Life's Treasures

To try to cut down on some of the Christmas craziness, we exchanged gifts with David's family on Thursday night. His mom makes the most amazing pepperoni bread so I was VERY excited when she suggested that for dinner. For many Christmas' Brent and Ryleigh have been the only little ones around so it was really nice to have Alex, Alexis and Logan be here and share it with them. After all was said and done, we figured we would gift David's parents a break and let the kids spend the night. Logan liked his gift from us so much that he even brought it with him! I'm so glad they are here to make some special memories.

So sitting on the counter this morning is a note from Brent. It appears that his homeroom teacher must have given them an assignment to write a letter to your parents about something you would like. Here is what my child wrote:

Dear Mom and Dad,

You should get me an iPad. It is very cool You can play games and other stuff. Here are some reasons you should buy it for me:

I get awesome grades. I do all my homework. I always get A's and I do my best on a test.

I would do more chores. I would dust. I wouldn't forget about chores. I would be faster at them.

I would be nice to my sister. I would help her clean her room. I would play with her more. I would let her do more stuff with me.

So, as you can see, there are lots of benefits. I would be very happy with it and you like that I get good grades, right? Ya, you do.

Love,
Brent

What can I say? He's got some good points...on the other hand, in NO WAY am I buying him a $500 toy, nice try though!

She is SUCH a mess! One minute you are yelling at her to stop jumping on people and the next she's in your face with her toy wanting to play. One second she is wandering aimlessly around the house and next thing you know she falls over dead on the floor. As you will see in the pics below...she doesn't slowly sit or even lay down, she literally will be doing one thing and then she will just plop over on her side and not move. It has become the running joke in our house because at any given time you will hear someone in some room saying, "Sofie's dead again..." David almost fell over her coming out of the bathroom last night because there she was, "dead", in front of the door.

I'm so lucky that I have been able to stay pretty close to most of the girls that I used to work with. When I worked there, they were my closest friends and family and it can be so easy to lose touch when you don't see them everyday. Luckily Ivy still works there so that definitely helps keep me in the loop!

Lisa's birthday was coming up and she wanted to do a happy hour so we met at this little place in Euless and boy did we ever make it a happy hour!! At some point in the night I bought Lisa a rose for her b-day and it then turned into our picture prop. We laughed, sang, talked, took TONS of pics and laughed some more. Overall, definitely a girls night for the books. Love ya ladies!!

Lisa didn't like her shot...










Work it Ivy






Jen & I doing a Paris Hilton impression

I cannot believe that this school year is already coming to an end. Soon enough my baby boy will be in a new school and my lil bit will be navigating this one on her own. He will spend his first few days adjusting to new hallways and changing classrooms and she will know a new independence of walking into school alone in the a.m.'s and waiting in the afternoons by herself. He will establish a new identity, seperate from his little sister and she will no longer be the younger sibling at school. He will create a new footprint for the both of them and eventually she will arrive there but not to walk in his path. That is the amazing thing about the both of them. Although he will always get to experience things first, she will always get there and make it her own. There is something comforting about being in the same school as your brother/sister but it is equally great and important to be your own person. It makes me so sad that they will no longer be together but also so happy because I know that they will flourish. They will part ways and have different things to talk about at the dinner table, never again to be reunited until he is a Sr. and she is a Freshman but always in each other's hearts.

Ryleigh just could not contain her surprise for me until Sunday so tonight so asked me to close my eyes and hold out my hands. When I opened them I had the following homemade card in my hands: