**SIGH****SIGH***CRY***

Today I took a shower and Jenna cut her hair.











You can still see how it hung past her shoulders. ***sigh***

Christmas Concert

Here is Isaac....getting ready for his 2nd grade Christmas concert! wow he looks old!

His class sang Hip Hop Reindeer, and a medley of English Christmas Carols, among other songs...I was very happy to hear some traditional Christmas songs mixed in with all the new stuff! It was a really nice concert. All the children did a great job!

I took some video with my camera but, still can't figure out how to post them...Its a work in progress...

Happy Harley Christmas

Well, I suppose we should be grateful that we had a Christmas party at the Harley Plant. What with their "fortune 500" reputation and their billion dollar profits...we met Erinn on his lunch break and had breakfast at the Harley cafeteria. Then the kids got to sit on Santa's lap and choose between an Oriental Trading Co. rubber ducky or a bobble head pen.

I'm sorry, but, I think the least they could do is let the dads go to the party and maybe give the kids something genuine "Harley" not "made in china" isn't that their competition?

Don't go thinking that I'm bitter...I happen to LOVE Oriental trading co.... Merry Christmas!!!:)

Santa lives at Harley Davidson!

MERRY AND BRIGHT!!!

Hannah and Jenna have so enjoyed the Christmas decorations this year!


When we got the tree out, the week after Thanksgiving, everyone was excited to help decorate...Erinn went to sleep, (yup, you heard right...SLEEP:) the boys helped me get out all the boxes. Then we commenced the fake tree assembly...It wasn't long before Noah, Hannah, and I were the only ones left. SO we finished putting the tree together only to discover that we had one strand of colored lights and one strand of white lights (which only half worked). This was a problem...you can't put ornaments on until after the lights are on, so we waited until the next day, I bought four boxes of lights and put them on the tree. Well, they went ALMOST to the top of the tree. So, rather than going out again to buy more lights we decided to put on the colored lights and the half-working white lights....It looked really good, for awhile...then, after all the ornaments were up, the half-working white lights went out...taking a new strand with them! So, we only have lights on the lower half of our tree and ornaments on the upper half! Its really quite adorable, in a "kids must have done this" sort of way!
So, on to my Hannah and Jenna Christmas story!

Hannah has decided that ALL of the animals and people must be able to see Jesus, so she has carefully rearranged all of my Nativity sets in a lovely squished together arrangement!


Jenna loves turn the Santa's around so they can talk to each other and dance together. She also loves to let the cows and donkeys run noisily across the tables. So, one day I walk into the dining room to find Jenna hiding under the table with several of my Christmas things...I say what are you doing Jenna? she crawls sheepishly out from under the table and says, "I sowy mommy I bwoke your Christmas, don't spank me." I didn't know whether to laugh or cry...She is just so sweet. I told her its okay, just try to be very careful and don't break any more Christmas. So, I have a cow without a horn, a donkey without an ear, a Santa with no feet, and a Santa with no hat and SUPER GLUE is now on my Christmas list!!!



I love Christmas!!!

Sugar Hi!!!

Hannah and I went to her school Monday night for her kindergarten gingerbread house activity. It was so much fun for both of us. I love spending one on one time with her. She is hilarious and sweet. She just eats up life! She is so happy! I love her so much. Lately she's been singing Christmas songs, at the top of her lungs, everywhere we go....and my personal favorite is Rudolph the "Nose Red" Reindeer....she is so funny...I'll say, "Hannah, its RED NOSED REINDEER, and she'll say OH, RED NOSE REINDEER!!! Then she'll sing RUDOLPH THE NOSE RED REINDEER, HAD A VERY SHINY NOSE, LIKE A LIGHT BULB!! I just love this kid!! She also sings primary songs with her own words....She sings I LOVE TO SEE THE TEMPLE, IN A VERY SUNNY WAY... She is just too cute!

The nothing blog....

I haven't blogged recently for two reasons...One, I don't think my daily life is that interesting to anyone. and Two, I haven't had a minute on the computer!! Erinn was home from work all last week, (often on the computer:) and the rest of the time we had things to do!!! Primary has been keeping me very busy lately...we had our program in Nov. and now its time to make class changes, print new lists, reevaluate class rooms, make new schedules for the year, etc, etc, etc... My cleaning schedule IS working, it really helps me to have something specific to do. I think I get overwhelmed with the thought of cleaning the entire house everyday. Its really just a mind trick because once I get started, I clean the whole thing anyway! Our Thanksgiving was wonderful, we spent thanksgiving day with Erinn's dad and brothers. Friday, Sarah and I were CRAZY and went shopping at 4am to dive into BLACK FRIDAY it was crazy...we just walked out of several stores, we cut in line at one place, and basically shopped until we couldn't shop anymore!! Then, as soon as I had crawled back into bed, I got a phone call from mom....Its time for thanksgiving dinner, come on over!!! So, I jumped out of bed :) and we had a wonderful family dinner with mom and dad, Seth, Sarah and kids, Jake, Misty and Gid, Hillary, Alex and kids! It was so much fun! I love seeing everyone and eating!!! Need I say more!!?? Saturday, we had a lovely visit from Kristi Channell and her family, the kids were so excited that they came to visit and we had so much fun together. We'll have to do it again!! That evening it was back to moms for Project Nativity...I know, some of you think we're crazy, but, you'll be jealous when were done! Okay so, this last week, I turned myself into a spoiled little princess...I slept until ten, had breakfast in bed, and rarely had to prepare a meal...just kidding!!! (except for the sleeping part!) Erinn was home and we got so much done! He took apart and repaired the fuel line vapor canister on my van (scary right!) well, he did a great job! (I didn't know he had that in him!), He put storm windows on our house, replaced the valve on the toilet, put up Christmas decorations, shopped for Christmas, I can't remember what else...(did I mention A LOT of computer time...:) Anyhow, we had a great week...which surprised me because I thought it would be torture, Seriously!!! Well, this got way too long so, sorry. Hope it wont be an entire month till I blog again! Isn't Jenna darling?!

The Skate Park

A few weeks ago, Jake invited the boys to go to the skate park in Excelsior Springs. So, we all jumped in the car and drove...The kids had so much fun skating, and I was impressed by how nice the other boys were to my kids (who don't skate that well). They were all trying to teach them easy ways to skate and show them how to do tricks...It was really nice to see and I know my kids loved it! Thanks Jake! What a blast!