My little turkeys

Just needed a quick head shot of the turkeys for some ornaments that I bought!

Jonah: 8 years

Luke: 6 years

Sophia: 21 months

Christmas Fort Kits

This year I decided to get crafty for Christmas. I busted out the sewing machine and made some fort kits. A few months back I made one for Jonah and Luke and they LOVE it! I just sewed some loops on the corners and in the middle of a twin size and a full size sheet and put some clamps, clothes pins, suction cups and a flashlight in a bag. The loops are of course to hang the sheet on bed posts, knobs or whatever else you come up with. For the gifts I just laminated a card that says what is included in the bag. Hope they have fun!

21 Months old

21 months old! She has had a verbal explosion in the past couple of weeks and is talking in sentences. She is OBSESSED with Dora and Olivia and has seen every episode numerous times. She is now interested in wearing bows in her hair and KEEPS THEM IN! When she sees the camera or phone come out she will walk over to the wall at the bar and stand. She will tell me when she has teetee'd or pooped by telling me and if it is just a wet diaper she will lay on the ottoman or couch and tell me. If it is poop she tells us and then runs and gets behind the cushions on the couch.

She LOVES when "the boys" get home from school and her giggle box turns on. She is all over them. She will even hold her arms up for "boy" (Jonah) to pick her up. She will go over to the other "boy" (Luke) and say, "I run, I run" and start to run around the kitchen and cracks herself up.

If she hears my phone ring or a text message pop up she always says, "oh Mimi" for some reason. When she hears the garage door go up she gets so excited and greets Justin at the door with a high pitched squeal followed by, "daddy, daddy, daddy"!

Cousins

My sister is in town for Thanksgiving and Zane decided to spend the night. They have had a blast together as always!

Just like boys

Sophia loves her boys! She has stopped calling them Jonah and Luke and calls them boys. She loves to copy them whatever they are doing. I just love when she crawls between them.

Go Carts and putt putt

Mom and I headed out to Horchow to look for some lamps for my formal living room. We found some and got 40% off so that was pretty exciting! I also found this horse and could NOT believe there was a SOLD sign around his neck! I could not pass up the opportunity to text Justin and tell him that I needed his truck and asked if he could meet me up at Horchow to pick this new purchase up. His reply, "ummm NO"! I told him that there were NO returns or refunds and asked if he saw the sold sign around his neck. He still was not going for it.

When I got home Justin and Kevin took the boys to ride go carts and play putt putt. The go carts that Tyler and Luke could drive due to their height were the slow ones. I think they enjoyed it but Justin go some video of Jonah driving with one arm under his chin like he was bored out of his mind! They finally went over to the "fast" and big go carts and Jonah was tall enough to drive by himself but Tyler and Luke had to ride with Kevin and Justin. They really liked the big ones since they went so fast.

Jonah & Lukes first duck hunt

Justin could not stand it... it was raining and getting colder outside this afternoon. He went to Denton County with all THREE kids and got his hunting license. He then went and bought the boys some camo pants, coat, hat, gloves and got them dressed and off they went. The boys were so excited to get dressed up in all the camo just like daddy.

Thanksgiving Break

This morning I had a doctors appointment so Justin was going to stay home with the kids. He had to get them out of the house since Angelica was here cleaning. He decided to take the tree limbs to the dump and head out to get his Denton County Hunting License. We then met for lunch at Smash Burger. Of course we CANNOT go out in public without one of the boys needing to use the restroom. Justin takes Jonah and when they get back to the table I look at Justin and say, "how was the dump" and his response, "uneventful, everything came out in one piece". I look at him and bust out laughing and he had no clue why. I catch my breath and tell him that the conversation was very bad timing... he and Jonah had just gotten back from the bathroom and I asked him how the dump was! HA HA HA

Boys and snakes

They boys found a snake in the street on the side of the house. I wanted a picture so I told Jonah to take one and put his foot by it so we could tell how big it was. What I did NOT say was, "take off your shoe and put it as CLOSE AS YOU CAN to the dead snake"!

Luke is the foot with the sock on.

My soon to be new niece... Lola

Aunt Amy and Uncle Sam are getting a new puppy after Christmas. Amy took Sophie to meet her new sister Lola. We can't wait to meet you Lola!

My second Pinterest project

I saw these Bible Verse cards at Frisco Mercantile and they wanted a fortune for them. I knew I could do it myself... I then saw them on the new website Pinterest that I am addicted to. I made a few sets for Christmas gifts this year.

