Christmas Decorations at our House

Those of you that know me, know that I love Christmas, especially the decoration and normally go overboard. This year is a little different. With a new baby, going out of town, and just being busy with school and preparations for Christmas and traveling, we have not even got out 1 Christmas box of decorations. Feeling guilty because the kids are dying for Christmas decorations, we got some candy canes and Grandma Boyer helped them make reindeer to decorate our lonely tree. The girls had a fabulous time doing crafts with grandma and loved decorating the tree. The comment every time they pass the tree about how beautiful their reindeer are. Sorry kids for being a lame mom this year as far as decorations go. That's just that much less I have to worry about taking down when we return from our Christmas vacation, which I am okay with that part.
The girls and their 3 boxes of beautiful reindeer. They were very proud of their creations.

Precious Michael Luke. Chris is telling us we can't call him Michael Luke, that we have to decide on Michael or Mike. The girls are having a hard time with this as they have only known him as Michael Luke. We'll see how long it take us to narrow down his name.

Kids, parties and concerts

Chris keeps on me to post something new, but we have seemed to misplaced our camera which makes it difficult to take photos to share. This week has been great. My mom and dad came down and spent a week with us. The girls and Michael really enjoyed them being here. Sam especially, as she made mom and dad play close to a hundred games of Monopoly Junior (which she calls Monochio). She apologized to my mom for making her play so many games, and my mom said "that's okay Sam, I love to play games with you". Sam was very excited and quickly said, "then can we play another game right now". My parents left Saturday morning and Chris's mom came Saturday night. The girls are having a great time with their Grandma Boyer. She came just in time for the Christmas parties and concerts. Thanks to grandma, who always has her camera, we have some photos to share.

Sam had her Christmas party as school and Alex was able to attend with us and was invited to have a cookie too. She thought she was in heaven being able to be like her big sister.


Sam with her cookie. She does not like frosting, but had her cookie and sprinkles.


Michael in his great little outfit from Aunt Barbie. Isn't he a cute little man. We are kind of prejudice. We are thoroughly enjoying our little boy. The girls are loving him too and are great with him. He has been a great baby. Not sleeping to well at night, but getting better. It is fun as he is becoming more alert during the day. He is such a content baby. We couldn't have asked for a better one.

Meeting his new best friends

The girls were very anxious to come meet their new baby brother "Michael Luke". It will be interesting to see what he gets called. As of right now, he is known by Michale Luke due to the girls. Chris went home and brought them all back to meet their new brother that they all of been anticipating meeting for sooooo long. They rushed to my bedside to see him and then just malled him. I already feel sorry for him when he gets home and they get to see him all day, not for just a few hours. Alex holding him for the first time. The girls were great about sharing him and taking turns. We have to watch Alex with her short attention span. She will hold him and then just say "I'm done" and let go. Boy is her life going to be turned upside down when Michael goes home.

Morgan holding her new baby brother. She is very excited to have a new baby in the house. One that doesn't get into her "stuff" right now.

Sam and Michael Luke. Sam is at the same age Morgan was when we had Sam. I thought it was fun to see the same gap between Sam and Michael. She already adores her baby brother and is going to be sooo much help.


Chris with a perma grin. You can't wipe this smile off his face right now. It is his birthday today and he couldn't be happier about his early birthday present, His Little Boy. He didn't want to leave the hospital last night and leavy his baby boy. He is a little anxious to get up here today to spend the day with him already. I'm sure he is imagining his little scouter already and planning his ealge project and all the campouts in their future.

This is when the girls met him for the first time.

Our happy family of 6. Holy cow that is a lot of kids. Morgan said last night, "mom, can you believe you have 4 kids?". I can't, but we love them all and wouldn't trade them for the world.

Michael Luke Boyer joins his family out in the open

The long awaited arrival of a Baby Boy Boyer is here. Michael Luke joined us at 11:37 this morning at 8lbs and 20 inches. He is a chunky baby with fat little fingers (unlike his sisters), a head full of brown hair and already sucking his hands. Everything went great as far as the delivery. We arrived at the hospital shortly after 6:00, pit started right after 7:00, broke water at 8:30, epidural at 9:15 and baby born at 11:37. Could't have asked for smoother delivery. Chris is elated to finally have his baby boy.

Lions, Tigers and Bears

Sam decided the other day that she was going to pretent to be a lion. She disappered for a few seconds and then came out with this lion mane. I couldn't stop saying gross and laughing at the same time. She didn't care at all that this is really a toilet seat, and who knows what is on it, she just thought it made her a beautiful lion. Alex saw sam and had to run upstairs to fetch the other one so she could match her big sister. (For those of you that have 2 little ones, you know you have to have 2 of the same things to avoid major and frequent arguments, at least in our house)

Alex and Sam's daily attire

We must thank Aunt Barbie for this Dress. She sent it this summer for Alex's birthday, and Sam adopted it and now wears it almost everyday. Sam goes through phases where she finds here favorite outfit and will wear it for months at a time and it's all we can do to get it at night and wash it in between bedtime and morning. She absolutely loved this dress because it is pink and purple, her favorite colors. Alex has a fascination with bathing suites. For those of you that see her frequently you have already noticed this. It doesn't matter the weather, she will get up in the morning and put on a bathing suit (normally we go through 2-3 a day). I tried to get her to wear real clothes, but decided that was a never ending battle that I choose not to fight. We finally came to terms that when we go out in public (shopping etc.) she will let me slip a dress over it so we don't get to many stares.

When I came home from work today, mind you the weather is around 60 degrees, a little chilly for Houston, this is how I found Alex. She had her sweater on and wanted her boots on so that we could go out. It didn't take her long to realize that she might need something else to keep her warm, so she added a white skirt to her ensemble.
Alex definitely has a mind of her own, and we love it. (most of the time) She loves to have photos taken of her and loves to pose for them. What a cutie.

Morgan's 4th grade concert

Last Thursday, November 13th Morgan had her 4th grade concert. She was very excited and has really enjoyed singing. She joined the choir this year and now we catch her singing all the time, which we really enjoy. Their concert was a patriotic show of an assortment of songs. Morgan learned the Star Spangled Banner and many other songs. Her best friend Lexi Torbit was also in the concert with her. Morgan and Lexi after their program.