Party time!

Friday was a day of fun for the boys. They each had their Christmas parties at school. I started off in the morning helping with Colton's party. He got to wear his jammies. They had several stations set up. The kids rotated through making an ornament, reindeer food and a stocking. Then they had cocoa and watched the Grinch. I left there and went to help at Cooper's preschool party. He got to make Muddy Buddy mix and reindeer food. Then they had pizza for lunch and a book exchange. It was a fun day. I was so relieved that the timing worked out and I got to be at both parties. So-now Christmas vacation officially begins. We are all so excited! Cody has the whole week off and we plan to squeeze in some family fun. Here are some pictures of the boys enjoying their school festivities.

Tag You're It!

This is a picture from Spring in 2007, when their was a lot of bluebonnets around. I wanted to do a picture of me and the boys in the bluebonnets for Cody. This wasn't the best one but it was the picture I found while playing this game of tag. Gosh- my boys have sure grown!

Here are the directions:

1. choose the 4th picture folder on your computer

2. choose the 4th picture

3. explain the picture

4. and tag 4 more people to do the same

*I tag Laura, Misti, Amy, and Shelley.*

Happy Birthday to my Daddy!

Today is my Dad's birthday! If you know me you know I am a Daddy's girl! Always have been, always will be! Yes- I have always had him pretty much wrapped around my finger. Now my kids have him wrapped around theirs too. Very fun! My dad is a wonderful Papa and dad. He would do anything for any of us and makes us feel so loved. We love him very much! Happy Birthday Papa/Daddy!

An Important Call

Last night the boys got a call from Santa Claus.  Colton and Cooper both loved talking to Santa. They talked about what they wanted and their teachers. They sang Jingle Bells together. Santa even mentioned that he had gotten their letters and that he had just seen Colton at school on Tuesday. (They had a Santa visit at Comal.) He went over what they needed to do to get on the tip top of the good list. Both of them need to clean up their messes. Once Santa heard the sleigh bells ring, it meant it was time to go feed his reindeer. Colton says "Wait Santa! Can I tell you one more thing?" Santa of course said sure. Then Colton goes, "Santa, I believe in you. I believe in your elves and your reindeer too!" Priceless!
After we got off of the phone, Colton said he had to go clean his playroom. (we could no longer see the carpet in there) Sure enough, he did a good job and then he sat down to write a note for Santa telling him to go look in the clean playroom. The magic is strong at the Mueller house this year and I love it!!

My Little Artist

Colton is so into drawing these days. He gets home and wants his paper and crayons. If he is watching a show he will ask me to pause it so he can draw the characters. Sometimes he props up one of his toys and uses it as a model for a picture he wants to draw. Then once he is done, he gets some tape and goes to hang it in his "art studio", better known as his room. (He is running out of wall space in there.) I love to watch him in deep concentration when he is hard at work at his new found skill. Here are few pictures of him drawing away one morning and of two of his pieces of artwork...Buzz and Woody.

A successful hunt

As most of you know, my hubby is quite obsessed with hunting. He spends most every weekend from November through early January at the deer lease. Colton has gone a couple of weekends this year and he loves it too. This Saturday Cody shot a deer he has been eyeing. He was really excited and the boys couldn't wait for him to bring it home to show them. We were all proud of Daddy and for me it was a chance to get a great picture of my three boys in camo. =)

Dear Santa

Today the boys wrote their letters to Santa. The process was fun...writing, stuffing and licking the envelope, and then mailing the letter to the North Pole. They are both pretty clear on what they want so that should make Santa's job pretty easy. Yeah right! Cooper wants a Big red tractor and when he says big he means full size. He always describes it with a big steering wheel and he says he will drive it. Yep, Santa is in trouble. The hope is that he will be happy with a red push tractor and trailer that makes lots of cool noises. If not, Santa will try hard to make it up to him next year. Colton wants a long list of things but Transformers and a Batman Bat Cave are at the top. That Santa can pull off. Here are their letters and them sending them.