Night Out

We went out to Zen Bar to celebrate Autumns birthday! It was great to get out and see the girls... just wish I could have had a drink with them. Seems I am always pregnant at these functions :)

Something to remember about the night... BAYLOR BEAT THE BOOMER SOONERS!!!

What my boys are Thankful for

At least Jonah is thankful for his momma and would cry without me :) LOL

Luke is thankful for "TV and my favorite little sister and my mom and dad and grand mothers, my Sponge bob blankit, its name is Tingiy bob morton and my very good teher ms. Norris and my frinds and God and Jesus."

cuddle bugs

The Morton's love to cuddle bug!

My little eraser collector

I was going through Jonah's backpack and found this heap in a pocket. I asked him where he got all of it and he said it is his from school. He also "collects" them from the ground and bus...

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Luke's first Basketball practice

Luke has been asking to play basketball. Justin signed him up for this Winter and he had his first practice tonight. We of course had to get some basketball shoes and he "needed" a sweatband for his head!

Our Weekend

Saturday was Jonah's last game of the season and Sawyer and Marinn's birthday party at Pump It Up. This was the best picture we could get of Marinn :)

Justin went to the Cowboy game and the kids and I loaded up and headed to Mimi and Papa's. Justin sent me a text at the start of the game (read below) asking a question. He obviously did not get my response! LOL

Papa was multi tasking holding Sophia while cooking! I love how he is holding her as she enjoys her "yo yo" (yogurt).

11/11/11 @ 11:11

What were YOU doing on 11/11/11 at 11:11?

I was at my Mom2Mom group listening to a guest speaker talk about finances.

A shout out to all the Veterans out there and a HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Matthew Morton!

Jonah's book

I was shopping at Barnes and Noble for Jonah's birthday when I came upon this "Barnes and Noble Exclusive" book... it was in the "youth" section. Ages 8 and up and 3rd grade level. Perfect! Jonah is a Star Wars junkie. He of course starts reading it right away and wants to take it to school to read it during free time. I don't really like when they take our personal books to school because I do not want them to loose them. He wrote his name in it and off to school it went. When he got off the bus he was so excited to tell me what chapter he was on.

A few days later I see the book upstairs and put it in the closet on the book shelf. A couple of days pass and Jonah is wanting to finish it. I tell him where it is, he looks and it is NOT there. Of course it is, mommy put it there and mommy knows where EVERYTHING is at ALL times!

Folks... its NOT there! Maybe, I did not put it on the shelf, maybe my prego brain is taking over. I tore the house up for three days looking for the book, under beds, furniture, cushions, behind whatever has a behind or underneath and in every basket and between every book on the shelf. The book was MIA. I asked if he had taken it to school and if it was in his desk. He kept saying he did not take it back to school. I checked backpacks, asked Luke and nope, he had not seen it either!

Finally after Jonah had a few meltdowns and I had turned the house upside down I went and bought another copy. He had to finish at this point. I felt so bad so I went and paid the $8 for another one.

I kid you not... two days later the original book WITH JONAH'S NAME IN IT was in Luke's backpack! I could have thumped him in the head!

So that night Jonah decides to finish the book, he is on the last chapter and wants to finish. He read a few pages and then asked Justin to finish for him. Meanwhile I was listening to Luke read on his bed. My mind wondered and I was listening to Justin read a few words and could not believe what I was hearing come out of his mouth! Justin was obviously not paying attention to what he was reading because I stopped him and told him to reread in his head what he had just read!

You can see in the picture below...

"He scared the crap out of me. He was shouting about the end of the world and locusts with human faces and how I was going to burn in hell. and he was going nuts. But not as nuts as Mrs. Tharp went. "You'll consider it? YOU'LL CONSIDER IT? Well, pardon my French, but you can CONSIDER kissing my butt."

WHAT??? What have I let my child read? He had SEVEN more pages to go until he finished the book! I can only imagine what the rest of the book has in it. I am scared to read it. I took it away and did not let him finish, although would it really matter if I did?

Not one of my finest parenting moments...

Cousins

Stef and the kids came up for about 35 hours... short trip but we were glad to see them. They were glad to meet their newest cousin, Noah.

Yea! it's Friday... backpack day...

Friday! My favorite day of the week. Not only is there NO homework but I get to see the work that the boys have worked on all week. This is all from Jonah's work.

The first page look 3/4 of the way down, "Farting... the F word/not the bad one."

The second picture Ms. Edwards scribbled out "not gun".

The third she scribbled out "Not butt" and wrote "Got it!".

So glad that he feels he has to specify what he has drawn. Thats my boy!