On the first day of Christmas my parents gave to me.......

When we first moved into this house, I started a tradition of giving gifts for the twelve days of Christmas instead of one big blitz on Christmas day. It has been really fun! So here we go.........

A Christmas ornament and Hershey's chocolate!
A Christmas ornament and Snickers! (Here is Tim trying to smile. He has such a mean mom!)

A Christmas ornament and Butterfingers!

Terry won't let me take his picture, but he got Milky Way bars.

Happy Birthday Rachelle!!

Okay, I blew this one, I had it ready on Friday which was Rachelle's 30th birthday, and I didn't get a chance to post it! So here we go!

When I was eight, my mom told me she was going to have a baby. I was so excited! I had two brothers, and while another brother would have been great, I really wanted a sister. So... I wished on falling stars for nine long months. Then, on December 11th, I got my wish! A baby sister was born! She was my first baby. I took her everywhere with me and she used to call me "mama Jaylene". Or, Jayleeenaa la la la la la when I wouldn't come and get her out of the bathtub! Anyway, sorry it is late, but Happy Birthday to the bestest little sister ever!!!!!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! I didn't take any pictures because I didn't want any evidence of all the food I ate! Hello treadmill!!! Anyway, on to Christmas!

Happy Birthday, Kristi!

It has been 36 years and still our friendship goes strong. I don't get to see you as often as I would like, but I know you are always there for me. You are the most sweet, honest, and un-selfish person I know! You take care of yourself and have a wonderful day today. It is sad I don't have any pictures to post (stupid scanner!). So..... let's go get some rice/tuna/ketchup with a big pickle on the side, run to Double Quik and get our suicide soda, and settle down and watch Foul Play and Still of the Night! Love ya!

Halloween 2009!!!

We start off with the school parade. Here is an action shot of Toph, I mean Megaman!
I got Tim, I mean Silver the Hedgehog standing still. Hey Silver, where is your hair?

The dead crossing guard is in charge of the class parties!

Later that night, Topher joined me, Grandpa and the Grandmas for bowling with the Skyliners league!

Oh sister, pray for our victory!

Oh know, here comes the devil! Oh wait, she will let us have a good time!

This is Jessica looking cool!

John being what he does best, a Ute fan!

Here is the team the Alley Pals. If I am not bowling for my family, I am usually bowling for this team! Best costumes there are!!!

Here are my lady buddies Margaret, Terri and Carly. I work with Terri at C&W.

So on to Halloween night! Here are my chillins (minus Brendon, he had other parties to go to!)

We trick or treated with Boston. He was so cute, this was his first Halloween actually trick or treating! Of course the night couldn't be complete without a visit to the Myers-Turner house!

Topher was WAY to traumatized this year to even go NEAR Dave. He wouldn't even trick or treat with us! Later, we played Rock Band. While I was thus distracted, Tim found my camera again!

What a blast, and as always, has come and gone too fast! I hope everyone had a great Halloween!

Trunk or Treat 2009

Okay, I need to start this post with pumpkin carving night. Topher and I carved pumpkins Sunday night. Tim was in a trance playing Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games, so he was not available. Nothing short of massive power failure could drag him away. Anyway, here is Topher with his pumpkin.

Here is an action shot!

Okay, so our church does an annual Trunk or Treat night. You set up in the parking lot and pass out candy from your trunk. We have always decorated the minivan and played scary music from the radio. Alas, we sold our minivan this year and we were not going to have a cool car to decorate! (oh the horror! dun dun dun!!!!!

Here is Topher as Megaman. I am so glad he has gotten a lot of use out of this costume. This will be his third year. I actually had to go buy him new sweats to attach everything to! Tim is reprising his role as Silver the Hedgehog. I didn't have to make new costumes this year, yay!!!!

Alex, Allee and Boston joined us. Here are the three stooges. Boston is a monkey. I forgot to get a new pic when he closed his eyes. Crazy night!

Well, this year, because it was so cold, we decided to move trunk or treat indoors. We got to decorate a door instead. This was good for us since we didn't have a cool car to decorate anymore (applause!!!). Here is our door. I hired local artists for the occasion. Here are some of the other doors. I didn't get a lot of time to plan, next year, we are going to go all out!

Topher got his face painted

And............... he entered his jack-o-lantern in the pumpkin carving contest..... and won!!! He received a super duper cool pumpkin carving kit. Whoo hoo!!!!

It is always fun to go trunk or treating, but it is TIRING! At least the boys are older, so they can take care of themselves. I hope Boston had a fun time. I didn't really get to see him do any games because I was passing out candy at my door. Hopefully Allee will send me some pics and I will post them.

First Snow 2009!!!

Wind blowing, snow everywhere, I HATE it!!!!! Good thing they love it! :)

I love this pic, the snow is all over the kids. It looks sorta cool!