Santa 2013

While we were having the girl's portraits done at JCPenney's Austin asked if we could go see Santa. I was so surprised since last year she was freaked out by Santa and did not anything to do with him. When she saw him she ran up to him and gave him the biggest hug. I wish they would have taken that picture. We weren't sure how Wesley was going to react, but as you see below she was not bothered by him either.

 

Getting Ready for the Holidays

A few weeks ago I went on my last work trip for the year and man was is it a doozy. I flew Tuesday morning to Houston and was in Houston until Thursday evening and then I flew to Burbank (with a layover in Phoenix) and finally was home Friday afternoon. I could not wait to get home to see my babies and Luke. One of the things I thought about during my travels was how Wesley is almost 14 months old and I still have not gotten professional pictures taken with both girls. I thought I would go the easy and cheap route and just do a cute portrait shoot at JCPenney's. Man, why did I not learn my lesson from the first time I went there when Austin was 1 month old. I am sure if you look back at my blog I vowed never to return, and here Luke and I were on a Saturday morning with both girls at JCPenney's. I have learned my lesson and I am definitely not a portrait type person. Plus Wesley is just at the age where is next to impossible to get her to sit still or do what you want.

Since Thanksgiving is late this year, its throwing me off on everything. We decorated the Christmas tree today. I don't think we have ever had our Christmas tree up before Thanksgiving in my life. If I could have convinced Luke, I would have liked to have the Christmas lights up outside too.

The bottom pictures are Austin's class picture and school picture that finally came in. I felt that they waited a long time to take them and then it took a good month for them to come back. Austin is doing good at school, although she did get in trouble for the first time the other day. She got a little physical with another girl at recess. I was so upset about it that I could not even eat dinner that night. I worked from home the next day just so I could take her to school and talk to her teacher about what happened. Austin had been fighting a cold and so her teacher chalked it up to her being tired and not feeling well because it was so out of character. Although she did mention that Austin is still being bossy, but now she is being "stealth" about it and actually whispering her bossiness so the teacher cannot hear. I have to admit I do think that is pretty clever.

Wesley is wearing us all out! She is always on the move, into everything and climbs!!! She has had a terrible runny nose that just wouldn't seem to go away, but then we realized that she had cut two molars and is about to cut two more. She still is not talking a lot, but added "shoes" and I swear she was saying "up" today. She grunts and growls a lot. Luke said she sounds like a zombie.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Halloween 2013