Too Many Tats (as in tatoos!) around here...

Note to self: hunt down and find every Sharpie, Ink Pen, Marker, or Pen in every nook and cranny of this house before the boys do.

It seems as if just when I think I've put every last stinkin' Sharpie away... another one pops up from who-knows-where?! Luckily my boys just like to tatoo their hands with them and not (please don't jinx me, please I beg) the walls or cabinets, etc. A friend of mine told me how her daughter used a Sharpie all over the front of her new stainless refrigerator. I've been lucky, I know this. It seems as if each new day brings with it a new little "tat" on a chubby little hand. What's funny is how proud they are of it... running to show me, look Mommy! I wonder what goes through their little heads when they see my mouth drop open and my eyes get wide....probably - Wow, she must really like it!

Guess Who's Ready For Christmas!

HO HO HO...we are getting excited about Christmas!
I'm not sure why these guys are doing a leaning pose... but these days, I just take what I get when I'm trying to get a picture. I'm just happy they are sitting next to each other for 5 seconds.

They really like playing the songs on the stuffed Snowman and Gingerbread Man over and over... and over and over and over (thank you GramBee) hahaha!

HO HO HO... look at my beard! I look like Santa! (I'm trying to envision Branson as Kris Kringle, not the little Leprechaun that keeps popping into my head when I look at him in this picture. My cute little Leprechaun.)

Church

Sorry for delay - I've taken pictures, I just haven't downloaded them from my camera in a while! Soon, very soon, I promise! Also, I'm busy trying to send out a few Christmas cards so that is my excuse.

The boys went to church this Sunday and were very good; surprisingly good actually. We weren't even in the cry room. We sat pretty close to the front and they just took it all in. Holden really liked the snowman on the back of a sweater a woman sitting in front of us was wearing and had to touch it a few times. She was nice and didn't mind, thankfully! Lucky for Branson and Holden it happened to be Donut Sunday too - bonus!

No Picture of the Liquid Make Up "Mess"

So this evening, I'm zapping two hot dogs and some mac'n cheese in the microwave (which hardly takes 3-5 min. approx.) and in that time my two cutie patootie gremlins commenced to my bedroom with my beige liquid makeup (foundation in a bottle) and proceeded to paint their large fire truck with it, coating the pair of tennis shoes stacked on top of it too, and of course since their little hands were covered in it ~ our carpet! Ugh! I walk around the corner and spot them from my bedroom door and before I can process what has happened, Holden sees me and immediately yells "mess".

I think I'm going to need to buy two long (or not so long) tethers and hook them to my belt loops with them on the ends.

Sorry guys, but Santa is going to have to hear about this one.

Two Energizer Bunnies!

I can't blog, because by the time we get these two boogers to sleep it is just way too late!! I'm beat! Branson finally just crashed out at 10:15 pm and Holden is still awake; Ashley is upstairs with him right now ~ it is 10:25pm. I think I may need to contact Super Nanny and get us on that television show. We need help, I have a feeling we aren't doing something right.

They just keep going... and going ... and going ------ Help! Somebody take out their batteries!!