Merry Christmas!!

7:00.
Not bad.
We've had earlier.

Now we are waiting for Kayla to call!!!!!

Then it's two days of driving.

So we can freeze.

Fun!

Merry Christmas.

Christmas Eve

Nothing like starting Christmas eve
with a Boogy-Woogy Snow monster!!

On to sweeter things....
Andrew and Lexus

The rest of us...

The Oler's...

The Griesdorn's...

The Hogan's....

The Nativity...

Elder Bawden

Saying I love you to his family -I emailed these to their parents back home

Elder Root...

Snowball fight!

A Christmas Miracle!

About 4 a.m. I woke up wondering why our bedroom was so bright..... thinking someone had left outside lights on I went to the back door to check. It had snowed about 4 inches!!

The kids are thrilled to have snow on Christmas eve. Good thing we had all the snow stuff out for our trip to Utah tomorrow! Here are a few shots of our backyard.

Jack is in serious dog-heaven!

Don't they look soooo happy??

and it was only 7:30 a.m.!

It's not too often you get icicles in Texas :)

Action shot of Shea and Jack

Music....

Here is a bit of Christmas music for you....

Walk in the park

We like to walk over to the school yard and the park that is a few blocks from our house. Sasha and Jack love to run free.....

Ducks DON'T like Jack. Crazy ducks.

"King Lumpy"


"Einstein"

Happy Birthday Andrew!

Andrew turned 20 today.
No longer a teenager.
Thank goodness.

Happy birthday!!!!

Seriously?
10 photos and not one that had us all looking normal.
That's my family for you.

how many cute fingers does it take to make a beautiful song?

40.
As you can clearly see from this picture......


I'm watching a friend's 8 month old for a couple of days. Shea and her friends are being a great help!! Hadley LOVES all the attention :)

Beautiful....

This is a winter photo of Pennock Island

near Ketchikan, AK

Do you think I could be a farmer there?

I think it would be heaven.

even if I couldn't be a farmer there.

Frugal Challenge - November

This is my accountability post. Keeping me honest. and motivated. and focused. It works amazingly well.

#1: Grocery: $305. Even with Thanksgiving I stayed pretty close to my $300 food budget!! December might be tight since I've already spent $90 and it's only Dec 2. But since we'll be with friends the last week of the month, I'll just mooch off Tammy's food storage. Good thing she has lots!

#2: House: 2.01%. Putting us 96.59% away from being DEBT FREE. Hmmmm - that seems like a looooooong ways to go.