The Stage is set

 With just 2 days left to go I took some random pictures of us and Christmas around the house.

Here are my boys LOVE them

Yes another year and I could see the fine lines in this picture :)

My Emma

Our new addition Roxy but don't let her innocent little face fool ya

Emma and I went to the Nutcracker at Hult last weekend.  We were both just mesmerized with the whole experience.  Definitely a repeat for next year.

A surprise gift basket from a friend containing little things she knew I would like.   Very special to me.

We had a monogram ornament a couple years ago and it broke.  I was so happy it was replaced with this one this year.

One of my favorites... notice the owl in the background.  Lots of owl decor this month with Emma's owl themed birthday and some additions to her bedroom decor.

Emma has outgrown Santa and Hunter is leaning that way.  

I love the ornaments that are full of glitter and sparkle.

Piero One has this shoe for the bottom of your dining room chairs.  Would love to add that to our decor for next year.

Emma and Hunter take turns changing the hand.  As you can see they are ahead a day.  I wonder if they think they can trick us ;)

The nativity set. 

Costco had beautiful poinsettias this year.

Holiday wine toppers

My mother in law gave me these sweet angels and I love them.  They greet you when you come in the front door.

Our tree.
As much as I love sitting by the tree and admiring it's beauty I'm so over vacuuming the needles. 

The greatest gift is from above

So many memories with this elf.  Once when Emma was 4 we caught her talking to "Henry" the elf Christmas eve telling him not to bring Hunter anything because he was really bad and she was good.

Theres those owls again

Can't forget the Reindeer

One of our Christmas Card pictures.

Pool Time

Rhett set up a little pool for the summer and we spent most days outside enjoying it.  Here's a few pics.

Emma and her goggles.  Rhett made her throw these away because they made her look so funny.

Dad didn't swim as much the kids would have liked but when he jumped in they were thrilled.

Always thinking... hmmm wonder what goes through her mind

Did you catch me thinking?

I love this picture of Kruz.  

My handsome boy

Father's Day

 We celebrated Father's Day a day early this year.  We got up and got dressed and headed to Eugene to attempt the wild task of having breakfast together at a restaurant.  I'm sure it has all to do with our parenting rather than our kids but trying to sit through a meal anywhere now days has not been worth sitting.  But since it had been a while we decided to give it a try and it actually turned out really nice.  After breakfast we headed to a nearby bike shop because Rhett wanted a bike for Father's Day.

Kruzer fell asleep watching a movie and Emma and Hunter waited patiently in the car while Rhett picked out his bike.  Going into the store Rhett wanted just a cruiser bike but he decided while in the store he would not only buy a mountain bike but he would join a mountain bike riding group in Eugene. Go Rhett!

Now Kruz has just learned to peddle so he was more than thrilled that Daddy got a bike and they could take bike rides together now.

Look at that little face!!!  Oh I love my Kruzer boy!

 It works out perfect.  Everyone rides and I run along side.  I'm still trying to decide if I still want a cruiser bike or I want to buy a mountain bike too like Rhett.

Sunny Days

So maybe it's 60 out but when the sun is shining in Oregon you can't help but feel like it's 80 and you want to be outside.  We had some nice warm days last week and Friday we let the kids play in the water.  Yes they were shivering and the water was cold but lots of laughter as I sat back and watched.

The new thing was making a puddle to slide into until Rhett saw this and put a stop to it.  Guess it ruins the grass.

By evening we could hardly wait for the sun to go down before we started roasting marshmallows

Rhett is always looking for ways to improve making the "smore" he found some sticks that make it easier to turn the marshmallows and he was very happy with the results.

As Was I!

Dude C'mon you've had 5 already!

Nice family day/evening all around.  Hope to have more similar ones this summer.

New Adventure

 During our recent trip my sister in law introduced me to some fun crafty ideas.  I decided to go for it and start creating things as I go.  I opened an Etsy Shop but am not quite ready to list any items yet.  What's fun about this is that Emma loves doing anything crafty.  So we stayed up late and worked on a couple of things last night.  Here's what we have so far.

Emma picked out the colors for this and we made it last night.  It's Black, Hot Pink and Silver.

I have more ideas for headbands other than the basic flower.

I love Fabric Rosettes! These can go on anything.  I'll be using these on headbands along with some other things.

Emma and I worked on this Tutu last night.  I love the sage and brown with the cream.