Pillow Pets - ??? -

For Christmas, we broke down and got the kids all Pillow Pets - They have been asking me for them for at least 1.5 years. Even Charlie kept giving me the Pillow Pet commercial tag line - "they are practical - a pillow and a pet". I just didn't see what would be so fun about them. I still don't really see the allure, but they LOVE them!

So, they love their pillow pets and now we get to lug 3 more big fluffy things around the house all day and to bed of course :) Out of all of the presents, I think these were the favorites this year...

Our Merry Christmas!

Somewhere in the chaos of creating the perfect Christmas season, "it" hit. The kids, the decorating, the shopping, the wrapping, the phone calls from family members all day long, and the school holiday party planning, etc. had all overwhelmed me. I was feeling crazy - like I could never pull off a happy Christmas full of memories for my family of 5, much less the expanded family of Soets & DeVries members. Truthfully, it had started a bit before holiday decor had come out...

My world had been seeming more cloudy than sunny for the past few months, but at the bottom of the crazy that was swallowing me up, Steve listened. I cried, bitched, yelled, laughed, and bitched about it all some more - and Steve listened.

In the end, he just gets me.

Through the day - Through the clouds

Through the monotony, the questions, the piles of clutter and never ending laundry, failed expectations, and much needed reality adjusments-

Steve gets me and I love him!

***And thanks to Steve, I got back to me again and we all had a very merry Christmas!

-more pics to be posted posted soon!

Will there be a SNOW day?!?

The kids have been loving the snow! The count down to Christmas and the hoping for snowdays has begun!!!

ornament exchange 2010

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So many Turkey Day Blessings!!!

Lots of fun this Thanksgiving weekend - here are a few pics of my favorite turkeys!

SO thankful for this!

Having a really long week here at the Soets...this makes me smile tonight after an action-packed Thursday! xoxo, K

kiddos in costume...a week or two late!!!

So, this cold / sinus infectioon will not leave - so my posts are late, boring and lame.... Hopefully, the snot will lift and I will be back to Kristen soon!!!! Here are school parade and trick or treating pictures of my little goblins - - - Linds was Pinkalicious for trick or treating - minus the crown I obsessed over, the doll, the shoes, etc.

Onward and upward, right!?!

Halloween with the grown-ups

Not a lot I can or should write about this party...It was fun - our friends had some great costumes, and w had a lot of fun!!!

8 years of being Mrs. Soet!

So, yesterday was our 8 year anniversary! Yeah us!

I can't imagine 8 years being full of more life changes - we can hardly remember those kids that got married 8 years ago... Even though my life now is SO busy, noisy, and full of dirty clothes, I feel so lucky!

What a great life - what great kids - all thanks to what a great husband I have!

Love you, Steve!

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there are 2 folders to peek through

xoxo, K

The 3 big deals at our house this week!

Charlie is wearing underwear (at least when we are at home)! This is normal for most families with 2.5 year olds, but in our house - this is HUGE! Fingers crossed that we can skip the traditional Soet trip to Chicago for BootyCamp professional help with Charlie!!!
Cody lost his first tooth on Friday! He is so proud & super cute with that new gap smile :) He left his tooth on the kitchen countertop because he was "freaked out thinking about some fairy flying around in my room"!!!
Lindsey started dance class earlier ths month. She never struck me a ballet class kinda girl, but apparently she is! She basesher week around dance on Tuesdays :) She loves it - half ballet, then time for tap shoes - PERFECT!
























Who knows what the big deal will be at our house next week???

Cody goes to Kindergarten

He has a week+ under his belt and other than that very first morning (and the morning his mean mom made him wear pants!) he has been a happy kid jumping on the bus and ready to go to school! He was pretty worried about eating lunch at school. All of those days spent this summer giggling about Hubba Bubba the lunch lady with his older buddy Karsyn started to freak him out a little :) But a Reese's PB Cup in his Batman lunch box fixed his fear of the lunch room and Hubba Bubba, too! He has Mrs. Morris who also was his teacher in Young 5's last year, and he knew about 7 kids in his class already. Kindergarten will be great!

The little kids love watching the bus from their chairs in their jammies... Makes me smile every time!

Steve stayed home to help get Cody on the bus for the first morning of school - - - someone had to be able to take pictures, right?!?




Cody's fist day of school went well - His teacher sent me a picture of him playing in the classroom with some new buddies. According to Cody, 3 recesses made him smile! After the bus dropped him back off at home smiling, his older neighborhood friends even humored him & me with taking some first day of school pics. A Batman backpack with muscles and a special cookie had Cody smiling big time!

super sweet!