Christmas Eve at the Beach

Our favorite place to take a picture! The shark mouth! Half our pictures turned out a little blurry this year but that is what you get when you ask a 20 something male to use your iphone to take a picture....not the best quality. I made us stop at the Christmas store even though we didn't even buy anything. It just seemed like the thing to do on Christmas Eve!

Here are a few pictures from the Aquarium.

And then a few from the beach.

And lunch at our favorite beach place, Mo's. It is a funny tradition to go over to the beach on Christmas Eve but it has turned into one of our most favorite things to do! And it tires the kids out for the LONG night ahead!

12 Days of Christmas

So we started our twelve days of Christmas surprises from Grandma and Grandpa Moyes on Sunday. This is such a fun tradition that we LOVE and are so thankful that grandma puts so much time and energy into putting this together for us every year. We love you Grandma! Here are a few pictures in random order because I can't move them for some reason.

This year grandpa had a special present for everyone, John Deer pillowcases! WE LOVE THEM! I would really like to know if grandpa really sewed these?? I am extremely impressed if you did! And still totally love them if you didn't! But they are embroidered with a little saying of Grandpa says good night. Maddy said it was glow-in-the-dark but I haven't confirmed that yet. Dustin thought they were sleeping bags at first.....jk.

One night was a couple of bedtime stories and hot chocolate. Here Maddy is reading the 12 Days of Christmas, how appropriate.

Here everyone is eating their yummy brownie treat!

We are having to much fun! Thanks grandma and grandpa!

Aprons galore

My little chefs! For Christmas my mom got everyone aprons! Ok maybe not the one Dustin is wearing but even he admitted that he really enjoyed wearing it even though it said girls just want to have fun.

The girls were so excited to wear them especially Maddy. She literally wears hers all day every day. She took it to a sleepover and then I even had to intervene when she was going to wear it school the other day!

I love this picture of my twins.

My mom wasn't originally going to get an apron for Ivy cause she is just so little but my friend was making them for us and she threw in this little apron for Ivy as an extra present and I have to say it is about the cutest thing I have ever seen! Hers and Maddy's match except Maddy's says Short Stack and Ivy's says Baby Cakes! So Cute!!

Of course Lilly got the sparkly sassy wipe clean apron.

And we went for the bug jar theme for Josey.

This picture cracks me up because everyone is so true to life. These are the stages that all my girls are in. If you look at each one of them you will see who they are right now. It is priceless!

And my sweet Maddy in her favorite article of clothing.

Thanks mom! This was a perfect Christmas present!

random Ivy

Dustin finally downloaded all the pictures off his phone! I don't know why but I don't seem to be able to keep track of the camera much these days. So here are a few random shots of little Ivy getting so big!

Ivy has started LOVING her bath. If she just sees the bathtub she will start whimpering to get in!

She has also discovered the big blocks and these have become a favorite as well.

And doughnuts.....the girl is addicted!

And last but not least.......snow globes. What little girl doesn't love snow globes though? Especially one that swirls the snow on it's own and plays lovely little music box Christmas music? She saw this at Home Depot and I just couldn't leave the store without making it hers.

That smile is why.

Good-Looking Couples Likely to Have Daughters.....

So my sister sent this to me the other day and I just HAD to post it here seeing as I have 4 daughters and 0 sons..... and since I get comments every other day about how sorry people are for my husband and that they are so sorry for me because I am going to have 4 teenage daughters and they constantly ask me if I am going to keep trying to get that boy.....and if you can't tell is gets REALLY ANNOYING!..... here is my new comeback:


I am going to direct them to this study: http://ibnlive.in.com/news/goodlooking-couples-likely-to-have-daughters/136509-19-93.html?from=tn
And then I am going to tell them that it's okay that I have only daughters because I still love them even though they are not boys......SHOCKER......and that according to this study I am a good looking woman and there is NO SHAME IN THAT! And then I am going to ask them if they have more girls or boys.....better yet maybe I will just tell them that I am guessing they have more boys....if you get my drift! :)

sorry Missy

(Okay Missy so I am sorry that I don't have ANY pictures from Thanksgiving but my dad does and Becky does so hopefully we will get to see some of those soon! I will post them when I get my hands on them.) Here are a few random pictures from the last couple of weeks:

Ivy has discovered how much fun it is to play chase to the stairs......over and over and over again. If she didn't think it was so much fun I would TOTALLY put a stop to the insanity! "Are you coming mom?"
"I'm gonna beat you!"

"You found me!"

"Please please please just let me crawl up a few?"

"Okay, now I am ready to do it again.....you still there mom?"

We went and cut down our tree again this year. We named it.....Piney the 4th. This picture is so cute of everyone!

Ivy was already in bed so I snapped some of her the next day.

Thanks for the cute Christmas ornament mom!

She looks like she is trying to crush this ornament.

I can't believe this is her first Christmas! Maybe by next Christmas she will look like a girl?

Maddy, and her cute new bangs that she loves.

Lilly, who had to pose like 4 different times until she was happy with the position of every body part in the picture.

And Josey, who for some reason had made the most ornaments on the tree.

Maddy was having a pre-teen night, or maybe she wasn't feeling good. But I forced her to take a picture with me. She secretly loved it.....it's written all over her face.

I don't know what is up with the color on this picture but this was the face she was making most of the night.

And this was the face SHE was making most of the night. Aaahh it's great to be 8....and not have all the hormones kicking in.

Here are some other random pictures from Dustin's phone.

Ivy and her very own keyboard to smash on while mommy is on her computer.

Josey......eating a cracker.....I don't know, but it's cute.

Here are the girls next to our downed Christmas tree. They are so cute! They ran all through the Christmas tree farm yelling Marco Polo to find each other. I am sure it didn't get annoying to anyone.

And here we are visiting Santa. My dad has lots more pictures of the girls. The guy behind the counter said I could only take one picture.....but he didn't say anything to my dad about how many pictures he could take!

This picture cracks me up because Maddy totally didn't want to go on Santa's lap this year. I asked her to take Ivy over but then Ivy started screaming so Dustin rushed in to take her away and Maddy got left talking to Santa. Doesn't her body language look thrilled?

And here was Ivy and her first encounter with the big red stranger. I am sure my dad has some WAY better ones. I am excited to see them.

And here is Lilly I am sure explaining in great detail everything she wants for Christmas.

Apparently I didn't get one of Josey.....great.....I will never here the end of this from the middle child. I know these things....right mom? Dad please send me a picture of her!