The Christmas Shoes

For those of you who read this that aren't family or local friends, here is the 411 on what I am doing this weekend. Our church music department is putting on a show, a dinner theater actually, and I want you to cover it in prayer!

We are performing the musical, The Christmas Shoes, based on the book by Donna VanLiere, which was based on the song, by Newsong. It is a beautiful story with a great message. Pray for the all the people who are coming, that their hearts will be touched by the true meaning of Christmas, celebrating the birth of our Lord, JESUS! Pray for all the little details that go into putting on such a production, lights, sounds, dialogue, solos, props, etc!

Also, just to be selfish for a bit, pray for me. I am in the main cast and I am starting to get just a bit nervous. Pray that there is recall for me of my lines, that I can do them with a straight face, and that I don't trip or fall in my heels! Thanks! I am really excited to be a part of this and so thankful that I was asked to take part!

There is no way I could have prepared for this and gone to all the rehearsals required without Cory stepping up in a huge way! Thanks so much for taking up the slack here at home for me while I was at practice every night this week! I truly appreciate you holding down the fort for me! You are the best!

1st Snowfall

Some of us get a little excited about seeing snow around here! SO when we woke up this morning to a light dusting of snow on the ground and flakes coming down we were thrilled!
It is around 1pm now and it is still snowing! Caden has been bugging me all morning to go out and play, but I have resisted. Carter isn't feeling well and it is only 26 degrees with a windchill of who knows how low. But I gave in finally, and once Carter was napping, I bundled up the big man and sent him on his merry way!

He couldn't wait to get the sled out. We bought it last winter, actually at the end of winter, on sale. So it has been sitting in the garage in plain sight, just taunting Caden. That is the first thing he asked about once he realized it was snowing this morning! Daddy even went outside on his lunch break for a few minutes and pushed Caden on his the sled!

Don't Feed the Bears

Don't feed Carter or the bears, especially pudding, yogurt, or applesauce. I gave them pudding with their dinner and I thought Cory was watching them, while I grabbed Cole, but I was wrong!

Trying to Take Cute Pictures

This is what happens these days when trying to take cute pictures of the boys. I found these precious shirts while at the outlet mall in Orlando! I love them, but it was a futile effort tyring to get a picture of the three of them together.


The first one I took was actually the best. I had a couple of shots of just the three boys that were terrible. So Cory had to step in and help out.

Cory told them on this one, to puff out their chests so we can see the train on the shirt.

Also - when they got dressed for church that morning, I was all excited about their cute matching shirts. But Caden soon took the wind from my sails and told me that the shirt didn't have a correct train on it. Apparently the coal car is too far back from the engine and it was not right. He didn't want to wear it because it was wrong. So after apologizing for not checking the order of the train, I convinced him to wear it for me anyway!

It's Finally Christmas

I love Christmas! I love decorating for Christmas. This year we did it a bit early because we were actually home the weekend after Thanksgiving. Caden and Cory helped me with the tree and we had it up Thursday evening. I finished most of the other decorations Friday and Saturday. Cory, Caden, and Carter did the lights outside on Saturday. I love coming home and seeing it all lit up...I am not sure why, but it is fun!

I love that Caden gets so excited each morning the move the star on our advent calendar. He has learned that each time we move the star it is one day closer to Christmas. If you ask him what that means, he will tell you it is time for presents, but then he will also tell you it is Jesus' birthday.

I have most of the presents wrapped and he was a little concerned that he and Carter had presents to open, but Cole didn't. So we go ta few little things for Cole (bibs and a rattle) and wrapped them up!

Merry Christmas!

Rockstar

Okay, so a post for each boy today, I must include some video Cory took of Carter the other night. This boy definitely wants to be a rock star! Normally he always is strumming his "guitar" belly and banging on whatever he can find to make drums, and we can't forget the singing. At the top of his lungs, "NA NA NA NA...etc" It is so funny! He really gets into it with the facial expressions and sometimes even some dance moves.

On Wednesday night, Cory had some show on with lots of musical acts, I think it was Christmas at Rockefeller Center, anyway, Carter just played along with each song like he was really in the band. It is the craziest thing and always brings a smile to my face!

It is really dark, but you can sort of see him hitting the drums from Cory's rock band set and if you have your volume on, you can definitely hear him singing!

Thumbsucker

Look what I found little Cole up to in bed. He must know that I don't like thumbsucking and want them to be paci babies, so I can one day take it away. You know, you can't take off their thumbs :)

"See" Anything Different?

So what do you think....Apparently they are really helping! His teachers noticed a big difference today at school. Now if we can just keep him from wanting to take them off and clean them 100 times a day, that would be good!