Sunday morning I dusted off the mandolin and began to slice up potatoes and then the REAL CHEF stepped in and helped me out with the rest of brunch. Soooo good!
Not sure if you can tell, but this is Jace trying to skateboard...on his itty bitty toy skateboard! Hilarious!
This day I wanted to take a couple of pictures with my little man...he was being silly the whole time, but I still love how they turned out!
I love when the girls come home from school and they've learned something new...I get to hear all about it!! This day Lauren came home and was so excited to show us that her class was now learning cursive. She even gave Bella a quick lesson on how to do "h". She was so patient with her. 
And since I had a can of pumpkin sitting in my pantry, I went ahead and made pumpkin chocolate chip bread...another favorite of my children!
This was Bella's second Acro Show of the week. They do a cute dance to "All the Single Ladies", do some running/jumping and then end in a pyramid with the High School girls doing giant flips over them. This picture of Bella is right after she got taken down by the big finale jump! The last girl to flip over the girls didn't get up as high as she should've so unfortunately she came down early and clipped Bella...sending the pyramid down rather quickly. It freaked me out though, cause I didn't really see it happen (too busy looking at my camera) but everyone else that saw it really reacted! She cried for a split second...probably from shock! But she got right back in there and finished off the show. She's our tough cookie!
Jace had his 2nd birthday, so he deserves two days in a row! We kept it low key and had family members over for cake. After 3 kids it doesn't seem prudent to spend all sorts of money on elaborate birthday parties, especially when they won't remember a darn thing! The funny thing with Jace and his cake was that every time Jamie lit the candle, he'd blow it out really fast before we could sing to him...so I couldn't get one shot with him blowing out his candle! Day 13 is Jace playing with a new toy that he thoroughly enjoys. Lots of new play things to keep him busy!
Usually consists of drawing for the girls (Lauren especially). She barely gets her stuff put away and she's grabbing paper and a pencil. Right now she's learning about Dinosaurs at school, so we've got a ton of dino pics all over the house! So happy that she's creative and artsy!
I did not make him clean house! He loves to get the vacuum out and go at it, but today was operation take down Christmas STUFF and he really wanted to help out! So we let him. I don't know if he actually got anything off of the floor, but he sure was cute trying :-)
And here I am showing off my new PROJECT LIFE kit that is going to help me keep all of my 365 photos organized! This is going rather smoothly so far...love this project!!
and a few bonus shots from the day...Jamie cooked his tradional New Years Day dinner: Ham, Black Eyed Peas (for good luck), cornbread, etc. D-LISH!
The sun was perfect and pouring in...here's one that I adore!
and the girls bundled up and went out for some snow time...brrrr it was cold out!
