New Year's Eve MURDER!!

Karly- Butch Chasity ....................Kevin- The Outlaw

.........Villy- An Indian Chief ..........Tara- A Mexican Widow...

Jenn- Elvira, Brothell Owner................Matt- The Sheriff

Heather- The Rancher........Alex- The Gay Cowboy

This year we went to the Judd's for New Year's Eve. We thought it would be a perfect opportunity to do the Murder Mystery I have been dying to do. It was SOOO fun, if you are thinking of ever doing one, I highly recommend it. This group was a blast and really got into character which made it that much more funny!

I being the town slut had fun trying to come up with a modest/harlet outfit to wear.
Matt was the town Sheriff, oh it was so funny....

I ended up being the Murderer... and I didn't even know it....so watch out!

The food was amazing, Kevin caught tons and tons of fresh Crab. YUM!

What a great way to bring in the New Year.

All the kids giggled and played the whole night without a peep of complaint or whining, I couldn't believe it...we didn't even leave until 1:30am!
Hunter chatted non-stop the whole way home excited as can be, he kept saying,
"I'm not tired, I'm not tired."
Then as soon as his head hit the pillow, he was fast asleep.
Matt and I thought it was hilarious because Hunter seems to have only on and off buttons.

Emmy, Jessica and Maisy
These girls are so cute together.

Christmas Surprise!!

All the kids wanted for Christmas was a PUPPY.

We told them Santa doesn't bring live animals.

However, as we thought more and more about it,
it would be nice to have a little buddy for Powder to play with.

So several months before Christmas we picked out this sweetheart and reserved him until Christmas. He looks EXACTLY like Powder. On Christmas Day he was only 9 weeks old.
SO CUTE!!

We secretly went to pick him up on Christmas Eve and he stayed at the office until the kids went to sleep. We bathed him because he apparently slept with a goat and then
we introduced him to Powder...I think Powder is still waiting for him to leave.

We slept downstairs with the dogs waiting until Christmas morning. Everything was going as planned until....

about 1 minute before we were going to tell the kids they could come down Powder thought it would be a good time to get rid of this new intruder and took a little nip at him, which sent puppy yipping and crying loudly! The kids were very confused but still didn't know it was a puppy.

Once they came down the stairs...

Jessica saw the puppy right away
The boys completely didn't even notice him!

But once the secret was out, they were very EXCITED!

CHRISTMAS HIGHLIGHTS

1. Grandma, Grandpa and Shauna coming.
2. Bode our new Puppy (named after Bode Miller the Olympic Skier)
3. Bode peeing all over Jessica's picture from Santa of the reindeer.
4. Jessica's reaction from Boddie peeing all over her picture from Santa.
5. Watching the kids more excited to watch their siblings open the gifts they bought for them.
6. Having a full on nerf gun war with everyone.
7. Watching Logan move play with all his "experiments" and wearing all his different glasses.
8. Watching everyone (especially Shauna) try to beat the highest scorer (ME) on BOPIT.
9. Eating Christmas Dinner made by Chef Daddy...ahh yum.
10. Just hanging...watching Bode pee on everything.

Predictable Jammies

Christmas Eve night the kids opened their predictable jammies...

they now say, "Can we open our jammies?"

instead of ...."Can we open our present?"

it's getting harder and harder to pull anything around here.