Morton Madness

We headed over to Mark and Dianes for a New Years Eve party and I actually made it... I even made it until 1:30.  

We surprised the kids with a trip to San Antonio this weekend to see cousins!  We headed out Friday morning and finally had to tell them where we were going, it was killing Jonah.  This is the boy who does NOT like surprises.  He has to know exactly where we are going and if there will be any other stops in between. It is a given that Luke is GOING TO PUKE at some point during the trip so this momma is always prepared.  We made it about two hours out of town before he started this trip.  I had crawled in the back seat to feed The Hulk and about that time I hear, "mooooommmmmm" look up and Luke had  grabbed the "puke bag" aka a ziplock filled with paper towels.  The Hulk is screaming because he wants more food, I am trying not to start vomiting as I am holding the warm vomit bag so it does not spill and Justin is telling me to look at these cool houses!  REALLY dude... I am a little busy back here :) Once the vomit stopped and The Hulk was fe...

Justin and Jeff went hunting this morning hoping for a great hunt with all the rain we had and snow still on the ground. When they got to their blind it was 21 degrees. They only saw two ducks and did not get a shot. Just because its perfect duck hunting weather does not always mean there will be ducks!

We had Christmas with The Mortons tonight!  The kids loved opening more gifts and dancing on the cat walk with their shirts off as they always do.  Seth loves his elephant from his cousins and as you can see from the picture he has some Texas Red Meemaw sugars all over his face.  Sophia was so excited about her ice cream set too.                  

Since we were not home for the snow on Christmas Day we got out the ski gear and let the kids go sled down the hill this afternoon.  Sophia's ski bib and coat are an 18 month and was barley too short.  I cannot believe it fit her, she wears a 3.  Luke was wearing a 4-5 bib and it was so short, Jonah was in a 7/8 and it was short too.  Of course Jonah's snow boots did not fit so he is wearing his mommas!   The bottom picture is of our neighbor pulling his 10 year old behind his truck on a sled, with no helmet.  Yes, you read correctly!  BEHIND HIS TRUCK.  Not a good idea in my book.  

... after the long night of sleepless kiddos Jonah and Luke slept in until 7:20!!!  HOLY COW, that was awesome.  THANK YOU BOYS. The kiddos opened up gifts from us and then from Santa.  They were super excited to open up the XBox that Santa brought them.   After opening all the gifts the boys played XBox and Sophia played with everyones new things.   We got ready and headed over to mom and dads around noon and it was still POURING rain from the night before.  We were getting ready to eat lunch and it started snowing.  It continued to snow for a few hours.  After lunch we opened gifts from Mimi, Papa, Grannie, Aunt Carlie and Uncle Nic.   Daph sent Justin and I a Brew Fest necklace so we are ready for this summers visit!   We then loaded up the car... again and headed to Garland.  We dropped Grannie off at home and headed to Meemaw and Pops.  We ate a great dinner and opened more gifts.  The boys got Sk...

We headed over to Mimi and Papas to stuff some basta for Christmas Eve dinner.  The boys love to do this and Sophia did a couple and was not that impressed.  I cheated and had dad make me a squeez bag to stuff it.    As you can see in the photo Justin and Papa helped get the job done... by having a Crown and 7.  Yes, Papa did get all the meat mixed together to stuff the basta and made the sauce so we let it slide.   Carlie bought Noah, Seth and Sophia some Christmas jammies so we wanted a picture of all the kids in their jammies... it always sounds SO much easier than it really is!   I do believe this was the LONGEST night ever!  We got home around 9:00 and got all the kids in bed. Justin and I got in bed around 11:30.  Seth cried out at 1:40, after a few minutes I went up to check on him and he was happy as a clam when I picked him up.  I rocked him for a while and he fell asleep and as soon as I put him down he started screami...

Justin went to the Cowboy/Saints game today. He was in the end zone first balcony.

It's that time of year that I dread... Christmas card picture hell... time, picture TIME! My blood pressure rises, I start sweating like a whore in Sunday school and may or may not raise my voice. The boys start whining about having to get dressed and their hair combed, I start the threats about taking their iTouch away. They are finally dressed and we are ready to start clicking away. Of course the "he's touching me's" start coming out, the feet and elbow "accidents" start happening and we just want them to all smile and look at the camera at the same time! This year I thought it would be fun for the kids to have props for a Photo Booth shot. Fun? Did I say FUN? Yea right. They of course all wanted to use the same props... go figure! Attempt One: We took over 200 pictures, the lighting was horrible, all pics were different in color and looked horrible! Attempt Two: another fun day of getting kids dressed. Of course Seth decided to s...

Tonight we had the Sherpy/Hickman Christmas at mom and dads.  It was great to see everyone and it has been way too long!  Donna made the Santa cake and we did not want to eat it and mess it up.  Aunt Carlie made gingerbread cookies for the kids to decorate and even Lane decorated one.  I promised to not put it on Facebook and tag him :)