Goodbye to 2008, Hello 2009!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy New Years to all of you... I'm so ready to get 2009 started. I'll be spending my evening at home with 2 of my favorite people- Steven and Kaybug. I'm sure we'll be asleep by 10pm!!
I hope everyone enjoys their evening, has lots of bubbly drinks, and that all of you stay safe. Watch out for the crazies on the road and PLEASE DONT DRINK AND DRIVE!
Love to all,
Jen

Good times with Good Friends...

This past Saturday night, my good friend Jill and her hubby Andrew came into town from London to celebrate the holidays. We were able to get most of the gang together to celebrate a night out- it was alot of fun!! Here is a picture of all of us at Berryhill. For the most part, we have all known each other since middle school. Isn't that crazy? And we are still very close! Its amazing! I'm very fortunate to have such great girlfriends!
I love you guys- here's to a great 2009 to all of us!

From left (standing): Sarah, Ashley, Melanie, Suzanne, Katie, Jill, me, and Missi
Sitting from left: Sandra, Stacy and Leslie

Cookies for Santa...

After we went to Candlelight Service at church, we came home, got into our PJs and made cookies for Santa. I let the girls do their own icing and it was hilarious! We had a blast making them! Check out their good works...

Emily wrote a sweet note to Santa...

Will you please check out her look???

Christmas with the Fiedlers

On Christmas Eve, Steven's parents, sister Amanda and her boyfriend Parker came over. We had a wonderful afternoon eating a late lunch (that I cooked all by myself and it all tasted AWESOME I must say), playing games and opening presents. Every present that Kaylie opened, she would scream and say, this is EXACTLY what I wanted... even though most of the gifts were still boxed up and she couldn't tell what they were. It was priceless.
I also must mention that my sweet hubby really surprised me this year. We were not exchanging gifts this year- we had already decided it because we wanted to spend on the girls- but he went and got me a new Sony Camcorder!!!! It is such a neat camcorder- no DVDs or disks or memory stick required! The camera stores up to 14 hours on it and you can download to your computer to burn to a DVD! Did I mention its all touchscreen too? So sweet- I was very pleasantly surprised! Thanks hon. :) Steven's parents got me opening it on video- I'll have to upload it on here when I can. It was priceless- I didn't believe that it was really a camcorder, I thought he had just used a box or something.
Here are a few pics of the afternoon.

Kaylie got a HSM3 hat... she put it on and it was cracking us up the faces she was making!

I got Steven this vintage Oilers tshirt that he was wanting... I know- I suck! I really didn't think we were exchanging gifts!

Emily and Steven hanging out

Kaylie got an apron, hat, oven mits etc.... it was adorable on her!

Christmas with the Wights and Schaketts...

On Wednesday night, we went over to my brother's beautiful house to celebrate the holidays with my side of the family. As most of you know, my parents have been divorced since I was 6 yrs old... and this was the first Christmas in MANY years that I was able to celebrate with both my mom, dad, step mom, grandmother and both of my brothers at the same time- not to mention all of the kiddos, my hubby, sister in laws... I think you get the picture. I loved that we could all be together at the same time, it meant alot to me. The kids had a blast playing with their cousins JT and Savannah, we ate a great meal and opened a TON of gifts! Here are some pics from the festivities...

All of the kiddos- Kaylie, Savannah, Emily and JT

My mom and Kaylie

Kaylie LOVES the Jonas Brothers- she tells everyone they are her boyfriends... my mom got her a t- shirt with them on it and shades... she was ECSTATIC to say the least!

My dad and Pam surprised Emily with a chalkboard... she was thrilled! She wants to be a teacher and I had a chalkboard very similar in my room when I was growing up.

My "little" brother Jimbo and his son JT... its still strange to my that my younger brother, who used to fight with me constantly and drive me crazy for the majority of our childhood and teenage years... is a parent. :) This picture cracks me up- looks like JT is saying, what up....

Merry CHRISTmas...

