Happy Birthday Grandma Peg!

Happy Birthday Grandma Peg!
We love you!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

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Mmmmm!

Xander and I had a lot of fun making cookies. It was good practice for tomorrow, when we make cookies for Santa :)

Home Sweet Home template by Connie Prince available at elementalscraps.com. Paper, elements and alpha from the kit "Made with Love" by Colie's Corner at gottapixel.com. Font used San Lucida.

Xanders First Christmas!

Yes I know it is actually his third Christmas,
but I finally finished scrapbooking his first!
Enjoy!

Not pictured is the story of his first Christmas. I have it written, but not scrapbooked!

Cardstock is by DCWV and the Paper Studio. The patterned papers, ribbon and embellishments are from the Cosmo Cricket line "Jolly by Golly" (available at my MemoryWorks website!) The red letters I got at Michaels and the font on the tag is LD Hand from scrapnfonts.com!

Dear Santa--

I couldn't resist this sweet face, surely Santa won't either!


Page created with the following: template by yours truly; polka dot, solid red and solid green paper, and staples from the kit "Magical Vacation" by Amanda Heimann available at scraporchard.com; all other papers from the kits "Holiday Magic" and "Seasonal Sampler Holiday 2006" available from shabbyprincess.com and the font used is LD Hand from scrapnfont.com

Houston we have a...snowstorm?

That's right, you read correctly!
It has snowed here in the Houston area!
This is the earliest it's ever snowed and by far the most snow I've ever seen!
(Mom says it snowed in SC my first winter, but I don't remember it!)



At first I was not impressed.
What is this cold, wet stuff blowing into my face?
Make it STOP!

Mom tried to get me to catch snowflakes on my tongue.
Again, I was not impressed.
"Too wet!" Let's go inside.

But then after a couple hours of the white stuff falling--we had accumulation.
Look at it--it's everywhere! Wow!
Mom and I decided to build us a snowman.

Don't judge his size (remember size doesn't matter).
This isn't Minnesota people--there isn't that much snow.
I named him George.

We also decided to make snowballs and throw them at the fence.
I should say I had mom make them, and I threw them!
Mom says the snow will be gone tomorrow.
Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.
Stay warm my peeps!

Goodbye November--Hello December!

Wow! What a November we've had.
Sorry it's been so long since my last post, but Daddy was on vacation and
we were having so much fun!!
Where do I start? Oh yes, the Houston Children's Museum.



Mommy and I went with our good friends Miss Jennifer, Landry and Ryan to the Houston Children's Museum. Actually Miss Jennifer had passes for us, so we all got to go for FREE!
Can you believe it? All this fun for free!
There was so much to see and do, we did not get to it all, but we sure had fun!

Check out some of the cool things we saw!

Since the weather has cooled off and it is nice to be outside,
Mommy has taken me to the park a few times.
We found a new one, that is a short drive from our house.
It is Mommy's new favorite.
Of course there is still the one in our subdivision.
I like this one, because I can climb all the way up the twisty slide.
Mommy doesn't really like it when I do that, she says I should go down the slide, not up it. Where's the challenge in that?

All right Mommy, I'll go "down" the slide just for you!

Here I am with my Daddy and Mommy. Pretty cute huh?

So Daddy took a day off during the week and it was a busy day for us!
We went and had family pictures taken,
then we went to lunch at some place called Sweet Tomatoes
(best part--I got to have some of Mommy's Strawberry Lemonade--so good!),
then we shopped a little before heading down to Galveston and the...BEACH!
I was so looking forward to doing some swimming.
Oh, but it was much too chilly for swimming when we got there.
So we had to do some other fun things instead.

We walked along the beach, looked for shells, climbed up on some kind of rock wall, used big sticks to draw in the sand, and all together had a great time!

I had to make sure people knew I had been to the beach! So I left a little message.


Mommy and Daddy celebrated their 11th wedding anniversary on the 25th of this month. I am not sure what that means, but I made sure that I behaved myself when we went out to eat to celebrate. I think I did pretty good! That night, however, I started feeling a little yucky and hot. Mommy said I had a fever, and used this crazy contraption that went into my armpit. She said it was a thermometer and it told her and Daddy how hot I was. I liked it cause it beeped.

