Good stuff

Good news! Took Bry to Dr. and he said his tonsils were medium to medium large. Nothing quite emergent so that's good. He put him on a steroid and antibiotics to see if it will shrink the tonsils a little. So we got back in two weeks to see how it's working. But I do think after three small doses of meds he seems to be eating a little better already. 

Today was the last day of school for break. I went to the school for the parties. Lots of fun!

Bry got to decorate a cupcake like a reindeer of course!

He also got made into a snowman!

Dev was having relay races outside.

Its the Rudolph reindeer relay race. Look at the pic above, the nose has become his eye!! LOL!

So after bath time we got all dressed up for the Christmas pics! Just the boys that is! They were definetely hamming it up for the camera!!!

CRAZY PIC!

On other good news....we have a house showing tomorrow and also a different person on Friday!! Whoo hoo..we also still have a buyer that is trying to pick between ours and another house.....so....Dear Santa we've been good....so bring us a buyer with an offer on our house for Christmas!!!!! Please!!!

Keep your prayers coming.....it's working!!!!

Took the boys to see the chipmunk movie Chipwrecked today... They loved it! It was a very cute movie, we did it up right and had popcorn, Sprite ( a real treat) and candy too!! wow!!! They like the royal movie treatment! LOL!!

Hoping to make it to the store today for a few ingredients to make some sweet treats. Although, I think it will have to be Walmart....eekkk...putting on my PATIENCE hat for sure!!!

Not sure if I'll blog again before Christmas or not...so...just in case:

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF YOU!!!!!

Almost!

It's almost Christmas!! Wow!! The boys are getting so excited! They only have 1 1/2 days of school left.

So one morning the boys found Mark trying to roast some marshmallows!

Bry drew a picture for Mark to take to Santa. I forgot to rotate it before I uploaded it.

Then one morning Mark was caught take his nap!!

We made homemade strawberry banana milkshakes one evening. The boys drank them out of there flashing glowing cups!

Another Mark spotting! We got this awesome live wreath from a great friend Denise and family!! The boys were so thrilled and we were too! It was our first ever live wreath!! It smelled great!!

Saw this cute little idea online. I'm going to give it to Bry's teacher and assistant for Christmas gifts. It's not much but just a little gift of thanks that they can use!

So it's going to be a busy start to the week. I need to get everything gathered for our trip before the boys are out of school. Much easier when they are at school than at home. We didn't get to the movies this weekend, so maybe Tues or Wed we are going to try to go see Chipwrecked. Although, I also have to try to fit in a Doctors appt for Bry. I think his tonsils are swollen. He has been having a few issues and seems to be having trouble swallowing. I looked in his throat and the tonsils seem big and swollen. I am only comparing to Dev's though and I'm not totally sure. But, putting it together with his trouble swallowing things lately, it makes me wonder. He isn't complaining of any throat pain either. So I'm going to go ahead and make an appt to get him checked just to make sure. I don't want them to swell any larger!!

Otherwise we are all excited about the coming week and weekend!
Well that's all for now. Hope everyone had a great weekend.

Oh yeah!!! By the way, my pepper steak turned out great!! I will definetely  make that recipe again!!! It tasted great and was really easy!!
Toodles.

A surprise and some randomness

The boys got a big surprise today. Mark our Elf sent them a card in the mail with a special reminder to be good! the boys were very excited!

Just thought I'd share our new ornament this year. I like to get a new ornament each year preferably with reference to something in our year. I thought this would be appropriate for our new relocation to Saints country!  :-)

We were in the store yesterday and saw this! It's the spot to take pics with Santa. Notice the alligator in the bottom of pic! Ha ha....only in Louisiana do you get to pose with Santa and an alligator at the same time!!!! LOL!!!

The boys thought these huge fish were really cool too!

Wow, I think it was 75 today! How nice! I stopped after school and let the boys play a little football again with some of their classmates. I got to meet a few of the Mom's also. Slowly but surely we are adapting and blending into our new school environment.

Tonight is an attempt at a new recipe for dinner. Mike requested pepper steak. Ok, I've eaten it before but never made it myself. We'll see how it turns out, yummy I hope!!

So proud of Dev!! He brought home his test grade folder today with tons of A's!!!! He had six tests and got A's on all of them!!! I am so proud of him!!! I've been giving him a quarter for each A he brings home in his test folder. There was also an extra incentive of an extra $1 if he would have 10 A's in a row without any other other grades in between. So far he did not achieve this goal, until today!! Whoo hoo, he has 10 A's in a row exactly! Wow, so today cost me $2.50!! wow!! I am so proud of him though, did I already say that??? ha ha!

Well gotta run and work on my pepper steak. Toodles.

Visiting time

Mom and my sis came for a visit this weekend. Of course we had to go and eat some Alligator!! Not too bad actually!