We wish all of you a very Merry CHRISTmas... we are so blessed and are fortunate to have wonderful family and friends to share the holiday season with. We hope you all have a wonderful Christmas Eve and that Santa visits all of you.
Lots of Love,
Steven, Jen, Emily and Kaylie

New Christmas PJs

We went to the mall and got the girls some cute Christmas PJs... let me just say I know why Steven doesn't like to shop with us girls. It was supposed to be a quick run into the store and 2 hours later, we left the mall. After looking at lots of different PJs, the girls picked these out! Poor Steven has to put up with all of us females- he puts on a good front but we know he's a softy when it comes to his 3 girls. :)

Princess Christmas

My niece Savannah was in a play at the Fort Bend Theater called Princess Christmas so we went to see the show! The girls loved it! It was taken from a nicer version of Mean Girls, High School Musical and all the Princess Fairy Tales. At the end, the girls go to go and meet the cast and take pictures. Keep in mind that alot of the cast are young kids 8-10 years old! Very impressive! Emy and Kaylie brought princess wings and crowns to wear (you could dress like a princess but it was too cold to wear those costumes- so we made due with wings and crowns). Very cute show and the girls had a blast! Savannah did a fantastic job! I think Kaylie has the acting bug- she loves going to plays and loves meeting the cast and looking at all of the props!

The girls with the younger versions of Belle and Sleeping Beauty

The girls with one of the princesses- Ella

Kaylie and Emily with their cousin Savannah

And last but not least, the girls with the adult version of Cinderella

More Breakfast With Santa...

Here are some more pics of Breakfast with Santa...

Funny Face Time...

The girls with Santa...

Mr. Grant Michael Collins chillin out

The Collins Family- Erica, Grant and Andrew

Christmas Time at the Fiedlers

We've had Emily since Friday and we've been busy busy ever since. We had breakfast with Santa this morning at the Sienna Grill along with the Reckers Family and the Collins Family and we had a great time! The kids had a blast talking to Santa and playing with baby Ryan and baby Grant. Here are some pics of Breakfast with Santa.

Sarah, Ryan and Rob

Emily was so sweet with Ryan- she loved on him!

Kaylie and her buddy Ms. Sarah!

The Crazy Fiedler Family with Santa!

My girls- KayBug and Emy- They looked so cute all dressed up

Christmas Warning...

Last night, we were getting ready to go see IMAGINE, a Christmas show at Sugar Creek Baptist Church- Kaylie was all dolled up waiting for us to finish getting ready and decided it would be a great idea to look at the stockings hanging on the fireplace. She went to grab one and the stocking holder came tumbling down and landed right on her face! It was a very heavy ceramic snowman standing by a Christmas tree with a sharp edge on top of the tree... and of course, it sliced Kaylie's face. I heard a tumble, and then all this stuff breaking on the floor and came running out to find her bloody on her face above her lip and in her mouth. I was so worried that she busted a tooth or was going to have to get stitches. We got in the car (keep in mind she is all dolled up for this performance we were going to) and we headed to St. Michaels Emergency Room Care in Sugar Land. We were relieved when they said she didn't have to get stitches unless we really wanted them (um, no). So we were in and out in 45 minutes (that was the most expensive Neosporin and bandaid we've ever purchased)!! I must say that if you need immediate care after hours, I HIGHLY recommend St. Michaels- state of the art! They had a media area in the waiting room with Dish network, the room we went into was decorated great for the kiddos and had a plasma on the wall!! The staff was amazing, professional and so quick. We were still able to go see the Christmas show. I'm getting off track- my point is... if you have a young child (even if they are new babies), get in the habit now of not using the stocking holders unless you can put them up so they can't touch!! We have learned our lesson... all I kept thinking was my poor baby is going to have a scar on her face and she's going to lose her front teeth! Praise God, it was not as bad as it could have been!!!
Merry Christmas!!

Let It Snow!!!

Well, Houston had a wild day in weather yesterday- it snowed! I saw flurries when I was leaving work and by the time I got home, it was bigger snowflakes. Kaylie was staying the night with Lisa so I called them to let them know- Kaylie got to see alot of snow out there so I'm glad she was there (we didn't have any that stuck to the ground). Here are some pics Lisa took of Kaylie playing in it!

Kaylie the morning after (bedhead)- Lisa said she wanted to go out and play in
the snow at 6am!!

The snowman!

Kaylie and Aunt Amanda

My little snow angel!

Grant Michael Collins has FINALLY arrived!!!

Our friends Erica and Andrew FINALLY had their baby on Saturday morning- and his name is Grant Michael Collins... he is absolutely adorable. Erica went a week over her due date and was quite the champ during her entire pregnancy! I would see her walking everytime I was driving somewhere in Sienna... the girl is in amazing shape!
We've only known Erica and Andrew for a while- but we adore them. They've been very good friends to us and we really enjoy having them in our circle of friends. Congrats to the Collins family on a BEAUTIFUL baby boy!!!!