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