Beastie's High School Musical Dance

Part 1 of High School Musical TJ Style

For Christmas, TJ and I got Beast a High School Musical dancing thing. It's so much fun, I am so ashamed to say. This is how TJ works it!

Part 2

Sledding

Christmas Eve!

This year we are on our own for Christmas. It's kind of fun, actually. I feel so grown up. Today we went sledding with some friends. It was a lot of fun. Sledding in Nevada - who knew!

Christmas Program

A family in our neighborhood does a live nativity every year. It's pretty cool. Really cool. 6 degrees cool. Holy crap it was cold!

Here are the caroling angels

The angel speaking to the shepards.

This is how we do wise men in McGill. Cowboys with turbans.


It was really dusty in the barn so the pics aren't great, but there is the nativity. They wanted to use Bug as the baby, but he wasn't dressed appropriately.

Beastie's favorite parts: the puppies, horses and all the other animals.

Brenner is talking

I recorded this on my phone (hence, the crappy quality) for my mom and mother-in-law. Buggy has been talking like crazy. Well, more like screaming. It's so cute!

Christmas program

Beastie's Christmas program was last night. Here is part of one of their songs they sang. They sang two, but the other video was too large to post. Sad. Beast is on the left, 2nd in, 3rd row down in an elf hat.

SNOW!!!

Last night it dumped on us! I really wish I liked snow. We were late for church because we ended up pushing people who got stuck. It was funny. Anyway, the snow is melting like crazy so we decided to let Beastie play and make a snowman.

Here is the hubby and Beastie's snowman, complete with wig.

We don't have a sled, and although I don't consider myself a cheapskate, I am not going to spend the $30 to buy a sled in this g-forsaken town. Beastie, then, got to use a garbage bag - it works just as well! Besides, our little hill isn't very big.

Beast didn't last long. I think she uses playing in the snow as an excuse to beg for hot chocolate. Now we are going to make Christmas treats to deliver to our neighbors.

Before and After

I did my first attempt at cutting Alyssa's hair. Yikes. She kept tilting her head so it started shoulder length and just got shorter and shorter and shorter. Yesterday, when I was being whiney about not cutting like I wanted, she told me, "Mom, you did a good job. Well, not a real good job because it's too short." Then when I countered by saying she wouldn't hold her head still she replied, "Yeah, my head was out of control." She makes me happy. Fortunately, she was the one who asked for it to be cut and she likes it; but, I really don't think I'll be cutting her hair again any time soon.

Before

After

Thanksgiving Pictures

Thanksgiving is one of my favorites. So much food! This year we were able to go to St. Anthony and spend the day with half my mom's siblings. It was awesome to see them andwe had so much food and games we made ourselves sick! Love to my family!

Vegging after eating

Mallory is encouraging Max's bad habits


Playing games

The kiddos playing

Yum!

Vegging again - I swear that wasn't all that we did, but it was a lot of what we did.

We were also able to go to the hubby's brother's house to chill with them. We couldn't stay long because it's a long ol' drive to home, but we were glad we could at least stop and eat pie.
The kiddos


The hubby's family that was there.

Another goofy picture of my man-child

Halloween Party

We had Beastie's school carnival today. My kids are so cute! I made Buggy's costume and he actually wore it without freaking. I just love that picture of him. He's so goony looking. Tomorrow we have a city carnival and a ward trunk or treat. I hate it here, but the city really tries to provide entertainment, so that's good. We'll be on a sugar high for weeks!

I just love this next picture of Beast.

Buggy is two months!

Our little monster, Buggy, made it to the two month mark today! Woo hoo!! He is still living! He's gotten so big and we love him tons. We are grateful almost always (he cries a lot) for the opportunity to have him in our home. Just copy this message for every month's birthday from here on out.

Bugging Esther's dog.

Late Saturday nights and too much cake made some of the men at MamoJo's house kinda weird. Poor doggy.

Toady's Blessing

More pictures!

Finally found the charger and charged the battery. These are the only ones I liked. It's hard when you are using the 10-second self timer to do family pictures.

New Pics

We finally have internet! Here's some pictures of when we attempted to take family pictures before the camera died.

New Pics of the kids

Beastie's first day of school, although she missed two weeks. She's doing great.

You have a question, B?