telling me!


WALA...The Wallace Castle!

Almost Done

Oh Jason thinks he's so funny...This is his idea of decorating for Christmas...


Lastly what would be a fun night without a little UFC match...


Merry Christmas!!!