Saturday, December 27, 2014

"Twas the Day Before Christmas . . .

When all through the house . .  all the creatures were stirring and chatting about . . .


 Evan and Kyler were photographers . . so I have alot of Pittsboy perspective random shots of the stirring!





I love that Avery is copying Kyler in the second picture ;) . . she wants to be like the boys!
It's pretty cool that we got to have Miss Weez with us for our celebrating this year! 


 After lots of stirring and eating it was time to settle in for a long winters nap (but not before story time!)
 
 Cookies for Santa . . 
Merry Christmas Eve!

Christmas Warm-up

The boys and I headed down on Tuesday morning for some pre-Christmas celebrating.  Kerry headed down on Wednesday with a swing through Carlisle to pick up Meme.  
 Before we left we did a little celebrating with our 4 leggers!
 They sure did like their treats!
 Kyler jumped right in to the Christmas spirit :)
 And we tackled cookie duty!


 Santa will be happy at this stop off!

Sunday, December 21, 2014

Holly Jolly

 We started off this Christmas week lighting the advent wreath this morning.  Jayden did a great job speaking, while Kyler and Evan handled the lighting.
Then it was off to the Nutcracker for some twirling girl time!
 These two braved the hustle and bustle with me on Saturday to do some last minute shopping and look who we ran in to at Target!
 It's a good thing we got the roof on last week because the weather has been dreary and wet . .  the house has been hopping with workers!  It's actually further along than this - I just don't have a recent picture.  Windows and doors are in, roof is on and heat/air is ran.

 We've had a holly jolly week, full of celebrating!  I haven't done so good getting pictures and you will notice that there are no school party pics . .  that's because Kyler and Evan were sick on their party day :( . Jayden had his Christmas band concert and the boys have been hanging out in the recording studio to finish their parts in the Christmas CD.
Kyler's recording sessions are with fellow drummers - while Jayden and Evan's are scheduled together.






 Throw in a few basketball games, too!
 And a Fun City field trip!
School is out for Christmas break and the Pittsboys are in full Christmas chillaxin mode!  

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Celebrate the Season

This is definitely the best way to usher in a new week of Christmas Celebrating. . .
 Kyler's team got a first game win on Saturday!
It was a Beary cute program these 2nd graders put on!

 bear buddies . . .


Christmas parties, more basketball, band concerts and raising the ROOF (literally!) are coming up soon! 
Fa-la-la-la-la!

O Christmas Tree

This year Christmas decorating has been a bit of a challenge . .  you see, our Christmas stuff was the first thing to go in the storage unit last year . .  therefore - it is at the very BACK of storage unit #1! We settled on a tree from Walmart instead of digging out the artificial and only used some of our ornaments, but the stocking are hung and the tree is lite!




 It's much more fun to use your brother as a step stool, right?!

9 Lives and House Updates

Poor Waldo is not getting along well with the rental hood wildlife! I'm pretty sure he's down 2 or 3 lives after this past week! 2 emergency trips to the vet for cat fight injuries and removal of some male parts to keep him from getting in more trouble!  He looks like a cartoon character cat that got blown up! He's getting good care and hopefully when his 10 days of rehab are over he will not go back for more fightin'!
 This kid is getting Wednesday lunches with Mom til Christmas break.
 progress, progress, progress!
 a little more . . .
and more . . .

 It's starting to look like a home! We check it every day!

Jolly Ole St Nicholas

It's that time of year again! 
 Better watch out . . .
 Better not pout. . .
 Better not cry . . .
 Santa Claus is coming to town!
 In the meantime, we better eat some noodles!
This years visit to the jolly guy is in the books!  Evan has already changed his list, but at least we got the first draft in! It's always a challenge to get all three to cooperate - luckily they have realized it's a Christmas requirement - so best to just go with it :)! Ho!Ho!Ho!