Jimmy's Family Reunion 2009

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving, we spent it at my mom and dads house. My mom outdid herself and everything was wonderful. I forgot my camera that day so no pics :( but trust me it was very nice and everything was yummy! Friday i didnt go out and do the black friday deal BUT im not sure how many stores did this but good ol' wally mart had black friday ONLINE> YES! It was awesome. My wonderful husband actually found it and stayed up till 5am to place our order. You could shop all the sale prices and load up your cart but they wouldnt let you check out until the sale started at 5am but hey, beats fighting millions of people and standing in rediculous lines. We were all over the online deal!! Then Friday we headed down to Bakersfield for Jimmy's family reunion. It was at his aunt becky's house and boy was it fun! We took his grandparents and we had an awesome time. I did bring my camera, so here are some pics from that!

Shelby and Grace on the bounce house
Shelby and some of the other kids running around. Shelby had so much fun!

Shelby climbing in the bounce house

this was so cute! They had pre made gingerbread houses for all the kids to decorate...there were a ton of kids and they had so much fun doing this!! Shelby liked eating the candies off her house lol

some of the other kids decorating

then they had a magician come and he did a pretty amazing show. Here was grandpa helping him do a trick!

here was grandpa and grandma being the lovely "assistants" so cute :)

At the end of the show he of course pulled a dove out. Shelby was all over that!! She loves animals. After the show the magician brought out the bird so the kids could pet him...here shelby is petting him




and again....she kept saying "tweet tweet" it was so cute

heres some pics of Shelby and Peyton jumping in the bounce house

Smile :)

We had a great tri tip dinner there and then we headed over to Dewars for some yummy ice cream. If anyone is ever in Bakerfield I highly recommend going to Dewars it is an awesome little ice cream shop and candy shop. Then we headed back to fresno! It was a very long fun filled day! Thank you grandma and grandpa Daly for going with us we had so much fun! :) A big thank you to Becky and Chris for hosting it, it was GREAT! We are looking forward to the next one.

I am thankful for...

I am so thankful for happy, healthy, beautiful daughters. A wonderful, caring, thoughtful husband, great friends, and a wonderful, supportive family. My life would not be the same without them! I know that im truly blessed.

Thanksgiving

I hope everyone has a safe and happy Thanksgiving this year! We will be going to my moms and having dinner there and then heading to Bakersfield on Saturday for a family reunion! I havent really decided if Im going to brave the "Black Friday" deals yet..there really hasnt been anything that I have seen that I have to have lol. I am not a fan of dealing, especially shopping, with large crowds of people. I hate driving in traffic and I just dont know if I can do it this year. I am proud to say Jimmy and I have started our Christmas shopping and are alomst done. As Im writing this I am really leaning towards not going friday...but Never say Never lol i'll see how i feel and take it from there :)

HaLlOwEeN!!!!!

My butterfly princessand my monkey

So Halloween was a busy day for us! We had a bday party to go to and jimmy and I were exhusted becuase we had been up with miss shelby who for some reason was running a high temperature on friday. She is much better now but friday night around 11pm she woke up with a fever of 103!! We stayed up to monitor the fever so by the time saturday morning rolled around we were pretty tired! She was feeling much better saturday so we headed to incredible johns for the birthday...after that we came home and got the kids dressed in their halloween costumes. We then headed over to grandma and grandpa daly's house (Jimmys grandparents) and met up with Steven, Janai and their boys....

me and the girls before we left....

my wonderful family

here were the girls in daddy's truck getting ready to head over to grandma and grandpa daly's

me and shelbs

After we met up with Jimmy's brother steven and his family we headed back to our house to trick-or-treat in our neighborhood...there we met up with Jimmy's other brother and his family, and my mom and we all went trick-or-treating together!! We had 6 kids in all having the best time...shelby tried so hard to keep up with the kids...although she did not like to walk up the door but was ok if i carried her...everytime she got a candy she wanted to eat it, silly girl!

Ethan, Xavier, Lex and Jacob in the background

after we were all done trick-or-treating we headed over to my grandparents house so they could see the kids dressed up....my monkey was worn out

after a very busy day we headed home looked through all the candy gave shelby some m&ms and let lex pick 2 candies and watched the new tinkerbell movie as a family (my wonderful hubby puts up with all the girly movies) :) Hope everyone had a safe and happy halloween!!!

The night before Halloween

So friday night after we picked up Alexia we ate dinner and then decided to carve our pumpkins...Usually we do them much earlier but then they get all mushy by halloween so I really liked the idea of doing them the night before. Here is Alexia scooping the goosince shelby is still to little to carve her pumpkins we had her paint a few of them the week before and then I found these cute little faces to put on them. Much easier for me than carving so I got to be the picture taker for the evening lol

the puppy pumpkin

daddy and lex carving

me and shelby's pumpkins...the piggy, the kitty cat (jimmy painted this one with Shelby earlier in the week), and another kitty pumpkin...shelby was so thrilled with these she kept taking us over and doing the piggy noise and kitty noise...it was too cute

shelby wanted to help sister

our fabulous decorations on the condo

the finished products....we even had yummy pumpkin spice candles to put in them so our patio smelled yummy

we had so much fun doing the pumpkins and getting in the halloween spirit. Next up HALLOWEEN and trick-or-treating!!

The day before Halloween

On Friday I was having a work party at my work so Jimmy and Shelby came to hang out for a bit. Poor shelby we were only able to wear her costume for a few min because it was 80 degrees and her costume was too HOT! here is her and daddy at my work all dressed up... I work at senior apartment complex and the residents always get a kick out of seeing shelby...she wasnt too sure about seeing them because they were mostly all dressed up which had her a little nervous...

chilling and eating pizza

after a while she warmed up and started to walk around the lobby with her trick-or-treat bucket my co-worker gave her

here she is showing mommy her "pretty outfit" i love this kid!

shelby had fun and after the party her and daddy headed home.