Charlie Brown in ICE at Opryland~

What a CHILLY evening with Charlie Brown and Snoopy tonight in Nashville!

I drove the kiddos and grandma My-Hope up to experience

the new Charlie Brown on ICE~ a big BIG thank-you

to grandma My-Hope for the treat of the tickets and dinner!

We had a great evening and hope you did too.

GOTTA LOVE LUCY!!
Hayden going down the ICE slide for the 4th time! hee
Surprised his butt wasnt frozen off...

Schroeder and his piano in ICE...

Brother and Sister love~

Hayden sliding down the slide again!

Grandma My-Hope said she had a Charlie Brown

Christmas Tree one year... awllll

But this made for a cute pic~

Snoopys christmas light decorated dog house~

This was my favorite I think~

you could walk through

Snoopys house...cool beans man!

This was the best room overall~

All the Peanuts GANG were in a circle around this tree

singing the song famous in the tv special and it was nostalgic!

Baby Jesus and the Nativity Scene, always beautiful!

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!

Doesnt she just look 'Angelic'!!

My handsome son who is soo excited for Christmas!!

~My precious bebes and myself~

(I love you guys soo much!)

After the ICE excitement we drove around the Opryland hotel and

looked at the lights they had on the outside...

they had a gorgeous Nativity scene that you must see!!!

Really it was beautiful and I will have to go for pictures of it.

Then we drove over to a famous restaurant to eat dinner~

You must go at least once if only to watch them flip your

cornbread in a skillet at your table high in the air before they serve it to you!

Hayden enjoying his shrimp and fries!

I love the old timey china they serve your food with! hee hee

FLIPPING THE SKILLET CORNBREAD!!

The kids got a kick out of how high she threw it and

then caught it back in the skillet...

Hayden was like~ "Cool"!

MmmmMMmmmmmmm.....

Posing by the ruby red Christmas Tree... its almost time!

My little Doll-face posing by the tree~

As 'Lyza said...THATS A HUGE ROCKING CHAIR!!

I hope you and yours have a very BLESSED

THANKSGIVING!

We are thankful for so many things but thankful

most for the love of FAMILY!

Love~

Somer Jane

Making Turkeys for Thanksgiving~

Hayden had an assignment to make/decorate his own turkey

to take back to school...

I decided to make a copy of the turkey template that the

teacher sent home and let Lyza make her own turkey as well.

We painted the construction paper cut out feathers with

glitter to make them pop!
Here is Lyzas colored turkey before we cut it out~
Hayden is glueing the feathers on his turkey,
he really did a great job decorating his own turkey!

Hayden even named his turkey!

He wrote the name out himself below....Mack the turkey!

(not to be confused with Mac-truck on CARS the movie! ha ha)

Hayden took his turkey artwork to school and the teacher hung them all up

in the classroom, I visited and got to see that they really had some

creative turkeys but I thought Haydens was the most COLORFUL!!

Im soo proud of you Hayden on making your awesome turkey for school!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Somer Jane

My how she has grown!

Today I caught my baby girl looking at

her 1st framed baby picture of herself in her room.

Im not sure if she truly realizes that the baby in the pic is her

even though I tell her its her.

Nevertheless I thought she looked cute looking at herself and

I cant believe how big she has gotten since that first pic was taken.

She is my beautiful baby girl!

I love you my Princess!!!
All grown up, she thinks at 3 1/2 years old!!
(I see trouble in my future!) hee hee


Somer Jane

Ahhhh, one of those PLAYDOH in the EAR moments~

Man, my kids never quit amazing me with stories for the story

collection of crazy things they did that I get to tell them about one day!

Today was one of those days!!

I mean it was a Calgon kinda day! ;-)

My son was at school in his Kindergarten class having

just a normal day I suppose and I was at work.

Well I get a call at work from the school nurse around lunch time.

The school nurse says that its not life threating and that

Hayden is fine really... but that he was playing with some

play-doh today in his class and now has play-doh in his ear!

Im like ok, this is a first!

He loves play-doh and plays with it at the house all the time,

but he has never tried to put the play-doh in his ears!

I asked if she could get it out but she said she cant its too deep

and she doesnt have the right tools without hurting something...

great I say!

So, I leave work to head to his school and see the damage...

I take hayden home and tried to get the playdoh out of his ear

myself with some tweezers...I got a little but no luck!

Darn i say!

Now i have to actually take you to the doctor hayden!

Great, I hope your happy and will remember that we dont

put playdoh in our ears ever again!!

I take him to the doctor and they have to do a couple of different things to

try to get all the playdoh out of his ear.

(all the while looking at me like it was my fault he

had the playdoh in his ear! Look Nurse lady he was at school!)

They try scooping most of it out with a skinny long tooth pick scoop thingy

and then they had to irrigate it with some peroxide to loosen up the

rest and it slid out which wasnt pleasant for Hayden at all!

I actually felt bad for him but knew he was learning that

he would never stuff playdoh in his ear again!

(poor guy)

Finally he was clear and free of the GREEN playdoh

and I took him home.

Of course he missed the rest of school and mommy didnt get back to work

but we was at least able to hear again and

I dont think he will have any playdoh problems again!

(I only wonder about the Playdoh I bought him for Christmas now though

should I give it to him and be brave or wait till next year!! ha ha)

Ahhh, Calgon take me away!

Somer Jane

Happy Halloween 2009!

This years theme for our costumes was "The Sea"~

Hayden was the Sharkman from the Pirates of the Carribean

and Lyza was dead set on being Little Mermaid Ariel.
(Last year they were both dogs-Dalamation & Poodle remember and the year before that

it was a Neverland Adventure with Peter Pan and Tinkerbell...

I wonder if I can get them to stay with themes for the future?!)

I can dream cant I!

This was one of the cool houses we went Trick or Treating at~

Happy Halloween Family pic...

I need some make-up man! hee hee

But Isnt my shirt cute...my best friend made it for me~shes so crafty!

Trick or Treating at grandma My-Hopes house~

The little mermaid is striking a pose~

This is little Mermaid about to have a heart attack at grandma Rannies house~

(Daddy is introducing her to Freddy and she is not happy!)

Posing with the Wicked Witch, I mean Ranny! hee

(You should have seen her cool black & white striped socks!)

When we got home from all the Candy collecting

we ate a cool Pumpkin shaped Pizza for dinner~

The kids thought it was the bomb of course!

We hope everyone had as much fun on there halloween night as we did!

I want to thank all the family members that let us stop by and

trick or treat at their houses...

SPOILING the kiddos with goodies and gifts galore!

They really had a great evening and it was all thanks to you special loved ones!

You know who you are~ HUGS go out to...

My-Hope

Nanny

Granny'Ranny

Aunt LeeAnne & Uncle Jim

Grandpa Mr. Man & Kim

We love you all and wish you a very~

Somer Jane