The camel's back......{BROKEN}

{Liberty Lost her FIRST tooth..... She has waited for this day FOREVER but as soon as it came she was scared and everyday she was going to wait till the next day to pull it out...... I finally thought tonight was the night and tried to make it exciting bribing her with peppermint icecream in Hot Chocolate .....OH! SOOO good ........ The Tooth Fairy can come tonight..... Now they are scared to sleep in their room....Scared of the Tooth Fairy.......Our life will change forever... She'll loose the tooth and graduate from High School.... AHH! one step and a time.....}

{We created Santa's workshop at preschool this week and made I- Spy bags.... Each child brought something to put inside and with the help of my great MOM team they helped put them together..... I already had cut the squares and sewn around them once..... they did have to be sewn twice to keep the rice in ......

{The girls did mini drill team... Liberty loved it and can't wait for more}

{ Grandma Anthony bought this trampoline for the twins ...... Mack needed it for Physical Therapy to learn to jump ..... It is so cute watching him try ..... He pops on one knee slightly and that is a jump..... BUT he can flip over the bar like a pro.......

Just some cute hats I've been making for baby gifts ...... ILOVE the colors and how they look stacked with the simple ribbon wrapping...... LOVE it!

You maybe asking yourself .........what? I LOVE the HOLIDAYS.........I LOVE that I started my shopping in SEPTEMBER..........I LOVE sewing projects this time of year...........I LOVE thinking of other people and trying to find the gift they will absolutely LOVE .......... I LOVE spending time being creative and looking for ideas to make the project feel complete, wrapped with care, and given so they know they have been thought about and I didn't go just buy some random thing........ I am know DISLIKING shopping..... IF I HAVE TO BUY ONE MORE THING ...... IT might be the straw that breaks the camel's back...... Last week I had been waiting for since I wrote my preschool lesson plans in November....... I run preschool Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday {for this week only} ....... On a Normal week I am dead tired Thursday and Friday is the day I let the apron strings loose :) and I only function at half speed....... Friday was the huge Christmas Preschool Celebration ..... we first practiced coloring {KINDERGARTEN COLORING - paying attention to detail or to some just learning to color}....... We watched PREP and Landing ...... SO CUTE ....... The kids didn't hardly move while watching it........ my copy got the commercials and my niece even wanted to watch a commercial (the carolers singing about shopping at the overpriced mall .... TJ MaXX )...... a gift exchange { I always like that I have extra Mom's willing to help on the day because learning to give a gift IS HARD!...... I haven't had a hard one for a while but this year we had someone who REALLY LOVED the lipgloss they brought {she was so cute when she realized the gift she got in return was good too!}.....

Well, OFF to sleep to get ready for another day and a GREAT week....... SO many things to be thankful for and blessed to have time to enjoy the HOLIDAY..... Hoping to remember the meaning of the season as we do all of it...... Enjoy the week!

Liberty got her first Loose Tooth and Dad pulled it tonight........ Burton is going through growing pains...... His legs and ankles are always hurting him in the moments the boy isn't HUNGRY!.....Cooper and Mack and I go the rounds EVERY single day about getting into things they don't need to be in..... Tonight Cooper threw up after sampling the dishwasher detergent..... My dang chairs and table might be the death of me too....... Climbing.....Climbing ..... and scooting them ever so close to DANGER all the time....... IF the two of them need anything they either come find someone's finger to pull and drag them to the desired location OR they push a chair ...... it is really wearing me down....... I told Drew to reflect on how demanding it was in the beginning...... and how on the weekends I took a couple of hours inbetween pumping schedules to run errands by myself...... I feel like that again! I do still feel so blessed don't get me wrong...... Tonight as Drew and I were cleaning up dinner {a fine gourmet meal of MAC & Cheese } Drew asked "What can we do this week to make it special"..... Well, I was going to MADLY finish all the un finished projects I've taken on to make the day special but with that I know I need to slow down and do them with the kids....... then He asks where my Christmas card is? HMMMM..... you know the one we always send out..... OH, ya ..... I haven't done it yet..... Took the picture for it at Thanksgiving time but haven't thought of anything clever to say and taken the time to make it cute..... I WILL do that this week .......

Family Traditions 2009

Last Week in Pictures.....2009

Park Family Thanksgiving 2009 .... The top left picture that isn't shown very well and the middle is of the boys sleeping off the turkey dinner. In the picture at the food table is Jordyn ( Chad & Elda's oldest 13). Just a little info to help mark time.....Amber and Luke's first Thanksgiving in their new home and expecting baby #2...... Ashley (Amber's twin) not here because her due date for baby #2 was the day before.... She finally had him on December 1...... Colt Henry Dean..... 8lbs....... Tracy and Mandy have 7 children with their youngest Andrea born in May....... Chad and Elda have a teenage daughter Liberty caught sitting by a boy at a Basketball game last week :O Elda is actively coaching HIGH School VOlley ball and Basketball......getcha head in the Game because if she is not coaching they are following one of their children at a game .........Casey and Krissy have 6 kids and Krissy is knee deep in dental Hygiene school grateful that one semester is almost down......Jamie and Ryan live in Shelley with a new dental practice in IF...... We are grateful to have grandparents so close that we can ask for pretty much anything.... This last year Mike and Joan came to the rescue as we learned the routine with twins ..... One night I called Joan crying for help to hold babies as they were both sick and pucking and Mike made a pediasure run......More than that it is the Sunday night visits and chips and pop.... and all the things my kids can sweet talk them into.....Drew and I finish up the group and we love where we live.... Are very grateful for Drew's employment and INSURANCE..... Very excited to be the parents of a young family..... They make us laugh every chance they get.

Preschool Thanksgiving Feast ..... complete with a smoked Turkey and lots of yummy finger foods.

New decorating idea for the preschool basement..... My cluster of three trees I used before just would not work with 20 + people.

This is Mack at the scene of the accident ...... The day after......The picture in the top left has a house with candycanes.... That would be the one that was pulled from a cord that I so carelessly left hanging to the side of the TV cabinet....... When will I learn nothing is safe.........Today is day 2 after said accident and Mack now is asking for sympathy.....When He had to wait for his lunch, He pointed to his head and said...."HEAD..... HURT" ...... HE still had to wait his turn:(