Wrapping up...holiday update!

Wow, I can't believe it's NYE?!?! This month has flown by in so many aspects and some it seems it has been at a snail crawl! Our family had a GREAT Christmas this year :)

The kids and I headed for TX on Sunday before Christmas! I had good intentions of seeing lots of people during the week we were there, but unfortunately that didn't happen :( (Ashley, I'm sorry :*( ) We were busy the entire week!! Between helping my mom get the rest of her Christmas stuff done, visiting with my grandmother and other family, it seemed like Christmas Eve was here before I knew it!

With us having such large families, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day are always busy! Christmas Eve we started out at my dad's house, then went to my sister-in-law's house to exchange gifts with Jeremy's immediate family. THEN we went to Jeremy's aunt's house and celebrated with my mother-in-laws family! So much fun and enjoyed getting to visit with everyone!

Christmas Eve night we stayed at my mom's house. The kids have been BEYOND excited about Santa visiting this year! The only thing they have consistently asked for has been a wii. To the point that they didn't care if they got anything else, as long as they got a wii! Well, Santa being the jolly ol fellow that he is, brought the kids (and me and Jeremy) a wii!!! My mom said she met Sydni coming down the hallway when she first woke up and she had already been in the living room...she said her eyes were as big as saucers telling her that "Santa brought us a wii NiNi~!!!!" So cute :) We opened presents just from us and then my brother and sister-in-law and their boys came and we opened presents again! Lots of presents opening went on this year! My mom totally spoiled all of us (even the big kids)! It's funny to me that I was SUPER excited about my gifts this year and they were new pots and pans and dishes!! 10 years ago, I would have been like, "you have got to be kidding me, who wants household stuff as a gift?!?!?" Now at 31, I'm loving it :)

Christmas Day afternoon we went to my Memaw's for the Metcalf celebration! I enjoyed visiting with family and I know my kids had fun playing with cousins! The gift game was fun as usual..so excited I got what I brought :)

We headed back home around lunch time on Sunday....we were all exhausted at that point and just wanted to sleep in our own beds!

This week has been spent being lazy, playing LOTS and LOTS of wii, playing board games, laundry and some outside time on Wednesday and Thursday since it was nice. I'm not gonna lie, I am READY for the kids to go back to school on Monday! Jeremy is actually off on Monday, so we will have the day to ourselves! Thinking about going to see Little Fockers....

I was bad this year and didn't take many pics...actually not any at all of the gift opening :( Here are some random pics tho of Dylan shooting his bow that he got, the kids skating (both got rollerblades for Christmas and were so excited to try them out!), and last some pics of our new house! Warning, not everything in the house is finished, no base boards, etc and not all of my decor is exactly where I want it, but it's 75% done I'd say!

We are leaving this afternoon to go to Oklahoma City to stay with some friends (okay let's face, the ONLY friends we have in this state : /) tonight! SOOOOO looking forward to that!!

It's gonna be COOOOOOLLLD this weekend, so we may not be doing much at all but hanging out in front of the fire!

**Say a prayer for me, I had 2 interviews this week and have a 2nd interview with one of the places next week!! I'm hopeful that I will get an offer cuz momma needs a j-o-b like yesterday!!

Okay, now for the pics:

Here's a collage of the Christmas pics

Collage generated with Smilebox

Here's pics of our new house:

Looking into kitchen from living room

looking into living room from kitchen:

Sunroom/Playroom off dining room:

another view of kid's area as we are calling it:

one more view and door to back yard:

looking down hallway from garage door entry:

looking into dining room from kid's area:

one corner of living room...I'm still struggling with that big shelf space!! And I have 2 more crosses to add to the wall also :)

another corner of living room...struggling with that shelf also and need a lamp shade for the lamp behind the TV!

looking into kitchen/dining from living room:

kid's bath at end of hall - has swinging door that goes into tub/shower and toilet:

better view of bathroom:

Shower area, door leads from here into Sydni's room:

in Sydni's room, door with mirror goes to bathroom, curtains cover closet:

Sydni's room BEFORE she got new bedding for Christmas:

prepare your eyes!!!!!

yes, that would be LIME green zebra and cheetah print!! She loves it :)

Some more things in Sydni's room:

from the doorway looking in:

now onto Dylan's room:

from the corner by closet:

he has an awesome closet!!!

Our room isn't anything special, we need to get some bed rails, but I did put some stuff up! Looking in from hall:

looking from bathroom into the room:

Looking into bathroom, to the right is the shower/toilet and the left is my closet:

That's pretty much it! I'll do some outside pics next week :)

I said I would share some pics of my new ride and here they are!! I'm BEYOND proud of this thing y'all! It made the trip coming to TX and back SOOOOO much nicer!!!