Alvin is back and Oh Christmas tree!

We woke up this morning and Alvin the elf is back!!! He even made us breakfast and brought some letters for the kids to fill out for Santa, we're so excited to see what mischief he gets into this year!


Sophie found him a girlfriend and Brielle wrote him a note :)


And we have another hilarious story to add to our Christmas tree adventures....











After we finished decorating we noticed something... Do you see it? Here is a hint our tree is really really Happy for the holidays ;P

Thanksgiving and Black Friday

Thanksgiving morning the boys go Hunting for quail and chuckers, they got a few, Hunter was so excited! TJ forgot to take pictures, and on the way home he realized it, so made everyone get out and take some "action" shots lol. Love him :)



And then I totally slacked on pictures, too busy chasing kids and eating! We went to Grandma Cannon's first and had fun with tons of family and yummy food! Then we headed to my parents house for more yummy food and fun, we were all tired!

At 8pm TJ, Ryan, and Ashley headed for Walmart, and were successful and that makes me totally done shopping! Woooo hooooo
I headed for The Children's place, a friend of mine works there and let me know they needed help on black Friday, if I worked I could get in early Thursday night and shop plus get an employee discount! I was so excited, my kids needed clothes so bad, I saved so much money and had a blast working, it was a shock though I haven't worked an 8 hour day for like 9 years lol. Definitely not as hard as staying home though!

The kicker for me was I have been photographing some products for a catalogue/Internet business these ladies are try to launch in January, they wanted me to come after work Friday and do some group shots in the store, they said it would take an hour or so. Well, 4 hours later we were finally done!! So I worked all day and was done, got home and went to bed at 9pm! TJ had to work 3pm-close so my family took the kids all afternoon, thank you it was so nice to know they were having fun and luckily went to bed with me early!!

But now I am done with everything and all I have left to do is enjoy this fun holiday season with my loved ones and get to wrapping!!

Colts are #1

They played 3 playoff games Hunter scored 2-3 touchdowns per game




Colts take first place!!!!






This picture make me smile 4 generations of Bentley Atheletes :)


We had the team and their families over after to eat and watch our high school's state championship game!




On the way home Hunter told me the other team was crying and I said that it was okay, when you work so hard for something you get emotinal, He then said "I might have teared up just a little right after we won...." Made me smile and cry harder :) These boys have all worked so hard and have never gotten close in playoff games, this year they all did so well and really had a blast. They deserved this win!!




***And on a side note, every sport this year Hunter's team has taken first place!!! Spring: Soccer and Baseball Fall: Soccer and Football!!! Basketball starts in January!!!!

Breaking Dawn

Tj won 4 tickets to the first showing of Breaking Dawn, I was so excited but at the same time saw we had to be there between 5:30pm-7pm and was thinking man we are going to waiting for 6 hours and then watch a 2 hour movie!! I don't do well without sleep and my husband works a lot so its not like I can take a nap or go to bed early so I usually wait until a few days after to go with my friends.

We decided to go and in the back of my mind I was thinking... what about all those people who bought midnight showing tickets? There's not enough seats to fit everyone, maybe they will play our movie early?

Heather, Jerri, and Cristy and I got there at 5:30pm and we were starving! They made us leave our phones in the car, no phones or camera's anything like that! I went to use the pay phone and the kid from Shallow Day, they sing 'Twilight what have you done with my wife' google it, it's a great music video! Anyway he let me use his cell phone, I called TJ and asked him to order food from the Pizza Factory store across the street. 10 minutes later they started seating us, It was only 6pm they said we would be seated at 7pm!! We couldn't leave the theater or the line, plus no phones to call and cancel our pizza!

A little while later all the sudden my husband is there with our food!! I guess the delivery boy called TJ and couldn't find us so TJ picked it up and searched the theater for u, he called the number I called him on and the guy answered and said he had no clue where we were now lol. He found us, hurried up and gave it to me, I put it under our seats and we secretly ate our yummy pizza, salad, and breadtwists So funny!!!

They gave away prizes and I won a plastic breaking dawn bracelet and we had so much fun, our theater was full of some fun people!

The movie was perfect, I need to re-read the book, I forgot a bunch of things but the ending.... oooooh it is GOOD!!!! Love love loved it!!! Plus, I walked right past those fans waiting since 5pm for the midnight show that was still 2 hours away and went home to go to bed at 10:15pm

Tis the season!!

I am going to enjoy being THANKFUL before decking my halls with Christmas but I have been thinking a lot about my kids and presents this year, I am sure some of you are in my situtaton or heck, maybe have some advise!

I have stated before Christmas isn't my favorite Holiday, shocking I know, I am not a grinch, I love all the tradtions, the joy and excitement my kids have, the parties, the fun, the feeling in the air, all of that Christmasy stuff! I just don't like, the grouchy people in line buying crap they can't afford for people who don't even appreciate it and it ends up in the garbage anyway lol I feel like Christmas as turned into "I WANT, I WANT, I WANT" from big and little people.

My dilemma this year is my kids don't want anything specific, they want everything they see yes, but nothing specific. I now have 4 to buy for and I am sick of my money being spent on toys that fall apart the next day and or getting tossed aside. We are lucky to have tons of family and come home with tons of stuff, add that to birthday stuff, and my toy room is always cluttered!! Now, every few months we go through and throw away the broken stuff and a few weeks before Christmas I make the kids go through and give me everything they don't play with, I either box it for the younger ones or when we deliver dinner to a family in need we add the toys that are in good condition.

Christmas is so magical for kids so I would hate not to have what they want under the tree but at the same time it's such a waste! We usually give them clothes and stuff they need and fun craft things along with the toys but this year I am thinking of doing something different.

Santa will be bring them the present of their choice and we will give them the usual minus the toys, instead they will get "Fun" boxes filled with fun things to do with us or activities they like to do throughout the year.

For example... We try and take them one at a time to the movies, fiesta fun, or other places that are way to expensive for all of us to go all the time. So the boxes will be filled with whatever theme, gift certificates, treats, stuff like that. Another boxs will be filled with new dance stuff, or soccer, football, baseball gear that they will need later on.

So what do you think? Do you think they will be excited opening those types of boxes? Maybe there are some other ideas, let me know! I need some help!

Cars 2

The kids and I made cars to watch Cars 2 in, Hunter and Brielle were so creative, I saw the idea on Pintrest (love this site) but I think ours are soooo much cuter!! The kids loved it and after poking holes for their feet watched the entire movie in them!! In fact they are still watching tv, reading, racing, eating, and crashing them lol

Strikers

The strikers were UNDEFEATED this season!!! Wooooo hooooo!!!

So proud of my lil speedy he was amazing, he scored multiple goals each game and really worked hard on going after the ball more aggressively.



These boys had so much fun together


Go Speedy!