What a week. So glad its over and I am super ready for the weekend. We went to the festival of tree lighting tonight. It was kind of lame i wont lie....only a small group of people could see the band and the music from the mall and restaurants was overpowering the band so you couldnt hear it anyways. We waited for 45 min to see the tree lit and they did it without announcing it so we all missed it.... The fireworks were okay until the fireworks display shooter thing caught fire- then it just went down hill. Glad to be home in our warm house:)

Vaughn was sad becuase we had talked and talked about santa being there (as was advertised) but he was not in fact there. i was not about to tromp through 30,000 people to see santa INSIDE the mall, and who knows if he was there anyways. Frustrating. She kept asking if santa had a headache or if santa was sleeping. Poor thing just wanted to see that man! We'll have to take her maybe this weekend to go visit him at the mall. She's very into him right now, but who knows how well she'll do when it comes to getting close to him.
She has now learned jingle bells....i never thought that song could be sung so many times in one day. only she sings "oh what fun it is to play on my corner..HEY" We're not sure where that came from.

Lots more house projects this weekend....

tomorrow is our second annual pre shopping kinney kids shopping day and i am super excited. My parents give us a "percent" of money they have budgeted for us and we go pick out our gifts within the allotted time limit and take them back to my parents and then we all meet for dinner. Last year was the first year and we had so much fun- but it was new, so we were all stressed....this year we know what to expect and it should be lots of fun. It will be a first for Rudy and Maria and my parents are keeping the kiddos. Should be super fun!


I have been having tons of problems...doctors think it is my gall bladder but the last test showed no stones...which is good so now they are waiting to do a test to see how its functioning. Who knows what all that means, but lets just pray it gets to feeling better prior to thanksgiving!!!

Have a super fun weekend everyone....only a few more days til thanksgiving and a few more weeks til Christmas. IM PUMPED! Bring on the holidays!