The next day was Thanksgiving and we were supposed to head out to have Thanksgiving Dinner with our friends, but Mommy wasn't sure if we should go or not, because I wasn't feeling so good. Miss Jennifer insisted and so we headed up to Spring to spend time with The H. family. Even though I wasn't feeling my best it was still a great Thanksgiving, and we all had a great time.

The next day I was feeling much better and we went to--well you'll never guess--that's right the Houston Children's Museum! I was actually pretty excited to go again, not only was Landry going to be there too, but I got to bring my Dad! He'd never been. Mommy was there to work for a website she is a member of called Moms Like Me. Mommy doesn't actually work anymore (besides taking care of yours truly, and I am a lot of work!) and when she has the opportunity to get paid (unfortunately I can only pay Mommy in hugs and kisses and not cold hard cash!) she takes the opportunity. So while she was making the big bucks I showed Daddy around. Boy did we have fun--take a look!

This contraption was my favorite part of this trip to the museum. There was a green button that you pushed and air came out of the pipe. (Look below to see me working the button!)

Oh and the gong was pretty cool too! In fact I was having so much fun that I did not want to leave. See the evidence below. I know. I know. It's not the most flattering picture. Mommy snuck that one on here before I knew it. This is why one must not act out when a camera is present--the evidence is pretty overwhelming!

At any rate, I had a great November and am THANKFUL for so many things...my Daddy and Mommy, my friends and family, my Cars, my big boy bed, fruit snacks, and cereal bars! Mommy says we are going to decorate the Christmas Tree today--I can hardly wait.
Talk to you later my peeps!

Happy Anniversary!

Happy Anniversary Baby! I love you more and more, each and every day!



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I know it's November, but...

I sure had a lot of fun in October. Now that I have managed to get some free time and pry Mommy away from the computer, I'll show you the good times!



Daddy was doing some stretching, and I thought he looked like a tunnel or a bridge, and that I'd fit right under. I did, so then I grabbed all my Tonka cars and we all went under the 'tunnel'.

Daddy grew weary of that game and decided to make my cars line up in shapes. I thought this was pretty cool, and wanted to sit inside the shapes.

Unfortunately I am a little too big to fully fit in the square while sitting.
Oh well, on to new things.
My Auntie Tawnda, Uncle Shawn and cousin Evie came to see us for a whole week. We did lots of fun things while they were here. Take a look.

Here Mommy, Daddy and I are at some place called the Alamo. We are one good lookin' family, if I do say so! We got there around closing time, so we didn't really learn anything, but they mentioned something about it being the birthplace of Texas Freedom and Independence.

The Alamo is right downtown in the city of San Antonio. We went to San Antonio with Auntie Tawnda, Uncle Shawn and Evie. In addition to the Alamo, we ventured down to a place called the Riverwalk. It was pretty neat, a lot of restaurants and shops and a river right in the middle of it all. There were also these boats that would zoom by us. I really wanted to ride on one, but no such luck. I will say though, that the Riverwalk is not very stroller friendly, and Evie and I had to be carried up and down the stairs in our strollers--it was very exciting and a little scary. We stayed overnight in San Antonio and I got to sleep on my own special bed on the floor. It was pretty neat, though not as comfy as my own bed. The next morning we got up, and after breakfast, headed to the San Antonio Zoo.

I always love to go to the zoo and it was even more fun having Evie there with me. We especially liked the aquarium. This picture was taken right as you come into the entrance.

Another reason I love my Auntie Tawnda--she gave me my first lollipop. It was so good.

We also took them down to Galveston, to the beach. We had never been and it was a lot of fun, although ocean water doesn't taste very good! I only wish my Daddy could have been there with us, but alas, he had to work. Nevertheless, we had fun. The water was the perfect temperature and it was a beautiful day. It was Evie and Uncle Shawn's first time in the ocean and they both liked it. It was my first time that I actually remember. Mommy says I went to the beach for the first time when I was 3 months old (I bet I did not have as much fun) . We also played in the sand and picked up seashells. Your probably wondering where the pics are. Well, Auntie Tawnda took some, but Mommy thought that they did not flatter her, so she did not ask Auntie Tawnda for copies. Oh well.

I was pretty bummed to see my family go, but I know that I'll see them again soon. In the mean time I had to get back into my routine of watching my favorite TV shows, playing with my Cars and of course making messes.

