Standing up!

My little man has been pulling himself up on things for a while but I finally got a picture of him doing it. I can't believe that he is almost 9 months this week. The time is flying by and I need to be better at taking more pictures of him.

Patience Christmas Party

Saturday we went to a christmas party for the patience side of the family. That is my mom's side of the family. We had a lot of fun with lots of food, games and catching up with loved ones. There are a couple of pictures on here of Melissa with Matthew that I thought were just so cute.

Jacob is getting so big. I can't believe I use to babysit him as a baby. That has gone by so fast.

This picture of Matthew and his grandpa was so cute.

Reagan was really into the Bingo game we were playing. She got bingo pretty quick and got a coloring book. She loves to color.

Winter Wonderland

We woke up the other morning to a winter wonderland. I just had to take a picture of it. I just think everything is so beautiful when it first snows.

I tried to do a starburst affect with the last picture. I guess it only works with white lights. It's probably that I need to practice more. Oh well I still think it's pretty though.

A couple more

I'm getting really frustrated with blogger. For some reason some of the pictures that get downloaded do not appear on the post. So I try and try again but it still doesn't appear. So I have to do seperate posts just to put the ones that didn't appear on the last post. Anyway here are a couple that were supposed to be on the last post.

Having fun with our new camera.

So we got a brand new camera to replace the one that was stolen. Sort of an early Christmas present. It is awesome and I can't wait to learn everything I can about it. So far the picture quality is tons better than what our other camera was shooting. I don't really like to shoot in automatic mode because I like learning about all the manual stuff about the camera. I hope to get really good and take amazing pictures. Who knows maybe someone will want me to take their picture for them some day. But Just having fun right now. The only thing is that I edited them but everytime I edit them in photoshop then go to put them on the blog or post them anywhere they don't look like they've been edited. Maybe it's just me. If they look edited to you let me know because I am having a hard time telling.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was good this year. We spent thanksgiving day at Jenny and Chris's house. That was a lot of fun. Chris had to work so we went over to keep the kids and jenny company. Jenny did a great job on the turkey and she had a really cute idea for the kids to do while waiting for dinner. She had everyone make a turkey from cups and that became their snack turkey. We ate and had a good time. The next day we did our own thanksgiving. I like to do our own when we go to someone else's house for thanksgiving because I want the leftovers. Plus I love cooking thanksgiving dinner. It may be a lot of work but I love being able to do it for my family. Practice makes perfect. We cooked the turkey in a bag this year and it was literally the best turkey yet. It fell right off the bone. Then we put up our christmas stuff. It was a good day. Maybe cooking thanksgiving dinner and putting up christmas decorations while listening to christmas music will be our new tradition.

My Kiddos

I just have to say that even though they drive me crazy sometimes I am one lucky lady to be the mommy to these to little cuties. I feel very blessed to have my two children. Love you two lots and lots :-)