SNOW DAY!

For the second time this winter, we have been "blessed" with snow. Now, I am pretty sure everyone knows my feelings about snow. I do NOT care for it! I am cold all the time with out it so why would I want to go out in it? But, that being said, I did have fun playing in it this year with my kiddos from school and with Shea and Mattie. I think they said that we have not had this much snow in over 30 years. Crazy!

What is new at the Burks house these days? Well, Shea is obsessed as ever with Pirates and Star Wars. I even had a friend from school help me redecorate Shea's room with a pirate theme. It turned out pretty cool if I do say so myself. He has grown up so much and I cannot believe he will be in Kindergarten next year. I think he is excited about coming to my school. He is still mommy's little guy. The other day, he "gave" me one of his prized star wars toys as a gift. This morning, he told me not to listen to daddy - only him. Uh-oh!

Mattie is becoming a little lady and has quite a little sense of humor. She makes the funniest faces and is getting really good at giving us "the eye." She has become a little parrot, copying everything we say and do. We cannot keep the girl fed. She is constatly bringing us things from the cabinet, handing it to us, and giving us cute little puppy dog eyes while signing "please". How can you resist that? She is quite a little climber too. She learned how to push out the kitchen chairs over to the counter, then climb on the chair to get to the jar where the marshmallows are kept (her favorite). The jar had to be moved! Apparently she figured how to get out of the crib last night seeing as she wasn't in it when we went in to get her this morning. TROUBLE!! For such a little thing she has BIG personality.

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Catch Up Time! December

This December seemed to fly by. I think I got all of the Christmas shopping done in one week. Once again we had about 5 Christmases. Some of our pre-Christmas activities included riding on the Polar Express, breakfast with Santa (in which Shea would not talk to Santa without his Target catalog and Mattie just screamed!) and a trip to the Gaylord Texan to the ICE exhibit.

This year we even had a white Christmas. I don't ever remember having a white Christmas in Dallas! We all thought it was very cool. Well, everyone except the dog!

#1 Houston: After a 6 hour trip filled with car-sickness and screaming babies, we finally made it to Nauntie and D's for our first Christmas of the season. We also got to see Jay, Romy, Sherrry and Robbie. We all had lots of fun. Shea got the new Millenium Falcon. The thing is bigger than he is and one of us has to carry it around for him.

#2 My Parents: Christmas eve is always at Kaki and Paw-Paw's house. Mattie fell earlier in the day so she had a nice black eye for all of Christmas. All the kiddos got tons of presents. Shea once again got lots of pirate gear and some cowboy dress up stuff - complete with stick horse.

#3 Santa: As always Santa was very good to us. I guess we were all well behaved through the year! Mom and Dad got new bikes! Shea got Pirate legos, a new gun, and bendaroos. Mattie got a new pink car and lots of "Little People" toys. She wouldn't get out of the car for days.

#4 MeMe and Pop Pop: Down to Chris's side of the family for Christmas morning. Shea got tons of Playmobile pirate stuff which took us about 4 hours to put together. Mattie got fun toys, but I think her favorite was the pair of squeaky shoes. She loves to stomp around. At least we always know where she is.

Another Christmas gone. We are truly blessed to have so much family to share the holidays with and so many happy memories!

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Catch Up Time! November

So much time has passed again since my last post. As Shea would say, we are just "busy, busy, busy." Let me see if I can catch everyone up on the last few months.

November:
The weather was pretty nice for a lot of November so we spent lots of time outside. I think we spent an entire weekend outside in the fort we built out of the "pirate ship" and camo teepee. We had lots of fun but I must say that I am a little to big to fit inside there - hence my legs hanging out in the picture.

Mattie discovered that the vacuum blew out air when the attachments were being used so she would stand in front of it and let her hair blow in the breeze. This made her look like she was part of a model shoot with her jammies hanging off one shoulder and her long hair blowing.

We did out traditional Thanksgiving morning Turkey Trot and had lots of fun. Shea ran practically the whole thing. Thank goodness there are lots of us there so someone could keep up with him. Lord know I am not about to run!

Nanny and Pop-Pop "without the mustache" were in from New Jersey so we had lots of time to visit with them. Jay also was here and brought his new camera to help us with our christmas cards. I believe he took almost 700 pictures. Due to the wiggly nature of the kids - only a handful were usable :)

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