A night owl's Christmas

My good friend Alisha came over from Tropic. We had a little Christmas party for those we would stay up late and craft with. About 9pm is when we started. I won't say what time we ended except Joey Perry would say we were not proper. LOL
I made everyone a pair of slippers, and Alisha gave me some pink ones. Here is a pic of all the slippers together.
Trying out the new gifts!
We made a late night run to Wal mart, and Kendra picked out a T-shirts that were on clearance for each of us. Wonder women for Alisha. Yes, there are inside jokes with most of them.
Colony is riding nerdy. She loves nerds blizzards from DQ. They only make them when you bring your own nerds and request it special. Yes, she actually does this. LOL
Lovable Squeezable is Kendra.
Keepin' it real like a Happy Meal is Summer. We had so much fun laying around and visiting.
Of course we took a group picture. Don't mind how we look. It was late enough we had to use the timers on our cameras because Joey had already gone to bed. Since I am not young like the rest of the pack I hang out with I am glad I have a week until Christmas to revive.
Merry Christmas gals. If you are a night owl and want to join us anyone is welcome.

Can you be big and dress yourself?

Yes, we dress ourselves! After asking Brynlee to go get dressed by herself this is what she was wearing. She said shirts were too hard. LOL I then told her she could only wear one skirt and if she was going outside to put on something warm under it.
Yes, she came running outside like this! I guess she thought it was the perfect outfit. When I told her to go back inside and at least put on shoes. She rolled her eyes and said, "fine!" I think she has been hanging around her big sister way to much!

Black Friday Traditions

I have a group of friends that I love hanging out with. We all like the same crazy things. Kind of like staying up all night and shopping! We have done this for 2 years now, and it has become one of my most loved holidays.
She is a die hard when it comes to the cold! I was so cold last year that I went a little more prepared this year. Thanks to my wonderful husband that bought me a nice pair of gloves and hand warmers.
We sat in front of Target for 2 1/2 hours I know we ARE crazy! We also walked away with everything we wanted! LOL
Standing in line and visiting is one of my favorite parts!
Summer took this picture with her cell phone. I love it! The only thing wrong is we were missing Alisha! :(
Hope you all had as much fun shopping as we did!

Secret Chicken Class

Ok, this is for all my friends that read this blog. There will be a secret (private) chicken class at main street quilt cottage in Hurricane. On Dec. 1st. from 7pm to 9pm. If you want to come it will be $10.00. If you can bring your sewing machine. It was such a fun class last time. Leave a comment so I can tell them how many to plan on. Hope to see you all there!

The Funky Chicken

On Tuesday night Colony and I took a class on how to make these cute pin cushion chickens. We both agreed that it was worth the money to take the class after looking at the directions. I don't know if that means neither of us can follow directions, or it was really hard. Either way we were both successful!
Here are both Colony's and mine. Yes, hers is smaller than mine. We had so much fun that we want to do another class. Anyone else want to come?

What Brynlee is thankful for in 2010...

Her sisters
Story time with Dad. (Anytime with Dad. She is such a daddy's girl!)

Babies

Make-up! (She especially likes Shaylee's real make-up!)
We are so thankful for her in our family! She is so fun to have around and is growing up way faster than mom and dad like. LOL

Halloween 2010- Late Post

This year we had such a fun time dressing up. I think the kids were more excited to see Shane dressed up then I was. We had a wonderful time at the ward party then on to visit family. The kids got so much candy!
This is Trey and his friend Austin that went trick or treating with us. He is such a cute kid that I would adopt him if I could.

Cole was a cowboy. I know BIG surprise. Lucky for me I didn't really have much to do to get his costume ready.
Kailin was a cowgirl. She was so excited to finally have a pair of boots! Brynlee was Dorthy from the Wizard of Oz. She was excited to wear a dress and have sparkly shoes. I know in the picture I cut out the boots and the sparkly shoes. Oh well!

