Catching up

The month of November was a busy one for us. We did lots of stuff and I am now realizing as I sit here awake way too late listening to my poor fat boy baby cough away that I never made any posts about it. So here is a recap of November's happenings.

We went to see Carrie Underwood in concert. It was great. We went with my parents and my sister lindsay and her husband marc and some friends of theirs Zach and Nicole. We had a great time. We had great seats and although we had horrible service at the restaurant we ate at before the concert, it was still a very fun night. Jared I don't think was really sure if he would like the show that much but at the end of the concert she sang a

guns-n-roses song and I think it made it all better for him.

My sister, mom and me

Mackenzie and Chloe had their first sleepover. We had fun since both of them love to have fingers and toes painted and hair curled and all of the girly stuff. We only ran into problems when they needed to go to sleep. That was not happening. Even after I seperated them into different rooms to go to sleep my niece Chloe continued to talk to the dolls and to herself, then at one point she was singing all of us to sleep. It was extremely entertaining since she cracks me up.

Ethan had his last soccer game and party. Boy am I glad the season is over. He is now wanting to do basketball so I will have to gear myself up for more practices and games. At least I got a little break from it all. Jared and I were the team parents this year. It wasn't too bad but at the end of season party I kept thinking to myself..."note to self do not let yourself or jared volunteer for anything like this again." Then I also thought...."I need to remeber where I put all my notes to self since I am pretty sure there is one somewhere on this very topic."
We celebrated the boys birthdays. Their birthday's are only a few days apart so for right now they will be having birthday's together. This year we did not have a party, just family over for cake and ice cream. What a relief that was. As a mom I think birthday parties are overrated, and as a mom I am sure I will do one next year to make my kids happy. Oh well, I have got almost a whole year to not think about it.
This year I also decided to make the one of the boys birthday gifts. Now we all know what that means for me. Stress. Since my day never goes as planned, I never get anything done when I think I will. The boys did love their new magnet boards and are very excited to put things on them. That made staying up til 3 am the night before to finish them worth it ( well for the most part, I would have liked to have been asleep but things gots to gets done around here) now if I can get them hung on the wall we will be in business.

Lastly, Thanksgiving. This is my least favorite holiday. This might be the reason I have no pictures of the actual holiday. I only took pictures of Landon's Kindergarten Feast which was very cute and didn't involve any husbands watching football, me having to bake anything, or any clean up by me. I am telling anyone who would like to join us next year we will be eating Thanksgiving out somewhere and I will be ever so thankful to those people who will prepare my meal and serve it to me.