Pics from JCPenney's

Last Thursday my sister and I took our children to get their pictures taken at JCPenney's. I have to say even though everything did not go as perfect as I would have liked it...it still was fine considering between the 2 of us there was 7 children. The oldest child turned 5 years old on Christmas day. Our appointment was at 10am. We made it on time which I was amazed considering I had 4 girls hair to style and my 2 boys.

My 4 kids, Mikey 2yrs old, Robyn 4 yrs old, LoriAnne 2 1/2 yrs old, Jonathan 1yr old(next week)
This is the ONLY picture we could get of Mikey. AND it took everything to get him to cooperate and smile. But I wanted to at least have 1 picture of him for his 2 year old b-day picture.

Jonathan was very cute while taking his pictures. He really seemed to enjoy it. I was happy that at least it did not take much work to get him to smile. Getting pics taken of the kids can really wear you out.

What a cutie!!!

Jonathan again...

and again....oh soooooo cute!

My sisters childen...Carly 5 yrs old, Jason 2 months, Emily 2 1/2 yrs old

Becky's cute childen again....

Jason's 2 month picture...very cute!!!

This is the CULPRIT for my lack of blogging!

February 14th will be here before we know it. Then we will be off to Nashville, Tennessee. So for now Dave and I have been spending most of our time packing and going through things. It is amazing how much stuff you accumulate with 4 children. Robyn has started her own pile of stuff she wants to bring to Tennessee. We will have everything packed and sent off to Tennessee by Feb. 5th. Then we will stay at my mom & dad's for a little over a week. My mom will fly out with us to Tennessee and then it will be time to unpack everything. So if I do not blog much over the next few weeks it is because I am going a little crazy trying to balance everything.

"A Princess for a Day"/Pirate Party

My mom and dad had a princess party for their grandaughters and a pirate party for their grandsons. The kids all had a BLAST. First the girls made bracelets, while the boys hung out whith grandpa shooting canons from the pirate ship my dad bought for them. Then they all had lunch. After lunch they decorated cupcakes with sprinkles and the girls all had a princess to put on top the cupcake and the boys had pirates to put on top. The girls also had their finger nails and toe nails painted. Then they all got dressed up for pictures.

Robyn does not usually like to dress up but she really had fun being "A Princess for a Day"
LoriAnne is the "little princess" she would stay in dress up clothes ALL the time if we let her. On this day I did let her wear it all day. She wore it to bed even.

Mikey had a great time being a pirate. I was surprised he let me put the eye patch on him. He sure makes a cute pirate.

LoriAnne is singing a song here. She decided to put on a performance for everyone :)

Not much to be said about this cute little pirate. Jonathan just is adorable as ever :)

Here is a pic of all but one of the princesses that were there at the party. For some reason I did not get a picture of all the pirates together.

When I put Robyn to bed that night she said "It was sure fun being a princess for a day, Grandma sure had a Wonderful party". Yes, she did! Thanks Grandma & Grandpa for making this a special day for all the grandchildren.

La Habra Children's Museum 12-28-2007

I took my daughters and my sister’s daughters to the La Habra Children’s Museum. (my sister watched the boys) They had a great time. This is the perfect place to take young children. I have already been searching for places like this in Tennessee. I have found a few that look good. We will have to check them out when we move there in February.

Emily posing for the camera w/ LoriAnne in the background.

LoriAnne having fun riding the car.

The girls always love the shopping area. They seem to spend most of their time in that area.

LoriAnne is making sure she has everything she needs.

This bus is always a favorite of the girls to play on.

The girls had fun playing with everything in the "Under the Sea" exhibit.

Of Course the trip to the La Habra Children's Museum would not be complete without a ride on the carousel. The girls were lucky and rode the carousel 3 times this day.

Robyn is practicing filling up her car with gas. A few more trips to the museum and she may be ready to start filling up my vehicle with gas :)

Robyn is funny she had to have a picture with this big "thing"

Yee-haw!

Cute pic of Carly!

Robyn always enjoy playing with this railroad track.

Emily really enjoyed playing in this. She is such a cutie!

When the girls were all done we sat on a bench outside the museum and had lunch. It was a fun "girl's" day out!

Christmas Day

On Christmas Day the kids woke up at their usual time 6:00am. I was actually already awake. I think I was more excited about what Santa brought then they were :) After the kids opened their presents from Santa we went to my parents house and spent the day there.
Robyn got the Barbie doll that she asked Santa for. She was very excited. Although Robyn is one of those kids that is excited about everything.


Santa brought LoriAnne a Barbie doll too. Good thing because LoriAnne likes to have what her sister has :)

Jonathan enjoyed pounding on the boxes. He did not seem interested in what was hiding under the wrapping paper.

Mikey enjoyed opening his presents. He was a bit overwhelmed with all the commotion going on around him but once he saw his toys it was fine.

Robyn, Mikey, and LoriAnne patiently (or as patient as they could be) awaiting the time to open presents at Grandma & Papa's house.

LoriAnne was VERY excited when she opened one of her presents from Grandma & Papa. It was a pink poodle purse. She is a dog (animal) lover. She carries that purse everywhere.

Jonathan on his new bike.

Mikey really seemed to enjoy his balls he got for Christmas. He did not want anyone to touch them. He would not even let us take them out of the package. Mikey is a funny boy.

This is LoriAnne with her best friend Coal. My Aunt and Uncle live a couple doors down from my parents. We went over there to visit them later in the day on Christmas. If LoriAnne was missing then we always knew where to find her. In the back yard with the dogs. This dog is bigger then her but she does not seem to have any problems with that.

This is the last picture taken on Christmas day before we left my parents home. I guess if I wanted a (perfect) picture of all 4 kids in front of the tree I should of done it before they were tired.

Christmas Eve

As you can see I am sooooooooo behind on my "blogging" so I am going to be posting multiple blogs tonight!
We had fun on Christmas Eve. We took our kids over to visit a family friend in Fountain Valley to look at lights. Everyone in the neighborhood goes ALL out every year. It is pretty spectacular. Unfortunatley after taking a few pictures the mode on my camera got changed so most of my pictures did not come out but at least you can see a little bit of what we enjoyed.

Here the kids are waiting patiently to walk around and look at lights.

Here the girls are enjoying the Christmas lights, decorations, and music. Most of the homes had music playing along with all the decorations.

Robyn wrote a note to Santa Claus requesting a Barbie for Christmas.

I don't know if you can see it but in the mail box it says "Last pick up December 24th". Robyn got her letter sent off just in time.

These trees were really neat to watch. The lights were synchronized to the music that was being played.

LoriAnne loved this snow globe with the snowman in it.

I am not sure if you can see the detail in this picture. But the owners of this home have put lights on every single branch of this tree. It is pretty amazing. I am not sure I would ever have enough patients to take on such a tedious task. But I am so glad this person did because it is a spectacular sight to see.

This is one of the last homes we saw. A few of the homes had these wood cut outs that they made themselves. These people really have spent allot of time on their decorations for everyone to enjoy.