Love my little ones!

Went and took some pictures of the kids yesterday. I only got a few that were good. I went to this one spot at a park here in San Antonio. We had come to this place before with Natasha to take pictures, so I thought I would post a picture of them then and now. SO CUTE!! They are growing WAY TO FAST!!

Emersyn was almost 1 and Ezra 2 1/2

Ezra 3 and Emersyn 19 months

Love this one! Shows both personalities so well.

Love my fireplace!

I am LOVING having a fireplace! We have used it almost every night! Ezra really likes it too. He even wanted to get some "mashed potatoes" (marshmallows) to cook in the fire. It will be fun to make some s'mores one of these days.

Santa!

We recently went to a Christmas party where Santa came to visit! Ezra loved Santa this year, and Emersyn waned NOTHING to do with him. We still managed to get some cute pictures!

I LOVE THIS PICTURE!! His is my sweet, sweet boy!

Good family Picture (you can even see little "E" at 30 weeks)

Sitting in the Santa Seat, far from Santa!

Catching up!

Here is my attempt at catching up on my blog! We have been CRAZY, but a GOOD crazy!

Let's think back to November. I did post about Ezra's school Thanksgiving Feast, which I am so thankful because it was one of the best/cutest things he has done. Well, for actual Thanksgiving, we went to TWO spots! First stop was our good friends, The Garrisons. We had a great time. They have twin girls and little miss ella who is 8 months old. Rob and Brent fried a turkey! Soooo YUMMY! Lisa and her mom were prepared with EVERYTHING else. Such a great time. After the Garrison's, we headed to my dad's and his wife for another go at a meal. At least we had a couple hours in between eating.  Good food and company all around. We left their house early because the kids did not nap and were so TIRED!

Emersyn, Hailey, Ezra and Sydney

 The next day, Friday, we headed to Fredericksburg for Brent's family Thanksgiving. Always great times when we are with the whole Eilers bunch!! Everyone was able to make it, too! I love getting to spend time with them. We were able to take our annual HUGE family picture and actually got a great picture. Thanks Aunt Cindy for being our photographer!

Getting everyone organized

Here we all are! (two little ones on the way)

 Then the weekend. We were busy PACKING!! My grandma, aunt and her husband came up to help finish up the little things and boy did they "get it done"!!  Brent had some guy friends come over sunday to help him take down our play-scape. They were able to take it down and load it in no time! I was impressed. Now, we just need to put it back up!

We survied moving and after about 2 weeks of being in the new house, we are unpacked and decorated! Well, master and Emersyn's room still need some help, but for the most part, we are in and are able to breathe! We love it here and just Thank GOD daily for all he has provided!

We Moved!

After having our house on the market for 8 DAYS, we got an offer and came to an agreement by the end of the week. A month after the agreement, we were packed and ready to move. God is good and works in MIGHTY ways!
We moved into our new house on Monday, Nov. 29th. After being here almost a week, we have about 80% of the boxes unpacked, put away and some decorations on the wall. (This solely done by the help of some great friends! I am truly blessed!!) We even squeezed in putting up our Christmas  decorations! It makes it feel so "homey" already. We love it here! The kids LOVE it here, too, which has made this transition an easy one. God completely directed the steps of each process. We are overflowing with joy and peace. I will post pictures when we get a little more settled and I have time to just SIT! Just wanted to post an update.

Thanksgiving Feast

Friday, Ezra had his school Thanksgiving Feast. This was our first time to experience the feast at the preschool, but we have definitely heard about it from our friends. They separate the different classes into pilgrims and Indians.  Ezra's Busy Bee class were Indians! How perfect for my little Ezra. He loved learning about Indians and how they hunt buffalo's with bows and arrows. Just like his dad. He would come home and tell me all about the hunts and make his "Indian sounds". It was cute. I am not sure what I expected when I was preparing myself for this feast, but I am blown away with his school! They had all the kids sitting at one long table separated by Pilgrams and Indians, all dressed up! SOOO CUTE! They began the feast with a big table prayer, then were served by the parents that signed up to help. It was great. Brent even was able to make the end of it. I was excited that he made it to see how cute it was. Ezra was SUPER EXCITED to see Brent, too! I say this a lot, but we are so blessed by OHC Preschool, and Ezra's teacher, Ms. Nancy!!

My cute Indian

The Busy Bee Indians 

An Idea of the long feast table

Ms. Nancy and the Busy Bees

Just couldn't get enough

The good, bad and Ugly of learning to write your name!

Recently, Ezra has been a kick about writing his name. I love it! I work with him on it using hand over hand, and then, he also practices on his own. Well, remember the story about the green crayon on our upstairs couch?? Recap: Ezra needed paper to write his name, didn't see any, so he chose to use the couch as his pallet.

Well, last night, he was up a little later than usual because he took a three hour nap. He was in his bathroom going to the bathroom, sitting in the dark. I was looking up something on the computer, waiting for him to be done so we could finish up and get to bed. I hear him say, "all done, mommy." This is my cue to come "help" him. As I walk in the bathroom and flip on the light, I see him sitting on the toilet covered in black marker!! It is on his cheeks, hands, arms and legs! I asked him what he was doing, and of course, his response is, "writing my name". I asked him if we write on ourselves and he says "no" to which I reply, "then why do you have marker all over you?" He gives me this look, like I should know why, and says, "but mom, I couldn't find any paper!" Okay, apparently I need to keep MORE PAPER out, but come on! I love that he is interested in writing his name, but would LOVE IT even more, if it was in the right place. That boy. Gotta love him. He thought he was in big trouble so he didn't want to come out of the bathroom to show Brent. I just laughed. He got a wash cloth and started cleaning it off. Luckily, it was a dry-erase marker so it came off very easy! Hopefully we will have more "practice" with writing his name, but I would like it to be on paper!

Just a glimpse of the marker EVERYWHERE

Such a big boy, washing it off by himself