Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas Everybody!

Yummy!!

Today we made cookies for Santa & of course we had to try them to make sure they tasted good! This has become one of my favorite traditions with the kids. It's so much fun & they have a great time!!

Bye-Bye Puppies...

Well, the girl puppies found new homes today. I thought I would be really sad about it, but cleaning up after 3 puppies is exhausting & gets old fast. I thought the kids would throw a fit, but they didn't. They said their good-byes & off they went. Here's our last look at them with my girls, Jacob isn't here because he insisted on holding Marley the boy puppy & didn't want to take a pic.

Some Holiday Humor...

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Santa Came To Pop & Granny's...

Yesterday we had the annual Hurley Christmas. The kids were so excited to see their cousins plus they got presents! They could hardly wait to get over to Pop & Granny's house!! We had some yummy Mexican food & lots of fun & laughs! Here are a few pics I managed to snap - it's never easy to do over there, it's a mad house!! :)


Julianna got Pink Twister from Aunt Amber & Uncle Eric.
Jacob got a building blocks set from Granny & Pop.


Mikayla got custom made spurs from Granny & Pop. The first thing she did when she got home was put them on her boots! She is SO proud of them!!


My sister-in-law, Dawn, hates my guts!! She got Juli this singing Barbie that has a microphone with it! As if she isn't loud enough all by herself!! I still love you Dawn, you just wait until Zach's birthday!!


Jacob got Monster Trucks from Aunt Dawn & Uncle Alex. He doesn't like them, can you tell?! It was the first thing out of the package!


Juli got a Hannah Montana game from Pop & Granny. OMG!!


Kayla got Pink Jenga from Aunt Amber & Uncle Eric.


Jacob got a Batman Motorcycle from Aunt Amber & Uncle Eric.


Kayla got Tasty Treats from Aunt Dawn & Uncle Alex. She can't wait to "cook" something up.

They all got money from Uncle Chris & Aunt Janie. That always make them happy!

Our Christmas Card Pics & The Man In The Red Suit...

The other day Mikayla asked me to get the Santa hats out so she could wear hers to school yesterday. Well today they all had them on & were acting silly, so I decided it was Christmas card picture time since everyone was in the mood. These are especially special because they have our adorable puppies in them.










And this happens every time, I don't know what the deal is!! Silly kids!





Later that day, Santa came to the Marquez library!

I'm An Enabler...

Every once in a while Mikayla will get the urge to scrap with me. Well I found out about this great new website called Kids Can Scrap (www.kidscanscrap.com), where it is strictly kids scrapping together. So I told her about it to see if she was interested. She was, so we went to check it out. For November, the challenge was to do a layout about yourself so everyone could kind of get to know each other & this is what she did.


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At the end of the month, they select winners & she won a prize!! She was so excited that she won something. She could hardly wait to do the next challenge which was to make a Christmas ornament. Oh man, I think I've started something!! I'm really not that worried, nothing will take the place of her love for horses.