It's beginning to look like Christmas

A 2 foot berm out our front door...


Snow touching the bottom of the swings. The news said we got 28 inches over the past 2 days.

Our surb getting a mohawk.

Because I am NOT crazy!

Have Fun and then post your answers here...

Pick the month you were born:
January-------I kicked
February------I loved
March--------I karate chopped
April----------I licked
May----------I jumped on
June----------I smelled
July-----------I did the Macarena with
August--------I had lunch with
September----I danced with
October-------I sang to
November-----I yelled at
December-----I ran over

Pick the day (number) you were born on:
1-------a birdbath
2----- --a monster
3-------a phone
4-------a fork
5-------a snowman
6-------a gangster
7---- ---m y mobile phone
8-------my dog
9-------my best friends' boyfriend
10-------my neighbor
11-------my science teacher
12-------a banana
13-------a fireman
14-------a stuffed animal
15-------a goat
16-------a pickle
17-------your mom
18-------a spoon
19------ - a smurf
20-------a baseball bat
21-------a ninja
22-------Chuck Norris
23-------a noodle
24-------a squirrel
25-------a football player
26-------my sister
27-------my brother
28-------an iPod
29-------a surfer
30-------a homeless guy
31-------a llama

Pick the color of shirt you are wearing:
White----because I'm cool like that
Black-----because that's how I roll.
Pink-----because I'm NOT crazy.
Red------because the voices told me to.
Blue-----because I'm sexy and I do what I want
Green----because I think I need some serious help.
Purple----because I'm AWESOME!
Gray-----because Big Bird said to and he's my leader.
Yellow---because someone offered me 1,000,000 dollars.
Orange---because my family thinks I'm stupid anyway.
Brown----because I can.Other-----because I'm a Ninja!
None------because I can't control myself!

Black Friday

So I did Black Friday this morning. And it was very entertaining. I went to Kohl's and then Wal Mart and picked up a few things for everyone, including myself =). So we are pretty much done shopping. I do have to go get one more thing for Scott, and stocking stuffers. We can wrap at our liesure. I'm actually doing pretty good at keeping Scott's a surprise this year (something I'm not very good at).

I would like to get Christmas lights up on the house today, but I'm not going to stress about it. Thanksgiving morning was the first snow here in Spokane. Very frosty!

What's new...

Ok, It's been more than a week since I have taken the time to write anything. So, What is new here?? Well, DH felt the baby moving for the first time. My 4 yo and 1 yo went to the dentist--not too traumatic. I've been thawing the turkey--which reminds me I need to stick it in some cold water to speed up the thaw--. And I've been doing my homework singing Messiah choruses all day long to which DS rolls his eyes and stubbornly removes the cd to replace it with Beach Boys or Restless Heart, and then my DD removes That to replace it with Primary songs CD...so life goes on.

Christmas Photos

Lazy Sunday afternoon

So today was a lazy Sunday afternoon...I made dinner and then ate by myself because Scott was out home teaching and the kids were being their usual "Yuck, I want corn dogs!" selves, which I refused to react to. After the tantrum by Jace I simply said eat, here is good food...and I took my plate down to watch football. I am soooo DONE with cooking different meals for the little tyrant. But then I never did the dishes, and veged while my food digested and the little baby kicked in my tummy...(always the coolest feeling)(ok, at least at this point...not up in my ribs yet). Do I have any volunteers to come do my dishes??????

Usually I love the holidays. last year was stressful because we had just found out about Scott's tumor, and this year it is the economy and his job...I guess there will always be something to worry about and we simply have to learn how to pull out the smiles and remember our blessings. A few months back he and I were going through a particularly difficult, stressful week, when we had a Sunday with talks all about how blessed we really are and reminding us to speak them out loud to put things in perspective. The conversation we had that night was exactly the medicine we had been needing to smile again and get through the next days.

Tagged

9. My Dream Vacation: St Lucia in the Carribean

10. My kitchen sink: The after dinner mess...

I've been tagged! (Katie, is this a test? Because I am flunking getting the pics and the text to line up right GEH!)

1. Me right now

2.The Laundry room. Today they are empty because Monday is wash day and today is Wednesday. BUT, there are 3 baskets of clean clothes in the living room waiting to be folded.

3.My Fridge

4. Fav Shoes--New Balance

5.My bathroom--Can you find the frog?

6.The closet: Polly I WANT your walk-in from Reno...drool. Mine is tiny and stuffed mostly with maternity right now.

7. What my kids are up to right now: fighting bed time.../sigh

8. My favorite room: My bed where I read, relax, and put my feet up.

and yes, that is Strawberry shortcake blanket on my bed. What can I say, I was COLD and needed and extra blanket and this was the one most handy.=)

This Morning...

This morning I was watching 5 extra little cousins. Some because of parent -teacher conferences and no school, and the others because I usually swap watching kids with my SIL one morning a week to run errands. So we had a 1yo, 2yo, 3yo,two 4 yo, a 6 yo, and a 9yo. What a zoo! After two left at 11:00 we made lunch and the boys went outside for recess even though it was sprinkling. Jace had a great time letting the drips from the roof make a puddle on his head then he had to come show me how cool it was. They didn't stay outside for very long--it was pretty cold--before heading back in shedding socks, wet shirts, and coats in various piles through the kitchen and LR. Now it's 1pm and I need to do the small sink of dishes up, and fold 2 baskets of clothes. But when that is done I can recruit the kids to go outside and dig with me to plant the fall bulbs I got yesterday. Daffodils and purple Iris. So here goes.

Carving the pumpkins..We had 8 from our garden!

Ok! Day 1 on the blog-o-sphere. I want to create a cool layout and impress all you fellow bloggers out there. The only trouble is that I am sooooooooo slow when it comes to computer techy stuff. But hey it might just give you a laugh at least. So here goes...for starters lets see if I can get some pics to load right, and then I want to get some music on.