October is all about fall and pumpkins. Though here in Texas, the fall part is kind of underrated. It is so nice and warm and the trees leaves don't really change like they do up North. Oh well, I can't complain. Mommy took me to this little church run Pumpkin patch so we could pick out a few pumpkins. I wanted so many, but Mommy said we could only get three.

They had this little house, but Mommy wouldn't let me play very long in it. She said we needed to get our pumpkins. What a buzz kill.

The very next day, we met my buddy Landry and some other friends at a really nice park to decorate pumpkins and play. Notice my pumpkin--pretty snazzy right!?!? Decorating pumpkins and playing is hard work, so Lands and I decided we better take a break with a pumpkin shaped cookie. Yummy! We also decided that the table cloth needed some ventilation and poked holes in it until it was perfect.

Miss Jennifer had to bring Ryan to the doctor (poor kid) for his two month check-up, so Landry got to come over to my house to play. Mommy said I was behaving rather badly, because I did not want to share my toys with Landry. I had to go to time-out once, while he was here, how embarrassing. I finally straightened up and started playing nice. Here we are having a snack of cheese. Mmmm, I love cheese.

I finished my cheese, and was asking Landry if he wanted to share his with me. He did not.

Mommy got it in her head that we needed to do some crafting. Of course Mommy is very creative and has it in her mind what she would like me to do. I am creative too and I have it in my mind what I am going to do. Needless to say, we did not agree, but Mommy finally relaxed and let me have fun. My tree turned out pretty awesome, if I do say so. Mommy agreed.

So Mommy said that I could help her carve our pumpkins this year. I did not know what this meant, but it sounded fun. It wasn't. Mommy did not let me "carve" at all. All I got to do was scrape slimy seeds and "guts" out of the pumpkin.

I did my best and, Mommy was able to make us some decent looking "jack-o-lanterns" as she called them.

Pretty cool huh! Maybe next year I can use the tiny saw. We'll see.

To round out the month of October, I got to dress up like a pirate and go Trick or Treating. I was so excited. Daddy dressed up like a ninja and we headed out. Mommy stayed home to wait on any trick or treaters. We went out before it got dark and hit about 5 or so houses in our neighborhood. I think it was a little too early. Oh well, I had fun and got lots of candy. The best part of the night however, was when we had trick or treaters come to our door. I would run to the door with Mommy and check out all the kids and help hand out candy. While we were waiting for more kids I kept yelling "Where's kids?" It was good fun. Well that sums up my awesome October, I'll let you know how November goes! Later my peeps!

i am your mama and you are mine

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My Little Pumpkin

My little pumpkin is so proud of his little pumpkin.
He decorated it all by himself!

Page template by Jen Caputo. Paper and elements from the kit "Pumpkin Patch" by Ellie Lash.

Trouble Maker!

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[ I love you ]

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Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween!

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I work hard for the money!

So it was a nice Saturday afternoon.
I was just laying on the couch, minding my own business.
Relaxin' after a crazy morning of playing and running around.

Daddy tells me I need to get moving because we have work to do.

"Work-schmerk!" I tell him.
"I am busy making plans with my peeps!"

"No-- seriously bud, you need to sweep the kitchen!" Daddy says.
I laugh this must be some kind of sick joke.
I'm two, they can't expect me to start working already.
Can they?

Oh, he was serious...

So in order to get through the grind, I did what anyone else would do.
I started singing!
"Hi ho! Hi ho! It's off to work we go!"

"You load sixteen tons, what do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store"

"Hey hey, the working man, the working man like me
I ain't never been on welfare, that's one place I won't be
Cause I'll be working long as my two hands are fit to use
I drink a little (root)beer in a tavern
Sing a little bit of these working man blues"

Daddy and Mommy both appreciated my hard work and taste in music.
They said because I did such a great job, that I would soon be promoted to mopping.
I'm not sure what that means, but it doesn't sound good! So I told them to...

"Take this job and shove it I ain't workin' here no more
My woman done left and took all the reason I was working for
Ya, better not try and stand in my way
Cause I'm walkin', out the door
Take this job and shove it I ain't working here no more"

Mommy and Daddy tried to hide their smiles and laughter, but I knew that I had them!
Daddy cannot believe my extensive knowledge of old Country songs!
It's true--I am pretty awesome and hilarious!
I like that word. Hilarious!
Man, sometimes I even crack myself up!
Talk to you later peeps!
Oh and don't work too hard!