its thanksgiving day!

today is thanksgiving! i love thanksgiving and i'm thankful that i don't have to cook a turkey! we always have several thanksgiving dinners to attend with different sides of my family and i think thats my favorite part about this day....it lasts the whole weekend :) today we will have lunch with abrams family which will include some traditional TG food like turkey and dressing but there's always some chibo(goat) and other traditional mexican TG food so that's always interesting :) then for dinner we will go to my dad's side of the family where you have all the typical food. friday we get to take the kids to see santa.....my crazy children are afraid of santa but we still stand in line in the freezing cold waiting to see him...lol... saturday we will have thanksgiving with my great grandmother and some aunts and uncles and cousins. that's always a good time and more turkey.... so on sunday we have lunch with my mom and my grandparents and my aunt and uncle. we always try to do something totally different because by that time we are tired of turkey.....this year it's chinese! it was my idea and i have all the recipes so i will be doing most of the cooking and i'm exicted! it will be like my first time to host thanksgiving!

i look at all that i just wrote and just in that paragraph there are so many things to be thankful for....family, friends, food, etc. last sunday the sermon at church was titled 'thanksliving' meaning don't just use thanksgiving day to look at all the things you have to be thankful for but to treat everyday like thanksgiving and realize that everyday there are things to be thankful for. i am thankful for my husband without whom we would not have our 3 beautiful children, our wonderful home and our wonderful life. i am truly grateful for all he does.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!

i've been hit by the christmas spirit!

YAY!!! i'm soooo excited! i never have a set day as to when i put up the tree....i generally try to wait until thanksgiving but most of the time i just decide on a whim and it's usually horrible timing! but when i get the urge there's no stopping me! last night for example: i should have been decorating cake and i had been to walmart like 2 times but i needed a christmas centerpiece for my dining room table so i went. when i got to walmart(its like 5:30 now) i remembered that i needed some new lights for the tree and then it hit me(the christmas spirit). i just had to get home to put the tree up...the kids needed supper and i had a half done cake in the kitchen but instead i drug out the box with the tree and ornaments and up it went! the kids did get to eat by the way and then they helped me put on all the ornaments most of them homemade by them. those are the best kind. there's no need to have a tree with all matching ornaments and ribbon when there's handmade memories to look at. i just love it. it makes me happy. we did have to get the house cleaned up before daddy got home....it was a total mess. but the kids helped and the house looked wonderful and christmas-y! now if abram will just get the lights on the house we will be complete! i love the holidays!

the kids just starting to put stuff up

kollin, in his underwear i know, that is how he always is...lol

kynlee marie this is the first year that she really knows whats going on and the most precious squeals were coming out of her! she loves it!

....and here it is!

kamryn's 6th birthday

finally i'm posting about kamryn's birthday! i intended to do it on her actual birthday but just now finding the time. so sunday she turned 6 years old....i cannot believe it has been 6 years. 6 years ago i never dreamed my life would be what it is now. the day she was born i had never felt that way in my entire life. i loved her more than i can express in words but i also felt like she was my best friend and i still feel that way today. i made the decision that day to always tell her like it is and not sugarcoat life for her. she was born with a very strong personality and she still has it. i want her to see things for the way they are and not some rose colored version. she may come off a little blunt at times and i do have to correct her for being rude at times but she speaks her mind and i hope she will always be that way.





ok enough of that...so for her birthday her dad took her hunting for the very first time. she was ready, excited and already wants to go again. when they got home she told me all about it but the one thing that stood out from all the stories was this: she said "i got to see the sun come up with my daddy." such a simple statement. after all the excitment about seeing all the deer and turkey and seeing daddy shoot the deer.....that meant a lot to her. i loved it. while they were hunting i was busy busy getting everything ready for her camo themed birthday party. the party turned out great and her birthday as a whole turned out great.

definitely did not look like a girl party :)






her and her friend mckenzie setting up the bowling pins(she thought she had to have games at her party...lol

play ring toss with antlers

blowing out the candles

the family that manages days inn put happy birthday kamryn moya on their sign(their son is in her class at school) so definitely had to get a picture of that :)

a birthday and a first hunting trip

...and they're ready to go! it was very early this morning, we woke her up got her dressed and she was ready to go. i was a little worried that she might be gripey since it was so early but she was very excited. at about 9 a.m. i got the call. she said, "mommy we pewmed a deer!" (that means shot) she was so happy but she didn't want to touch it and she said that daddy was dragging it. she's already ready to go again. too bad she has school...lol!

and here she is with the deer. it's only a doe but daddy wanted to shoot something since that was her very first time to go hunting. she really loved it she even wanted to watch while they cleaned it. she told me "don't look momma it's kind of gross" and believe me i didn't want to. birthday party pictures to come soon!

just some pics

my nephew guillermo eating his birthday lunch which happens to be a delicious rib and a peanut butter cookie :)

kynlee with a classic 'cheese' face

kamryn with baby guillermo

kollin and his cousin jave

the kids eating ribs and sausage

this was at my nephews birthday party sunday. we had a really great time but for me it was the end of a very very exhausting 4 days. i, of course, made the cake but i had made 4 previous to that and numerous cookies. but the relief i was feeling that day was wonderful because i knew that it was finally over! i was actually able to relax and enjoy myself and my kids and my husband which i had not done in those 4 days. yesterday, as monday usually is, was my do absolutely nothing all day day. i didn't open the curtains and i laid in bed catching up on my dvr. i just love mondays! i spent an hour reading with the kids last night(that was another thing that had gone undone) and they were in bed by 8:30. i think my body is finally catching up on the much needed relaxation and i'm ready to go for this week.