Hot Chocolate & Christmas Cookies

We made some yummy sugar cookies this year! They were extremely good sugar cookies, soft and delicious, but they weren't the best for decorating. We still had so much fun decorating them and drinking hot chocolate.

Thanksgiving!

I started this post and thought I had a lot more pictures then I do..Sorry about that..Oh well here's a cute picture of My kiddos from Thanksgiving!


Daddy & Owen


Hallie dancing


Her cute bow


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Funny Lazy People

Forgot to mention this on the last post..When we had Hallie's party it was a sunday. On sundays att my parents house we go through dishes like crazy, there are always people over including most of the 10 kids...so when we had Cake and Icecream that night there was no clean silverware, I looked around and this is what I saw:









I guess everyone was too lazy to wash some silverware, and too anxious to eat cake and Ice Cream. My mom walked into the Kitchen and saw this and laughed, then she saw me taking pictures and said, "Bonny, you better not put this on your blog..." {Evil Laugh}

Hallie's 4th Birthday!!!

We decided not to have a huge Birthday Party for Hallie this year, (meaning, just family-that's big enough lol). I didn't want the stress. We had a party at Mimi's house & later one at Gammy's house.

At Mimi's house we had a Strawberry shortcake Birthday Party.


She had So much fun!


Here is her Strawberry shortcake hat & Cake.


And a few Favors


Blowing out the Candles...


Opening Gifts...


Owen got a Remote Control Car from Aunt Candi & Uncle Ray Ray..it kept him busy...


I got her some Cupcakes at Sam's for her Birthday Party at Gammy's house, she liked them because they had Strawberry's


She loved her TuTu that Gammy got her!


Happy Birthday Hallie!! Stop Growing up!!! Okay?

With all the traveling back and forth to Cookeville (Chad is working there), the Christmas shopping, the baking, the visiting with friends and family...I haven't thought much about the True Reason for Christmas, Christ our Savior. I feel really guilty about this. We are constantly reminding the kids why we celebrate Christmas, but I need to be reminding myself. I need to think of The Savior more, what he has done for us and the Love Heavenly Father has for us for sacrificing his Son. That excites me more then any present I will give or receive on Christmas, it is my reason for Living, it is my hope, my life and I am truly Grateful.

I Love to See the Temple!

We had Stake Conference at the Franklin Stake Center this year, which is next door to the Temple. It was the first time the kids got to see the Temple. They were so excited. For those of you who don't know what the Temple is, it is a place where Couples are Married & Sealed for all time and Eternity. It is where Chad and I got Married. It is also where we make Covenants with the Lord. If you want to find out more about LDS Temples click HERE.

Deck the Halls

We decorated our Christmas tree a week before Thanksgiving. Chad couldn't wait. He gets so excited for Christmas, so do I, but he, well....for example our first Christmas he woke me up at 3am to open presents..we didn't get up until 4am. HE just gets WAYYY excited. It's so fun and so cute, he's like a little Kid.

Every year I get the kids a Christmas ornament. (That way, when they leave home they will have some ornaments to take with them to decorate their own Christmas tree someday) I wrap them and we open them the night we decorate the Christmas tree. Chad and I also buy ornaments for each other. I always write their name and year on the ornament. It's a fun tradition.

Here is Hallie and Owen with their Ornaments.

Hallie loves anything girlie, so I thought she would love this little Ballerina.


Owen is really into trains so we got him a cute little train ornament.


I got Chad a John Deere Tractor, well..b/c he LOVES John Deere.


This is what Chad got me...Perfect right?


Decorating the Christmas Tree




The finished Tree!


Hallie broke our little Dollar Tree star again this year..lol..so finally Chad decided it was time to get a new star..YIPEEEEEE!!! We didn't put the Star on until after Thanksgiving, here it is:

Another Job Update

Chad just got accepted to the Public Administration Masters Program at TSU!!! He starts in January! Finally, some good news!!

We had been waiting to hear back from the YMCA in Cookeville, for the Aquatics Director position. They told him they couldn't afford him and they wanted to hire from within.

We are still waiting to hear back from Vanderbilt. He called the other day and they said that they had received his resume and that he should be getting a call soon. Keep your fingers crossed for this one!

Chad has been thinking about joining the Air Force. He has already lost 20lbs in 3 weeks. (yah..I know, it makes me sick, it took me 4 months to lose 12 lbs) We are going to talk to a recruiter about this in January. I am against it, but there are some pros, schooling is paid for, stipends, early retirement etc. I'm not sure if that is what I want for our little family though, we shall see..any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Everytime someone asks Chad what he wants for Christmas, he says, "A job." It's all he really thinks about. He is stressed to the max, but I still know the Lord has something great in store for us. Keep us in your prayers and hopefully, we will hear something soon!!!!!!