crazy boys

Long week. Lotsa good, some not so good, work is hectic...it has just been a long week and it is only Wednesday! That's all I have to say about that.
New Years Eve, we drove up to my parents house to celebrate Christmas and New Years with my side of the family. We had a great time and I took TONS of pictures, many of which I have not had a chance to look at let alone edit since, until tonight, I literally had not even fired up my laptop since Sunday.

It's a shame, I know.

It was so nice to spend some quality time indoors (since it has been frigidly cold lately...like in the -10 to -30 degrees Fahrenheit. Ish!) with my family.

My brother, Corey and sister-in-law, Susan...you remember the one from here that made these...and their 3 boys (aka my crazy nephews) were also at my parents for a visit.

For Christmas, it has become a tradition now that I make a calendar of the Grand kids for my Mom and Dad. Since we don't see my brother and his family all that often, I try to take lots of pics of the boys so I have some to use on the calendar. Well this year it backfired on me a bit. Just check out some of the pictures that I took of their crazy boys!
{Doesn't Sam look like Gilbert Godfrey when he makes this face?!?!?}I'm tellin' ya...these boys are simply full of crazy! Not exactly calendar material but they sure do make me smile :)

Christmas 2009

A little behind on the Christmas 2009 post but hey, I am almost always late so I guess it is just par for the course, right?!
This year on Christmas Eve we headed up to Duke's parents house for his side of the family's get together. We got up there around 2:30 pm and and our intent was to drive back home (an hour) to spend the night at our house and so that the kids could wake up to Santa having come to our house. Being the worry wort that I am, I decided to pack ALL of Christmas up in the back of the Suburban...just in case. And just in case came in handy because the snow storm that was set to come that evening and into the next few days did not disappoint. We ended up opting not to set out on the yucky roads and hunkered down for the duration of the storm.
The kids got to wake up at Grandma and Grandpa's to see their very own stockings stuffed full and with gifts under the tree. Grant thought it was pretty cool that Santa found us but both kids thought there would be gifts under the tree at home waiting for our arrival as well.
What did I say to that? Notachance!
Grant was the easy one to shop for this year. He wanted and wished for almost everything so how could I go wrong? His main request was the Lego Star Wars and Lego Indiana Jones games for the Wii. I know the pics below are pretty blurry but can't you just feel his excitement???
Little Mae Mae was pretty easy to buy for as well, I just had to try to limit the clothes she received. I have a serious addiction to buying her clothes and I am sure she would have been less than impressed if all she got was clothes.She was pretty excited about the movies she got (love the after Thanksgiving prices on movies...you can hardly rent movies for between $2-$5 so I load up for the year).Since we were stranded up at Grandma and Grandpa's and they do not have a Wii for Grant to try out his coveted new games...
...it was a good thing that Santa decided to bring him a Leapster as well! He was loving the Batman counting and Cars letters/phonics games he got to go with them too. And Little Sissy got some more Play Dough and Silly Putty in her stocking. Let me tell you, this little girl has a serious addiction to Silly Putty. She has it in hand practically at all times when at home.

Weird child.

There is no way she could be mine!

Okay, maybe I am a little weird too, but I by no means have a Silly Putty fetish!Oh, and Missy Moo Moo got a little pink trike from Grandma and Grandpa and a bike helmet from Santa. Wonder how Santa knew she was getting a trike?!?
With all the excitement of the day, Tootie was all tuckered out around lunch time and started to fall asleep on her stool so she cuggled (snuggled) in on Grandma's lap for a little nappy.
This girly rarely ever falls asleep anywhere but in a dark quiet room so I just had to snap a couple of sleepy pictures of the little darlin'.
Grant wasn't about to nap with all of the button pushing and Leapster learning he had to do.
Can you say addicted already!?!
After bath time and while Grant was still in the whirl pool filled with bubbles (Audrey doesn't like the jets or the bubbles so she is out in a flash when there is talk of turning them on). I guess you can say while the cats are away the mice will play...play the Leapster that is!
Uh oh! Busted!
Isn't this the cutest little mugshot you ever did see????
This one is pretty cute too! Notice the always naked baby doll sitting on the steps with her. Why do little girls always have to strip their babies down to nothing?

What is up with that?

We may never know.
Since we got so much snow and the roads were terrible we opted not to drive up to my parents on Christmas Day like we had originally planned and we have rescheduled that get together for this weekend instead. Can't wait to see everyone since we haven't been up to visit since August.
That is about it for Christmas 2009, or in the famous words of Paul Harvey...
Now you know the resssst of the story!

i ♥ faces - 'Hilarious Outtakes!'

i ♥ faces has whole bunches of fun themes coming up in the next few weeks and this week is sure not to disappoint. This weeks photo challenge theme is 'Hilarious Outtakes' so I personally can't wait to check out all of the awesome entries. And the best part about this week's theme...you can enter up to 5 count 'em five photos. Yippee!
Here are my 5 choices:
The first picture was one that was featured on our 2008 Christmas card. It was taken the day after I got my DSLR so it isn't the best picture I have ever taken, but it is a classic outtake if you ask me!I may be a little biased but I ♥ this picture a ton! I love seeing my children play {nicely} together and the pure joy on their face is priceless!
The tongue sticking out picture is a classic of my little Tootie. She was being a little stinker (as usual) and was swiping the white mini pumpkins from her brother because those were the ones he said he wanted.And this sweet fellow is my dear 'ole Daddy. This fall we were 'up north' visiting my parents and the kids were helping them shuck some corn. After a while everyone started getting a little goofy and started making beards out of the corn hair (not sure what it is really called, but corn hair is good enough for me!)And lastly is a precious picture of my little princess picking her nose at her very own Birthday party. This was right before she got busted by my aunt for picking toe jam at the dinner table. Poor girl is going to hate me some day but I think it is priceless!
Make sure to check out all of the other hilarious outtakes over at www.iheartfacs.blogspot.com by clicking on the link below.