Christmas time...

I love this time of year. I love the time off of school and work! I love the excitement the kids show for Christmas day! I love the family time and all the yummy Christmas food!
Merry Christmas everyone!

picking out an outfit

We usually put out clothes the night before so in the morning the girls know what they are going to wear and there is no fuse....yesterday I forgot to put out their clothes. So both girls were able to pick out their own outfit and get dressed....20 min later Emilee is still not dressed.... she went into her closet and took out all outfits and spread them all around her room. Emilee said she wanted to look at all her outfits to see which one she wanted to wear for that day! She is totally girl!

Soccer

The girls had their first soccer game today and they did pretty good. This is their first year playing so this soccer stuff is new to them! Abbygale did really well.. a lot better than what I taught she would do! Emilee is still not so sure yet..

school 09

The girls on the first day back to school! They both were so excited to go to school and start the year! This year is going to be a fun one with all three of us in school full time!!!

Long time no Post...

We have had a busy summer, school starts for the girls tomorrow and I start again on Monday with 17 credit hours. I think this school year will be the hardest one yet.. I am hoping I am wrong.
Rick is hanging in there, working hard at home and at his "real" job.

Both girls are excited for school to start again, I am not. I would like some more time with them. I had a list of things I wanted to do this summer with them and I feel like I only got half of them done.

I will try to be better at keeping this up this year.

Date with Daddy

Oh so cute! Rick took both girls on a lunch date!

At church we had a Daddies and Daughters lunch date. The girls dressed up with daddy.

They girls had so much fun!

What cute little princess I have!!!!

An Angel?

Friday night we went to a Thunder hockey game with some friends, but before the game we stopped at Spangles for dinner. I think maybe my girls may have ate there once before....not very often at all. Anyways when you walk into Spangles there is a Marlyn Monroe statue in all famous pose with her in the white dress. As my family and I are walking into Spangles and the first thing you see is the statue of Marlyn Monroe and my little sweet Emilee says "mom look, an Angel!" As she points to Marlyn Monroe!!! Rick and I just started to laugh.

School Life running along with motherhood

Most of you know I went back to school full time to finish my teaching degree. I am getting pretty good grades all A's and one B (Biology). Sometimes I feel so overwhelmed with all the school work, house work, and I feel like I am not spending enough time with my girls. As I seat here typing this I am looking at about 15 pages of bio that I should be doing and a couple loads of laundry which need to be folded and put away, and then my girls are running around the house wanting me to play with them!!! Please pray that God will give me strength and the energy to be the mom and wife I need to be.

Abbygale and her dance moves!!!

Abby is so into Hannah Montana, it funny because she really has never watched the TV show. Just recently I did rent Abby the Hannah Montana movie at the Red Box. She loved it! Abby watched it so much I think I now have it memorized! Yesterday I down loaded some of Hannah's music her Abby. This is her dancing to the famous Hannah Montana. I think Abbygale is so cute, I love watching her dance!

Abbygale wnts to have a Hannah Montana birthday party... how am I going to pull of a Hannah Montana Party? If anyone has any ideas let me know!

The Laing Gang Family Pictures

The entire Laing Gang!!!I have tried and tried.... Someone please tell me how to change this photo right side up...

Sarah with her son, our only boy... JADEN (Isn't he so handsome!!!)

Jessica with her daughter Emma-Rose

All the Laing Sisters

Sarah the oldest

Erica

Jessica

Abbygale

Emilee the youngest

This is what I wanted for Christmas is all of us together for family photos.

I think they turned out pretty well.

My husband in his KC Chiefs PJ's the girls got him the new slippers so he had

to go put on all his KC clothes!!!

Even though the Chiefs have not do so good this year he still

keeps up his "team" spirit!!!!I loved out Christmas table for brunch.

It was lovely!

Rick and I enjoyed the company of all the girls for Christmas!

It was nice having us all together for Christmas.

I wish they all could have spent more time with their Dad, but they are older and I guess hagging out with their Dad and "step mom" isn't all that fun. Even though Rick would have liked it. The brunch was nice though, all the girls seemed to have a good time and must have loved the food because they were hardly any left overs!!!!