Oh the fun times of Christmas Break

It's been a nice break. I've missed seeing Avery at home. We have watched several movies with different friends... Horton Hears a Who, Toy Story, Charlie Brown Christmas, Kungfu Panda, Bolt, and maybe more? Today we watched HSM 2 in which Avery came crying to me saying “This movie is so sad. Gabriella left without Troy. She just got in her car and went away…” I forced myself not to laugh at her and just told her to hurry and go see if she comes back...Seriously? Crying during HSM!!!???

We have also been drawing a lot. Here is Santa carrying a bag of toys...Zane just likes drawing plain ole people with weird hair!
I was suprised when he decided to change it up a little and draw me when he was inside my tummy...

Bordem causes me to do crazy things. Zane's hair was getting a little out of control...but I didn't want to get it totally chopped off. It's cold right now and I was kinda getting attached to his hair. I also wasn't ready for him to look two years older with a short hair cut. So this is the crazy cut I gave him... Now that Christmas is over, we have several new toys we are playing with all day long. I'm not ready for school to start back up yet.....

Tur Christmas Card

Thank you to everyone that sent us a Christmas card- they are covering our fridge and look great! Sadly, we did not get around to making Christmas cards this year, so here it is... Here is the whole Bean Family picture. Little cold, lotta wind.

Hopefully next year we will actually send out cards. Merry White Christmas!!

Not ready for the cold...

The weather lately has been amazing.With no school, we made a trip to the library for story time and then watched Toy Story. It's weird having Avery around these days. I love it.
We had another busy weekend. We went to Downtown in December on Sunday and I got hot in my jacket. We rode on the trolly and was going to ride the Cruise along the Ok river but we heard the wait was 2 hours + so we decided not to.We met Meemaw there and they rode in a carriage and thought that was pretty neat.We then enjoyed a free boat ride along the bricktown river.

Saturday we ate at mamasitas and then went to look at Chesapeake's lights. We bought a $25 gift certificate off restaurants.com for only $2. The food was great. We were stuffed and had leftovers that fed us for 2 days! It ended up being only $20 (tip included along with the $2 we paid for the gift certificate). Highly recommend!

I just might cry...

I wanted to make a cute family picture with all our kids wearing matching outfits for Christmas. I even made Henry one and he looked so cute... He has worn clothes several times and will wiggle out of them but never has he done this...Avery actually did cry this morning. Probably because she sensed I was about to.

Dear Santa...

I finally got around to asking the kids what they want for Christmas. Here is what they came up with. They aren't really into asking for a bunch of stuff. Probably because they don't get a bunch of stuff! I had to probe them several times...do you want...What about...?? They would either say yes or no! Sometimes they'd even be like Oh yea yea yea!

A- "Dear Santa, may I please have a DS (we then talked about how leapster's were just like DS's but cooler!) but Elijah has a DS. (yea but he thought your leapster was cooler!) Really!? OK I want more leapster games (woohoo. I'm so good!) I want make-up, bendaroos, laptop, Fancy Nancy books, (probing with a purpose!) my own tag that Zane doesn't play with, Sharpay and Gabriella barbies, Diamond Castle barbies. I want all of my family to have all of their stuff for Christmas (Santa can't get everything on the list but it's ok. We don't need it all anyway. We make a big list and he chooses what to get you! She seemed OK about that!) I want more jewelry. I want my family to have the best Christmas. (probing with a purpose again) Clothes for my doll and bear, Hannah Montana and HSM movies, Jonas Brother's Rock Band CD, microphone, lip gloss, pretty socks, Hannah Montana Shirt. *In the middle of this list she said...I want a boyfriend. Wait I don't want a boyfriend. Why did I just say that? Dont write that down. It looks like you are about to write that down...

Z- Dear Santa please let me have cars socks like Cadon has and please let me have a candy airplane and pillow pet. I want a pretend taco, (probing was needed...) Gum!! Cars, thomas the train, a pretend Henry doggy (and again...), a cool cars cup. Wait a Spiderman cup! More thomas the train tracks, bubble bath, a pretend window and pretend gingerbreadman but real cookies and real ice cream! Chocolate brownie icecream. I mean Strawberry ice cream. Thats all!

*Suprisingly not on this list were snuggie for kids and Jonas Brothers Doll! Good thing because I did not find a Jonas Brother doll!?

Still have a ways to go...

I guess I haven't finished Christmas Shopping. I went to wrap gifts and realized Avery has a pink Tag carrying case and Zane has a Tag pen and a tag book and thats it! I got them a lot of leap frog stuff since I had an online coupon on top of an online sale, but had my family buy it all from me and make it their gifts. I guess I didn't realize it was all gone!

I have random clearance crap to fill their stockings but as of now my parents tree will be pretty sad looking on Christmas morning!

Avery is asking for a Jonas Brothers doll. She must have a JB fan in her school class. I guess I'll see if they have that since everything else she's asking for is a laptop, cell phone, and other ridiculous things. Zane wants a snuggie, bendaroo's, and pillow pet...oh infomercials. I'm sure he'd love anything. That is just what he sees everyday. Not sure what to get him yet.

I also need to get an ugly sweater. I hope the thrift stores still have some. Sounds like I'll be busy today...

Star's Jingle Bell Gymnastics Meet!

Today the kid's had a gymnastics meet and like the last one, it didn't quite go as planned. Our camera was dropped and broke when taking a picture of Wes and I after his work xmas party. I had forgotten about it until we were leaving. I didn't bother taking our cruddy camera because I just knew Britt would take hers. Well she didn't. We have no pictures of this meet. We have video but its on a tape and not digital. So sad I can't share it with you all.

My parents came to watch and we were all excited about it. I thought it started at 2:30 but it was 2! As soon as Zane walked in they had him go (since he missed his turn). He had no time to see what was going on so was too "scared" to do most of it. I also wasn't able to get the video camera ready for his. Oops. We did get video of Avery and she did a great job. She is now able to do all the routines by herself except bars!! I'm so jealous and really badly want to play on the gymnastics equipment. That would be fun to watch...