It was Ok, I probably would not order it again though. It didn't help that I've watched the show Swamp People where the guys catch the gators....hmmm..
At least I tried it!

Jen enjoyed her Jacked Up Shrimp! Now those were awesome!!

We also had to let Mom and Jen try their first Beignets!! Oh so yummy!!

It was a first for the boys also. yes, we will definetely be going back for more of those!!

Saturday night was the company Christmas party. So we got dressed up and had a night out. It was alot of fun!  We started with drinks and snacks and played a few games before dinner.

My honey won a gift card for a dance off!! whoo hoo....$100 !!!

I won a guess the M-N- M's in the jar game. ha ha, go figure! I do this all the time at my parties! The total was 420 and I guessed 398. I got $25! whoo hoo!!

Another spot we found Mark the ELF.

Had a nice visit with Mom and Jen. Sad that they are gone......

I can't believe it's only 2 weeks till Christmas! The boys only have 5 1/2 days of school left till break! wow!!
I only have an item or two left to get before Christmas so I'm happy about that. Excited about the holidays with family.

Still praying for our house to sell! Please keep praying for us!

The weather is supposed to be in 60's and 70's this week, wow! Love the warmer weather. The boys have early dismissal tomorrow, not sure where we might spend our afternoon yet. Hoping for maybe a day trip to the zoo or maybe even New Orleans this weekend if it's nice.!
Toodles for now.

oh yeah

I had a great 21st bday yesterday!!! whoo hoo!! Too bad I didn't get to indulge in my first drink since I had some things to do last night requiring driving. But, hoping to hit the drive thru local Daquiri shops this weekend, whoo hoo!! Enjoyed a great dinner out also with my three fav guys in the whole world!

Mark our Elf even got in on the celebration! Check him out!

Loved making these cute little reindeer for the boys!

The boys got creative on their own too!

Bry decided to give his reindeer a mohawk!! LOL!

The other night the boys had their school Christmas program. Dev got to wear a nice outfit and Bry wore an angel costume. They both did very good in their singing at the program. We were very proud of them!

Of course with almost every nice pic is a crazy pic!!

Mark was found hanging from our Mistletoe this morning! He even brought a small bag of kisses for the boys.  Very cute! Dev shared one of his with me, so sweet!

The kisses came in handy this morning to be the nose for their breakfast.

The weather is pretty chilly this morning. About 30 degrees but supposed to warm up to about 58 or so. yay! 

Oh yeah, excited to do a little Zumba today. I got Wii Zumba for my birthday. I love to dance so this should be fun and include a workout without much realizing it! Actually, I will definetely realize it I'm sure as I start to drip sweat dancing all around, but that's OK!

Well time to watch a few recorded shows and then head out to the grocery store. Maybe even grab another Starbucks for a treat, thanks to my sis for the giftcard for my bday!

Toodles. 

Good times

We've had a great few days. Mimi and Gran J were in town for the boys Christmas program. We went to the dress rehearsal this morning. It was so much fun! I took some pics, but we'll see if I get any better pics tonight after the performance before I post them. We also drove around looking at lights, love all the cajun influence. I'll be taking my camera next time so I can share all the fun here!

Last night we went out for dinner for an early celebration for my birthday. We took the boys to Joe's Crab Shack. It was their first time there. It was such a great time!

Dev ordered the kids Steampot! wow!!

An attempted group photo but not everyone was quite ready, still a fun pic!

He was getting so serious working on getting all the crab meat out!

Created a few different Christmas cinnamon chips for yesterday's after school snack.

Some of Mark's other adventures include an appearance in our blender. Bry was so tickled We've been making homemade slushes, so he was tickled that Mark appeared in the blender so we couldn't have slushes that day. :-)

Today he is keeping watch from above our door. Can't wait to see where he appears tomorrow!

So tonight is the real Christmas program peformance at the school. Excited for Daddy to see it, he didn't get to attend the dress rehearsal.

Only a few more days and Mom and my sis will be here to check out our new town. Excited to show them around and do a little shopping. Sat. is also Mike's work Christmas party so the boys get to hang out with Mom and Aunt Jen.

Loving the warm weather here. It was 79 yesterday! Now it has cooled down to 50's today but I'll take the 50's over 30's or lower anyday!!

On a side note, I've decided not to do Christmas cards this year. It's not that I'm not in the spirit, I am!! But going to be a little more frugal this year with some things until we are completely settled. So I'll be emailing a Christmas greeting, putting one on FB and also a greeting on here. It's not that I'm trying to be less personal so I hope everyone understands.

Well time to get to the more more stuff like chores, grocery shopping and cleaning...boo! But someones gotta do it I guess! LOL...toodles until next time.