My Baby Boy is 10 years old today

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Woke up this morning with a 10 year old son. :) Started the day off with a hunt for his gift. There were 10 clues hidden around the house. He found it in record time and seems to love the MP3 player. Can't believe he is 10 already.

The pictures begin with his very first photo, moving on to 1st birthday all the way up till this morning his 10th birthday.

The Things I Teach My Kids

La-La and her boys at the park. Okay I really wanted this picture of us so I said sure let's sit in the tree. Drake was like, no we can't. I said sure put the little ones up there and we will hurry. Right before the picture took the man walked up toward us saying "please don't let the kids climb the tree's." Opps! I told him I was so sorry, I just had to get one picture and thanked him for not running us out. They see us here all the time. Next time we will go way back in the park where they will not see us so fast. hahaha

from left front,

Brayden is 2, Drake 10, Gavin 4, La-La (OLD), Blayne 5, Curtis 10 in one more week.

They didn't see us playing on the tables! ROFLMAO

Yet another

Dear Santa,

For Christmas I want monster jam urban assault. It'll be great to get it.

I also want monster jam DVD, I love monster trucks.

I really want a reindeer, I know you won't give it to me but, I would love to have

one, just a small one. A bell that only believers can hear.

a kid that has

never been on your

naughty list

Curtis Cambas

So Curtis is out to send the most letters to Santa in one given year, I do believe!

Had to write a letter for homework or classroom work (I am not sure),

so he wrote to Santa (again!)

I want to know when did he start liking monster trucks? HEHEHE this is a new request.

Also, where the heck would he put a reindeer? Hahaha and anyone got a special bell I can get?

Christmas lights around Newnan

We have been loving the lights our wonderful town has up this year. Our downtown area is one of the prettiest around the state if you ask me. I enjoy stopping and walking through the area just about anytime night or day. Lot's of wonderful light displays at local homes as well. I decided last night to try and record some of them to share with everyone here and get us all in the Christmas mood! Now I need to go back out to the home in Moreland that is just awesome and record it for you! I will try to do that in the next few days.

Mom and Bob have their lights up. I have yet to see it. But will soon. I miss the days when they played Santa and Mrs. Claus and opened the home up to the town of Bowdon. We had some fun times but it sure took up alot of our time. Mom isn't able to handle the crowds anymore coming in and out. I sure could use some of her homemade candy and hot coco right now. Brrr it is so cold today.

I love this time of the year. So much to do and so much to see. It is just a magical time of the year for me. I love the smell of cookies baking, the smell of our fake decorations. Yes, there is a smell to them. It comes in a spray and gives me a little taste of the outdoors. I enjoy laying on the floor with the kids and watching the lights on the Christmas tree (what's funny is they don't move this year, but they still sparkle). Curtis and I like to read in the living room on the rocking love seat with the Christmas lights on and the overhead light on low. It kinda takes us away to whatever we are reading. Right now, he is reading Harry Potter and I am reading Small Town Christmas by Debbie Macomber. It's the little things like this that mean so much to me.

Enjoy this Christmas season. Make it special to you and yours. Enjoy old traditions and make new traditions and be filled with love!

A special thank you to the family that does the lights below. AWESOME job! They have been doing lights a good 10 years or so. The music added to them is something else. We sat and watched a good 5 min. of the 15 min. show. Then I moved on so others could enjoy.

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YAWNING or SINGING

Look at my baby.. :)

hehehe, uhmm pull them pants down boy.. they are a little dorky like that. hehe

stand up for mom please.. ;)

waiting to get ties..

Curtis is a member of the Moreland Elementary School Chorus this year.

The Christmas concert was very cute as always. It was a long night for Curtis. We had to meet around 6:30 and then watch grades PK-3rd perform (ohhh they are so little and cute) and then the chorus performed around 7:45. He had sat and watched and was pretty bored. By the time they got up there to sing he was sleepy! I so hope someone got him yawning on tape and will send me a copy. I was taking pictures and missed every yawn! :)

I am very proud of him for taking part in it this year. He loves singing but told me he may not do it next year. He hates staying after school and missing that hour of play time.

I told him it's just 1 day a week!

I was hoping he would form a "real" friendship but nope, he is still just Curtis. :) He talks of one young man a good bit and they sat near each other a bit and chatted but once everyone got there and the others started acting like most 4th graders, Curtis moved down some seats, then back some seats, and then over across from where we were. That's okay, at least he was not getting into trouble.

Poor fellow has a cold again (darn it). His nose was running like crazy and he went through so darn much tissue! It was a really nice show and hopefully will not be Curts last. I am working on him.

I couldn't pick just one so enjoy the clips below. I didn't get many pictures and none of him before we left home by the tree like I planned to.

