A Christmas Party for the Kids

This morning was BP's Holiday Party for employees & their families. This is the second year in a row that we've gone and the girls really had a great time! There was games, refreshments, face painting, balloon animals, a coloring station, story area & a live orchestra playing Christmas music. And of course Santa & Mrs. Claus were there too!

I'll let the pictures we took speak for themselves...Thanks BP for a fun time for our girls and for helping others through Toys for Tots!

At home with the Zerbes family, 2009

From our home to yours, wishes for a magical holiday season!

A pretty darn good team

This month Kylie received her very first projects to complete at home and bring back to school. One project was to complete a poster to illustrate her assigned line in the Gingerbread Program next Wednesday and the other was to make a snowman that will be used to decorate the winter bulletin board.

Here's how we did- I think we make a pretty darn good team! Kylie is the creative genius and the "supply picker outer" and Mommy helps with the execution. I had a great time working on these projects with you Kylie- here's wishing that all of your homework to come will be such fun!

He's makin' his list, checkin' it twice, gonna find out who's...

not for sissies

This morning, since I was awakened by the little pitter patter of Peyton's feet at 4:30am, seems like a good day for this post. A few weeks ago I picked up this book of quotes as I was going thru the library- motherhood is not for sissies, by Evelyn Beilenson. As all you moms out there know there are the great days with kids, the challenging days and those days that fall somewhere in the middle!

I chose my "top ten" of the quotes I could really relate to these days and/or that made me laugh for all the Mommies out there. May we have the patience, strength, sense of humor & courage to do the best job we can for our most precious belongings!

• A mother is a person who, seeing there are only 4 pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. -Tenneva Jordan
• Surrendering to motherhood means surrendering to interruption. -Erica Jong
• I figure if the kids are alive at the end of the day, I've done my job. -Roseanne
• Motherhood is not for the fainthearted. Used frogs, skinned knees and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy. -Danielle Steele
• Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. -Phyllis Diller
• If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. -E.W. Howe
• Babies don't come with directions on the back or batteries that can be removed. Motherhood is twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. You can't "leave the office."
• A mother who navigates the waters of the terrible twos can weather any storm.
• Life begins when the kids go to bed!
• Darwin actually had mothers in mind when he came up with the "survival of the fittest" theory.

I wonder what's IN it?

Most people wonder what they'll find UNDER the tree on Christmas morning. Based on what I saw walking by ours today I'm wondering what I'll find IN it next :)?!