Belated Christmas!

I really was so sad this Christmas without my son's home! I loved having Matt home on leave, and getting some quality time with just my sweet husband and I, but the Christmas holiday is centered around our family and without all of us here to enjoy it together, it just didn't feel like Christmas to us! We spent Christmas day attempting to watch the boy's open gifts on webcam at their Father's house. The Internet decided not to cooperate and I was so upset, but luckily Their Dad was nice enough to let them call and put me on speaker phone so I could hear them opening gifts. We had all their gifts under our little tree's waiting, waiting, waiting for them to come home. They were supposed to come home January 2nd, however two weeks was far too long for them to take and they spent Christmas day and the days following calling home to cry that they missed us. So Jon caved and brought them home on New Years Eve. I was NOT so ok with him driving them on rainy roads on the drunkest night of the year, but I was thrilled to have them coming home! Despite the fact that it was raining, and it was after 9 when they got here we decided to let them open gifts as soon as their Dad took off to head back to Houston. They had a blast! Especially since Santa brought them bikes and sparks scooters! Nana and Grandaddy got them the glow dome (which Cody used as a crystal ball. It was quiet funny!) and plenty of arts supplies!! They got home made blankets from Aunt Brittany, Aunt Amber and the family, which they LOVE, and so many other awesome gifts! They were rather spoiled this year and we were SO excited to have them home and see them opening gifts!! Sigh, Christmas, better late than never. I love my son's! I love my husband! Next year....they are home and mine all mine!!

Christmas Jammies pictures!

Finally they loaded! It's taken me weeks now to get these to load, and unfortunately I had to load them one at a time. UGH...Now to go upload the Christmas pictures .............Send in the cadaver dogs if you don't hear from me in the next two weeks, because I will still be here..loading them...one...by ....onnnnneeeeeee...

Christmas Pj's

Each year on Christmas eve we allow the kids to open on gift. Magically it always ends up being a new pair of pajamas. Now how does that happen I wonder?? lol Smart Mommy! My parents did that each year for us, and this way our kids look adorable in all the Christmas morning pictures! This year, with the boy's going to Jon's for Christmas break ment that they needed to be able to open those on the 19th before Dad came to get them. Believe me, them leaving....KILLED me. I cried....oooooh, only a bit! Ha ha, come on, Momma's pregnant, those hormones are ever present, (I waited to cry until they were gone though..lol).



Michael got a pair of Spider Man pj's, Cody got G.I. Joe (which Matty calls, Gee-ji- joe, which I LOVE!), and Matty got Toy story pj's! They all loved their jammies, and hated having to leave the mountain of gifts unopened under our mini tree to go to Dad's but they will still get to open their gifts January 2nd when they come home. Matty was very excited to go one minute and the next crying about leaving Mommy and Matt for Christmas. Separate households is....hard to say the least. Matty laid by the screen door in his pj's and coat waiting for Dad to get there. I am so glad they do have a Father in their lives who wants to be there for them and that they are happy to spend time with him, but my selfish little heart misses them ever so much. ~Sigh~




We also purchased some awesome yard sale finds, Matty showed them off in pictures for us, Vanna White style but so far the picture uploader isnt' working for me.
He's super excited about his baby Aidan coming soon and loves showing off his baby brother's things. $3.00 and we got 3 baby blankets (brand new oshkosh) and the aquarium play tunnel. I'm usually really picky about yard sale finds, if it doesn't look or smell clean I just can't bring myself to buy them and fortunately this woman had taken care of her things, washed them all and they were SPOTLESS and my little OCD heart was able to submit and let me buy them..YIPPEE!

Choir and School Christmas programs.

In December Michael's school choir had 4 performances. He was so proud of himself and his choir. It's so nice to see him really flourish with this group. He absolutely loves to sing and being in choir is his favorite part of school right now. They had one performance at a local Baptist church with a VERY charismatic pastor. It was televised and we are still waiting for the DVD that they are making for the families. During the performance Cody about peed himself laughing. He's used to church services being more......quiet I suppose, and all the yelling and very boisterous preaching from the pastor had Cody rolling. It was quite a feat to get him to sit still. Michael was so proud of himself. During an intermission the Pastor asked if any of the kids wanted to have a solo and whose hand shot up 1st? Michael's! He sang "I am a child of God", it was TOO cute! He got some of the lyrics wrong but it was so sweet and I was so proud that he had no fear! His choir also preformed at the mall in Alexandria the next Saturday, and they were ever so cute! Two more performances at his school during lunch time for the 3rd and 4th grades to round out the holiday season performances. The video's are from the Mall.

Michael baby we are so proud of you!


Matty's pre-k class put on a holiday program as well. It was ADORABLE! As you can see they were dressed up as little Rudolph the red nosed reindeer's and it was too cute!
Cody's class unfortunately didn't do any extra holiday things. They did however have the token Christmas party and his teacher was sweet and sent home goodie bags and hot chocolate mugs for each kid so he felt special.

Also Santa letters came for the boy's and they were very excited! Aren't they cute!!! Yes I know the video is a tad long..lol

St. Nickolas Day

Once again that time of year has come and gone and my little boy's got spoiled by St. Nick. The pictures say it all, they had a lovely sugar high, and posed for a few pictures like good little sports and we got to continue another family tradition.

Nana~ Grandaddy~ & Thanksgiving

I'm a little behind in my posts so I will attempt to play catch up over the next week as will have WAY more time on my hands than I would like. This year is the year Jon will get the boy's for their 1st Christmas away from me. Frankly my heart is breaking knowing they will spend the entire 2 week holiday away from us, but I can't be selfish and assume that their being away from their Dad on holiday's isn't just as painful for him. It's his turn for the memories and my turn to try and find a way to deal with it. So over the holiday break I should have plenty of time to do updates. Just plan on a late Christmas post, as we will be waiting to celebrate and open gifts until the boy's come home January 2nd.

For now I have got to say thank you. Thank you Mom and Dad Morris for coming out here! It's anything but a short trip that they made to drive from Florida to Lousiana. With all my health concerns and those for our littlest little one, Mom was able to come help take care of me while on bed rest for a whole 3 weeks. Dad drove her out here on his very few days off, and I appreciate that more than anyone will really know. I know how hard working he is and for him to just make the time to get out here, and not only drive her, but to help clean our home, and have quality time with the kids even though he was running on about 4 hours of sleep in who knows how many days. Mom was SUCH a trooper! I can't fathom how hard it must have been to be displaced and helping out someone else (esp who is so ocd as I am) with 3 small kids. I never had to worry about things being picked up or cleaned. It made it really easy to stick to my bedrest and for me that is extremly hard! The kids had such a blast with her here and the little bit of time they got to spend with Grandaddy too. They would have loved for more time with him as well but they understand. We all wish we lived closer so we could do more family things, and help you guys out, maybe some day! Once again, THANK YOU Mom and Dad. We love you so much!

While Mom was here we were able to do some really fun little holiday crafts, family pictures and Thanksgiving dinner. We had a lot of fun. I love my awesome family and we have so much fun together!