A very big THANK YOU to our director, Abigail Wakefield for working so hard with our children and putting together another wonderful showcase!

You can't really see Curtis in this one but I loved the song so got a touch of it. They sang this as the last song and was very touching.

"May Peace Be Always With You"

the very end of

"Christmas is Coming and We are Getting Fat"

Christmas Cards/letters

Have you mailed yours out yet? I have not, been working on just the right wording for my "form" letter this year. I just love getting cards and pictures and even the form letters in the mail this time of year.

My grandmother always hand wrote a wonderful sweet message in each card she mailed out and I never saw a picture in her cards. Today, I sit and type out my Christmas message and search for just the right pictures to attach. I want to write like my grandmother did, but it seems to me, that my Grandmother liked people a little more than I do. Grandmother's notes were always perfect, written just for me, and I know there were never two cards sent out just alike!

The cards or letters I send out all look just the same, say just the same, end just the same. Wish Grandma was here to help! Oh sure, I can think of something special about each person I want to send a card to, each one of them mean so much to me in their own ways, I hope they know that and know that they are loved and cared for dearly by myself and family.

Sometimes we just have to read between the lines. So when you get my card or letter or whatever I end up doing (thinking very strongly about just emailing cards this year, hahaha) remember to read between the lines and know I am sitting here thinking of JUST you and your family as I make your card and that the pictures taken where with you in our hearts and minds at the time.

Have a Very Merry Christmas everyone and send me my cards! :)

Thanksgiving week

How come when school is out a week it seems to go by very fast? I had to work Monday-Wednesday but was able to get tons done anyway.

The kiddo's were great and really enjoyed helping me set up my house. I usually decorate the Saturday after Thanksgiving but we will be out of town a couple of weekends in Dec. so will not get to enjoy our stuff as long as I like, so we got our stuff out on Monday.

We did the Disney tree and the fruit tree first and all of my Santa collection. Then I did the village. That they could not help with. LOL But they loved watching me do it.

Tuesday we put up the big tree. Curtis got into it way more this year. He did all the shaping of the big tree and he and the kids did all the ornaments on it except the ones up top. Shhhh I have had to move a few around but DON'T tell them. ;)

Curtis asked about every ornament. I think he was testing me to see if each one really did mean something. He got a kick out of the 15 or 20 wooden ones that belonged to the Hagler family and they passed them on to us since I have the Disney tree. Hey Austin, I am saving them for you sweetie, when you grow up and get married I will pass them on to you and your family! :) Just don't do it to soon, I am not ready to give them up. hahha

The pictures are not in order below. SORRY! I should go back and redo but guess what, I am not.

Thanksgiving day at my moms house. My silly son always has to make faces! Courtney playing with the train that goes around at grandnana's house. We went ahead and had her birthday party on Thanksgiving day after lunch. She turns 3 on Dec. 3rd!

Her cake!

She blew them out!

So happy to see her cake!

Andrew watching the train.

Just showing the living room stuff..

Courtney tell me she is 3 years old. HAHHAHA

This is my moms living room. We started putting stuff up the week before Halloween. We were done the weekend before Thanksgiving.

Love how the village turned out.

Playing school at mawmaw's house on Sunday before Thanksgiving.

This is the Christmas room at my moms house. It is the room she was born in 68 years ago!

Mom passed down to me the Disney Christmas Village this year. I have it setting on a table behind our sofa and in front of the living room's front windows. see the it at dark below.

She also passed down the fruit tree. I made it a talking fruit tree for my house. :)

Courtney modeling her new dress for me.

Curtis pretending to put ornaments on the tree.

Curtis letting me take some pictures. We went down to Callaway Gardens on Wednesday. I never get tired of looking at the lights!

Well, I think we need to have one of these at our house. ;) Telling Santa his list! Notice his little hands (okay he is not so little anymore) counting out his thoughts. HAHHA

Curtis' future theme park

Schools out for the week and I am loving it. Gives us some much needed time to just

relax and do what we enjoy. :)

Curtis as some of you know has dysgraphia (major handwriting problems)so pictures and writings from him have come later than for most kids.

He has always loved to tell stories but it's been hard to get them on paper.

He never colored as a small child and never liked painting pictures other than FREE style (hands or household objects only, never brushes.. LOL ).

For the past few weeks he has been drawing in his spare time. Last night he brought a stack of papers to me and wanted to tell me all about this theme park

he wants to make when he grows up.

I wish you guys could have heard the excitement in his voice and seen the sparkle in his eyes.

So today I uploaded the scanned pictures and had him make this little video of his idea.

Hope you enjoy! I am so proud to see him trying his hands at new things. A NOTE FROM CURTIS! I have an idea for a theme park called pokeland.You will stay at the poke inn, watch a talent show, and ride awesome rides.

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