Church and churchery

*clothes laid out for church (it's our ward christmas program so it's an important day)--check

*up at 6AM to try and look nice without kids pulling on me--check

*smokey eyes--check and wink, wink. it looks pretty dang good

*hair curled (yep, took me an hour)--double check

*cinnamon rolls made for choir-check

**church cancelled--check

cookie decorating

this was a FUN afternoon!

Just when I was feeling bad...

1 elliptical mile: 6:41

O, Christmas Tree

the cub scouts were doing a fundraiser, so we opted to get a REAL tree for the first time in our married life! It's GORGEOUS!! and GINORMOUS! Notice that the ornaments only go down to a certain level. Lance laughed at that, but what choice to I have??

Winter

Marykaye, recognize the "pool"?? It's really a sand bucket that we filled with water to splash in over the summer. Somehow it didn't quite get emptied...OOPS!

Another Giveaway

April Showers Giveaway

April Showers Blog Design is having a HUGE giveaway and celebrating her OPEN waiting list that starts January 1st! April not only does blogs - but also invitations, announcements, calendars, cards, business cards, custom illustrations, and so much more! Just by pasting this paragraph on my blog I'm a winner! www.aprilshowersblogdesign.com

worth a try, right??

Fun Giveways

That's right!

It's finally time for our BIG Holiday Giveaway!

There will be a ton of new giveaways each day until Thursday.

Each giveaway will be open for one week from posting.

There are several ways to get entries, for a better chance, enter several times!

some new pics

these girls are so fun!!! And now we have them all dressing alike! Just kidding, we had to fight Gracie tooth and nail to get her to take off her clothes so we could take these pictures....and then we had to trick them all into looking out the window....and threaten them to stop playing with each other (read: beating the crap out of each other). We really do enjoy them, and we think they like each other, just a little too much sometimes.

The turkey we cooked! This is a Giada recipe that we love. You stuff the bird with oranges and lemons and junk, and then throw it in the oven...easiest bird I ever cooked! (Thanks Em) I really did nothing but enjoy it on thursday night, and friday lunch, and friday dinner, and friday breakfast come to think of it, and two times today. I guess I am a bit of a turkey freak.

And this is our other turkey, Sydney. She will be four months old in five days, but she has already rolled over a couple of times, loves to talk, hang out with mom, and sleep from 9 at night until 10 in the morning. We moved her into the crib last week, thus moving Kami to the big-girl bed (which is a story for another time), and she is still sleeping like a champ.

ok gotta go, have to write talk for church, get up early for choir, prepare a lesson, and get done some home teaching visits, when will sunday go back to relaxing and naps?

Need I say more?

missing wife

dear hallmark channel,

Can you please not play sappy love stories set in the west, modeled after little house on the prairie? I would like my wife back. . . .

Lance