Merry Christmas!!!

Merry Christmas from this PRINCESS!!!

Christmas T-Shirts!

A bunch of the Mommas got together a couple of weeks ago and made Christmas t-shirts for the kiddos. Many of the kids go to church at WOCC so we made a plan to all wear them on the same night to Weds night service. Here are a couple of pics of Kinley and some of her friends!

Pre-School PJ Day!

Visiting Santa 2011!

This week we visited Santa at the Library. He is sooooo great with the kids and they just love all the magic, games and story time! And of course the Coleman kids love the treats too! :)

Thanksgiving Break!

Kinley made her rounds at Thanksgiving! First we went to spend time in Tyler with Grandma and Grandpa Coleman and Uncle Troy and then headed to Kansas to spend time with Grandma and Grandpa Oakley and the rest of the crew! It was a great week and Momma and Daddy are pretty sure they have the best little travelers around. The entire week was great with baking projects, lots of great food, fun with cousins, going to the movies, and just spending time with all of our relatives! Here are some pics of Kinley over Thanksgiving break!


Calling Grandma-ma and Grandpa-pa!


Kinley and Gpa Tom!


K and J made doughnuts with Gma and Gpa Coleman!


Little Chef and Gma Kerry!


So proud!


Teaching Brennan how to play on the Leapster!


Jordyn is getting big enough to "hang out" with Kinley!


Heads or Tails games with Gpa Oakley!


Feeding the ducks at Great Granny's with Tegan and Jax!


Making Turkeys to set at each place setting at Granny's with Gma Oakley!


Didn't they turn out cute!?!

Christmas Decorations!

Love that Kinley was so into the decoration this year. She couldn't hardly wait to get out of bed Monday morning cause she knew Daddy had gotten the Christmas decorations down on Sunday night.

She liked to talk about each ornament and ask questions about who they belonged too! Has this Momma mentioned how much she loves having a little girl?!


Kinley examining Momma and Daddy's wedding cake ornament from 2004!


The kids put the ornaments on the tree in little "clusters" at their height - love that it made our tree only 1/4 decorated!


So careful in her little princess xmas pjs from Grandma-ma and Grandpa-pa as she put things on the tree!

Cousin Week!

Aunt Kayla, Uncle Brett, Gma O, and Gpa O went on a cruise last week. Rachel had plans to come stay with K and J and last minute we invited Jaxon's "buddy cousin" Brennan along! We had 4 days of fun!

Here are a few things we did:

1. Bouncin Bears - We went with a few of our friends on Friday morning and then back with Daddy on Friday night!

2. Pizza Hut Buffet - This seemed like a risky move... 3 moms and 8 kids... it was WONDERFUL! People kept telling us how good our kids were, us Moms just had to laugh cause we were as surprised as the onlookers! When all else fails from now on this Momma will know to go eat pizza!

3.Picnic at the park - We went to a new park on Saturday and had lunch, great fun!

4. Homemade Cinnamon Rolls - The kids helped me make cinnamon rolls on Saturday afternoon. The recipe makes 8+ pans so then we loaded them up in the wagon and let the kids share with all our neighbors. Great fun and good way to teach sharing and serving!

5. Fun at our house - I'm so sad I didn't snap a picture of the toy room floor, well, I'm not sure it really would have been a picture of the floor... probably just a pic of about 10 layers of toys. The kids had a ball doing crafts, blocks, puzzles, games, doll house, ponies, legos, animals, etc... and when that fun was done they headed out to play on the play set. I think if I would have stayed out there they would have been on the swings from sun up til sun down!

6. Church - We went to church on Sun morning and Bible Builders on Sunday night. We were a little nervous about 4 kids in one pew, but they did awesome and we were really proud of them!

7. Neighborhood Park - One night we made it to our neighborhood park/playground. It is small, but my kids love it and the cousins did too, just a change up from playing outside at our house!
















K and J had a blast with Brennan and Rachel and are so lucky to have so many cousins just their age to play with! So excited for the Holiday cousin time!

Halloween Fun!

This was the best Coleman Halloween yet!!! Both kids are at such a fun age and tehy had blast dressing up as Tinkerbell and Peter Pan. Here are some pics from Halloween Week. I'm thinking it seemed more like Christmas with all the fun activities!


Treats from Gma Kerry while she was in town!


Zoo Boo with our friends on Halloween Day!


There were games set up around the Zoo to play while in costumes!


Momma and Tink at the Zoo!


Most of the zoo pics were of the back of the costumes!


Ms. Jen got this great one of Kinley and Trey!


K and J playing the drums!


Mummy game at Trunk or Treat at WOCC!


The Bible Builders group before the Trunk or Treat!


Kinley and Tay trunk or treating!


Klein Festival petting the pigs Halloween night!


They got to see farm animals, play games, jump in bounce houses, and of course trick or treat!


Some of our friends got together for a party earlier in the week - Pinata!


Crafts!


The best we could get of a group shot at the party!

Kinley's Party - The REAL pics! :)

Check out the blog post from JD Waterhouse Photography - I hired my friend Jennifer Watrous to take pics of the princess party and she included a few on the pics on her photo blog!

http://jdwaterhousephotography.blogspot.com/2011/10/princess-party.html

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Kinley's Pre-School Birthday Celebration!

Kinley just gets to keep celebrating her birthday! Kinley was sooooo excited for it to be her special day at school! She got her locker decorated, HER Momma got to bring cupcakes, she got to wear the princess crown at snack time and she got a toy from the present box. You would have thought someone gave her a million dollars the way she talked about HER celebration!

Jax and I got to spend most of the morning at KCHS and Jaxon was invited to stay for some of the "fun" stuff like playdough and seed planting! Here are some pics of Momma and Jaxon's visit to Kinley's KC Birthday Celebration!

We should also note that even Daddy got to come down during cupcake time so Kinley's whole family was part of her special day!


Planting seeds with her teacher, Ms. Schwartz


Playdough with Jax and Savannah


More Playdough!


She was sooooo excited to show me that she got the birthday sign on her locker!


But would not stand by herself in front of it for a pic...


I solicited Anna and Jaxon's help! :)


A little shy while the whole class sang Happy Birthday to her!



Cupcakes with her Busy Bee class and the Mighty Monkey class!