Attempting to be a Super Mom

I want to start off by saying that I had a wonderful birthday!  I'm so blessed to have the best family and I love spending time with them. This last weekend, my mother-in-law took me out shopping for some clothes because I never buy anything for myself and spend any money I have on the kids.  I just want my kids to have the world.  I can't help it if I spoil them.  I always say that Shawn and I don't have nice things but our kids do, and that's the way it should be.  Anyway, Saturday evening,  I went out shopping with Shawn's mom (Julie) and his brother's girlfriend (Morgan).  We had such a good time and I got some really great new clothes. Morgan is a tall skinny girl with this crazy ability to wear the highest freaking heals, even when she's pregnant.  We laugh and call her shoes hooker heels, so when we were at the shoe store she was dancing and wearing some of the obnoxiously cute neon colored heels.  I jokingly titled this picture St...

I can't believe my little man is now 4 years old!!!  I feel like I blinked and he went from being a baby in the hospital to a big kid that hardly thinks he needs my help. Ben only a couple of hours old: Ben on his big birthday: The festivities and our weekend really started on Friday.  Shawn took the day off from work so we could go to the zoo.  That didn't work out so well considering it was really cold and rainy all day.  Not good zoo weather.  We looked at the weather for the upcoming week and decided that we'd go the next Friday.  Instead, we went to see Lion King 3D with Shawn's mom Julie, and then to get the kids some new shoes. Here's Julie and the kids, waiting on the movie to start: After the movie and shopping, Shawn's mom, sister, and I got our hair done.  Thank goodness, I needed it badly!  I'll have to take pictures later, because it looks so much better... Now I just have to do some color.  Anybody want to help me? ...

This is probably going to be a fairly long entry with tons of pictures, so bear with me please. Last Wednesday (Christmas Eve's Eve) Ben and I made Ben's gift to his Grandparents.  We were going to buy cheap frames and let him paint them and put a picture of himself in there, but instead we decided to just make the frames all together because then he could really go crazy.  He had such a good time.  We even put his hand print on there since he loves to do them.  Here's some pictures of him making his frames and then the finished product. Wednesday night, we made sugar cookies as a family.  They were the last cookies I had on my list to make.  Shawn turned out to be a cookie making and decorating fool.  It was quite funny.  Here's how they turned out. Thursday, I had to work.  I went in long enough to get my work ...