My Fat Sister

Looks like Jamie might need to lay off the leftover pizza!!! ; )

Kidding, kidding. Here she is at almost 6 months, turning out to be possibly the cutest pregnant lady ever. I can't wait to meet my precious niece!! Grow, Jamie, grow!!

Sweet Shiloh

Jason took these of our sweet 4-and-a-half-month-old baby boy yesterday. I love this little guy so much!!

A visit to Santa...

Bear believes in Santa with all his heart and little sweet soul, and it is the cutest thing I have ever seen! He told me the other day, "Mom, some of the kids at school were saying that they think their parents bring the presents instead of Santa. Isn't that RIDICULOUS!!!" : )

Anyway, in anticipation of our visit to Santa at the mall today, I had both of the big kids make out Christmas wish lists of items that they hoped to receive from the jolly red-suited old man. Here are their lists!

Bear:

1. PSP (Play Station Portable)
2. Swing Set
3. 2,000 Wii Games
...4. Scroll from OK China Buffet (they give these away for free, btw, but Autumn has one and he doesn't, so it drives him bananas!)
5. 2,000,000 pieces of gold

Autumn's list was as follows:
1. Lots of Uglydolls
2. Another one of those breakable porselin (porcelain) dolls with the red hair like Norah and Barrett broke last time!!!
3. A swing set........
...4. Awesome girl stuff and also lots of stuff for my American Girl doll she is awesome!!!
5. Books books and more books (followed by a picture of books)

I, for one, think their lists are awesome. Especcially Bear's. If Santa comes through with 2 million pieces of gold, I will be one happy mama! : )

After our list-making and a relaxing afternoon at home, we headed to the mall for a little visit to Santa. Bear had a (rather long) heart-to-heart with him prior to our full-family photo op. We decided that rather than dressing up in our cutest Christmas outfits, we would just go as we were. This was primarily because we happened to be at the mall, and there happened to be no line. : ) But still, I kind of like that it is such a realistic representation of everyone!





Man, I love those kids!!! : ) I hope everyone is having a great Christmas season so far! This morning, my awesome friend Allison is watching Miss Norah while I trek off to Bentonville for a VERY last-minute addition to the cover shoot (as in, we go to print TODAY!!!), and then we should have a relaxing day of house-straightening, gift wrapping, egg nog-drinking and ski trip packing.

Those lucky duck 2 big kids of mine get to go on TWO trips this year, one with their dad later this week and one with me and Jason in January. They're going to be such the little snowboarding rockstars!

I guess I should get going on the day now... Happy Tuesday everyone, and if it's going to be this stinking cold, we might as well all think SNOW!!! : )

Motivational Monday - 12/13/10 Edition

From the "Inspiration" file on my iPhone, here's a thought that helps keep me going in the right direction!

"Every damn day." -Nike t-shirt

Published Work: November 2010

My Little Buddy!

I absolutely could not love this little guy any more... He is so sweet, I just wanna eat him up! : ) Here is an iPhone photo from one of our conversations this afternoon. Precious boy!!

Norah's Movie

Jason was feeling creative on a trip to the park the other day, and ended up shooting a one-minute short film of Norah playing. Click below to check it out! : )