FREE Christmas cards?

So my blog hopping proved to be beneficial today when I found this...

 Bloggers get 50 free holiday cards from Shutterfly… learn more here


I love Shutterfly and always order my Christmas/Birthday invites from there so the thought of getting 50 free Christmas cards is simply divine!  It is such an easy site to use and I have always loved all of the cards that I have ordered.  I am a huge fan of picture cards.  You know what they say...
"A picture is worth a thousand words!"


I skipped on over to snapfish today and I checked out the Christmas cards. 
 There are pages and pages and pages!
It will be very hard to choose but here are just a few of my faves...

View Christmas Cards here

Find more Holiday cards here

So many cute choices, what's a girl to do?!

This momma is a wishin' and a hopin' that I get 50 free Christmas cards!

And here's to hopin' that YOU get 50 free ones too!!

It was a happy "bir"day

...well that's what Madelyn would call it anyway!  ;)

We had a nice time celebrating Ryan's birthday with the fam yesterday.  Uncle Michael and Aunt Andi came earlier in the day and spent some time with us before everyone else came by.  Daddy got some nice presents and we all had some good laughs!

Daddy is 34?!

Madelyn spent most of the night bringing us to hysterics with her 

"ready, sec, GO"

Seriously who needs presents when you have this...

Collin and Madelyn got a special treat from Jannie!

We love it Jannie, thank you!

Happy Birthday Daddy!

Wishing you the happiest of birthdays!  How lucky we are to call you ours!  We love you to the moon and back...

Next to you is our favorite place to be...

Thank you for all that you do,
for all that you are,
and for all that you sacrifice for us!
We love you!!

Nothing like curlin' up...

...with a good book!

Collin was "reading" to Madelyn and he had really captured her attention...

 So much that she decided to take a closer look!

And since she wants to do everything that Collin does...

She decided to read it on her own!

You should have heard her version of the story!! ;)

Sweet surprises...

This was a L~O~N~G week!  I had parent teacher conferences on Wednesday and Thursday, and being that my partner is on maternity leave I filled in full time which meant two 12 hour days!  YUCK!  I didn't even see the kids for a minute yesterday...I left and they were sleeping, I came home and they were already in bed...so sad!
Today at lunch one of the aides walked by the lunchroom and said, "you need to go back to your classroom".  Oh perfect, I thought!  She quickly added, "there is a nice surprise waiting for you there".  I literally squealed when I realized that Ryan had brought the kids to see me and they brought me lunch!  SOOO sweet of him, it just made my day!

I love surprises!  :)

Mommy Mads

Madelyn has a new found love...

a stroller for her babies!

We may very well have to work on stroller safety though
as her "baby" has had quite a few near death experiences!  ;)
Just take note of the baby's position in each picture...

She even allowed her brother to use his "jaws of life" on her stroller, and this was one instance where her baby didn't look as though she was in any danger!

(BTW..."jaws of life" where does he come up with this stuff)

She may be a little rough around the edges when it comes to mommy duty, 

but one thing is for sure...

she loves her babies!

Sweet Madsy girl, 

we love YOU to the moon and back!

Halloween take 2

Here are a few more pictures from last night.  We had so much fun but it was a tiring day.  At the end of the night I plopped on the couch and said "whew I'm pooped"

Collin's response...

"Maybe you should go to the bathroom!"  :)