Happy Birthday Jesus!!!!!

WOW! We just realized that it has been a VERY long time since we last updated our blog. Collin and I have been busy with school and friends and I guess we just forgot about it!

  Nothing Major has happend in the last few months. Collin and Shane did have birthday's. Collin is now 8 and Shane is 3!   A few weeks ago Collin had to go to church on a saturday and tell Father Bill all the naughty things he has been doing. Mommy says it's reconciliation, and that he has to do it to make his first communion. But really that's it. Nothing to important to tell.

We sure have been having a busy few days this week though. We were busy getting ready for Christmas and to celebrate Jesus's birthday. Once again, I was an angel in the Christmas pagent at church on Christmas eve! Mommy, Daddy, all the boys and our cousin Norma (she is Nana's cousin) was there!!!!


      

Church was so packed that Mommy couldn't get a good picture of me during the mass...

Shane LOVED the pagent, infact he layed down in the aisle on belly kicking his feet so he could the best view.




After Mass we came home, had dinner and got ready for Santa to come. This of corse included putting out Cookies and Cocoa, and Carrots and water for the reindeer!
We were up bright and early Christmas morning, and ready to see if Santa had come, and guess what he DID

He brought us EVERYTHING we wanted and then some!!!!!

Aiden got a really COOL doctor "set up" as he calls it. With a real stethascope, and a lab coat that says Dr. Aiden J. Woodruff

 

 Collin was just a "little" excited about his skateboard!

Santa brought me a Guitar and a Camera!!!! LOVE !!!!Shane's big wish was a bow and Arrow, and he got it!!!!

Mommy got Daddy this Patriots skully Hat!!! She also got him a Sons (soa) shirt, and a new Bluray player!!!

 Daddy Got Mommy a CELL PHONE!!! We also got her Some Coffee (kcups), some slippers and a electric blanket cause she is always COLD!

Then came a HUGE surprise for us Mommy and Daddy got us a FOUR WHEELER! It was so amazing..we couldn't wait to get on it!


After we were done, it was time to get ready for Memere and Pepere and Auntie Rose, Uncle Justin and Carolanne to come over!

We got Pepere a Blu-ray player..he LOVED it!!!

 Memere got Shane a bag FULL of lolipops!

 Carolanne rockin' her Angry Bird hat and Penguin that  that Auntie made

Blowing out the candles on the Happy Birthday Jesus cake!



This past saturday (29th) we had Nana, Papa, Auntie Missy, Uncle Mike, the girls and Grandpa over so we could do Christmas with them

 

again we had an amazing time, just opening presents, Playing, and enjoying time together!

Mommy Made these Poncho's for the girls! And the Hats too!Mommy made Baby Maddi a hello Kitty

 

We loved playing with the girls!!!

And Madi and Nana liked watching Collin's helicopter fly!


So, that was our Christmas! It was such a great one! Filled with cool toys, great food and most importantly FAMILY...Happy Birthday Baby Jesus!

Work hard, PLAY harder!

Hey everyone! So with the start of the new school year Mommy and Daddy have also started making us do more around the house to help out. We have all been helping set the table for dinner, and then we all clear the table when we are done. Collin, Aiden and I help put our laundry away...and a few weeks ago Mommy and Daddy started having Collin and I help with other things like sweep the floors which we both LOVE to do.  Also on Saturdays work together to clean the bathroom.

But it's not so bad. We actually both really like helping out with the house work, and we have a new reward system. We earn beads to put in our jars. Once our jars are full we get to earn a prize. Weather it be getting a candy from the store, or getting to choose a movie from the redbox or even a small toy like a "match box car" for the boys or a squinky for me! It's fun seeing our bead jars filling up!

Our Bead Jars
Collin (l), Kylie (center) Aiden (r)

Something else we do..that we have actually ALWAYS done with Mommy and to us it's not a chore at all, but we have been helping mommy cook and bake. We all LOVE doing that.


The boy helped too!



Mmmm making snicker doodle cookies!

But don't worry about Mommy and Daddy making us do to much work. We are still doing lots of playing and being super silly!!!!

Back to school!!!!!

Our back packs all ready to go the night
before the BIG day!!!!!

Mommy drove me crazy all night last night and this morning singing "Back to school, back to school to prove to dad that I'm not a fool" She said that anyone who has ever seen the movie Billy Madison will know exactly what she is talking about, well since I have never seen it I found it pretty annoying.

But enough about that,it is finally the day that I have been waiting ALL summer for the FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL!!!!! 



so excited I can hardly wait!

Collin pretending like he is not excited for school
Ok, he's not thrilled, but he was glad to go and see his
friends!



All ready to go!!!!

well, will you look at that! A SMILE!
I won't tell you what kind of silly things I was saying to make my
brother laugh!




 

After breakfast, and brushing our teeth and what seemed like an ETERNITY, it was FINALLY time to leave for school. We were both a little bummed that it was raining out, but Oh well!!!

TIME to go!!!!!
I am so excited, Collin umm not so much!

The little boys wanted in on t he "back to school" photo's!



Mommy insisted on walking us in which was OK with both of us since it was the first day and all. We were there a few minuets before the first bell so we hung out in the hall and it was so awesome to see all our friends!!!!! Finally the Bell rang and we could go to our classes. I got to go FIRST!!!!!


Hanging my back pack up!!!!

Collin just wanted to get to his desk but Mommy insisted on one last pic!

Although I had an amazing day at school, I couldn't wait to get home and tell Mom and Daddy all about my day! Both Collin and I came out of the school smiling. We had GREAT days and both LOVE our teacher. Collin is now in the 2nd grade and his teacher is Mrs. Dietrich. He said she is super nice and that they didn't do much other than read books and have two recesses! He was THRILLED because he had NO homework and thought it was funny that Mommy had "homework" she had lots of paper work to fill out!

I am in the 1st grade and in Mrs. Mankowsky's class. She is AWESOME. We did a few pages of desk work and then she took out her guitar and sang. It was so neat! I also go two recesses..in fact Collin and I have the same recess and lunch. Not that we will play together, but we did say "Hi." I got home work on the first day, but that is ok cause it was Easy, Peasy, Lemon squeezy! It was just one page (front and back) of math and I got it done really fast!

After homework and some play time Mommy made one of our favorite meals, Sloppy Joe's Tater tots and fresh cukes and Tomato's...and Brownies for desert. It was a great way to end a GREAT day!