Apple, NineWest & CO., and Weldon's

Santa brought Oscar an

Apple iPod this year. I didn't exactly get a picture of him with the iPod, but this is of him opening it.

Oscar bought me a really really nice NineWest & CO. purse that I absolutely love!

Mom and Dad DeVaux gave us a lots of lbs of meat! (that is the best present EVER!)

Our Little Christmas A.M.

We got to sleep in this Christmas morning. However, when I did wake up to start breakfast we were met with a non-working refridgerator. Apparently, after a few minutes of trying to figure out what was wrong, a mouse had chewed through the copper cable on the plug. Crazy huh, so Oscar had to go to JJ's Truck Stop to find some electrical tape on CHRISTMAS!! He came home and after about an hour he fixed it and it started working again. (MY HERO!) :)

The kids then got up and we had breakfast that consisted of biscuits and hot chocolate. I was supposed to make chocolate gravy, bacon, biscuits and eggs, but since the fridge had been down, we decided not to.

We then passed out, one at a time, the kids presents. And like all little kids, The Boy liked the paper and the packing bubbles more than the gifts. I know what to get him next year!

Twas The Night Before Christmas

Our kids are really too young to enjoy Santa and his legend, but we put out cookies and milk for him anyway. We also left oats out on the lawn for his reindeer. (I didn't take a pictue of that, it was dark)

AdaBelle setting out the cookies and milk for Santa. She was so tired. We had Christmas Eve with my family a little earlier. It was a long day.

This is the playroom at my mom's house on christmas eve. AdaBelle loves playing with Lidia.

This is Audrey and The Boy. They loved hanging out all night.

The Boy got this vaccuum from Didi and Pap. He LOVES it. They got it because he is always using the real one. He's our little "Maid Man"

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Rivendell Christmas

Both Oscar and I work at Rivendell so here are some pictures of the Christmas party I helped decorate for. I did all the centerpieces and the the Rivendell kids did the wall art. I think it turned out very well and since Rivendell doesn't give bonuses, it was a pretty nice party.


These 2 below are the finished mountain scene over the colored walls that the kids did.

























These are the centerpieces I made with a very low budget. I wasn't 100% happy with them, but what are ya gonna do?

Big Girl

AdaBelle has finally peepeed in the potty. We decided to potty train her a few months ago, but she apparently wasn't ready. Last month she decided she was a big girl and wanted to pee pee in the potty like Mommy. So she did and was almost completely trained to do the #1 and #2 when we took our mini vacation to Dallas and Austin for Thanksgiving. While there she got sick and had lots of accidents so we put her in pull ups. When we got back, well needless to say it's taken this long to get back on track. She took a picture of her first "real pee pee" as she refers to it and wanted to share it with ya'll.

Season's Greetings!

H O L I D A Y M A G I C

*Some of our gifts*

*our blurry tree topper*

We put our tree up the other day and decorated it for FHE.

FINALLY my pictures are coming through; here's a picture of our kids in front of the tree. :)

Thanksgiving in Dallas

We took a mini vacation for Thanksgiving this year. We decided to go to Texas. We left on Tuesday night at 6:00 and got to Marji and Jim's at 10:30. The next morning we packed up and took a quick trip to Austin to see Grandma B and Grand Dad. It was a good visit but the travel was atrocious! It took us 6 hours to get to Austin where it would normally only take 3. AdaBelle got sick on the way there and threw up all over her carseat. When we got to Austin we put her in the bath and she was very lathargic the rest of the night. I think Grandma B enjoyed the visit though. Unlce Tommy came by to see us as well and he's such a funny guy!!!! The trip back was uneventful but we didn't make it back to Marji and Jim's until 11:30 that night. Needless to say it was a loooooong trip.

We celebrated T-Giving day in Dallas at the Anderson's. We had: Marji, Jim, Thomas, Matthew, & Kaylee; Marcie, Jeff, Landon, & Blake Kump; Kay & Oscar DeVaux Vi; and AdaBelle, Oscar viii, Oscar vii, & Me.

It was fun. We had nutmeg potatoes, smoked turkey, ham, rolls, strawberry jello, stuffing, greenbean casserole, and lots of desserts. The kids ate outside and had fun screaming and running around in Marji and Jim's backyard. They had so much fun with eachother.

Black Friday was uneventful as well. Marji and I had thought about going to the mall near their house that opened at midnight but decided against it. We watched The Hulk and stayed up late. I spent most of Black Friday morning online looking for good deals and found quite a few. We left the Anderson's around 10:30 a.m. and traveled all the way to Texarkana where we stopped to shop at Ross' for clothes for the kids. *they grow really fast. both hit a growth spurt at the same time* We found some really good deals and made it back out to the car to hear the Razorbacks beat LSU!
We had to stop at Wal-Mart in Malvern on the way home and then we got home and bathed the kids and stayed up til Oscar had to go to work at 10:00 that night. All in all it was fun but I'm still recovering from sleep deprivation. AdaBelle apparently gets car sick and is still trying to get back on her schedule from the weeks' events.

Thanks to everyone who helped make the trip a success and for all the love and support ya'll give us!

~Dollie

November Summary

In November we celebrated my youngest brother's 18th birthday. We got him a Sonic and McDonald's giftcard along with some DVDs he wanted. We ate out at Colton's in town and AdaBelle had a blast stomping on all the peanut shells on the floor! She's such a cutie!

AdaBelle has found a new love for doing crafts. She loves to paint and draw and color. She also loves stickers and foam. She's gotten pretty good at pasting and arranging her stickers.

Little O has figured out how to climb and can now get in and out of the bathtub at will. It takes him a little while, but if he wants out, he can do it.

*i guess i'll have to use a different computer to upload my photos, none of them have been able to upload.*

~The DeVaux Clan