Tanner and the girls

Moody

Merry Christmas!

Tea Party

Right after I had Tanner, my mom was watching the girls. Here they are at a tea party that great-grandma set up. How cute is this?

They are beyond naughty

We're in for a tough year. Coby is now in the middle of everything his sisters get into. The three of them can do so much damage to the house in such a short period of time. They have also learned that when I'm feeding the baby or trying to get him to sleep in his room they can pretty much get away with anything. That combined with 2 weeks off school for Taylor and Chloe equals total disaster! We are having Christmas Eve at our house so I've been trying to get the house clean. I have about 45 minutes every 3 hours that I don't have to be either holding or feeding or rocking Tanner to sleep. So I'd work really hard getting things clean and then the kids worked really hard messing things up. Here's an example of one of the many many naughty things they did today. I had spent about 45 minutes organizing and cleaning Coby's room today. Putting all the toys in the right bins, etc. And while I was downstairs feeding Tanner and Jake was cooking dinner they decided to go on a boat ride. Coby's crib was the boat and of course they couldn't leave home without their stuff!

Family photos

My little cutie pie

and here is Coby as a baby

Gingerbread houses

The girls made their first gingerbread house with the help of Aunt Lauren (Jake's little sister). They had a really good time decorating it/eating the candy. It collapsed completely about an hour after they finished it. It's a good thing they forgot about it. I had a few bites then threw it out. What's going to happen when they start remembering things like the gingerbread house they made, or their halloween candy? :)

Jake turns 36

Daddy celebrated his 36th birthday on Dec. 1st. It was kind of a last minute celebration. We had to make a brownie cake because I forgot/didn't have time to buy a cake. The girls didn't mind though. They had a good time putting the candles in and chowing down on brownies and ice cream. Coby was all about wearing the birthday hat, which is really cute because he never used to like them. Now he wants to be like his sisters and if they say it's cool, it's cool. ;P My mom babysat that night and Jake and I were able to go out to dinner with out the 4 kids. What a treat!

Time to catch up and decorating the tree

I am SOO far behind on my blogging. I blame Tanner. I am going to post one post a day until the end of the year so I can catch up. I'll be posting in random order because putting them in order is just too much to think about. :) We've had a busy couple of months. Some things I need to blog about are family visiting, birthdays, back to school night, tree hunting, decorating the tree and making our first gingerbread house.

To start off here are the kids decorating the tree with Daddy. It's so cute, Taylor and Chloe did the same thing last year...the get all giggly and excited when the stockings come out. They think they are giant socks and start wearing them around the house. The tree decorating was kind of a disaster. The girls loved it but Coby kept taking all of the ornaments off and wanted them in a huge pile on the floor. He would scream when anyone got close to them. Ahh 2 year olds.

Here are few photos from our night:

Tanner is 5 weeks old

This is what happens right after you pull an all nighter. You pass out after your diaper change when mom sneaks away to get you some clean clothes.