A cluttered house...

Nothing drives me more batty than cluttered areas.  After 4 kids (and a husband) I have to deal with these areas more than I want to.  It is really ok, its not the end of the world... and I honestly tell myself when the house is overtaken with messes - that I would much rather have a cluttered house and fingerprints on the walls and glass and have sticky floors than to have a house empty of these messes b/c a house empty of these messes would mean no children (or only 1 or 2 kids)  So I would much rather have a house full of kids and a house full of clutter than no clutter at all. (or clutter that I could maintain!) 

With that said... I try to maintain the clutter and a portion of this comes from the hubster... he has alot of odds and ends from work and a work laptop.  There hasn't been an area in our houses for that! (Or I haven't made that area Ooops!)  anywho... this is his dumping station and it drives me crazy!!!  So I cleaned it up, now I just have to get him to put his stuff in the basket.... :)

Before cluttered mess in my kitchen.... driving me CRAZY! (In the back are our "good choice jars" I moved those, will write more on those later)

All cleaned up!  So much nicer :) and makes me happy except those chords... gotta figure something out for that, but for now it's all good.  Its the little things in life that make me happy :)

Please understand that our house is a mess most of the time and over taken with these clutter areas... I am not perfect at cleaning them all, all the time :)

Christmas continued...

Ok since I couldn't figure out the slideshow thing.  I put up my most favorite pics instead of all of them!  Its hard to choose people! lol  So now my Christmas post is really late.... oh well.  We had a wonderful Christmas morning.  I was so excited to see the girls faces.  Obviously each year gets more fun with the awareness and excitement growing.  We bought Taylor and Addison bikes this year and I just couldn't wait to see their faces!!!  Taylor, Addison and Payton were very sweet and cute with their presents.  Jackson slept in that morning which was nice to have undivided attention with the girls.  Jackson woke up and enjoyed his presents too ;)  Papa and Nana came over that morning and we had fun exchanging presents with them too.  Later that day we had a huge Christmas dinner with our family and that was alot of fun.  We loved having a house FULL of family here. :)  Would you believe that I was so busy during the dinner that I did not take a single picture!  URGH!  oh well. 

Here are my favs from Christmas morning...

All Tuckered Out

                                Jackson is zonked out asleep in the bumbo.  Christmas wore him out :)



Christmas Eve

Growing up Christmas Eve was a big holiday all in its own for me.  I spent Christmas Eve with my Dad and his side of the family.  It was a huge Christmas party with all the trimmings.  After dinner we would hear Jingle Bells coming from outside (my Grampa up on the roof banging a leather strap with jingle bells around) we'd run outside... to find Santa.  One year there was an airplane in the sky with a red light blinking and I freaked!  When we came back inside there was mounds of presents pouring from under neath the Christmas tree because Santa made a special trip early for me because thats when I was there with my Dad and Grandparents and my Dad. 

This is a magical memory for me and I remember Christmases at my Grandparents very vividly.  After moving to Atlanta we haven't been home for the last 3 years.  I was so excited to know be living here and could go to my Gramma's and see my Dad on Christmas Eve.  We don't do the Santa thing with our girls but we still had fun and enjoyed our family!

                                               Here is Taylor showing off her snow globe.

Christopher

 My Gramma and John

The girls playing with their new fairy toys.

 Payton excited about the Princess tent they just got.



Ginger Bread House

I have always wanted to do a Ginger Bread House and never have.  I am hoping to make this a Fields' Family tradition.   It was fun and cute and we bought the kit!  I originally wanted to make it ourselves... but lack of time got us this year... the kit worked out great!  The girls had a great time and Addy and Payton loaded up on sugar!  (Taylor won't eat anything sweet except sugar cookies)  Anywho... we had fun!  I love the pics of the girls licking their fingers ;)

Rolly Polly

My sweet Rolly Polly Jack Jack.  He is cracking me up!  This photo was taken Dec. 15th... so just over 2 weeks ago.  He isn't crawling, he isn't scooting.... he ROLLS!  None of the girls rolled... so this is a new one for us.  He is completely happy with just rolling.  He gets around good too.  I had him sitting on the Elmo couch in the picture to the right with some toys... I am going about my day... and where is Jackson... He rolled - I'm like how did you get there!?   He would only do this when I wasn't in the room either.... So it always surprised me.  Since taking this picture he is rolling more and has made it to the foyer.  He now does it when I'm in the room :)  Little stinker!  But a cutie!

 He is quite proud.

What happens when....

Sometimes I ask myself... WHY? Did I think this was a good idea???  I really thought it was at the time until we got home and I saw what they were doing!  We were at Hobby Lobby and I bought the girls a wooden coloring thing that comes with markers - my girls love these and I periodically buy them for them.  My thoughts were oh this will keep them entertained on the way home.  Hobby Lobby is about 25 minutes from our house and I thought that this would keep them awake since they had missed their nap this day.  They were quiet and I honestly didn't give it another thought...  So to my surprise when I got home and started unloading them out of the van.   But they are cute and it was quite funny!  It took about 2 baths to get all the marker off :)  So this is what happens when you let your daughters draw in the van on the ride home....