Shaylee doesn't have a picture. She was a spoiled teenager. Which was her normal self. LOL We had a great Halloween hope you all did too!

Dancin' to Disney

Last night was the second dance festival that LaVerkin Elementary has done. I really missed this from when we lived in Hurricane. Now I feel like LaVerkin is the PERFECT place to live! The first grade did you have a friend in me off Toy Story. Cole was way excited to be able to dress like a cowboy.


The 5th grade did a song from Hercules. Trey was not that thrilled he had to dance with a girl. He did end up with a girl from our ward that is a cutie. Trey said it was ok with her as his partner because she wouldn't sit with all her weight on his knee. LOL


It was a great night! Thanks for all the hard work everyone that helped!

Annual Halloween Party

Every year we go to my moms house the Monday before Halloween for family home evening. My mom always has the funniest games.
Every year my mom does a prize box they have to reach their hand in to get a prize. Brynlee was the first this year. She wasn't quite sure since Grandma told her it was pig brains.
She was excited to see the bracelet not the brains hanging off of it. LOL
Even the older kids had a hard time. They had all figured out that it was only spaghetti, but just couldn't get over the feel. This is my nephew Kaleb.
We all went out side to bob for apples. Kailin loves this game.
This is my niece Phoebe. I hope I spelled that right.

After all the grandchildren line up their pumpkins and we light them. Since there are 30 something grandchildren their are a lot to light.
Brynlee was very proud of the one Aunt Bridgette helped her carve.
Thanks Mom for a fun night!

Copycat

Yes, I am a copycat. I blog stock people with great ideas then I copy them. I know this is a sickness. I just can't help it. For example: I copied Maridee Johnson. She got this wonderful jewelry organizer. What is a girl to do? I just couldn't resist.
Now do you see. Sorry Maridee, but I couldn't help myself. Thanks for the ideas!

The letter J

Today it was my turn to do preschool for Kailin. I had the letter J. Since Halloween is right around the corner we made Jack-o-lanterns. Emily had to use a spoon. She was so cute about getting her hand dirty.
Kailin had no problem. She thought it was slimy, but loved to touch it. LOL
Carly had no problem either.
Ava was the first one to dig in to the pumpkin. She is very shy and quiet. If you watch her close enough you can tell she is having as much fun in the slime as the rest of them.
Here are all the girls with the Jack-o-lanterns. Megan was not excited about the pumpkins at first so she just colored her picture. We also had the girls make jack-o-lantern jewelry.
I sent each girl home with homework. At this age they get excited about homework. They had to take their jack-o-lanterns home and light them on their porch. This is Kailin doing hers.
I am having so much fun doing preschool. I can't wait until Thursday. See you girls then.

Spooktacular Party

We have some really fun friends! We all got together to have an adult Halloween party. I have been hesitant to post this. I don't want it to spoil costumes for anyone. I was going to wait until Shane reminded me I told everyone at the party I would post it. Some of the food we had was awesome. I loved these cake balls.
These are oreo suckers.
These are deviled eggs. We also had wonderful egg rolls that I get to learn how to make. I can't wait!
Some of the costumes! Mitch and Daniels Stackhouse. (for those who don't know-He is the bishop)
Pam and Steve Lisonbee.
Shane and I. I can't believe I got Shane to dress up! Yay!
Kevin and Paulette Farnsworth.
Golden and Kendra Johnson
Colony and Joey Perry.
We played a whole bunch of fun games. One was a picture scavenger hunt. We had to get a vampire biting someone. Colony was the only vampire we knew. So Pam wrestled her to the ground inside Farmer's Market trying to get her to bite her neck. I had no idea Pam was so competitive!
They had us go into public of course! This is my team the winning team no less!
We had to go to the cemetery to find one of our teams first names on a gravestone.
After that we headed back and voted on best costume. Shane won by 1 vote! The prize was a Dora fruit snack. He did look good!
Thanks Colony and Kendra for all your hard work. It was such a fun party! Sorry we missed a few of you maybe next time!