New Years Eve 2008

Scott and Kimberly went to a youth event. They played Capture the Flag. Scott takes this game very seriously as you can see by this picture. LOL

While they were gone I stayed home with the other's and we just hung out and watched TV. Kimberly came home just in time to see the ball drop. We counted down, then threw confetti in the air. I always go by Eastern Time on New Years Eve.

It's 11:30 right now and I can barely keep my eyes open. The kids are about to go over to the open field by the Church to watch Scott and Adam shoot off fire works for the youth. Meanwhile, I'm going to bed.

Happy New Year Everybody!!

Scott did it again

Ya'll will never guess what my wonderful husband did tonight.

We went out on a date and ate at Outback Steakhouse. I told him I had to use the ladies room before we left. He told me that he was going to go outside while I was in there, but to sit on the bench out front when I was done and not come to the car. Well, I went out there and didn't see him anywhere. So I peaked around the building to find him decorating our car with shoe polish!! He then pulls out this string of Dr.Pepper and Coke cans that were attached to the back of the van, then came and picked me up.

We had fun driving through town with our car decorated like this. We went to Wright Brothers where one of the EMT guys saw what he had done and gave us a big thumbs up. It was neat! :)

It was one of the sweetest, most romantic things he's ever done. :)

Christmas Day

This morning the kids came in our room at 6:30 to wake us up. We all went into the living room together to see what Santa had brought. He filled our stockings and gave Kimberly a MP3 player, Kirsten and Katherine a Nintendo DS, Kyrie a life sized Barbie doll, and Christopher a spider man chair. They loved their presents!!

Then they all picked an area to sit while we passed out their presents from us and grandma/grandpa Rodgers. Then we told them they could begin opening them. We all got alot of neat presents. My big present was a GPS. I can't wait to use it! Scott's big present was this cool indoor/outdoor temperature thingy.

After we opened presents and played with all of our toys the girls watched College Road Trip that Kimberly had gotten while Scott and I watched 3 episodes of LOST. :)

Now we're watching A Christmas Carol.

It has been a great Christmas!

Christmas Eve 2008

We've had a great Christmas Eve. This afternoon we went with my friend Donna and her kids to see the movie Bolt. It was a really good movie.

Then we came home and got ready for the candlelight service at Church. I love that service.

After Church we all opened one present.

Then we started making cookies for Santa Claus. Every year we always put flour on our faces to show how hard we've slaved over the cookies. LOL

After that we sang Christmas carols while Kimberly played the piano for us.

Right now we're watching "It's a Wonderful Life." Then Scott will read the Christmas story from Luke and we'll go to bed. Actually we'll put the kids to bed, then Scott and I will watch LOST. :)

My best friend's visit!

This past weekend my best friend from San Antonio came up to see me. Her step dad has a plane. He flew her up Friday. Friday night we worked on our plans to do some major letterboxing in Tyler.

Then on Saturday the two of us headed out to get the boxes. We found 8 boxes and a hitchhiker. Traffic was really bad so we weren't able to get to all the boxes we wanted too.

On Sunday I took Abbie around Harleton to get the boxes I had hid there. I found out that one of them was missing though. :( It was so cold on Sunday. We really are crazy. LOL

Then on Monday she had to go home. :( The weather wasn't cooperating so her step dad couldn't fly back to get her. So I took her to Waco where we met her step dad halfway.

We had a really good time. I miss you Abbie and I love you. :)

The Rockettes!

Last night we went and saw the The Rockettes perform in Bossier City. It was beyond awesome! I can't describe how good it was. We had a great time!

Here we are getting ready to leave for the big night.

Kimberly's recital and Gingerbread house

Today was Kimberly's piano recital. She did so well. I was very proud of her.

This evening we made our very first ever Gingerbread House! It looks pretty sloppy, but we're proud of it. :)

Day 2 of fun with my mom!

This morning shortly after we woke up, Maw Maw had a little tea party with Katherine, Kyrie and Chris.

Then we got ready to see the big Harleton Christmas parade! I always love seeing this parade. It's a simple, small town parade. The kids get alot of candy from it, so they love it too. :)

Then mom and I went shopping. I almost got all of my shopping done. We ran out of time b/c we had to meet Scott and the kids to go to Santa Land! We had never been before. It's near Tyler off of I20. It opened at 6:00. We got there at 6:20 and the line was about 2 miles long to get in!! It was crazy! However, the wait was well worth it. It was spectacular. I've never seen anything like it! The kids said they now want to come every year. I only got 1 picture of Santa Land that I can share and it didn't turn out very well. Kyrie got onto me b/c there was a sign saying no cameras allowed. I kept trying to sneak and picture though but Kyrie kept getting upset with me. So I put it up. I guess I taught her too well to follow directions. LOL