December Recap all in one post

Now that Christmas has come and gone I thought I would do a little recap of what a spectacular December we had this year.   

My wonderful mother and best friend turned 57 this December and we had a little get together at my house with some good food and she got her beautiful christmas dishes she wanted.  Love you mom!

Then the weekend following we went to my grandparents house down south for a fun filled, wonderul weekend yet again with the crazy SMITH family.  We got there very late Friday night so Saturday we got up and had a great breakfast, then we waited patiently for everyone else to get there.  We did gifts and then had our big meal shortly after here is what everyone was doing...

We then went to see the Christmas lights at Lake Pine Bluff which has been a tradition for over 10 years now and then we did some of our crazy smith events and all of us kids were dancing in the kitchen...needless to say it was a blast.  It was then time to come home and began the maddness of the week before christmas.  Here are a few pictures of the kids that week as they were home with me and we were having fun.

Gotta love those faces

This was her favorite present this year.  Gunner gave his sister his kitchen to have in her room and she thinks it is fun to stand on the baskets. 

Trying to get a good tree picture...

There is the smile I love so much.

Christmas eve we headed to Chris's moms house for dinner and gifts with his family.  We are all very fortunate to get to be together each year and the kids always have fun.

Gunner, Austin, Kallie, and Greyson

Me and my sister in law Tiffany

Chris and Greyson being goofy as usual

Mom stop taking my picture

The Block's

Aunt Ne ne and he sweet Kallie

After we were done at Chris's family we headed back to our house where we had my mom, dad, sister, brother, and grandma waiting to stay the night with us.  When we got home they were playing WII again and then we made our annual doughnuts that my dad does and they are AMAZING!!!!

I was so blessed to have my grandma to come stay with us this year and experience the SMITH/BLOCK tradition we have started.  I love you so much Granny and I hope you had as much fun as we did.

THEN it was Christmas morning and I believe the kids were very blessed this year and go everything they wanted.  Can we say spoiled.....

Santa came

Gunner was happy

My sweet girl playing with her new gifts

I hope everyone had a great holiday season and enjoyed time with family

Happy New Year from the Block's

It's Beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

December 1st is here which means 23 days till Christmas!!!  I absolutely love this holiday and all that is stands for.  We have started decorating around the house and while I still want to add a few more things it looks good so far.  It is nothing special by just my own little style. 

Here is a picture of my mantle which is my favorite things so far this year I have done.

Our Christmas Tree which still needs some more stuff added but I am getting there.

Kallie's sweet little tree

and the unusual one in my office this year...

I hope everyone is doign well and love to you all on this wondeful day!

Birthday Bashes and Loads of Fun

This past weekend one of my very best friends Tiphanie turned 30+1 and my baby brother turned 24. We celebrated by a fun dinner and Beef O' Brady and then down to Willie D's for a fun filled and exciting night. I love you both and I hope you had a great time...I know I did.

I am so excited to have gotten Kallie's 1 year old pictures back from my very talented and wonderful friend Kelsy. You did so great on these and I cannot wait to see our family pictures from yesterday as well. Love ya girl thanks so much!!

Sooooo it has been a while since I have updated but, my goodness how the time flies these days. We have been very busy since school started in August and now its November already. We spent September and October with every weekend full of something fun with friends and family. We have the best friend right now and we enjoy all the fun activities and get togethers we have with them.

Well we have made it to the big "1" yes our little doll Kallie is finally one and she is such a ham right now. She is developing her own personality and it is sometimes entertaining to say the least. She has learned how to walk which she is just amazed at and her eating habbits have very much changed. She is very picky right now and still wants baby food instead of table food so we are struggling through that. However I have learned if its on my plate she will eat it.

Halloween was fun this year as we had some friends over and the kids had a great time.

School started...

Gunner has officially started first grade and loves his teacher this year. We could not be happier and we are found of her as well. He did really great yesterday and was excited to get there. Here are some pics of my big boy on his BIG day...

Kallie is doing well not having bubba around the house but she sure was happy to see him when he got home yesterday. She does really well playing with her toys in my office while I get some work done. Thanks goodness for good babbies...I am so blessed.

Love to you all!!!

Summer is coming to an end....

As summer comes to an end I am reminded of all that we did or did not do this summer. It was so amazing getting to work from home with both my kids here with me. We had some good and some bad days but all in all it was a great summer. Here are a few fun things from the last month....The kids were having a great time playing in the living room and they both looked cute so I snappped a few pictures...notice Gunner is missing his TWO bottom front teeth...yea we lost both of those in the same week.

Along with Gunner losing teeth Kallie began to crawl everywhere and get into everything..that lasted about two days and then she was pulling up on stuff. Here are some great images of the happenings around here and her new found freedom...

We took Gunner to Whitewater for his special vacation with mom and dad and then his aunt and cousing joined us. We had a great time and I missed my baby girl but she got spoiled by nana and papa.

Now my favorite was this morning when I found Kallie in her bed all moved around...what can I say she is a mover in her sleep.

Busy summer times...

It has been a while since the Block Family did an update so here is what has been going on. At the end of June by baby/big boy Gunner turned 6 and we had a great time at Jump Zone. He is such a good boy, sweet, considerate, kind hearted, onry, loves loves loves his sister, and is developing his own personality and keeps us laughing for sure. Here are some cute pics from his party...

After Gunner's birthday we continued with All Stars tball for Gunner which kept us busy every night for three weeks. We had a great time and met some amazing new friends who we are looking forward to seeing in a few weeks plus ones that live right behind us...small world and the kids play great together too. I love it when things work out like that... Here are some pics from our July 4th weekend at the ballpark playing 6 games....

Our princess got her first little virus along with getting 6...yes 6 teeth at one time. She ran a fever and was fussy for about 4 days and needless to say for a baby who is wonderful all the time Momma was tired. She is doing great though almost 8 teeth now, trying to crawl, she scoots everywhere and pulls up on stuff too. Plus is just jabbering up a storm. She finally said Momma but does not say it often and also says Da for Dog...she loves puppies and is just our little angel. I cannot wait to see what she does next.

On top of all of this we are doing a little home makeover too. Chris and I love updating our house and have lots in store for this one. Here is a picture of back in September when we bought it.

And now here is what we have done...we redid the flower bed a few weeks ago but this past weekend we added a pond with water fountain and wooden shutters which I LOVE!!!!

In the middle of all this my amazing friend Kelsy took some amazing family pictures of us and here are a few of my favorites...

Hope everyone is doing welll and I will try to update more frequently.