Merry Christmas 2010

Since we send Christmas cards this year, here is an electronic one. The sweet potatoes:

Midgie McDoodle:

C-boy:

We hope it's a great one for y'all!

(A girl in our ward wants some photography practice, so she took these for us)

Jenny Jr.

Notice the shoes . . .

And the womens' tube shirt she's made into a dress . . .

Not taking after me as I am now, mind you, but as I dressed up when I was her age with my BFF Lisa Williams. Thank goodness she had a stylish lady to get dress ups from, cuz them ain't mine!

P.S. Can you tell our Christmas rush is through with all the posts I've been doing??

Decisions . . .

The anal side of me thinks we should be doing school this week because we aren't halfway through our books. It drives me nuts that we aren't. That's why I should never be a real school teacher.

The fun mom in me is trying to break out and say, Let's take the whole week off! We have our monthly baptism for the dead tomorrow, Jon has surgery on Wed. etc. etc. Plus our doorbell just rang - at 9 am. The neighbor kids ready to play for the day. I guess that settles that!

December = BUSY!

All month I've been making lists and checking it twice so here is my list in pics:

1. Tree up (Jon trying to fix the top lights and the kids not being able to wait). Check.

2. Stockings hung by the chimney with care (ok, I thought they were in this pic). Check.

3.Gingerbread houses made. Check.

4. Annual picture of Collin about to "eat" his house. Check.

5. Visit fam. Check. Jons brother Dave and his family had a layover in Dallas on their way from Hawaii to Chile, so we rented a ginormous van and went up to spend the day with them.

6. Ditto on #5. We visited the Dallas Zoo. Very cool. Check.

7. Get Collin to test for the next rank level in Tae Kwon Do. Check.

8. Daily advent calendar. Definitely check. One of the highlights of the Christmas season when I was little and for the kids too.

9. Sunday Advents. Check. This is what happens when you go to make Peanut Blossoms (best Advent cookie out there) Sunday afternoon and realizing that even though you have passed bags and bags of Hershey's Kisses dozens of times in the last week, you forgot to buy some. Thank goodness I found a bar of Hershey's, some M&M's and some other chocolate.

10. Get a cold. Check. I thought I might as well put in on my list so I could at least check it off. So nice to have kids who are old enough to do most of the Advent readings when you're sick!

11. Daily orders. Daily errands. Check. This is from a slow day and doesn't include UPS orders or foreign ones. Sooooo looking forward to the Christmas Rush being through.

Things I haven't done:

1. Christmas cards. And doesn't look likely to happen this year. A first!

2. Watched our whole collection of Christmas movies. That WILL happen.

3. Made neighbor treats. Not sure what to do this year, but still most likely it will happen.

4. Decluttered the house. Probably after Christmas.

5. I'm sure a bunch of other things, but too worn out to think of them. Looking forward to sitting and relaxing next week!!