Edited to add: another picture :)

Since Chloe's birthday falls on Christmas, we've decided we will most likely celebrate her birthday in January each year. We will have a birthday cake for her on Christmas, but her parties will be held later. For this year's birthday party, because she is such a big fan of the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, were gonna have a Mickey party for her. I tried taking some pictures of her today for her birthday invites, I put Taylor's mickey mouse ears on her and we took a few shots...

:)

It's been 2 years since Chloe blessed us with her presence on Christmas morning :) Happy Birthday baby girl!

So guess who went out and purchased a ton of greeting cards and still hasn't mailed them to family and friends? Well that would be me :) I don't know why, I'm just being lazy, I don't feel like addressing the envelopes! I'm thinking of mailing them out this week. I know it'll be after Christmas but the card does say "Happy Holidays" and I consider the 'holidays' to include New Year's, so technically they wouldn't really be late! But, just in case they never reach their destination....

Happy Holidays from the Westons :)

It's the final day of Christmas spirit week. It's Christmas tree day. Not really sure what the kids were suppose to do for this, but the closest we came to it were these socks :) Yes I took a picture of Tay's socks, I am dork!

Well today was "Reindeer Day". The kids didn't have anything reindeer related to wear, so I thought I'd share this picture of santa with his reindeer instead :) I took this picture last weekend when me and the family went to the "festival of lights" in downtown battle creek. We had a really nice walk; the weather was great. The lights were really pretty!

More of spirit week...

Here's Tay on red/green day; Not alot of green going on, but plenty of red (including the hair) :)

"Christmas Spirit Week" continues :)

Today was "Pajama Day" I bought these jammies for Tay at Kohl's. When I first saw them, I thought they would be a perfect Christmas gift for her since she is a major "High School Musical" fan :) They were suppose to be what she opened up on Christmas eve (we always open pj's the night before Christmas) anyway, with pajama day coming up at school, I went ahead and gave them to her early. She absolutely loves them!

This is "Christmas Spirit Week" at Taylor and Caleb's school. They have something fun for the kids to wear each day this week. I loved having spirit week when I was in school, it took the otherwise "boring just another school day" and livened it up and made school fun :)

Today is "Santa Hat Day"

Holiday Tag...

in other words, more than you ever wanted to know about me and Christmas!

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? Hot Chocolate with tons of minature marshmallows :) I must admit though that I've never had egg nog, just sounds gross!

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just set them under the tree? We don't really do the santa thing!

3. Colored lights on tree or white? We actually have both on the tree. I would have never thought to have both before but we have a pre-lit tree that came with color and white lights and I really like it!

4. Do you hang mistletoe? No, we don't need mistletoe to play kissy-face :)

5. When do you put your decorations up? Usually Thanksgiving weekend. This year though we were a week late!

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? My mom's turkey dinner with all the trimmings. I love her homemade bread and stuffing... yummy!

7. Favorite Holiday Memory as a child? My mind immediately came to the year when we had a Charlie Brown tree :) We were kinda late in getting a tree so we ended up with a tiny tree, seriously I was as tall as this poor tree! That was the last year we had a real tree :) That is not necessarily my favorite memory but it's the one that came to mind first! That and the year I got a cabbage patch doll, mom had to fight for that you know! :)

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? you mean he's not real?

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? Yes, we do open one gift Christmas eve, it's always a pair of pajamas. Gotta look nice for Christmas morning pictures!

10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree? We let the kids decorate it, then later mom goes back and "fixes" it :) shh... don't tell them.

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it? Before Christmas - love it, I love a white Christmas but after the new year? dread it!

12. Can you ice skate? never tried before. My dream though is to ice skate at the rockefeller center in NYC!

13. Do you remember your favorite Christmas gift? Chloe, 2 years ago this Christmas :)

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you? Celebrating it for the right reason.

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? Fruitcake :) no seriously, I look forward to Aunt Patty's pumpkin roll and all the yummy chocolate stuff my mom bakes.

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? Watching "It's a Wonderful Life".

17. What tops your tree? A snowman shaped like a star.

18. Which do you prefer giving or receiving? Well I have to say giving or I'll look like the grinch.

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song? Mary did you know?!

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum? I like the peppermint candy canes, yuck to the other flavored ones!

M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E :)

The MICKEY MOUSE CLUBHOUSE is the new favorite in this house. Well it's Chloe's new favorite :) Here she is with her very own mickey movie. It's her first dvd. She wants it on all day long, if we aren't already watching it, she begs to watch "house". Apparently Chloe isn't the only one watching the clubhouse, the toys for it are very hard to come by this Christmas. It's like the new tickle-me elmo :) I'm hoping that after the holidays, the stores will get some new shipments and I can get her some stuff for her birthday!

P.S. this is her "cheese" face, isn't it the cutest?!

Robby and Katie :)

Happy Birthday Vic :)

Today is Victory's birthday, the big 2-1!

Here we are last weekend. We had a SURPRISE birthday dinner for Victory at Olive Garden. Kelly was the decoy, her and Vic were meeting for a girls night but when they arrived at the restaurant, Becca, Sue, Jennifer and I were there waiting. Vic was so surprised, it was fun being so sneaky :)

I hope you are having a lovely day Victory!

O Christmas Tree

O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree how lovely are thy branches...

We got our Christmas tree put up over the weekend. It is so easy putting up now that we have a pre-lit tree that comes in a total of 3 pieces. I don't miss the days of sorting all the branches by size and by that little color at the tip, the color that was mostly missing anyways. And Lenny certainly doesn't miss the days of putting the lights on. I always made him do that part, I hated it. Especially since most of the lights were all tangled together and just thrown in the box :) So now it takes us a total of about 15 minutes to put the tree together! We let the kids put all the ornaments on. They were mostly on the bottom of the tree and all clustered together :) I did move some around a little after the kids were done and when they weren't looking!

I love it when the house is all dark except for the glow of the Christmas tree, it's so purty :)

Christmas Pictures

Trying to take Christmas pictures of these kids is like trying to pull teeth. No fun :) Chloe was not interested in sitting down whatsoever, Caleb was busy giving me his FAKE smile and Taylor was whining the whole time about her sweater being too hot. After the shoot was over, I pretty much declared there will be no Christmas cards this year :) But after looking through the pictures and Jennifer working some of her "magic" I now have a pretty decent picture that I will be using. You will have to wait until you get your card in the mail though to see it :)