Our Family Decathalon

Every time we are ALL together, we try to do a decathalon. We think up 10 events and divide into 2 teams. Now that Trent is married, the teams are finally even. We draw names to see who will be on whose team. This time it just happened that couples were together and the teams were: Trent, Paige, Dave, Meagan and my dad, my mom, Christian and Tasha. Our respective kids were on their parents teams. It just happened that way. This time, here were the events:

1. Dance Dance Revolution

2. Horseshoes

3. Ping Pong

4. Scrapbooking (everyone does 1 page and then we have an impartial judge)

5. Speed Scrabble

6. Guesstures (basically, speed charades)

7. Kid Event (Hudson/Emery crawling race, and William/Keira stick horse barrel racing)

8. Egg toss

9/10-- didn't happen b/c my team was winning to badly that even if the other team had won both events, we still would have won!

Here are a few pics to document the events:

Horseshoes (Dave won) and DDR (Paige won)

The babies racing (Emery won) and the toddlers on stick horses (William won)

It is always SUCH a fun time. I highly recommend it for those of you who have families that like to have a good time!

Christmas

It's been a busy week here. Dave's family came last Monday and left Friday afternoon. It was such a good visit, but because it was so action-packed the time flew by! Here are a few pics and a re-cap of our Christmas week.
Christmas morning with Grandma
the 4 of us at the Gaylord Texan
Hudson's first Christmas! He just liked the paper.
William REALLY got into opening presents

Trent and Paige here for their 1st Christmas!

Uncle Jeremy liked William's toys better than William did!!

Dave's 4th Marathon

Dave ran his 4th Marathon on Sunday-- the Dallas White Rock Marathon. He originally, when he started running marathons, was just planning on running 1 marathon. His goal was to do it in less than 4 hours. Long story short-- every single one he has missed his goal, mainly due to bad weather-- either too hot or too windy or both. Even this past October when he ran the Chicago Marathon it was incredibly hot. We had been having nice cool weather lately here, so things were looking good for the marathon on Sunday. But, of course, the ONE day he needed cold weather, it was near a record high. When he finished the marathon it was 77 degrees! (side note: of course, Monday it was high of 38!). Needless to say, I guess he's not finished running marathons!

Playdate mess

Last week William had his 2 friends, Keira and Emily over for a playdate. Well, we all have babies as well, so there were 6 kids here! It's always a little bit crazy when they are all here, but still fun. So, I gave all the kids spaghetti for lunch. The babies-- Hudson, Sophie and Emery-- obviously enjoyed it!

Everything you ever wanted to know about me...Christmas Style

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? At Christmas, wrapping paper. I like for all my presents to match. This year my theme is red/white. Red paper with white "jingle bells" all over it and white paper with red candy cane stripes.
2. Real tree or Artificial? REAL!!! And even if I wanted to do fake, Dave would veto it.
3. When do you put up the tree? The day after Thanksgiving.
4. When do you take the tree down? Early January.
5. Do you like eggnog? Nope.
6. Favorite gift received as a child? Probably my corn silk cabbage patch kid.
7. Hardest person to buy for? My in-laws.
8. Easiest person to buy for? my kids.
9. Do you have a nativity scene? No, but I'd like to get one. Maybe an after Christmas sale this year.
10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail. This is a tradition that should not ever be replaced by technology.
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? Christmas 2003-- our 1st Christmas being married. I told Dave NOT to get me shoes b/c I wanted to pick them out myself. So he bought be 2 pair - a black and brown of the SAME shoe. They were HIDEOUS. But he thought I would like them b/c I had a pair of flip flops in the same brand. They got returned the day after Christmas.
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? Elf.
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? I always try to start in October, with the goal of finishing by Thanksgiving. But, usually I'm not done until mid December. I just finished mine last night.
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? I'm not gonna deny it, though I can't think of something off the top of my head.
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Depends on the cuisine. This year we're doing Italian, so I"m looking forward to homemade pasta.
16. Lights on the tree? Yes, small white ones.
17. Favorite Christmas song? Little Drummer Boy. Or Jewel's "Rudolph"
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Normally we travel either to my parents in Oklahoma or to Dave's parents in Georgia. This year we get to spend it with both families at OUR house.
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer? I think so
20. Angel on the tree top or a star? A silver Star.
22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? Spending SO MUCH money.
23. Favorite ornament theme or color? I like a hodge podge of ornaments. Some from our childhood, some we're collected, and now some homemade ones from Willialm.
24. Favorite for Christmas dinner? I'm looking forward to Italian this year.
25. What do you want for Christmas this year? a pasta attachment for my Kitenaid Mixer (noticing a theme?)


*****Three things you are wearing right now…not necessarily in any order
1. running shoes
2. sweatshirt
3. workout capris

*****Two things you want very badly at the moment.
1. silence
2. breakfast.

*****Two things you did last night:
1. went to my neice's 1st dance recital
2. went to bed early

*****Two things you ate today
1. coffee
2. and getting ready to eat oatmeal

*****Two things you are going to do tomorrow
1. going to a cookie exchange
2. eating those cookies

*****Three of your favorite beverages:
1. lemonade
2. diet dr pepper
3. margarita

Christmas jammies

These are jammies that William wore when he was a baby. The difference is, Hudson is BUSTING out of them already, and we have nearly a month to go until Christmas! But I still think he looks pretty darned cute in them. As you can see, he has major bedhead. Both boys get such bedhead...it's a sign that they need haircuts! So, I took them to get haircuts yesterday. I will post pics of their knew "dos" later...

Like Father, Like Son

William INSISTED on reading Golf Digest last night while he was going to the bathroom. He wanted to be like daddy... Of course, I would never take a picture of "daddy" doing this, let alont post it on my blog. YUCK. But, I think it's cute when a 2 year old is doing it!